Saw “Night at the Museum” tonight w/ my kids. It definitely went left from the last one, in my opinion.
They make Amelia Earhart out to be a nattering feminist, who repeatedly asks if she’s not being given enough responsibility “beacuse I’m a woman, right?”
It did seem like they brought all of the old characters back, but really didn’t have a plan for them. The cowboy character was out of place, as was Roosevelt and Sawakagea. Ghengis Kahn had no roll at all and niether did the neanderthals. Nonetheless, they took up valuable screen space and time.
The Tuskeegee Airmen gave a tip of the hat to Amelia, which I don’t have a problem with, except it was supposed to be a comedy, not a social documentary.
Then comes the Roman with the “good man rules the union” thing, and Lincoln pretty much acting like a dork. It went off track early, and stayed there.
There were a few funny parts. I guess, just enough to keep me from falling alseep. The Egyptian pharoh (or whatever he was) had some great lines, made even funnier by the strange (gay?) lisp that he used.
In the end, I would wait until this video shows up in the dollar rental machines before seeing it again, and then only because my kids liked the animals.
The pharaoh faking being choked by Darth Vader then says, "Oh, I'm kidding, that really doesn't work you know."
And for some reason they left out the Bush like George Custer saying: "Mission Accomplished".