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

Directed by

Shawn Levy

Genre

fantasy film, action film, adventure film, slapstick

Country

United States, Canada

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 7,340 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Larry Daley, a former museum guard, goes to the Smithsonian to rescue his old friends from the Museum of Natural History. They were shipped there by mistake and he must sneak around the vast archives to save them.

lightheartedwhimsicalfast-pacedsillyfunadventurousslapstickfamily-friendly

What happens

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian is a 2009 American fantasy comedy film directed by Shawn Levy, and written by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. The film stars Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Owen Wilson, Hank Azaria, Christopher Guest, Alain Chabat and Robin Williams. It is the second film in the Night at the Museum series, following Night at the Museum (2006). The film follows former museum security guard Larry Daley, as he infiltrates the Smithsonian Institution's archives to rescue most of the Museum of Natural History's exhibits upon Jedediah and Octavius's request, as they feel that being shipped there is a mistake. The film was theatrically released on May 22, 2009, by 20th Century Fox. It received mixed reviews and became a box-office success, grossing $413 million on a $150 million budget. A third film, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, was released in 2014, and an animated sequel, Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again, was released in 2022. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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