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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian is a 2009 American adventure fantasy comedy film written by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, produced by Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan and Shawn Levy and directed by Levy. The film stars Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, Hank Azaria, Bill Hader, Christopher Guest, Alain Chabat, Jon Bernthal, and Robin Williams. It is the second film in the Night at the Museum series, following the 2006 film Night at the Museum. The film was released theatrically on May 22, 2009 by 20th Century Fox. Like its predecessor, it received mixed critical reception and a box office success by grossing over $413 million on a $150 million budget.

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Plot[edit]

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Two years after the events of the first film, Larry Daley, former night guard at the American Museum of Natural History, now runs his own direct response television company that sells inventions based on his experiences. He travels to the museum, discovering most of the exhibits will be moved to the Federal Archives at the Smithsonian Institution and replaced with holographic information providers. The Tablet of Ahkmenrah is to remain in the museum, leaving most of the exhibits without the ability to come to life at night. After the exhibits are moved, Larry receives a phone call from Jedediah, who informs him that Dexter the monkey stole the tablet and took it to the Smithsonian, bringing every exhibit in it to life. Larry travels to Washington, DC, navigating his way to the archives with help from his son Nick while posing as a night guard.

Larry finds his friends trapped in their shipping container under attack from Ahkmenrah's evil older brother Kahmunrah, accidentally activating the tablet and bringing the exhibits in the Smithsonian to life again. Kahmunrah reveals his plans to use the tablet's powers to conquer the world. Larry escapes, aided by a gigantic octopus and General George A. Custer, who is captured, and then the adventurous Amelia Earhart, who becomes his travelling companion around the museum. The two evade Kahmunrah's army, trapping them in the portrait of V-J Day in Times Square. Kahmunrah enlists fellow evil historical leaders, Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Al Capone to help capture Larry and retrieve the tablet. Jedediah tries to help but is placed in an hourglass. Kahmunrah is unable to open the Gate of the Underworld with the tablet, and gives Larry and Amelia an hour to translate it, or Kahmunrah will kill Larry and his friends. Larry and Amelia's friendship increases to the point where she develops a crush on him and ends up kissing him with the God's of Love singing to them, including 'My Heart Will Go On'.

Larry and Amelia travel to the National Air and Space Museum to find help, briefly encountering the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial. Inside the museum, Larry grounds all of the aircraft and rockets from taking off, before a group of Albert Einstein bobbleheads inform him that the combination is the value of pi. Amelia tries to convince Larry for them to be a couple, but Larry struggles to tell her the truth that she is made of wax, so they can't be together. Napoleon, Ivan, and Capone's troops arrive, prompting Larry and Amelia to escape using the Wright Flyer. They crash the plane into the Smithsonian, where Kahmunrah uses the acquired combination to summon an army of bird-headed warriors. Lincoln crashes in through the window, frightening the warriors back into the Underworld.

Amelia gathers an army of allies including Larry's friends and Custer, leading to a climactic battle. But Custer is afraid to fight after remembering the Battle of Little Big Horn. Larry persuades him to forget the past and fight on. Meanwhile, Octavius rescues Jedediah, who together, turn the tide of the Battle. Larry obtains the tablet, and devises a plan to stop Kahmunrah. Inspired by an idea given to him by Lincoln, Larry sparks a disagreement between Capone, Bonaparte and Ivan, causing them to brawl amongst themselves. Larry attempts to escape, only to be cut off by an angry Kahmunrah, brandishing a Khopesh. After a brief scuffle between Larry, armed with his flashlight, and Kahmunrah, Amelia eventually manages to use the tablet to open the gate, and Larry finally defeats Kahmunrah, banishing him to the Underworld.

Amelia flies Larry and the New York exhibits back home. Even though Larry does love Amelia, they both know she has to be taking off in her plane, knowing she will become dust before reaching the Smithsonian. However, the two share a final kiss before she takes off.

Two months later, Larry sells his company, donating the money to the museum to renovate it, and the exhibits remain, capable of moving about at night under the pretense of being animatronics. Larry is rehired as a night guard and aids a woman who resembles Amelia during the debut of the museum's new extension of visiting hours.

