The Boy and the Beast vs The Mummy Returns

The Boy and the Beast has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 6.4/10 for The Mummy Returns). The Boy and the Beast is the shorter watch at 1h 59m compared with 2h 10m. The Mummy Returns is the older of the two (2001 against 2015). Both are action, adventure, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.

The Boy and the Beast posterThe Boy and the Beast2015 VS The Mummy Returns posterThe Mummy Returns2001
The Boy and the BeastThe Mummy Returns
Audience score★ 7.9/10★ 6.4/10
Year20152001
Length1h 59m2h 10m
GenresAction, Adventure, Animation, Drama, Family, FantasyAction, Adventure, Fantasy
CountryJapan–
DirectorMamoru HosodaStephen Sommers
Main castKappei Yamaguchi, Kumiko Aso, Koji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Lily FrankyDwayne Johnson, Brendan Fraser, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Alun Armstrong, Rachel Weisz

Synopsis

The Boy and the Beast

Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That encounter leads them to many adventures.

The Mummy Returns

Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and isn’t above kidnapping its new bearer, Alex, to gain control of Anubis’s otherworldly army.

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