Review – Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

This time around I didn’t go into the experience expecting it to be good, so I wasn’t disappointed when it wasn’t. In this episode the hero from the original is a shopping channel millionaire who gets awkwardly transplanted back into his previous career as a night watchman at the Museum of Natural History in New York. Only now the magical doodad that brings the exhibits to life at night has been shipped to the title location in Washington. Before things can be set aright, the story picks up Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams), George Armstrong Custer (Bill Hader) and Hank Azaria doing his best Boris Karloff impression as the ancient Egyptian villain. The accent and some of the other gags are entertaining, but more often than not the humor follows the drawn-out, un-funny precedent set by the first one. Mildly amusing