In a post-credits sequence the sailor Larry met in the VJ Day photograph, Joey Motorola, reverse-engineers the mobile phone Larry left behind. As his mother calls him to dinner, he claims that he's 'on to something.'

Cast[edit]

Humans[edit]

• Ben Stiller as Larry Daley, a former security guard turned CEO of Daley Devices.
• Ricky Gervais as Dr. McPhee, the curator at the Museum of Natural History.
• Jake Cherry as Nick Daley, the son of Larry Daley.
• Amy Adams as Tess, a young woman at the end of the movie who looks like Amelia Earhart.

Exhibits[edit]

• Robin Williams as Theodore Roosevelt, the wax statue of the 26th President of the United States
  • Robin Williams also voices the bronze bust of Theodore Roosevelt.
• Amy Adams as Amelia Earhart, the first woman who flew across the Atlantic Ocean, and Larry's love interest
  • Amy Adams also portrays Tess, a woman touring the museum, who looks like Amelia Earhart
• Owen Wilson as Jedediah, a cowboy minifigure.
• Hank Azaria as Kahmunrah, a pharaoh who is the evil and sinister brother of Ahkmenrah.
• Christopher Guest as Ivan the Terrible, the historic Tsar of Russia who allies with Kahmunrah.
• Alain Chabat as Napoleon Bonaparte, the leader of the First French Empire who allies with Kahmunrah.
• Jon Bernthal as Al Capone, a gangster and founder of the Chicago Outfit who allies with Kahmunrah.
• Steve Coogan as Octavius, a Roman soldier minifigure.
• Mizuo Peck as Sacagawea, the polyurethane model of the Lemhi Shoshone woman who is Theodore Roosevelt's girlfriend.
• Bill Hader as George Armstrong Custer, a military figure who Larry befriends.
• Rami Malek as Ahkmenrah, a pharaoh who is the good brother of Kahmunrah.
• Patrick Gallagher as Attila the Hun
• Brad Garrett as Easter Island Head (voice)
• Kerry van der Griend as Neanderthal #1
• Matthew Harrison as Neanderthal #2
• Rick Dobran as Neanderthal #3
• Randy Lee as Hun #1
• Darryl Quon as Hun #2
• Gerald Wong as Hun #3
• Paul Chih-Ping Cheng as Hun #4
• Jonas Brothers as Cupid Statues
• Jay Baruchel as Joey Motorola, a sailor who resides in the V-J Day in Times Square photograph.
• Keith Powell as Tuskegee Airman #1
• Craig Robinson as Tuskegee Airman #2
• Clint Howard as Air and Space Mission Control Tech #1
• Matty Finochio as Air and Space Mission Control Tech #2
• Thomas Lennon (uncredited) as Orville Wright
• Robert Ben Garant (uncredited) as Wilbur Wright
• Caroll Spinney as Oscar the Grouch, the famous Sesame Street character that tries to ally with Kahmunrah only to be dismissed because Kahmunrah classified him as a 'grouch.'
• Thomas Morley as Darth Vader, the infamous Star Wars character that tries to ally with Kahmunrah only to be turned away because he was 'dark.'

Others[edit]

• Hank Azaria as The Thinker, Abraham Lincoln Statue
• Eugene Levy as Albert Einstein Bobbleheads
• Mindy Kaling as Docent
• George Foreman as Himself
• Shawn Levy as Infomercial Father
• Alberta Mayne as Kissing Nurse
• Ed Helms (uncredited) as Ed, Larry Daley's assistant
• Jonah Hill (uncredited) as Brandon, a security guard at the Smithsonian who vigorously insists his name is pronounced 'Brundon'

Exhibits at the Smithsonian[edit]

• Smilodon skeleton

Artwork[edit]

Production[edit]

Development[edit]

Writers Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon confirmed to Dark Horizons that they were writing a sequel to Night at the Museum, originally with the tentative title Another Night at the Museum. The writers said that 'there'll be existing characters and plenty of new ones.'

20th Century Fox announced that the sequel, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, would be released during Memorial Day weekend in 2009. Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, Ricky Gervais, Patrick Gallagher, Jake Cherry, Rami Malek, Mizuo Peck, Brad Garrett and Robin Williams would return for the sequel, with Shawn Levy returning as director.

