Count (no pun intended) me in as another (reluctant) fan. If I saw this as a 10 year old, I would have been in heaven. These days I apprciate it for what it is, an action-adventure kid's movie with a Universal Horror motif. I like the cartoon prequel too. The hate this film recieves mystifies me. Funny enough I'm not a fan of any of the recent Mummy films, but I don't hate them, just rather indifferent. The anime influence description is spot-on.