It's a new night and museum for Ben Stiller, who is joined by several other stars from the original film, as well as new characters from history -- including Amy Adams as famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart, Hank Azaria as villainous Egyptian pharaoh Kahmunrah, Christopher Guest as Russian tyrant Ivan the Terrible and Alain Chabat as Napoleon. Owen Wilson is back as cowboy Jedediah, and Robin Williams again rides into history as Teddy Roosevelt. The centerpiece of the film will be bringing to life the Smithsonian Institution.This movie was essentially just a redo of the first one. More museum things come to life. They argue over something that really doesn't matter. There's some big laughs. There are some cool characters involved. Ben Stiller plays himself yet again. And it ends happy. The only real stand out part of this movie was Hank Azaria as Kamunrah. He (and his accent) were hilarious. Outside of that, it was just your basic, run of the mill, simple minded summer movie entertainment.
I'd would lukewarmly recommend this movie to everyone. Like I said - its entertaining but has pretty much no substance at all. If you have kids they will love it but if you are out to see a "good" movie, this really isn't it.
