20 Things You Somehow Missed In The Mummy Returns

7. The Timeline Doesn't Make Sense

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Granted, you're probably better off not sweating the details where continuity is concerned in a movie like this, but all the same, The Mummy Returns' timelime doesn't make much sense.

It's made unambiguously clear at the start of the film that it's set in 1933, and a little later Alex mentions that he's "only eight years old," placing his birth year at 1925, while quite possibly being conceived in 1924.

Except, we know from the first Mummy movie that Rick and Evelyn didn't meet until 1926, making Alex's own self-stated age impossible. The simple things that can get lost in the shuffle when making a massive Hollywood blockbuster, eh?

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