Write-Up: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

This one was pretty much an exact re-enactment of the first movie, but with a slightly different plot and Smithsonian-based characters. Well, hey, isn't that what we were expecting anyway?

I may be a little biased, considering the movies I like the most, but the characters that stood out to make this a laughable movie were Brandon, another night guard (Jonah Hill) and General Custer (Bill Hader). Just the combination of their senses of comedy just really stood out as the "funny" parts of the film.

Other characters that you may recognize are a Tuskegee Airman (Craig Robinson), also from Knocked Up, Pineapple Express, and a few other more recent flicks; Orville and Wilbur Wright (Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon), the hilarious Deputies Junior and Dangle from Reno911!; and special appearances by Jay Baruchel from Knocked Up (Jay), Ed Helms (most recently The Hangover and The Daily Show), Oscar the Grouch, and Darth Vader. Also, featured are none other than the Jonas brothers as a statue, cupid-like trio that sound like....... (wait for it....) a boy band.

Having lived in Washington, D.C., and been to a few of the museums of the Smithsonian Institution, this movie was pretty cool to notice all of the accurate sites and landmarks of the city. The whole movie isn't taken place inside a museum. They do get out to a few appearances on the National Mall, which was pretty neat to see. The movie also hits the Air and Space Museum and the Smithsonian Castle for a few different settings.

To sum up, this one was a pretty close comparison to the first. If anything made it better, it was the setting and the new, always-hysterical characters mentioned above. For a PG film, it definitely had its laughs, but was restrained because of the rating...... a funny, good-spirited, happy-ending movie (pretty much a PG-rated must-have). I wouldn't rush to the theater and pay $10, maybe even $15 after popcorn or a soda, but I would definitely catch it on DVD or rental.

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