Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

2009 "When the lights go off the battle is on."
6| 1h45m| PG| en
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Hapless museum night watchman Larry Daley must help his living, breathing exhibit friends out of a pickle now that they've been transferred to the archives at the Smithsonian Institution. Larry's (mis)adventures this time include close encounters with Amelia Earhart, Abe Lincoln and Ivan the Terrible.

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Greenes Please don't spend money on this.
Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%
Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
arinryu Two words to summarize this movie: cheap and superficial. Many of the characters are simply too annoying and too 1-dimensional to watch. Most of the characters do not represent (or sometimes are a total misrepresent) the actual historical figures whose names this movie borrowed. The plot is so predictable and lame. The only good thing is the computer graphic. There is no story or character development. The dialogue is lame. The jokes are lame.There are many characters that annoyed me but the worst one is Amelia Earhart's character, which is extremely dumb and annoying. I almost couldn't stand her nonstop babbling in the first 20 minutes she appeared. Judging from the reviews and discussion threads, all we remember about Amelia Earhart is her ass, her tight pants, and her urge to flirt and kiss for no reason (certainly not something I would want my kids to watch). Shame on the writers for abusing Amelia Earhart's name like this. In fact, the only two female characters in this movie are really lame and clingy (which is again the total opposite of their actual historical characters).Everything was so predictable that I was just sitting here on waiting for it to be over so I don't have to watch anymore of the awkward, forced flirting scenes. This is the most boring and annoying movies I have ever watched.
Wisty Larry Daley was a night guard of a museum but he is now a CEO. One day, a friend, an exhibit calls him to help. Exhibits will be moved to a warehouse. Larry starts help them.This is second film of Night at the Museum series and this time's setting is the Smithsonian Museums in Washington D. C. The story looks like a real story because it was shot in a real place. And I went to Washington because I wanted see the Smithsonian Museums with my eyes. It was very nice and I hoped exhibits move in the night but they didn't. But I like this, the second one the best.This film's genre is adventure and comedy. I like its comedy part. Ben Stiller ad-libs his lines and it is very funny. And my favorite scene is Kahmunrah and Larry quarrel about a birdcage.
Amy Edwards 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.
FilmBuff1994 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