Night at the Museum

This movie is like Jumanji 3 with Ben Stiller as the lead. As most know, ben stiller movies are always typical where he will be the most "Suay Ka" character in the movie, things just don't go his way, blah blah ... etc.


As expected, movie starts with him getting a parking fine and his car wheel clamped. Then he missed some kind of school session for his son ... and already divorced. So he gets to see his son once on weekdays and weekends, but he is losing it as he doesn't have a stable job and doesn't feel like getting one.


Not sure what he was doing all that while, guess was he is doing some kind of innovation job which very obviously isn't bringing him anywhere. But for the sake of his son, he took up the night guard job at the museum of the natural history.


The main plot of the story which is negligible but strings the scenes together ... is somehow the museum comes alive at night, every exhibit starts walking around ... has his or her own agenda depending who he/she/it was. It is like a chaotic party. All these due to a gold eygptian tablet which was brought in there around 1950s.


But the 3 existing old guards have something up their sleeves, they plan to take something from the museum which will be laying them off as it is not doing well. They want to steal the gold tablet and other stuff to sell them off ... of course then make it as if ben stiller was the one doing it.


The secondary plot is how all these re-build the relationship between ben and his son. How his son really believes what ben is capable of and starts to bond with him.


Actually, there were a couple of nights at the museum, the action get started on the first night. He freaked out, as any normal guy would ... the skeleton T-rex starts chasing him, Terry Rosevedlt horsing around and providing advice to him, Attilia the Hun chasing him, the Mayans, Cowboys and the Roman Gladiators all comes to live.


Won't the forget the wild animals of the Africa and the monkey who just make fun of him. There are numerous scenes where ben interact with all these exhibits and some are really hilarous with his kind of humour.


As he starts the learnt about the history, he gets the hang of it on the second night, but then monkey monkey who was outplayed by ben at first got back at him .... thus making his second night not any better.


The last night will be the one where it is the final showdown ... where the 3 old guards came back to steal ... and ben somehow have to lead all the exhibits and retrieve the tablet to restore the museum.


Well, Ben's movie though usually have "Suayness" revolving around him throughout but usually ends well. This one as well.


Moment of the movie :
It must be ... when one of the guard took the tablet then escape by driving away. Ben gets help from Sacagawea, suppose to be some Shoshone woman who accompany 2 guys to explore western US and the pacific ocean. She suppose to be some kind of tracking and geographical expert ... anyway ... so she helped ... they all went to the loading bay ... as she examine the evidence on the snow filled road ... she mumbled "some kind of tracks ... but crashed very near from here ... he came back ...". Ben was muffled ... was she that good ? Then he asked her ... how do you know ? Pointing to the van which crashed into the lamp post just few metres ahead :)


7/10.