Night At The Museum (PG)
Time Out says
Thu Dec 21 2006
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
Release details
Rated:
PG
UK release:
Tue Dec 26, 2006
Duration:
108 mins
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Cast:
Ricky Gervais, Patrick Gallagher, Bill Cobbs, Kim Raver, Anne Meara, Mizuo Peck, Rami Malek, Mickey Rooney, Dick Van Dyke, Jake Cherry, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, Carla Gugino, Robin Williams, Ben Stiller
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Screenwriter:
Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant
Producer:
Chris Columbus, Shawn Levy, Michael Barnathan, Mark Radcliffe
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