Night at the Museum

Advantages: Great comedy and pure entertainment
Disadvantages: a little slow to begin.. but not for long though.

...Director: Shawn Levy Producers: Shawn Levy and Stephen Sommers. Writer: Milan Trenc, Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. Stars: Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Jake Cherry, Charlie MurphyRami Malek, Pierfrancesco Favino,Ricky Gervais, Patrick Gallagher, Robin Williams and Kim Raver Released in Late 2006 this comedy, (I believe is based on a 1993 novel by Milan Trenc), revolved around a Museum and its mystical effects on a night watchman. **BRIEF PLOT** In New York city's Museum of Natural History Lawrence 'Larry' Daley, (played by Ben Stiller) begins a job as a night watchman, mainly to gain the respect of his son Nick, (played by Jake Cherry). Larry has had many dead end jobs in the passed, failing at all he tries, and is so terrified that Nick will prefer spending time with his...

blissman70 04.08.2008 · Read review
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It was a long night at the museum .

Advantages: Good cast , good effects , okay plot
Disadvantages: Boring at times , did not work for me

...This is a film only review , thanks . We borrowed the DVD of Night at the Museum from our friendly neighbours . We often swap DVD's between each other and have seen some crackers . As they have small children we sometimes find the films are really childrens films but still great and highly enjoyable . So when we took this film we were looking forward to it . I had read a little about the story and film wheras Hubby knew nothing about it . Looking at the outer cover with it's picture of Ben Stiller , who plays the lead role , it looked promising . It had an interesting holgram effect which him and some strange characters which seemed to appear and disappear . I won't spoil the plot for those of you have not seen but here's a very brief outline , skip this if you want to...

grafter123 04.05.2007 · Read review
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Would you like a Night at the Museum

Advantages: Very funny film for the whole family
Disadvantages: None what so ever

...This is a review for the 2 Disc special edition Night at the Museum. ~The Plot~ Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) is an unemployed no hoper who keeps getting evicted from his home and can?t keep a job down. It?s not until his ex-wife tell him that his 10 year old son Nick (Jack Cherry) can?t stay with him again until he gets settled and gets a proper job, that he realises he really does need a job. So he goes to the employment agency and insists he needs a job straight away. The only job they can offer him is a job at the Natural History Museum, so he goes along to see what?s what. Upon arriving at the museum he finds that the museum is losing money and they need to down size, there are 3 night security guards who are getting on in life and it's time for them to retire so they need to replace them with just 1 new younger guard. So...

Maxlarndison 22.04.2007 (23.04.2007) · Read review
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Night At The Museum - Where history comes alive!

Advantages: Slapstick comedy, great visual effects, enjoyable film
Disadvantages: Basic plotline, mainly aimed at children

...Larry (played by Ben Stiller) is a dreamer, he thinks up money-making ideas but none of them seem to work. He floats in and out of jobs but after a reality-check from his ex-wife he realises that for the sake of his son he needs to get a permanent job. Without a good CV he struggles but eventually persuades an agency to get him a job at the Museum of National History in New York. Here the museum are planning to replace the three old night guards (headed up by Dick Van Dyke) with one younger one. Larry thinks the job will be a breeze and ignores the list of instructions the guards give him and the advice not to let anything in or out of the museum and settles down for an easy night. However the one thing the guards forgot to tell him was that at night everything in the museum comes to life. In a museum of dinosaurs, wild...

AJ26 17.04.2007 · Read review
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A T-Rex 'ellent night at the museum

Advantages: Funny, Great Cast
Disadvantages: Slow start

...I enjoyed this film. I wasnt expecting to, thought it would be another daft comedy. Especially when I discovered it was directed by Shawn Levy who also directed Just Married. This Ive seen and can't remember anything about. Not a good starting point! Anyway back to Night at the Museum!... This film stars Ben Stiller as hopeless dad and ex husband Larry Daley. When the film starts it seems like just another story of a dad trying to win over his son. Larry is a bit of a dreamer, he invents things. As a result he's never got any money and has to keep moving home. He is a weekend dad to his son and this is making his son feel unsettled. Larrys ex wife is threatening to stop his son being able to stay over with Larry unless he can offer him stability. So Larry has to look for a job. This is when the film gets better. When Larry is...

kirkytracy 12.02.2008 · Read review
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Would you spend a night in a Museum all alone?

