Night at the Museum

This is Steven Petrick Posting.

I went to see Night at the Museum: Battle for the Smithsonian. It was not as much fun as the first film, although still a pretty good effort. There were things that I found objectionable. One of the biggest was the "level of destruction". In the first film, while things were damaged, there was no major structural damage, at least not something that might fail to be hastily covered up. In this one, static displays are not only effectively wrecked, but are wrecked in different buildings from where they were normally displayed. Leaving far more mystery than before. Naturally the investigation is going to be somewhat stymied in that there will be a notable lack of clues that anyone would believe that would indicate that the displays themselves did the damage.

In the first film, there was enough "containment" to believe that (except for the museum guards) no one might know what was going on. (That with a wink and a nod since obviously in the real museum there are going to be security cameras that would record much of the activity.)

Still, it was nice to see an event where "mystical forces from the past" are brought into play, but are not "invincible". (One of the most annoying things about "Dragon Wars" was that modern technology was relatively impotent, not completely, but relatively, against the ancient demon army.)

If you liked the first film, give this one a try.