characters binded was perfect. I very funny film that all the family will enjoy. Let's hope they make a third installment. P.S. T-Rex was Monkey were SO cute.

and some of the characters which appear briefly in the movie which real little ones may fin scary – but no where near as scary as Valdmort in Harry Potter. It featured many technical aspects of the Smithsonian so in addition to being entertaining, people go away with the take-away of learning something new. Great film! Go see it with the kids or with yourself.

But the real treasure in this museum is Hank Azaria who plays evil pharaoh Kahmunrah. Azaria is literally over-the-top with his zany interactions with Stiller that left me falling out of my seat. He gives Kahmunrah's voice a Boris Karloff imitation with a lisp that steals the show. He also contributed the voice of Abraham Lincoln and The Thinker.Amy Adams is fantastic and sexy as Amelia Earhart who has a strong attraction towards Ben Stiller that makes you wish she would not return to her immalleable nature when the sun rises. I would love to see Adams reprise this role for a serious version of Earhart because she's that good.Alain Chabat as Napoleon, Christopher Guest as Ivan the Terrible, and Jon Bernthal as Al Capone add to the hilarious mayhem which should have triggered Homeland Security by dawns early light.Lastly, I have to give high marks for Bill Hader who plays General Custer. His gung-ho leadership moments is great fun especially when he stands too tall while riding a motorcycle and gets knocked off in mid sentence.With movie ticket prices at $10 per person nowadays, taking a family of four can be very expensive, but in this case the movie was well worth it. I'm looking forward to adding this to my DVD collection.

bone in its body. It was good natured, and therefore somewhat life affirming. Maybe "inspiring" would be going too far yep--- that would be totally too far! , but it did perform the tasks I required of it. It engaged me, amused me, and entertained me.The actors are worth hearing and seeing. Amy Adams is adorable always, and here as Amelia Erhhardt. Ben Stiller is great, too--- he CAN be annoyingly negative in some of his comedy writing and portrayals. He has demonstrated that he thinks frustration and anger are good sources for humour--- a mistaken notion, in my view. Here, however, he is light, solid, and thoroughly palatable. I liked him here, and never even cringed once! Well done!

miles better! First of all, it has a decent story with the exhibits themselves in some jeopardy. Second, it has a cracking script. Third, it has Hank Azaria and Amy Adams,, excelling themselves with thoroughly entertaining performances of large than life characters. Fourth, it is far more visually eye-catching than the first movie. Fifth, Stiller's performance is a good deal less down-in-the-mouth than previously. Sixth, there are a lot of laughs and in-jokes Clint Howard plays a mission control scientist waxwork come to life in the Smithsonian Cape Canaveral display, echoing the part he played in Apollo 13, for instance And, finally, this movie remembers that it is supposed to be fun! Plus it is a family film - you can happily take your kids without worrying unduly about content.Highly recommended.

divided cannot stand, the way to happiness is doing what you love, don't dwell on the past, etc. For a family flick they handle this jumbled cast of characters with complex personalities amazingly. They threw away most of the characters from the first movie to make way for the newer characters, which I didn't like that much, but how many characters can you throw in a story to have it make sense?This film is an amazing example of a movie made for kids and adults. Kids will enjoy the silly humor, and the monkey. While adults will laugh at the onslaught of in-jokes, and trust me, there's a lot.All in all, this was a great movie, blew me away. The highlight for me was Hank Azaria, that lisp kills me every time.

everything else. Everyone did a a great job. Amy Adams is just adorable she has such an Amy Adams character , she was funny and believable and beautiful. I really advice you to go see this movie with your family , or just by your self it will also make a perfect date movie.I could write much more about the story itself and how everyone's acting was, but come one you are not reading these comments because you want to know what the movie is about you are reading this because you want to know if it worth the money or not. And I'm just one of those who would agree with me that this is a movie worth spending your money on. So go enjoy it! Because the best way to know something is worth it or not is by doing it not by letting everyone else telling you what is good or what is not for you.: Have fun!!

the opposite screen, and watched the movie over the fence. When the movie was over we turned the car around again and caught Star Trek.There are already a gazillion reviews of Star Trek so we won't write one for it - though we were very pleased with it. But there aren't so many for Night at the Museum, so we thought we'd offer our observations in the hope that they will be helpful to others.We've read a number of the comments that preceded ours and think we understand where those who didn't like the movie have based their opinions. It all revolves around the concept of suspending disbelief.A suspension of disbelief is required for nearly any movie to work well. The audience must be willing to accept certain premises that may be in one way or another absurd or contrary to the way time, space, society, etc. work in order to fully dwell within the story. If you are not willing to suspend your disbelief you will find most any movie unsatisfactory at some level.But Night at The Museum requires - we think - a different sort of suspension of disbelief. In order to appreciate it fully, we think it is necessary to recall how the world seems to work from the perspective of a 7 or 8 year old. If you can manage that - regardless of your age - we think you'll really enjoy this film.The point where we realized this was during the various escapades outside of the museum itself in the movie. The characters were running around the center of Washington, D.C. in the middle of the night...and of course there was not another soul around. Amelia takes off from the streets of Washington and lands on the naturally deserted streets of another major city with nary a thought. And we suddenly thought, "Of course! This is how the world works for an 8 year old." After bedtime, the world is deserted until a child wakes again the next morning and everything reappears.Adopting the perspective of an 8 year old allows you to accept figures from various points in history being able to exhibit knowledge of people, languages and events well out of their own time frame. It allows you to be unconcerned about major structural damage being done to various important buildings. It allows you to work with a silent, empty capitol city at one o'clock in the morning.Indeed, the entire movie is geared to that age and place of wonder and adventure inhabited by the very young. The answer to the central puzzle is one of the mysterious elements of mathematics; the magic that is time and space is explored by characters from every adventure genre; the amazing feats of science surround all.In addition, there is a fierce, loud battle in which nobody really gets hurt - unless you count a few bad guys turning to dust. And isn't that what should happen to bad guys - they just go away in a poof of dust? If you can approach Night at the Museum from this perspective we think you'll find it wonderfully enjoyable - at least as good as the first. If you are unable to put yourself in that place, well, you'll probably get caught up in criticizing the details - because there will be tons of details to deal with. But that would be sad, because we think this movie has the potential to spark the imagination of many children in the areas of math, science, history, and museums in general. At the same time, it was quite entertaining for geezers such as ourselves. We predict that if the bobble-head Einsteins were tucked in a little nook in the Air and Space Museum before this movie opened, they're probably in a place of prominence today. And well they should be!