Regular readers at Hoping for Something to Hope For may be fully aware that I seem to be lacking in an abundance of negative reviews. Let me appease those that crave such a thing by breaking down what was actually a painful movie-viewing experience. I don't have nearly enough patience to give a detailed account of the film, so instead, I'll just resort to a list of the top 5 things that made this movie hard to watch (even if they do come across as nitpicky):
- The movie felt like a series of gags strung loosely together by a story which failed to draw me in on so many levels.
- There's a moment where a bobblehead Einstein proceeds to use the phrase "to be exact" when listing the irrational number pi to only 9 digits. That Einstein magically knows that 9 digits are all that are necessary to break the ancient Egyptian code is equally as bad.
- The movie advertisement featured Robin Williams fairly boldly, but his total screentime couldn't have been more than 10 minutes (and those 10 minutes weren't exactly shining gems either).
- The filmmakers should be fined for what they did to Abraham Lincoln....and Einstein for that matter. And making Custer out to be some kind of hero, especially around Sacagawea, made me all kinds of disturbed.
- SPOILERS The ending where Ben Stiller meets an Amelia Earhart look-a-like and we're all supposed to believe that these two will live happily ever after actually made me angry, and yet, I don't know if revealing that it was actually Amelia Earhart would have made it that much better. SPOILERS END
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian gets two pi's out of five as well as a strong plea that no more sequels get made.
6 comments:
Oh no! I was really looking forward to that movie! Will watch it on sunday...I guess I will try to look past the inaccuracy of pie and the lack of seeing Robin Williams.
Really liked the first one, so the second one is a must-see :)
Amongst the people I know who saw it, I do have the minority opinion, so you might enjoy it.
Never got around to watching the sequel, but I did kind of enjoy the first one. Ben Stiller is usually funny, I'm somewhat surprised this movie isn't getting better reviews.
David. You are right on the money with this one.
The pi thing sooooo bugged me. And Custer & Sacagawea. Ick.
I'm doing my best to hammer out my review for this today.
Oh, but hey! Did you notice the cornucopia of Office cameos? Kelly Kapoor as a ditzy museum guide? Darryl Philbin as a Tuskegee Airman?
That's gotta be a rhetorical question. There were a lot of cameos from The Office. In addition to the people you mentioned as well as Ricky Gervais, the star of the original BBC edition, we had Amy Adams as the female lead, and Ed Helms as somebody named Andy.
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