Monday, July 20, 2009

Summer Movies : Night at the Museum 2


The Sequel to Night at the Muesum, this time round focus on another museum in DC, The Smithsonian. Though I have been to DC years ago, have never been to this muesum before, plus I am not really a museum person....and seldom visit any during travelling.

Story
Nothing particularly new with the story, in order to continue the story where it first left off, they started with the Natural History Museum closing for renovation and the exhibits moving to the Smithsonian. However, the Tablet that give them life will not move there and not all the exhibit will go over.
However, the tablet was stolen by the monkey (Dixter) and now the exhibit @ Smithsonian are alive and attacking them (Aka the NHM's exhibits)...This start the story for the whole 145mins film

Characters/Cast
Ben Stiller is the main Character here,
Larry Daley, here, his job is to rescue all the exhibit and bring them back to the Natural History Museum with slight help from his son and the beautiful lady with her...which he kinda fall in love with...

Theodore Roosevelt (Robin William) has a lesser presence here, cos he was not brought over to the Smithsonian and with the tablet stolen, he was reduce to a talking scrupture with half a body...
The bad guy here is Hank Azaria as Kahmunrah who according to the film details also acted as /The Thinker/Abraham Lincoln.
Here he is kinda stupid, wanted to take over the world and open the door to bring in his evil friends (Birdmen) from another dimension, using the tablet. Of course he failed to succeed, mainly due to his stupidness...lol...Also the Statue of
Abraham Lincoln from the Lincoln Memorial came to life and walk over to save them from those birdy guys...He ended up banish to the underworld...via the door which he opened...

His company of evil-doing includes
Both are really funny and stupid, Napoleon here appear to be a coward and a cry baby...

Even Darth Varder and Oscar...came to audition to join them ....

The Only Lady in the show....I meant Watchable ones...
The most interesting to watch character must be Amy Adams as Amelia Earhart. The First women pilot. She still think she is in that Era. She make the show worth watching. She got to fly Larry home.....though she know that she cannot be with Larry. She Later appear at the Natural Museum as a patron....how interesting...

Summary
The show was't very bad, it is just not as funny as the original and though they have added in more
characters into this one, still it did not make it funny enough. Most of the jokes are not funny at all,
though you would be quite satisfied with the amount of CG put into this one....make me wonder how
advanced in CG we have become. I hope Amy Adams goes on to be a big star in the future, she does show potential both as a serious actress and a comedian...lol

A 5/10 will be good enough for the show....



Boxoffice 2009 so Far
1. Transformer 2 - $350Million and counting..Review coming right up
2. Up - $276Million - Yet to seen this one yet....probably in Sep
3. Star Trek - $253Million. Seen it ...Best show so far...
4. The Hangover - $227Million - Comedy, yet to seen, wonder how come it is doing so well
5. Monster Vs Alien - $197Million - Crappy....
6. X-Men Origin - Wolverine - $179Million, Popcorn movie...
7. Night at the Museum 2 - $171Million, Ok but not funny enough
8. Fast and Furious 4 - $155Million, Love the Cars!!
9. Paul Blart: Mall Cop - 146Million, Funny
10. Taken - $145Million, Yet to Seen

I suspect another 2-3 movies will be out of the Top 10, in the coming weeks, With Ice Age 3, Harry Potter and probably GI Joe taking over soon....

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