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Rating:  - Waste. Of. Time.
This must be the worst movie I have seen in a very long time. It is truly an act of aggression against the public in general, and the theater in particular.
Two Questions:
1. Who greenlit this?
2. Why do they hate America?
I would like these answered. Thank you.
Rating:  - GREAT family friendly movie
I bought this video because we're getting ready to go to NYC and visit the American Museum of Natural History. The movie turned out to be a pleasant surprise. It is a genuinely cute movie that my whole family loved.
Rating:  - Great Family Film
A great film for the entire family. It's entertaining, fun and keeps your attention the entire way through. If you can get over the corniness of Owen Wilson then you'll love the whole thing.
Rating: - skip the beginning
Night at the Museum is about Larry--a down-on-his-luck inventor (Ben Stiller) who needs a steady job so his ex-wife will allow his son to continue visiting him. So he takes a job as a night guard in a museum, only to discover that at night, everything in the museum comes to life.
Once that happens, it's a pretty.... hmm... how to put it. I swear, I need to take a film class so I can learn the vocabulary of how to describe things I notice. It feels denser, somehow, after that point. Before that, the story was thin, and I wasn't all that involved with the stereotypical divorced dad who's a kid himself and the stereotypical divorced mom who's an uptight control freak. And the stereotypical kid, too. Maybe once we got into the museum stories, it felt richer because we'd left the stereotypes behind.
Plus, then we got Robin Williams as Teddy Roosevelt and Owen Wilson as a teeny tiny cowboy, and they were both wonderfully fun.
Mostly, though, it's that the story didn't really start until Larry got to the museum. Not only is that where all the action happens, but it's also where Larry discovers his self-esteem and determination, and where he loses and regains his son's respect, and where he falls in love (with a history student played by a very convincing Carla Gugino).
The ending had a couple of really cheesy moments that didn't make a whole lot of sense, but that wasn't completely unexpected.
All in all, a fun family movie with enough action and silliness for the kids and enough story for the adults. I just wish they'd condensed the first part by two-thirds and used the time gained to expand the later story lines.
Rating: - Great for the whole family
I thought my kids would enjoy this movie but they absolutely loved it! They would watch it over and over if they could. My husband and I were happily surprised as well because it is a great movie and is very funny. It's nice to have a good movie that the whole family can watch together.
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