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Night At The Museum [2006]
from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
starring Ben Stiller, Jake Cherry, Ricky Gervais, Dick Van Dyke, Owen Wilson
directed by Shawn Levy

Features:

• PAL

Editorial Review:

An irresistible concept meets computer-generated wonders in Night at the Museum, inspired by a 1993 children's book by Milan Trenc. Ben Stiller stars as Larry Daley, an underachieving inventor waiting for his ship to come in while getting evicted from one apartment after another for lack of funds. Larry's son needs some stability, so the well-meaning ne'er-do-well takes a job as night watchman at New York City's Museum of Natural History. What the soon-to-retire guards (Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs) don't tell him is that an ancient pharaoh's tablet in the museum causes everything on display to come to life at night. Thus, Larry meets representations of Teddy Roosevelt, Attila the Hun, fire-worshipping cavemen, and Roman Empire soldiers, and learns to cope with an excitable T-Rex and man-eating, ancient animals. The film might have left things at that, but an added story element gives Night at the Museum some extra urgency and excitement, especially for kids: Larry becomes responsible for keeping this nightly miracle going and preventing anything in the museum from dying due to exposure to sunrise. Computer effects, as well as wildly imaginative costumes and makeup, help make the film appeal to the 8-year-old in everyone. Director Shawn Levy (The Pink Panther) works with a hugely talented cast, including Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Ricky Gervais, Carla Gugino, and Steve Coogan. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• All good Pahraohs learn their English at Cambridge
  Do not expect an intellectual and highly educational film. It is not. It is a sentimental comedy, all in all. You will learn that you cannot trust old people who are ready to commit a crime whose guilt will be attributed to someone younger, and that only because they want to make some money to expand their old age pension slightly. You will learn that you must not trust appearances and that what looks pretty dead is nothing but alive and what looks pretty alive is nothing but wax or stuffed artifact. You... more info

• Good family fun
  Night At The Museum is great harmless entertainment. Wonderful escapism, my whole family loved it. Lots for both kids and adults alike and a great cast of comic talent from yesteryear and modern day. Ricky Gervais, Robin Williams, Ben Stiller, and some dinosaurs!

• Nothing phenomenal here - but a good family movie nonetheless
  Ben Stiller is good in the lead role but I did feel that Owen Wilson was tragically under utilised here. He really only has a bit-part which I was a bit disappointed about. Ricky Gervais is also only in the film very briefly but he is absolutely brilliant. He is basically just playing David Brent though...As for Robin Williams part - goodness knows why they needed an actor of his caliber to play as simple a part as he has in this film? Again, sadly under-utilised.
  The plot is obviously about as basic... more info

• Really entertaining
  One of the first things i noticed about this film was the list of big names in the cast, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Robin Williams, Steve Coogan, Ricky Gervais & Dick Van Dyke (fortunatley Dick was not required to do his dodgy cockney accent for this film).
  The film is based on a childrens story but is also a great comedy for adults to enjoy with Dexter providing quite a few laughs in the film. The acting in the film is all very good and you can beleive all the characters. The film balances the... more info

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