Night at the Museum

All right then I finally got out and saw a movie, and I'd like to say that I probably would have liked to see more than Children of Men than Night at the Museum. But I was with my boyfriend, and it was all ready late, we needed something to laugh at, and it delievered... enough.

What you've probably heard about this movie, is that it's a star studded family movie staring Ben Stiller as the new Night watchmen at Washington DC's Museum of Natural History. [I've been, it's pretty awsome]; and really that's all it is.

Ben Stiller plays Larry Daley a failed inventor with a ten year old son and an ex wife, he's about to be evicted from his apartment for the hundreth time. He realizes through the help of his son [Jake Cherry] and his ex wife [Kim Raver] that it's time he get's a real job until his inventions pay off.

He goes in to the museum for an interview, meets a woman named Rebecca [Carla Guigina] who takes him to the where the security place is. The old night watchmens are being replaced, and bam three more stars are thrown in to the mix. Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney and Bill Cobbs!

Ok, you should figure out what happens next, Larry get's the job, and finds out that the creatures at the museum come to life at night because of an ancient egyptian tablet.

Yaay.

Let me say this, the movie did deliever what it set out to, it makes you giggle, it makes you laugh out loud, it makes your heart wrench and it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. It's a family movie, though like all family movies, there are parts for the parents. The obvious love between Robin Williams Teddy Rosevelt and Mizuo Pecks Sacajawea, the sometimes adult humor that a kid would laugh at and have no idea what was going on.

I actually enjoyed, being the history geek that I am, the parts with Owen Wilson [Jed] and Steve Coogan [Octavious], where as close to historically accurate as they could be.

All in all the movie was cute, not great, not fantastic, not crap, just cute. The laughs arent constant, but the smiles are, and that's what matters now a days in family movies.

I give Night at the Museum a 7/10.

-Jess