It’s probably past time that animated filmmakers, looking in/with regard to’concerning’regarding subjects to fascinate children, alight upon ancient Egypt and bring us a film with regards to’concerning’with respect to mummies. Whether we should welcome that turn is another matter, because while director Juan Jesus Garcia Galocha had a promising idea, he doesn’t do a lot to bring it to life.###The setting is mostly the Mummy underworld, where ancient Egyptians keep going with regards to’concerning’with respect to their business, just with a few extra bandages. Our heroes are in/with regard to’concerning’regarding mer charioteer Thut (Joe Thomas) and princess Nefer (Eleanor Tomlinson) who are under pressure to marry in/with regard to’concerning’regarding some reason, despite dynastic succession presumably not being a problem in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the undead. When their engagement ring is stolen by a nefarious treasure hunter (Hugh Bonneville), Thut sets off with his young brother Sekhem (Santiago Winder) and cute pet crocodile to retrieve it, merely’barely to be joined by Nefer. Above the ground, they challenge the limitations of their station and their history, and wonder whether they should even go home at all.###More fatally, it’s not approximately as fun as it should be.###It’s a colourful film with some nice detoken touches to keep the kids interested, but it feels silly as an adult, more rooted in films with regards to’concerning’with respect to Egyptology than in Egypt per se. There are nods to Prince Of Egypt, to The Fifth Element and even, Ra help us, to Stargate. Aside from a bit with an (authentically Egyptian) boomerang, however, it’s all terribly familiar and pretty first-base – and it’s not a great look to possess’own’nurse a mostly white, British cast voicing all the Egyptians.###More fatally, it’s not approximately as fun as it should be. The mummies’ reckoning with the modern world boils down to a shopping trip and a bit of mistaken identity in a production of Aida. There’s little real sense of culture shock or discointensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully, and nothing terribly original in their characters’ journeys. It’s just another pent-up princess looking in/with regard to’concerning’regarding freedom and another heedless young (sort of) man who needs to grow up. Two funny gags — the wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile guy is a mummy’s boy, pun intended, and Sean Bean is cast as someone already long dead – aren’t abundant’ample’plentiful to leaven a generally disappointing mix.