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Night At The Museum (2006)
Director: Shawn Levy
Synopsis
Ben Stiller plays hapless single father Larry Daley, a night watchman at the Natural History Museum whose life is thrown into chaos when the museum exhibits start to come to life.
Movie review
From Time Out London
Ben Stiller is Larry Daley, new nightwatchman at New York’s struggling Museum of Natural History, where, unbeknown to the outside world, the exhibits spring chaotically to life after dusk. Larry’s first experience is being pursued by a the skeletal remains of a T-Rex, and at this point the film looks like it could be quite a hoot. But it all goes pear-shaped as soon as an Easter Island statue cracks an insipid joke and the Neanderthals start grunting. According to former security officers Dick Van Dyke and Mickey Rooney, an ancient Egyptian tablet is to blame. So, with the help of Robin Williams’ waxwork Teddy Roosevelt, Owen Wilson’s miniaturised cowboy and his nemesis, Steve Coogan’s inch-high Octavius, Larry sets out to restore calm… The special effects for this ‘Jumanji’-esque fantasy must have cost a bomb. A shame, then, that the result is such an aimless and riotous mess.Author: Derek Adams
Time Out London Issue 1896: December 20 2006-January 3 2007
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Cast & crew
Director: Shawn Levy
Producer: Shawn Levy, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan, Mark Radcliffe
Cast: Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Steve Coogan, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Dick Van Dyke, Carla Gugino, Ricky Gervais, Jake Cherry, Mizuo Peck, Anne Meara, Rami Malek, Patrick Gallagher, Kim Raver, Owen Wilson full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure, Children's, Comedy
Duration: 108 mins
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