He isn't. The audience is hearing Imhotep the way Alex is, wherein the bracelet is translating ancient Egyptian into his native language. Imhotep says he knows Alex can understand him just before his Egyptian changes to English. It is similar to the Russian in The Hunt for Red October (1990).
When London Egyptologists Rick (Brendan Fraser) and Evelyn "Evy" (Rachel Weisz) O'Connell's eight-year-old son Alex (Freddie Boath) tries on the golden Bracelet of Anubis, the Egyptian God of the Underworld, he unwittingly sets into motion a series of events that will raise the Scorpion King (Dwayne Johnson), a 5,000-year-old warrior who has the power to control the jackal-headed Army of Anubis. In the meantime, an Egyptian cult has reawakened the 3,000-year-old mummified body of high priest Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo), who is searching for his beloved Anck Su Namun (Patricia Velasquez) and believes that he can use the Army of Anubis to find her and to conquer the world. As if that's not problems enough, Alex has only seven days to travel to the oasis of Ahm Shere in Egypt before the rays of the sun kill him.
The Mummy Returns is the second movie in The Mummy series, preceded by The Mummy (1999) and followed by The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008). A novelization, also titled The Mummy Returns, written by American writer Max Allan Collins, was released concurrently with the movie.
The O'Connell mansion in The Mummy Returns is really Mentmore Towers, Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, England. Mentmore Towers was also used as Wayne Manor in Batman Returns (1992).
In order to obtain a 12 classification, one scene involving a headbutt had to be censored: 4 frames are missing. These cuts were apparently waived for the trilogy re-release.
The writers had not created a name for the Scorpion King yet.
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