Whew...Felt More Like a Month Than Just a “Night at the Museum’
In between gift wrapping and toast giving, I took the opportunity to take three boys (ages 13, 11 and 7) to the opening weekend of 'Night At The Museum' and boy were we underwhelmed. In fact, it really did feel like more of a month than just a "Night At The Museum" mostly because the trailers had given away the best comedic bits of the movie.
All four of them.
Based on Milan Trenc's short children's book, the movie aims to introduce the 10 year old set to the spirit of never quitting in life amid the wonders of New York City's American Museum of Natural History. Problem was, I had a 10 year old in tow, and he didn't see it. A feel good movie that followed every single one of Hollywoods' formulas, 'Night' accomplished what it set out to do, and quite uneventfully so.
A bumbling security guard, Ben Stiller plays the lead as we remember him and with the same 'aw shucks' attitude towards life as he did in 'Meet The Parents.' This time, his accident-prone tendencies arise at the Museum of Natural History where he unknowingly lets loose an ancient curse that causes the animals and insects on display to come to life and wreak havoc. Jumanji meets The Museum. Exactly.
Part of the bigger problem with "Night" is that it doesn't know what kind of movie it wants to be. Certainly not a brawling comedy, it has been since tagged in the media as a 'fantasy.' In here, even the miniatures come to life and begin their own moralizing quests.
***Shhhh. The three inch fellas from the Old West and equally tiny Roman Empire guys are actually getting along. I don't want to miss a word of this!***
Can you imagine the young movie executive sitting at his first big meeting having to raise his hand and say what all of us already know, that gimmicks like giants in a feature length film might be a bad idea?
To break up my "Month At The Museum" I visited the mens room twice, peeked in on Rocky 6 once and actually went to the lobby to see if my car security alarm would work from all the way across the street (it did!). That's four trips interrupting couples with children four separate times.
Yet no one labeled me a nuisance, because while 'Night At The Museum' was beautifully filmed, magical in terms of its special effects and unquestionably a tidy holiday movie, it hardly leaves the impression the Metropolitan Museum Of Natural History is supposed to leave.
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