Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Reviews

[sisko199]

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[Krissy]

So I went to see Night at the Museum last night, and overall I’d say it was a decent movie. I’ll skip the plot stuff ‘cause you all probably are familiar with it.  My only complaints are that…

A. The concept is totally sweet (Being a history major, I LOVE that historical figures come to life and can appreciate the fact that the historical figures they chose were developed mostly for entertainments sake… but hey, I’ll take anything to get people interested in history again.), but in this movie wasn’t as well executed as it could’ve been.  The story line was a little thin, and could’ve been developed way better (but it is a kids movie… so maybe on that level it was good).

B. A huge build up to the climax, which ends up being rather anti-climactic.

C. Not enough Bill Hader….

So Bill has intermittent appearances throughout the movie, and the scenes he was in were pretty funny.  Also Hader’ character, General Custer, leads all the characters in the final battle against Al Capone’s Gang, Ivan the Terrible, and Kahmunrah.  There is even a kinda sincere scene with Stiller’s character in which Custer explains why he was hiding (the whole failure at Little Big Horn and how that’s what Custer will always be remembered for or will it?  I don’t want to ruin the ending for those of you who haven’t seen it).  After a short pep talk, Custer returns only to be knocked down (he’s kinda a clumsy, airheaded, charismatic character)…  With my Hader bias aside, I really liked the character and wished he’d been used more.

I guess on a scale of 1-10, I’d say it’s maybe a 6.5 or 7.  It was a good movie to sit back and enjoy with relatively no thought involved and a few good laughs.

[greenshamrock]

yea, it was just okay. i totally agree, not enough hader. but the funniest parts were definitely the scenes he was in. you could tell it was a movie for kids, although i think it was better than the first. i give it like 6 out of 10.
i really loved jonah hills part lol. it's brunden lmao.

[Krissy]

I dunno... the first Night at the Museum was pretty good and I think I liked it a bit more than the first because there were more characters involved throughout the storyline.  I think I would've liked the second more if other characters were more involved.  When I saw Al Capone in some of the commercials I was stoked to see what his character would do.  In the movie he was basically a throw away character along with many of the other characters from the original movie (except Jedediah and Octavius).  Also I'm just gonna say it, the Amelia Earhart character kinda got on my nerves by the middle of the movie with the whole trying to hook up with Larry Daily thing....

[rockstarjoker]

I liked the First Night at the Museum more...  This one kinda seemed forced, plotwise.  I just can't swallow a character doing what Ben Stiller's did in the end.  (I'm trying not to spoil, but come on.. we mostly already saw it, right?)

Also, Bill was great and all, but I can't imagine that having his character in more scenes would've done anything other than make the story even more contrived.   He was great to cut away to when the rest of the story was getting too ridiculous.  And He had what was my favorite line in the movie ("My hair is Currency in some European Countries")  but I've got to say, for me, Hank Azaria really stole the show.