Film
Night at the Museum
- Director
- Shawn Levy
- Certificate
- PG
- Running Time
- 108 mins
Larry Daley (Ben Stiller, looking haggard and harassed) is the only applicant suitably feckless enough to land a job as night guard at the New York Museum of Natural History. Dick Van Dyke and Mickey Rooney, who have been in this fantasy-comedy racket longer than Stiller has been alive, are the twinkling, malevolent old guards on the point of being forcibly retired – and they have an agenda for wanting a foul-up to take over.
Every night, thanks to a mystic Egyptian artefact on the premises, all the exhibits in the museum come to life and run around making trouble. It’s a workable premise for an animated short perhaps, but isn’t developed here in any interesting way. Larry has to prove himself as a man by coping with the nightly rampages, which frankly isn’t very interesting – and most of the running jokes stumble with repetition.
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