Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Single-Disc Edition)
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Actor: Amy Adams, Ben StillerBrand: Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-12-01
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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- The cloth-like outer material is rustle-free under clothing.
Movie Reviews of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Single-Disc Edition)
Movie Review: Just as good as the first one!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought both movies on Amazon. For the first one, there was a need for a replacement because my old copy of the DVD got all scratched up. But the second movie intrigued me, so I ordered that as well, and it came first. I just finished the movie last night and this is my version of how the movie hit me.
Larry Daley no longer works for the museum as a night guard. He is now a major success with his own company and introducing the new glow-in-the-dark flashlight with the help of a former world-champion boxer, of course. But he tends to remember the museum displays that still come to life night after night due to the tablet of Akmenrah and comes to pay a visit to the museum, which turns out to be closed for renovation. The British-sounding director is surprised at his sudden appearance, and just before leaving Larry alone to wander the museum at night, informs him that most of the displays are being retired to the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. for a whole new, hip version of the museum that would attract more visitors.
As the displays come to life, they pop out of their packing boxes, looking somewhat disgruntled with their situation. As Teddy Roosevelt, played by Robin Williams, informs Larry that he will actually be staying at the museum, the cowboy, Jedediah, played by Owen Wilson, is bitter by Larry's somewhat lack of visiting for the past few months, due to Larry's sudden rise to success all of a sudden. I also noticed that there was a lot less screaming from the horde of Mongols with Genghis Khan, and they seem pretty quiet during the entire movie for some reason.
Shortly after their transfer to D.C., Larry miraculously gets a call on his phone by Jedidiah himself, who claims in a hurry that they're involved with some not-too-friendly types, and the call is soon cut off, with sounds of fighting in the background. Larry flies to D.C. and his son informs him on the phone that the Smithsonian is actually a series of many museums throughout the D.C. area and the archives are placed several levels underground, which is secure by many guards. In his eagerness to help his museum friends, Larry has a run-in with one guard in order to secretly swipe the guard's access ID badge, and then dons a guard outfit in the locker room to blend in with the surroundings.
In the Archives, Larry discovers, just as the sun is going down, that his friends are trapped in a large metal container, surrounded by maybe a dozen Egyptian guards and a wicked ruler, the original pharaoh's brother who is jealous of his brother's rise to the throne. The bad guy demands the tablet of Akmenrah which has some combination to unlock his own army from the Underworld in order to take over the present world. Finding that the combination has changed, the wicked Egyptian places the small Jedediah in a sand timer and says Larry has one hour to find out the new combination, or his cowboy friend will be covered in the rising sand.
Larry has encounters with two very odd characters of this movie, which obviously make the sequel a huge hit. The free-spirited Amelia Earhart, who has a small crush on Larry throughout the entire movie in their time together, and let's not forget Major-General George A. Custer of the 7th Cavalry. Custer has a few moments where he acts like a pompous ass with his insane ideas of attacking the enemy and his very vain look on himself, but he also fears that everyone will always know him for his 1876 failure at Little Big Horn for dying with more than 200 soldiers under attack by fierce Indian tribes, and wants to make a new reputation for his leadership in the never-will-be-known Battle of the Smithsonian.
With time running out, and with Amelia Earhart at his side, Larry Daley seeks out the combination at the infamous Air and Space Museum while escaping the clutches of the Egyptian's cronies, which include Napoleon and a few French soldiers, and Ivan the Terrible. He has a very blood-chilling ride on the Wright Brother's first airplane and an encounter with the infamous African-American Tuskegee Airmen of WW2, not to mention a giant squid and the giant Abraham Lincoln statue from the Lincoln Memorial, followed by the Battle of the Smithsonian, which was action-packed. This movie sent chills of excitement through me the entire time and a few times, I even had to rewind the movie scenes to be like, "Oh, I had to definitely see that again. Unreal!"
A small note to those who placed low ratings on this movie. You do not have a life or a sense of the history that has happened before you were even born, and the actors who played those characters made a great and valiant effort to get inside the heads of those great people of the past. Both of these movies about history displays coming to life after nightfall gave me the sense that I should visit these museums someday to get a feel for more of this history. Sorry that you don't feel the same way, but I only gave this movie five stars because it clearly doesn't go up as high as ten.
Summary of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Single-Disc Edition)
History is larger than life?and twice as funny?in this monumental comedy sequel that?s ?better than the original? (At the Movies)! Ben Stiller leads an all-star cast (including Amy Adams, Owen Wilson, Hank Azaria and Robin Williams) as Larry Daley, a former night watchman at the Museum of Natural History, where the exhibits come to life after dark. But now Larry?s nocturnal friends are being retired to the archives of the Smithsonian Institution, luring him back for a hilarious, all-out battle against museum misfits who plan to take over the Smithsonian...and the world!- Audio: English: 5.1 Dolby Digital / Spanish & French: Dolby Surround
- Language: Dubbed & Subtitled: English, French & Spanish
- Theatrical Aspect Ratio: Widescreen: 2.35:1
Ben Stiller wrestles with extinct beasts, historical figures, and meddling monkeys in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, the sequel to the popular 2006 special-effects extravaganza. This time, the ancient Egyptian tablet (the one that brings all the exhibits at New York's Museum of Natural History to life at night) is being shipped off to the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.--which, as the movie diligently tells us, is the largest museum in the world. Naturally, former museum guard Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) heads down to rescue it (and, by extension, keep his magical museum friends alive). He ends up fighting with a nasty pharaoh who talks like Boris Karloff (Hank Azaria, The Simpsons) and falling in love with Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams, Enchanted). All the old gang are along for the ride, including Dexter the monkey; much face-slapping and special effects ensue. There aren't many surprises, but Battle of the Smithsonian is cheerful enough to entertain everyone who enjoyed the first movie. Extras include commentaries by the director and the writers, the usual self-congratulatory making-of featurette, deleted scenes that are actually as good as the rest of the movie, an alternate ending, and an entirely pointless second disc about Crystal, the capuchin monkey who plays Dexter (the monkey disc has less than a half-hour of material, including two mediocre games). The great supporting cast from the first movie returns, including Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, and Robin Williams. --Bret Fetzer
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