The film was mostly filmed in Vancouver and Montreal with some scenes filmed in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C..^[2] A scene was shot at the Lincoln Memorial on the night of May 21, 2008. Scenes were also shot at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on August 18 and 20, 2008.

The trailer was released with Bedtime Stories, Yes Man and Marley & Me in December 2008. The trailer accompanied the film Bride Wars in January, The Pink Panther 2 in February, and Dragonball Evolution in April 2009. The film was also promoted as an opening skit on American Idol, where a replica of the Idol judge seats are being held at the real Smithsonian Institution.

An alternate ending included on the DVD and Blu-ray releases featured the return of Dick Van Dyke as Cecil Fredericks, Bill Cobbs as Reginald, and Mickey Rooney as Gus.

Filmmakers loaned the Smithsonian Institution props used in the movie which were displayed in the Smithsonian Castle including the pile of artifacts featured in the film.^[3] The Smithsonian also made a brochure available online and at museum visitor service desks outlining where to find artifacts.^[4]

As of 2009, numerous artifacts which inspired the movie were on display at Smithsonian Museums along the National Mall. Many of the artifacts are labeled with 'Night at the Museum' logos.^[4]

1. 1903 Wright Flyer
2. Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega
3. Medal belonging to Tuskegee Airmen

1. Oscar the Grouch puppet
2. George Armstrong Custer's fringed jacket
3. Muhammad Ali's boxing gloves
4. Theodore Roosevelt's chaps
5. Archie Bunker's chair from the television sitcom All in the Family
6. Theodore Roosevelt's teddy bear
7. Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz

Gift shops at the Smithsonian also sell a replica of the Einstein Bobble-head, created specifically as a tie-in to the movie.

Music[edit]

Alan Silvestri returned to score the sequel.^[5][6]

Track listing[edit]

Varèse Sarabande issued the score on May 19, 2009.^[7]

All tracks written by Alan Silvestri.

Sample credits^[8]

• 'Museum Open Late' incorporates excerpt of 'Life in Technicolor' written by Coldplay

Release[edit]

A trailer of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian was released on December 19, 2008.^[9] The film premiered on May 14, 2009 in Washington, D.C.. The film released in UK on May 20, 2009, on May 22, 2009 in United States, and in Japan on August 12, 2009.^[10]

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

At the end of its box office run, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian earned a gross of $177 million in North America and $236 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $413 million against a budget of $150 million.^[1]

On Friday, May 22, 2009, its opening day, the film's estimated gross was $16 million, for second day the film grossed $20 million and for third day the gross was $19 million, coming in ahead of Terminator Salvation (which released on Thursday) in 4,096 theaters at No. 1, reaching up to $54.1 million, with a $13,226 per-theater average over the Memorial Day weekend.^[11] By comparison, Night at the Museum reached up to $30 million on its opening weekend in December 2006. For its second weekend, the film grossed $24.35 million, for third weekend $14.6 million.^[12]

For the opening weekend of May 22, 2009 the film grossed $49 million while playing in theaters of 56 territories; the film debuted in UK ($6.6 million), Russia ($5.23 million) and France ($5.05 million).^[13] The largest market in other territories being UK, Japan, Germany, Australia and France where the film grossed $32.8 million, $21.49 million, $18.78 million, $14.03 million and $13.3 million.^[14]

Critical reaction[edit]

Like its predecessor, the sequel has received mixed reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 44% 'rotten' approval rating, based on 163 reviews, with an average score of 5.1/10, making it just barely the highest reviewed film of the series. The site's critical consensus reads, 'Night at the Museum: Battle at the Smithsonian is busy enough to keep the kids interested but the slapstick goes overboard and the special effects (however well executed) throw the production into mania'.^[15] Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, gave the film an average score of 42 out of 100 based on 31 reviews, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'.^[16]

