The Night at the Museum 2

Director: Shawn Levy
Casts:
• Ben Stiller as Lawrence “Larry” Daley
• Amy Adams as Amelia Earhart/Museum Patron
• Hank Azaria as Kahmunrah/The Thinker/Abraham Lincoln
• Owen Wilson as Jedediah Smith

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy

The key to happiness is to do what you love with the people you love. This line really stuck in my head as I and my husband watched the “Night at the Museum 2” yesterday at SM Cebu Cinema. The movie sounds interesting since it is something to do with the history and new adventure. This is a sequel movie with an additional of characters like Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams), Abraham Lincoln, Kahmunrah, Napoleon Bonaparte, Al Capone et al come to alive. The scenario happens in Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum complex and research organization composed of 19 museums, 9 research centers, and the National Zoo. This really cost a lot of money, filming this kind of movie.

Larry Dales (Ben Stiller), a guard who turns out to be the owner and inventor of the glow-in-the-dark flashlight. He is successful to his new career. However, his business- minded person changed when he visited where he used to work, American Museum of Natural History. He found out that this will be closed for upgrading and renovation thus; some of the pieces will be moved at the Federal Archives at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. The battle begins as the sunlight goes out.

The movie is not so appealing to me. I am expecting for more adventures and comedy. The battle at the Smithsonian Institute happens only in one night. It would be better to sustain the adventure for several nights. There are only few scenes that make me laughed with, which are; Kahmunrah dressed talk and the slapping of Larry and the two monkeys. The aggressiveness of Amelia Earhart as she kissed several times to Larry makes the movie romantic though not so good to the kids. The production is exuberant as well as the cast. However, Ben Stiller is not so effective this time not unlike in first movie (Night in the Museum).

As over- all rating I would give 6 out of 10.