First Hit: Barely mediocre at best.
This film seemed to more about the special effects and the hope of bringing in a sizable chunk of change as it tries to ride the coattails of the first film.
The same characters are back, Ben Stiller as Larry Daley who has become a millionaire businessman, Robin Williams as Teddy Roosevelt, Owen Wilson as Jedediah Smith, and a few others.
The main interesting addition is Amy Adams as Amelia Earhart. The main protagonist is Hank Azaria as a English lisping Egyptian who wants the tablet. The tablet we’re speaking of is the magic behind the museum coming alive at night.
Now that the Smithsonian has the tablet, the Egyptian wants the tablet to open the portal gates to the nether world. Larry doesn’t want this to happen (and neither do I but for different reasons) because all the museum characters will parish if this happens.
That’s the plot the best I could understand. So with the cast of museum characters Larry and crew try to keep the tablet from falling into the Egyptians hands.
Stiller attempts to be a pensive and thoughtful person who is attempting to find what makes him happy. He attempts to be serious but this film isn’t and can’t be taken seriously. Adams as Earhart has the right tone and is the only good thing in this film. Williams as Roosevelt is suppose to be the wise one, but it falls flat. Direction is immature and does little to advance the film as it progresses.
Overall: This film is a shadow of its predecessor and that film was barely moderately good.