Despite mixed reviews from critics, most critics praised Amy Adams' and Hank Azaria's performances. Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune awarded the film 3 stars stating that '[Adams]'s terrific -- a sparkling screen presence.'^[17]Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B+ stating 'Battle of the Smithsonian has plenty of life. But it's Adams who gives it zing.'^[18] Also, many reviews noted the costume worn by Amy Adams during the movie.^[19] Perry Seibert of TV Guide gave the film 2 stars despite honoring that 'thanks to Azaria, a master of comic timing. His grandiose, yet slightly fey bad guy is equally funny when he's chewing out minions as he is when deliberating if Oscar the Grouch and Darth Vader are evil enough to join his team.^[20] Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter and A.O. Scott of The New York Times enjoyed both performances.^[21][22]

One critic panned the movie on its excessive use of special effects as noted by Scott Tobias of The A.V. Club when he described the film as 'a baffling master plot and a crowded pileup of special effects in search of something to do.'^[23]Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times awarded the film 1½ stars out of 4 claiming 'its premise is lame, its plot relentlessly predictable, its characters with personalities that would distinguish picture books.'^[24]

In CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian an average grade of 'B+' on an A+ to F scale.^[25]

Awards and honors[edit]

Home media[edit]

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian was made available December 1, 2009 on DVD and Blu-ray as a two-disc Special Edition and a three-disc Digital Copy Edition.^[27]

As of 12 February 2015, the film has sold 4,083,829 DVDs and 585,023 Blu-ray discs grossing $51,481,903 and $11,674,546 totalling $63,156,449 in North America.^[28]

In other media[edit]

Video game

The video game based on the film was released on May 5, 2009. It was fairly well received in comparison to the majority of film-based video-games, netting a 7.5 out of 10 from IGN.com.

Sequel[edit]

Ben Stiller admitted that a sequel was 'a possibility' and on January 22, 2010, co-writer Thomas Lennon said to Access Hollywood, 'That after the success of two Night at the Museum films, it's no surprise that 20th Century Fox is looking to develop a third and that those suspicions are indeed true and how could you not? I think it's a really outstanding idea to do Night at the Museum 3, in fact,' he said. 'I wonder if someone's not even already working on a script for that,' he added with a raised eyebrow. 'I cannot confirm that for a fact, but I cannot deny it for a fact either... It might be in the works.' In an interview, Stiller confirmed the sequel, however, he said that it was only in the 'ideas stage'.^[29]

It was announced in February 2013 that the film, directed by Shawn Levy, would be released on December 25, 2014.^[30] On September 10, 2013, it was announced that shooting would start in February 2014.^[31] On November 8, 2013, English actor Dan Stevens was cast as Sir Lancelot.^[32] On November 15, 2013, it was announced Skyler Gisondo would be replacing Jake Cherry for the role of Nicky Daley.^[33] On December 18, 2013 it was announced that Robin Williams, Stiller, and Ricky Gervais would be returning for the sequel.^[34] On January 9, 2014, it was announced that Rebel Wilson would play a security guard in the British Museum.^[35] On January 14, 2014, the film's release date was moved up from December 25, 2014, to December 19, 2014.^[36] On January 23, 2014, it was announced Ben Kingsley would play an Egyptian Pharaoh at the British Museum.^[37]Principal photography and production began on January 27, 2014.^[38] In May 2014, principal photography ended.^[39]

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36. ^Busch, Anita. 'Fox Sets Date For 'Planet of the Apes' Project, Moves Romancer 'The Longest Ride' Away From 'Fifty Shades of Grey'; 'Night At the Museum' Now Head to Head With 'The Hobbit''. Deadline.com. Retrieved January 28, 2014.
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39. ^Labrecque, Jeff (August 11, 2014). 'Robin Williams leaves behind four upcoming films'. Insidemovies.ew.com. Retrieved January 17, 2015.

External links[edit]

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• Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian at the TCM Movie Database
• Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian at AllMovie
• Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian at Rotten Tomatoes
• Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian at Box Office Mojo

Night at the Museum is a 2006 fantasy-comedy film directed by Shawn Levy and written by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. It is based on the 1993 children's book of the same name by Croatian illustrator Milan Trenc and is the first film in the Night at the Museum series. The film stars Ben Stiller as Larry Daley, a divorced father who applies for a job as a night watchman at New York City's American Museum of Natural History and subsequently discovers that the exhibits, animated by a magical Egyptian artifact, come to life at night. 20th Century Fox released the film on December 22, 2006, and it grossed $574 million.

