It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This isn't my movie but the movies of the kid because it's one of his DVDS. It's a pity that the disc doesn't include subtitles because I din't get the dialogs. Nevertheless, we had great time with this Indiana Jones / Tomb raider for kids. The young cast is sympathetic (the boy looks like a young John Cena) and Stacy Keach depicts with talent a sophisticated bad guy. But the real asset of this movie is that it has been shot live in Egypt and Cairo. Thus, you got amazing shots of the pyramids and you can feel the pulse of this great city and its inhabitants. For 2 hours you are gone in a exotic country with an ancestral culture and that's just fine.Not bad for a mere TV movie with no amazing stars from Hollywood!

I liked this movie for 3 things: the use of real locations rather than very inaccurately rendered studio sets (do you hear me, Steven Spielberg?); the use of actual modern Egyptian actors in various roles; the fact that the female ingénue was allowed to have brains and be resourceful and even save the guy once in a while. (I'm offended by the comment that called her "jiggle interest". That shows the offensive mindset of the poster here and not the movie). Even the mixing of locations mentioned by a couple of other people and the fact that archaeologists supposedly keep field journals on papyrus are worth a giggle and add to the amusement value. That's why I gave it a 5.I disliked it because of the wooden acting, some of the casting (i.e. Brock Pierce, Stacy Keach) and the stilted dialogue. Then there's the "magical" element. Due to my husband's work I know a lot of archaeologists who been digging in Egypt for decades and nothing sparkly has ever happened on any of their digs.

This is basically an 80s film that didn't bother getting made until the 90s -- and boy oh boy, this movie's got it all: Cardboard characters, a plethora of movie clichés, a classical Not-Really-Very-British British villain played by none other than Stacy Keach, a thoroughly annoying Boy Wonder, a quasi-wholesome teenybopper jiggle interest, lots of byplay and banter twixt Boy and Girl, fine literature (an Ancient Papyrus and a Teenage Girl's Journal), a Hidden Treasure, more clichés in the form of supporting characters/roles, heaps of I'm-So-Acting acting from a bunch of nobodies (excepting Keach, of course), and a script that's flatter than the proverbial pancake.Oh, and it's got Stacy Keach as the Villain and he's got a black beard AND an Evil Henchman known as "Scorpion", and they delight in making schoolgirls shriek in terror.I gave this film five stars but this should be taken as an *average*: If you're looking for a film to be taken seriously, that's a 1. If you're looking for something to riff on and rip apart à la Joel (or Mike) and the Bots, it's an easy 10. Fine fair for a Saturday afternoon when you don't feel like watching the footy and you're looking for any excuse to let the lawn grow just a bit longer.Ooh ooh ooh -- and did I mention that Stacy Keach plays the villain?

If not a fan of Egypt then just enjoy this yarn. If you are a visitor, or like me a very frequent visitor, enjoy the story and especially the locations. You can smell and taste the captivating this most beautiful of countries.