Night at The Museum II: Battle of the Smithsonian 博物館驚魂夜2

"Night at the Museum 2" thus features the successful duo of Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson. Although Owen Wilson plays a much smaller role, the humorous synergy between these two actors is so intense, that people are tempted to laugh whenever the actors appear on screen together.

"It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it," said Wilson on playing the trigger-happy cowboy Jedediah Smith in this movie. We will see how fast Wilson got tired of this sequel.

The sequel contains even more characters than the first film, making the on-screen time for most of the characters relatively short. It also makes the storyline proceed slower, and basically what we see is more of the same. The concept is actually not so much like a movie, but more as a combination of sketches, similar to Mel Brooks' movies, particularly "History of the World," in which every time period has it's own short story, with several running gags through the whole.

When you start watching the movie, you will notice that it is more Brooks-like, not only parodying historic personalities, but also characters from other movies, such as where Kah Amun Rah confronts Darth Vader and says: "Is that you breathing? Because I can't hear myself think! There's too much going on here; you're asthmatic, you're a robot. And why the cape? Are we going to the opera? I don't think so."

The new character of Kah Amun Rah (Hank Azaria), the brother of Akh Men Rah from part one, is a rather dramatic character with hilariously severe mood changes, in strong contrast to the simple and plain Larry (Ben Stiller). The tone is set in the first part of the movie where Rah makes his dramatic comeback ("Haven't you heard what I said? I have come back to life!"). "No, I heard that. I got that. Welcome back," is the response that Larry gives, showing the contrast between the two characters.

There is just something about her that makes it more realistic when she plays a fantasy character, and more fake when playing someone real.

The movie is the first big movie to be filmed inside the Smithsonian museum in Washington. It is the largest museum in the United States. Though you might wonder why any movie would ever want to film in this specific museum, 20th Century Fox regards it as a solid marketing point. Possibly because it means the museum in part two is "bigger and better."

Don't expect any deep storyline and don't try to find secret messages that will prevent museum dolls from taking over the world, or a mystery guest that intends to join the forces of evil ... "I can be bad, really bad, ooh my I'm bad!"

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