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Name: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Director: Shawn Levy
Genre: action, adventure, comedy, family, fantasy
Released: 2009
Duration: 1 h 45 min
Rating: 6

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian has an iRankMovies score of 52.1/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)

When the lights go off the battle is on.

Release:2009

Runtime:1h 45m

Country:United States

Director:Shawn Levy

Language:English

Genre

ActionAdventureComedy

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Keywords

MuseumMagical ObjectAftercreditsstingerDuringcreditsstingerPharaohAmelia EarhartInanimate Objects Come To LifeSmithsonian

iRank52

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb6/10· 227K votes

Rotten Tomatoes43%

Metacritic42%

TMDb6.156/10· 7K votes

With 43% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6/10 on IMDb and 42/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been modest.

About Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Hapless museum night watchman Larry Daley must help his living, breathing exhibit friends out of a pickle now that they've been transferred to the archives at the Smithsonian Institution. Larry's (mis)adventures this time include close encounters with Amelia Earhart, Abe Lincoln and Ivan the Terrible.

Cast of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Ben Stiller
as Larry Daley
Amy Adams
as Amelia Earhart / Tess
Owen Wilson
as Jedediah Smith
Hank Azaria
as Kahmunrah / The Thinker / Abe Lincoln
Robin Williams
as Theodore Roosevelt
Christopher Guest
as Ivan the Terrible
Alain Chabat
as Napoleon Bonaparte
Steve Coogan
as Octavius
Ricky Gervais
as Dr. McPhee
Bill Hader
as George Armstrong Custer
Jon Bernthal
as Al Capone
Patrick Gallagher
as Attila the Hun

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian facts

Budget: $150M
Box office: $413.1M
Collection: Night at the Museum Collection

Our take on Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Shawn Levy's 2009 family comedy-adventure returns to the museum-comes-to-life premise, this time relocating night watchman Larry Daley to the sprawling archives of the Smithsonian Institution, where his living exhibit friends have been shipped and promptly land in trouble. Larry's rescue mission brings a string of comic encounters with history's larger-than-life figures, among them Amelia Earhart, Abe Lincoln and Ivan the Terrible. It's breezy, effects-heavy fun aimed squarely at kids and parents looking for an undemanding watch with a light educational hook. Don't expect depth or surprise, but if the first film charmed your household, this bigger, busier sequel offers more of the same good-natured, all-ages spectacle.

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