Pretty Good

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Blistering performances.

Night At The Museum was a great movie. The idea was genuine and it was a pleasure to discover all the great characters in human history coming back to life and transform the New York Museum of Natural History into a very big mess.But this sequel lost a lot of its magic mostly because of a bad written plot. The scriptwriters probably thought that moving the story into the biggest museum in the world and adding dozens of new characters would keep us entertained. But you need much more to achieve it. From the beginning. Larry, who we left as an ordinary man, now is a powerful and tyrannic CEO who pushes his staff to cancel their family place to make business. He's also manipulating his lamp like Bruce Lee. Why did they do that? Why not just keeping Larry as a continued night guard having fun at each shift when the museum came alive? Thankfully there are some characters who are really enjoyable to see like the lovely Amy Adams, who stars as Amelia Earhart, the first woman who crossed the Atlantic Ocean with her plane. She really steals the show throughout the movie. The other one is the villain, Kahmunrah, played by Hank Azaria, the evil twin brother of Ahkmenrah who wants to steal the tablet in order to rule the World. Azaria, who also voice the Thinker and President Lincoln, is really showing his huge talent as a comedian. Anyway I'm deceived to not see Robin Williams as much as I did in the first movie. It would have been great to see him throughout the entire movie instead of some scenes there and there.In brief, this movie is not as good as the first one but it's still worth to watch in Family.

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smothsonian is a great movie with a well developed storyline and a terrific cast.It is certainly not as good as the original,it dosen't have nearly as much heart and emotion as the first one showed,the relationship between Larry and his son played an important role which was very sweet and one of the first movies highlights,but there is no kind of sentimental factor this time around.I was disappointed that it didn't show some of the characters from the first as much,but I did really enjoy some of the new characters,Amy Adams was fantastic as Amelia Earhart and Hank Azaria was absolutely hilarious as the main villain.The movie looks just as good as the first,they once again put a lot of heart and money in to making this and it looks absolutely beautiful. Entertaining and very funny,I would recommend Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian to anyone looking for a good movie for the whole family to watch.Larry must head to the Smithsonian to rescue his old friends from the biggest museum in the world. Best Perfornance: Ben Stiller

As sequels go, "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" proves the exception to the rule. Director Shaun Levy's ambitious as well as imaginative follow-up to "Night at the Museum" tops the original. One of the reason that it surpasses the first film is the casting. Amy Adams is terrific as Amelia Earhart, and she makes an impact on the movie with her presence. Of course, part of this is due to the historical person that she plays. She exerts a charisma that none of the women had in the first film. Neither Carla Gugino nor Kim Raver possessed this charisma. Moreover, neither shared as much screen time with Stiller as Adams does, and this togetherness helps the film. "Battle" picks up the narrative thread not long after the original, but Larry has finally become a success at what he struggled to be before he landed his night security guard gig at the American Museum of Natural History. Now, he is selling his invention with George Foreman. Everything is looking grand for him until he visits the Museum and learns from Dr. McPhee that certain displays are being shipped to the Smithsonian. Suddenly, all Hell breaks loose and Larry has to take off for Washington, D.C. to the mysterious Tablet of Akmenrah. "Battle" is bigger and better than "Night at the Museum" with higher stakes.

Night at the museum: Battle of the Smithsonian was a rather disappointing movie. I had some expectations for it because the movie had some of the promise of the first movie, but with a much much much larger cast than the first and with a lot more cool museum figures. Sadly the movie doesn't take advantage of this. The plot of the movie isn't too sophisticated but neither was the plot of the first movie. The first movie had this charm to it which made it rather enjoyable. The characters in the first were funny, and the whole movie had this nice magical feel to it. Like something out of a kid's book.But the second movie loses that magic. The new characters are slightly interesting but the movie uses some of the same gags from the last movie which is rather annoying. I guess that is the problem with this entire movie. The concept was interesting once, and it could've been interesting twice if done correctly, but this movie doesn't use the concept well and reuses too many old concepts so it feels rather dull. One of the biggest let downs of the movie is the final battle (climax). This is something that is promised to happen (even the title says there will be a battle haha) but it really fails on multiple levels. The movie is set in Smithsonian so there are literally thousands of new figures/characters that should be available for the final battle... but there aren't. *spoiler* The main bad guy summons a dark, evil, Egyptian army that is supposedly powerful enough to conquer the world... and when it is summoned it doesn't even fight! It gets scared off by Abraham Lincoln! How is an army that is powerful enough to conquer the world so easily defeated. A real letdown... All in all the movie wasn't terrible but it wasn't amazing. The plot could've been better, the action could've been better, the characters could've been better... there are a lot of things that would've improved it... but oh well.