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'NIGHT' LITE For all the reanimated-exhibit shenanigans, Stiller and Williams can't really shine in the lifeless Museum
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Release Date: Dec 22, 2006; Rated: PG; Length: 110 Minutes; Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family; With: Ben Stiller
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
In Night at the Museum, the whole freaking, awesome Museum of Natural History comes alive at night — including dinosaur bones, lions, a waxwork of Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), and a teeny Roman general freed from his diorama (Brit comedy biggie Steve Coogan). And yet night guard Ben Stiller doesn't want to Focker around because he's a dweeby, divorced dad who worries about his kid? Jeez, what a...dull, nice guy. What a dull, nice movie, wrenched from a wild premise and battered into docility.
Posted Jan 03, 2007
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