Sunday, June 28, 2009

Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)

This is an okay movie. Two years after working as security guard, Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) is now head of a company he founded to manufacture his inventions. He appears in infomercials promoting the products. He decides to visit the Natural History Museum and discovers that it is closed to the public for renovations and new displays. The old figures are being moved into storage at the Smithsonian. The evil Pharaoh Kahmunrah intends to use the tablet to raise an army from the underworld and Larry must stop him.

Both pharaohs in the film are fictional. The American Museum of Natural History, located in Manhattan, New York is one of the largest museums in the world. The collections contain over 32 million specimens of biology, fossils, meteorites, and minerals. The Smithsonian Institution, located in Washington, D.C., is a research institute and museum complex, partially funded with taxes. It operates 19 museums, nine research centers, and a zoo.

1 Comments:

At 7/01/2009 8:02 AM, Blogger Green said...

I watched this movie at a drive in a couple weeks ago and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. I did notice one error in the film that kind of bothered me. The art work "American Gothic" is at the Art Institute in Chicago, not the Smithsonian. I've been there a couple times and seen it.

 

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