This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Sadly Over-hyped

Absolutely amazing

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines is the second in The Librarian franchise of TV movies.It stars Noah Wyle as Flynn Carsen,the former perpetual college student who now acts as the librarian that protects a secret collection of artifacts.Gabrielle Anwar, Bob Newhart, Jane Curtin and Olympia Dukakis co-star in it.In this sequel,we get re-introduced to Flynn Carsen,a holder of twenty-two university degrees - twelve bachelor's degrees, six master's degrees, and four doctorate degrees - that were earned by staying in a university until he reached 30 years.After he was expelled,he found a job as a librarian and managed to supplant the motives of the evil men who intend to steal artifacts in the first film.Now,we get to see him get back in his apartment wherein the map of the King Solomon's Mines apparently have been stolen from his possession.Not wanting to let the evildoers accomplish their mission,he goes into a high risk adventure to recover the stolen map.This TV movie is fun.I was surprised that the sequel was just a good as the first one since it was both enjoyable and entertaining.Noah Wyle still provides a great performance as Flynn Carsen.The viewer gets to see him change from being someone who is used to the university life to now being someone who is all out when it comes to high risk adventure or better yet heroism for he has become a man who would not want evildoers to prevail.It is also worth noting that the movie provided good laughs and humor aside from great action.While it maybe far from being realistic,it remains worth watching for mindless entertainment.

No, I didn't care much for the flick that started this series, either. I wanted to see if this was similar. Yep, it is. This isn't as direct a copy of stuff in the Indiana Jones films(meanwhile, they do go to a well-known and loved classic, as well as Tomb Raider), though the main concept remains the same. One has to wonder why they had Newhart come back, when they weren't going to let him do his famous and popular schtick. This is one of those sequels that ignores one or more aspects about the movie they follow. Frakes does a nice job directing(and appears briefly in a role, as well), and the action here isn't half bad. The plot is relatively predictable, if it does hold a surprise or two. Heck, the effects are even better than in the original, you can't actually immediately tell how they did everything, this time around. The acting is again over the top, so it must be intentional. Humor remains pretty silly and not terribly funny. This has almost no references to well-known legends and such, I guess they ran out when they wrote the first one. Perhaps they weren't expecting to get another chance. I recommend this to fans of the 2004 one and/or the adventure genre, if you don't mind camp and corn value. 6/10

This film was so ridiculously poor I started laughing after 5 minutes of viewing and didn't stop til the end. I know one is not supposed to be taking it too seriously, but here the gross absurdity of the plot(if there was any) was taken too far. The effects were OK to start of with, but obviously, just like the viewers, the people programming them must have got bored halfway through, because in the end they were worse than a third-rate 2-dimension video game. The actors were hardly better, especially that skeleton who looked like all she had in mind was the pay at the end of the month. The main character was alright Isuppose, although he seemed to be having a laugh at the idiots who would be watching the crap. Thoroughly a absolutely pitiful performance, and I just hope the producers didn't waste too much money making it, because however little they did, it wasn't worth it.

There seemed to little if any plot to this film and it lacked continuity. It was a re-hash of so many ideas seen before in this type of action film. As it moved from scene to scene there was little to excite the viewer in spite of some routine special effects. The direction, if there was any, did little to motivate the actors who seemed to be sleep-walking through their parts. This movie gave the impression of being very low budget and in this era of fantastic special effects, the film gave you the feeling that each and every cost had been spared. At no time during this tedious movie was there any excitement or feeling that the protagonists were in any sort of danger. The only danger was that they would become as bored as the viewers.