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Plot[edit]

Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) is a divorced man who has been unable to keep a stable job and has failed at many business ventures, including being an inventor. His invention of 'the Snapper', which does exactly what the clapper does, has failed because there is a significant amount of people who can't snap, and therefore, can't use it. His former wife (Kim Raver) believes that he is a bad example to their ten-year-old son Nick (Jake Cherry), and Larry fears that Nick respects his future overweight stepfather, bondtrader Don (Paul Rudd), more than him.

Cecil Fredricks (Dick Van Dyke), an elderly night security guard about to retire from the American Museum of Natural History, hires Larry despite his unpromising résumé. The museum, which is rapidly losing money, plans to replace Cecil and two colleagues Gus (Mickey Rooney) and Reginald (Bill Cobbs) with one guard. Cecil gives Larry an instruction booklet on how to handle museum security, and advises Larry to leave some of the lights on and warns him not to let anything 'in...or out'.

Once night falls, Larry discovers that the exhibits come to life, including a playful Tyrannosaurus skeleton nicknamed 'Rexy' who behaves like a dog; a mischievous capuchin monkey named Dexter which steals Larry's keys and tears up his instruction booklet; rival miniature civilizations led by Old West cowboy Jedediah (Owen Wilson) and Roman general Octavius (Steve Coogan); limb-ripping Attila the Hun (Patrick Gallagher); an Easter IslandMoai (Brad Garrett) obsessed with 'gum-gum' who addresses Larry as Dum-Dum; and a wax model of Theodore Roosevelt (Robin Williams).

Roosevelt explains that since an Egyptianartifact—the Golden Tablet of Pharaoh Ahkmenrah—came to the museum in 1952, all of the exhibits come to life each night. If the exhibits are outside the museum during sunrise, they turn to dust. Roosevelt helps Larry by restoring order, but only for one night. Larry quits the next morning, saying to the three guards he doesn't want a job that is life-threatening. However, he sees Nick coming to see him at work the next morning, where Larry offers Nick a tour of the museum. After seeing Nick's interest in his job, Larry decides to remain as a night guard.

When Larry tells Cecil about how Dexter tore up his instructions, Cecil advises him to study history to prepare himself for his nightly duties. He also learns history from a museum docent Rebecca Hutman (Carla Gugino), who is writing a dissertation on Sacagawea (Mizuo Peck), but does not feel she knows enough about her subject.

The next night, Larry uses what he has learned to better control the exhibits. However, things go wrong anyway and four Neanderthals set fire to a display and some other things. One of the Neanderthal turns to dust when he leaves the museum at dawn. The next morning, museum director Dr. McPhee (Ricky Gervais) almost fires Larry after what happened to the Neanderthal exhibit. He offers Rebecca a meeting with Sacagawea, but she believes that he is mocking her and the museum.

Larry brings Nick to the museum to show him the exhibits, but none of them are alive. They find Cecil, Gus, and Reginald stealing the tablet and other valuable objects. Like the exhibits, the guards receive enhanced vitality from the artifact; wishing to retain their youth, health and to fund their retirements, the three plan to frame Larry for the thefts. They have also disabled the tablet to stop the exhibits from interfering. Nick reactivates the artifact, but Cecil locks him and his father in the Egyptian room and flees with the tablet. Larry releases Ahkmenrah's mummy (Rami Malek) from his sarcophagus. The pharaoh speaks English from many years as an exhibit at Cambridge, and helps Larry and Nick escape. The three find the other exhibits fighting; Larry confronts Attila, realizing his behavior came from being hurt a long time ago, and convinces them to work together.

The exhibits capture Gus and Reginald without difficulty, but Cecil escapes by stagecoach with Larry, Nick, Ahkmenrah, Jed, Octavius, Rexy, and Atilla the Hun in pursuit in Central Park, where they stop him and regain the tablet. Jed and Octavius are presumably killed when their remote-controlled Hummer crashes, but they somehow survive. Rebecca sees the exhibits return to the museum before sunrise and realizes that Larry was telling the truth; he introduces her to Sacagawea.

