There's some confusion about the title of this film. According to the DVD box,
its name is "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian". However, in the
opening credits the title screen simply calls it "Night at the Museum". There
isn't even a number two to distinguish it from the first film.
The film takes place three years after
the original film. Larry Daley has left his job as a night guard and gone back to being an
inventor. He's now having moderate success with his Glow-In-The-Dark
Flashlight. (I'm British, so I prefer to call it a torch). It's a better idea
than it sounds. If there's a power cut and you need a torch, you might not be
able to find it in the dark. If the torch's outer casing is fluorescent, it's
easy to find. I wonder if these torches are on sale yet.
Larry visits the museum and finds that almost all of the exhibits have been
packed in boxes. It's been decided that traditional museums are too
old-fashioned. The new museum is to be made up of talking holographic
displays. Larry stays the night in the museum to say farewell to his old
friends. The Tablet of Ahkmenrah is to remain in the museum, so they won't
come to life any more in their new resting place, the underground vaults of
the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C.
The next evening Larry receives a phone call from Jedediah. Dexter stole the
Tablet, so now all the exhibits in the Smithsonian Museum have come to life.
Kahmunrah, the older brother of Akhmenrah, has attacked and imprisoned the new
arrivals from New York. He wants the Tablet, because it has untapped powers
that will help him conquer the world. Larry goes to Washington to save them.
I'm sorry to say that this film doesn't live up to the original. Too much is
illogical. In the first film the exhibits were at war with one another, but
now they're united, even before they have to face a common enemy. In the first
film there were constant communication problems, but now they all seem to
understand English, even if they don't speak it. We see all the exhibits from
the first film, but several of them, including Sacagawea, shown above, only
appear in brief cameos. The new exhibits aren't funny, except for their
randomness. The only exception is Amelia Earhart, played by Amy Adams.
Amelia Earhart is comical in the way she's portrayed. She's an independent
woman, who doesn't need a man to tell her what to do, but she goes to the
opposite extreme, taking any man she wants. In this case, any man means
Larry. While he's struggling to save the world, he has to fight off Amelia's
attempts to kiss him. It's very hard for him, because she looks insanely sexy
in her tight fitting flying outfit.
That's still not enough to make it a good film.
Success Rate: + 0.8
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