"We Want Our Mummy" is an American black-and-white short film from 1939, so around the time WWII started and this means it is already almost 80 years old. In here you will find cast and crew that worked with the Three Stooges on many occasions and this also gives away who the protagonists are and they are including Curly still here of course. The title is a typical Stooges play on words that includes also the reference to ancient Egypt as of course this one is all about tombs, pharaohs and archeology. Add to that the typical amount of crime you usually find in Stooges films and you get what this is about, of course only to an extent where it does not endanger the comedy element being at the very center of of it all. Here and there, there is a decent moment, but as a whole I wasn't convinced by this one either. I am surprised by the high rating, but then again I am not the very biggest Stooges fan. It is probably not among their most or least known efforts. For me personally, it is somewhere in the middle too as I have seen better and worse. By the way, this is apparently one that did not get remade. All in all tolerable for the running time, but as a whole not good enough for me to give it a positive recommendation. Watch something else instead unless you quite like the gang.
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