Dr. McPhee fires Larry again after seeing news reports of the strange events around the museum & dash; such as cave paintings in the museum's subway station, dinosaur footprints in Central Park, and cavemen sightings. However, upon seeing how much these events raised attendance, he thinks better of it and gives Larry his job back. Larry, Nick, and the exhibits celebrate the following night.

During the credits, it was shown that Cecil, Gus and Reginald weren't handed over to the authorities and are now working as janitors at the museum.

Cast[edit]

Humans[edit]

• Ben Stiller as Lawrence 'Larry' Daley, a night-shift security guard at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
• Dick Van Dyke as Cecil Fredericks, a veteran security guard
• Carla Gugino as Rebecca Hutman, a museum docent
• Mickey Rooney as Gus, a veteran security guard
• Bill Cobbs as Reginald, a veteran security guard
• Jake Cherry as Nicholas 'Nick' Daley, Larry's son
• Ricky Gervais as Dr. McPhee, the curator of the Museum of Natural History and Larry's boss
• Kim Raver as Erica Daley, Larry's former wife and Nick's mother
• Charlie Murphy as the taxi-driver
• Paul Rudd as Don, Erica's fiancé
• Anne Meara as Debbie

Exhibits[edit]

• Robin Williams as a wax model of Theodore Roosevelt
• Patrick Gallagher as a wax model of Attila the Hun
• Rami Malek as the mummy of Pharaoh Ahkmenrah
• Pierfrancesco Favino as a bronze statue of Christopher Columbus
• Owen Wilson (uncredited) as 'Jedediah', a miniature cowboy figure
• Steve Coogan as Octavius, a miniature Roman general figure
• Mizuo Peck as a polyurethane model of Sacagawea
• Kerry van der Griend, Dan Rizzuto, Matthew Harrison, and Jody Racicot as wax models of Neanderthals
• Martin Christopher as a wax model of Meriwether Lewis
• Martin Sims as a wax model of William Clark
• Randy Lee, Darryl Quon, Gerald Wong, and Paul Chih-Ping Cheng as wax models of the Huns
• Brad Garrett as the voice of the Easter Island Head
• Crystal the Monkey as Dexter, a stuffedCapuchin monkey

Production[edit]

The building featured in the film, which was constructed on a sound stage in Burnaby, British Columbia, is based on the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, external shots of which were used in the movie.^[3]

Trainers spent several weeks training Crystal, who plays the troublemaking monkey Dexter, to slap and bite Stiller in the film.

Robin Williams' Theodore Roosevelt costume closely resembles that of John Wayne's character in The Shootist.^[4]

Director Shawn Levy credited Ben Stiller for the ensemble cast: 'When actors hear that Ben Stiller is in a movie they want to work with him. It['s] a high-water mark and it absolutely draws actors in and I'm convinced that's a big part of why we got this cast.'^[5]

Music[edit]

Songs[edit]

• 'Friday Night' - performed by McFly; not featured in American version of the film, but heard in some international cuts, used during the end credits. It can be heard on the American DVD on the Spanish dub.
• 'September' - performed by Earth, Wind and Fire; used before the end credits where everyone in the museum is partying.
• 'Weapon of Choice' - performed by Fatboy Slim; used in the scene where Larry returns to the museum for his second night and is preparing for the chaos.
• 'Tonight' - performed by Keke Palmer and Cham; used for the end credits.
• 'Eye of the Tiger' - performed by Ben Stiller; used in the scene where Larry is bored and messes around with the telephone at the front desk beatboxing the music.
• An instrumental version of 'Mandy' by Barry Manilow is used when Larry is standing in the elevator, while escaping from Attila the Hun.
• 'Ezekiel Saw Them Dry Bones' is the tune Larry whistles as he passes the empty T. rex exhibit on his first night.
• 'Camptown Races' by Stephen Foster is sung by the townspeople of the American West miniature diorama. This is a period-correct song.

Score[edit]

Alan Silvestri replaced John Ottman as score composer.^[6] Silvestri's score was used for the teaser trailer of Horton Hears a Who!

