A bumbling security guard at the Museum of Natural History accidentally lets loose an ancient curse that causes the animals and insects on display to come to life and wreak havoc.
Escapism
It really annoys me when critics try to analyse movies and then say that they are rubbish. ie. weak plot, bad acting or predictable. Why bother analysing it in the first place. Movies are make believe and if you just let yourself escape into them then they become enjoyable fantasies. This is one of those movies. Typical lightehearted Hollywood fluff. Rent and enjoy. I did.
Night at the Museum A museum comes to life with Ben Stiller as the custodian of history itself. A movie for kids and their anxiety-riddled dads
A New York family coming apart, a disintegrating father-son relationship, and a finale at the American Museum of Natural History in which a full-scale marine diorama puts in a brief appearance. Yep, while Shawn Levy's Night At The Museum may be a comedy adventure for kids, it also bears comparison to Noah Baumbach's similarly themed, if more adult, The Squid And The Whale (2005).
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History comes alive in Night at the Museum -- the movie, alas, does not. About as dull as a film could be with Attila the Hun, Teddy Roosevelt and lots of exotic wildlife rounding out the cast, this rambunctious, Jumanji-style extravaganza is a gallery of special effects in search of a story; rarely has so much production value yielded so little in terms of audience engagement. Still, star Ben Stiller and the promise of state-of-the-art (and at some venues, Imax-enhanced) visual wonderment should help Museum exhibit some B.O. life during and beyond the holiday frame.
Author Milan Trenc's tall tale about the supernatural goings-on at New York's American Museu...
