Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

oragex I don't understand the rating both here and on Rotten Tomatoes. Can't see how such great acting can get underrated.This movie it's above all about characters. It does not have much action, so perhaps the public who are all about special effects will not be served.What this movie has, and what it's more and more hard to find in theaters these days, is magnificent acting and lots of good humorous scenes. Not at all a typical diluted blockbuster production.How do people rate poorly this movie who made almost half a billion at box office? The third movie of the series is a weak production, yet it has better ratting.. I don't get it. The Battle of the Smithsonian is full of - for once - enjoyable moments.

tavm I just looked at the review of the original Night at the Museum I wrote back then and found out I gave it a 6. Well, this sequel gets the same rating as I found it as silly and a little funny as that one. This time, Ben Stiller's character has left the New York museum and become some kind of entrepreneur who's appearing on TV with the likes of George Foreman. The characters from the first one are about to be moved to the Smithsonian and so when that happens and some kind of trouble is again brewing... I'll stop there and just say that many of the historical characters being depicted are pretty amusing if not hilarious and I liked the way many creatively visual ways are used to depict many art exhibits coming to life. So in summary, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian was pretty entertaining. P.S. The trivia on this site confirmed what I suspected about Hank Azaria's portrayal of an Egyptian figure: He was inspired by Boris Karloff when picking a voice for the character.

FairlyAnonymous Night at the museum: Battle of the Smithsonian was a rather disappointing movie. I had some expectations for it because the movie had some of the promise of the first movie, but with a much much much larger cast than the first and with a lot more cool museum figures. Sadly the movie doesn't take advantage of this. The plot of the movie isn't too sophisticated but neither was the plot of the first movie. The first movie had this charm to it which made it rather enjoyable. The characters in the first were funny, and the whole movie had this nice magical feel to it. Like something out of a kid's book.But the second movie loses that magic. The new characters are slightly interesting but the movie uses some of the same gags from the last movie which is rather annoying. I guess that is the problem with this entire movie. The concept was interesting once, and it could've been interesting twice if done correctly, but this movie doesn't use the concept well and reuses too many old concepts so it feels rather dull. One of the biggest let downs of the movie is the final battle (climax). This is something that is promised to happen (even the title says there will be a battle haha) but it really fails on multiple levels. The movie is set in Smithsonian so there are literally thousands of new figures/characters that should be available for the final battle... but there aren't. *spoiler* The main bad guy summons a dark, evil, Egyptian army that is supposedly powerful enough to conquer the world... and when it is summoned it doesn't even fight! It gets scared off by Abraham Lincoln! How is an army that is powerful enough to conquer the world so easily defeated. A real letdown... All in all the movie wasn't terrible but it wasn't amazing. The plot could've been better, the action could've been better, the characters could've been better... there are a lot of things that would've improved it... but oh well.

jrlane74 Well i must say, this is definitely another Ben Stiller type film, his characters are also the same.... He always seems with little or no confidence when he plays his roles, almost to the point to where it seems that forgets his lines. This movie is pretty decent though, the other characters really assist on the shortcomings of Stiller, the parts i have trouble believing is the end where they fly off from the national mall in D.C. to the empty streets of NYC.... i happen to know that there is usually a ton of security on the grounds of the National Mall of DC. the plane lands in NYC and sits there for a good few minutes before taking off again all the while there are no passing cars or any kind of traffic.... Also wasn't the sun going to rise shortly after Amelia Earhardt left back for DC. wouldn't her plane crash as the sun rose? or was the point that she would disappear? Overall i think it was a good film i just got a little nit picky near the end of it.....