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| The Smithsonian comes to life on this wild adventure-teasing poster for Shawn Levy's Night at the Museum |
A divorced father with big dreams that haven't materialized, needs to take a job quick, if his life isn't to fall to shambles, and so he takes a night guard job at the Museum of Natural History, where, however, the exhibits come to life at night!
Night at the Museum is written by Robert Ben Garant (Hell Baby (2013)) and Thomas Lennon (Balls of Fury (2007)), adapting the 1993 children's book The Night at the Museum by Milan Trenc (Another Night at the Museum (2013)), and directed by Shawn Levy (Address Unknown (1997)).
Ben Stiller (If Lucy Fell (1996)) is in enthusiastic family mode, as he leads this silly family comedy assuredly, a film that boasts handsome effects and a good batch of fun actors: Mickey Rooney (A Yank at Eton (1942)) as one of the oldtimer, mean security guards is hilarious; mini versions of Owen Wilson (Midnight in Paris (2011)) and Steve Coogan (What Goes Up (2009)) are also a hoot, and Robin Williams (Cadillac Man (1990)) is good as Theodore Roosevelt. Carla Gugino (Hide (2011, TV movie)) lights up matters as a museum docent.
The plot is a bit here, a bit there, and it tires a bit that Stiller's character here is so lukewarm about his new, actually super-cool job. But Night at the Museum still wins on its fun and entertaining ruckus.
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Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: 110 mil. $
Box office: 574.4 mil. $
= Big hit (returned 5.22 times its cost)
[Night at the Museum premiered 17 December (New York) and runs 104 minutes. Rooney was paid 250k $ for his performance. Shooting took place from January - July 2006 in British Columbia, New York and California. The film opened #1 to a 42.2 mil. $ long Christmas weekend, stayed #2 for another 2 weekends and then remained another 5 weekends in the top 5 (#2-#2-#3-#4-#5), grossing 250.8 mil. $ (43.7 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 40.8 mil. $ (7.1 %) and Japan with 30 mil. $ (5.2 %). The-Numbers.com reports that the film sold in excess of 9.1 mil. DVDs in North America alone, grossing another 153.5 mil. $ there. Stiller, Levy and Co. returned for sequels Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) and Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014). Levy's return was Battle of the Smithsonian. Stiller first returned in Family Guy (2007, TV-series)) and theatrically in The Heartbreak Kid (2007). Night at the Museum is rotten at 43 % with a 5.30/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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