Track list[edit]

Varèse Sarabande released a soundtrack album of the score on December 19, 2006.^[7]

All tracks written by Alan Silvestri.

Release[edit]

Night at the Museum had its premiere in New York City on December 17, 2006, on December 22, 2006 in the United States, December 26, 2006 in UK, January 12, 2007 in Brazil, on February 14, 2007 in China and on March 17, 2007 in Japan.^[8]

The film was released under the title of 'Noche en el museo' in Spain, 'Una note al museo' in Italy, 'La nuit au musée' in France, 'Ночь в музее' in Russia and 'Uma Noite no Museu' in Brazil.^[8]

Box office[edit]

At the end of its box office run, Night at the Museum earned a gross of $250.9 million in the US and Canada and $323.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $574.5 million.^[2] It was the fifth highest-grossing film of 2006 and also the highest-grossing film worldwide of the trilogy.^[9]

It was the highest-grossing film in its opening weekend, grossing $30.8 million plating in 3,686 theaters, with a $8,258 per-theater average. For the four-day Christmas holiday weekend, it took in $42.2 million.^[2] The movie was also released in IMAX large screen format, often on site at museums of science or natural history such as the Pacific Science Center in Seattle.

In its second weekend, Night at the Museum expanded into 83 more theaters and took in approximately $36.7 million, out-grossing its opening weekend. It maintained the top position in its third week, with an additional $23.7 million.^[10]

During its opening weekend of December 15, 2006, the film grossed a figure of estimated $5 million, with the highest debut coming from South Korea ($5.04 million).^[11] The biggest market in the other territories were the UK, Japan, South Korea, and Germany, where it grossed $40.8 million, $30 million, $25.7 million, $22.9 million.^[12]

Critical reaction[edit]

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 43% based on 132 reviews and an average rating of 5.3/10. The site's critical consensus reads, 'Parents might call this either a spectacle-filled adventure or a shallow and vapid CG-fest, depending on whether they choose to embrace this on the same level as their kids'.^[13] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 48 out of 100 based on 28 critics, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'.^[14]

James Berardinelli of Reelviews gave it 2 stars out of 4, and commented on Stiller's performance by stating 'It might be fair to give Ben Stiller an 'A' for effort, but to call what he does in this movie 'acting' is a misnomer. He does a lot of running around, occasionally falling down or bumping into things.'^[15] One positive review by William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, gave it a B-, and stated that the film was 'Out to impress and delight a family audience with the pageantry of human and natural history, and that's a surprisingly worthy ambition for a Hollywood comedy.'^[16] In a case of life imitating art, museum officials at the American Museum of Natural History have credited the film for increasing the number of visitors during the holiday season by almost 20%. According to a museum official, between December 22, 2006, and January 2, 2007, there were 50,000 more visitors than during the same period the prior year.^[17]CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave the film an average grade of 'A-' on an A+ to F scale.^[18]

Home media[edit]

The film was released on a 2-Disc DVD edition in the United Kingdom on April 2, 2007. It was released on 1-Disc and 2-Disc DVD editions and Blu-ray Disc format on April 24, 2007 elsewhere.

The film became the first non-Disney film to be reviewed by Ultimate Disney (now known as DVDizzy.com), due to the website dealing with other studios besides Disney.^[19][20]

As of 6 December 2009, the film has sold 9,191,694 DVDs and grossed $153,566,058 in DVD sales.^[21]

The Night Of The Museum Characters

Awards[edit]

Sequels[edit]

The first installment in the trilogy, Night at the Museum was followed by a sequel titled Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian,^[25] which was released on May 22, 2009 in North America. The third and final installment, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, was released on December 19, 2014 in North America.^[26]

In 2016, The Hollywood Reporter stated that the Alibaba Pictures Group intended to remake the film.^[27]

Night At The Museum 2006 Movie

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External links[edit]

• Night at the Museum on IMDb
• Night at the Museum at the TCM Movie Database
• Night at the Museum at AllMovie
• Night at the Museum at Box Office Mojo
• Night at the Museum at Metacritic
• Night at the Museum at Rotten Tomatoes
• Night At The Museum Review on Variety.com