Advantages: great fun for all the family,
Disadvantages: may be a tiny bit scary in places for very young children.

...Larry is a divorcee in a crisis?his son Nick is disillusioned by his father, his mum's fiancé is a high flying businessman in the stock market and Larry may be getting evicted from his umpteenth flat as he flits from one job to another. Larry's ex wife tells him he can't have Nick to stay any more as he is getting unsettled by all the upheavals all the time. Larry decides there is only one thing to do and that is to get a proper job. So he gets a job as a night watchman at the Museum of Natural History, the museum is facing financial difficulties and so is getting rid of the three elderly night watchmen Cecil, Gus and Reginald (Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney and Bill Cobbs) and replacing them with just one new man?..Larry! Larry's first night is a night of shock and surprises as many things go on in the museum which would...

missy0303 27.01.2007 · Read review
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Night Life

Advantages: some funny bits, unusual plot
Disadvantages: predictable

...I have watched a lot of films lately so had taken a little break as I had done a bit of a movie overdose. However, today I was ready to get back to viewing some more and the title that stood out on my shelf this time was 'Night At The Museum'. I remember seeing the trailer a while back and although it showed Ben Stiller who I am a fan of as he is usually funny, I wasn't sure exactly how from what shown on the trailer this could develop into a plot. I missed it in the cinema but doubt I'd have paid anyway so saw the DVD once and decided to buy it as curiosity had gotten the better of me. Like I said before with Ben Stiller starring I knew it had to be a comedy so at least I knew one thing, that it involved little concentration and would have no deep plot and I was glad of that. This film is based on a book of the same title by Milan...

ms19 20.09.2007 · Read review
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Oh What a Night

Advantages: Entertaining and Imaginitive
Disadvantages: Slightly underused sub plots

...►►► Synopsis With the threat of eviction from his New York apartment and limited access to his son weighing heavy on his shoulders, hapless inventor Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) decides to bite the bullet and find a real paying job. But having found out that he is unsuitable for the many jobs he would like to do, the only vacancy left available is as a night watchman at the Museum of Natural History, where due to budget cuts the three elderly night guards are being forced to retire so that they can be replaced by just one. Having been quickly shown the ropes by the old guards, Larry settles down to his first night on the job, expecting that it would be a piece of cake. But when a huge dinosaur skeleton magically comes to life, Larry's whole night turns to chaos. Unbeknown to him, every night all the wax statues...

christianfilmcritic 15.01.2007 · Read review
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Oh what a night!

Advantages: Entertaining
Disadvantages: Childish (but what else would you expect?)

...Larry Daley is a bit of a loser when it comes to finding a job. He has been through so many that his ex-partner is reluctant to let their son stay with him again until he has found some stability. As a last resort, Larry manages to get a job as a night security officer in the Museum of Natural History. On his first night in the job, he is horrified when the museum exhibits come alive, from the huge dinsosaur skeleton to the tiny toy soldiers. The statue of Theodore Roosevelt explains that ever since an Egyptian tablet was brought into the museum, the artefacts have come to life at night, unbeknownst to all but the security guards. Reluctant to give up the job and disappoint his son, Larry soldiers on until one night, the former security guards break into the museum, and steal the Egyptian tablet, putting everyone and everything in...

sunmeilan 23.11.2007 · Read review
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Not a Good Night

Advantages: Some decent effects.
Disadvantages: Poor direction, by-the-numbers writing and phoned-in performances.

...Larry is a dreamer that can't seem to hold down a job or an apartment. But when his ex-wife threatens to stop him seeing their son, he decides to buckle down and get a real job. So he applies for the position of night watchman at New York's Museum of Natural History. But nothing prepares him for the fact that after sundown, everything in the museum comes to life. Soon Larry's having to deal with rivalries between Romans and cowboys, dummies that keep re-enacting the American Civil War, a mischievous capuchin monkey and a T-Rex that knows why it's at the top of the food chain. But with only a waxwork of US President Teddy Roosevelt to ask for help, can he bring things under control and save his job? I'm not a great fan of director Shawn Levy, after the abomination that was "The Pink Panther" remake and this film doesn't really bring...

afy9mab 20.02.2007 · Read review
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