I Want My Mummy (1966) User Reviews

I Want My Mummy is a mediocre effort of a Jose Jimenez cartoon

[tavm · 2/10 · 15 February 2007]

I Want My Mummy is the first time I've encountered the character of Jose Jimenez, created by comedian Bill Dana. Jose goes to a restaurant and is told by the waiter that an all-you-can-eat buffet is $5. Jose only has a penny which he uses to get three peanuts from a candy machine. A bird comes by and eats them all. Still starving, Jose then gets a job as an archeologist's assistant as they leave by boat to go to the lost city of another land. Here they almost get eaten by natives before finding the lost city. His boss finds the mummy as Jose reads that anyone who touches the mummy's crown gets his head shrunken. Actually, the boss' head is fine, it's the rest of his body that's...I found some lines amusing but the animation was crudely low-budget (typical of many '60s efforts). This was one of many mediocre efforts of Paramount Cartoons during the last decade of production that rarely gets played on television today. Worth a look once as you check this out on Cartoon Brew which linked this from YouTube.