Though brimming with computer special effects and celebrity cameos, the movie’s marvels are hardly impressive, given that they’ve recycled everything from the first and just added a couple of new features for good measure.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 15, 2023

A really, really stupid comedy.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 29, 2020

Robin Williams, as well, explodes every single time he's onscreen in a performance with even more spark and humor than in the original.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 18, 2020

Clever, charming and with enough fire-power to hold the attention and raise a chuckle, Night at the Museum 2 hasn't strayed far from the winning formula of simple story and complex CGI set down by the first film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2019

This followup to the 2006 smash takes all the elements that worked in that film and adds some new layers that makes this even more charming and family friendly.

| Original Score: B | May 16, 2019

This is one lazy movie, and little more than an obligatory response to a 2006 box office bonanza.

| Jan 2, 2018

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The silliness meanders wildly, and Stiller looks like he's more than happy to let everyone else do most of the work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2011

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

I'm not sure if anyone in this film actually acted alongside anyone else, or if the performances were all cut together in the editing suite.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 27, 2010

Doesn't have the originality of the first film and feels a little boring as such.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 15, 2010

Amy Adams is the lone saving grace to be found herein, which is a nice way of saying she's all that kept me from pondering "to be or not to be".

| Original Score: D- | Dec 1, 2009

No stone is left unturned.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 30, 2009

One wonders if director Shawn Levy was more interested in cramming special effects into the movie than creating actual comedy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 30, 2009

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian can be too cluttered and hyperactive to appreciate its broad pleasures.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 29, 2009

...what the heck, it's fun on the same level as the original...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2009

Amy Adams adds plenty of welcome 'moxie' (and a tight pair of aviator's britches), but otherwise there's not much here besides noise, chaos and monkey-slapping.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 12, 2009

With all the oversized personalities that surround him, Stiller gets upstaged.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2009

Stiller has a look on his face as if he knows he's participating in total garbage.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 7, 2009