The Reel Rejects - NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM (2006) MOVIE REVIEW! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

Episode Date: July 20, 2024

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It's a crazy cacophony of events. It's chaotic. It's whimsical. Ben Silver's performance is a little iffy for me. That's the only part of it. That says a little bit, and I'll go into a little bit more than why. But outside of that,

I mean, it's like the plot of the movie that you hear, you walk in, and yeah, that's about it. It's exactly what it says on the tin. It's a fun fantasy comedy adventure. Yeah. A little ridiculous at times. I could see why this movie made a crap ton of money. And they have some pretty funny players in here with a really basic, generic father, son, divorce, single dad story at the heart of it.

It was very deep. Paul Rudd is, for some reason, cast as the stepdad. I don't know why, but yeah, he's good. And, yeah, it was, it was fun. It was fun. It was indeed. It's not my favorite of the Sean Levy movies. Why not?

I'd have to give that up to real steel. Ooh. Okay. Okay. A different father, son. Yeah. But I think that this was, it was surprisingly like a more simple. Tim Miller is the same.

Oh, cool. Yeah, probably. I was surprised by how simple it was done, you know. Because it was surprisingly like a simple. film sure in terms of just like how the story is set up and how we get to the hijinks and all even in the way it's shot and everything yeah it's not as whiz-bang as you might expect like there there were a couple shots that really caught me and i think maybe i would have expected yeah like something that's like way more like kinetic and we're moving around especially

as sean levy's you know filmmaking voice has evolved over time i think you would expect that of this being, yeah, a bit earlier in time for him. It's interesting to see where he's come, you know, on this scale with this kind of movie. Yeah, I definitely didn't remember, like, any of that. Really? Yeah, I didn't remember Jack about, and none of it was

familiar to me. Sure. But I had fun to, I thought it was fun. I did too, yeah, yeah. I mean, the thing that this movie has to succeed on is just, like, is the ensemble of players appealing, and do they make some fun, charming humor out of history? And I feel like,

that stuff is all is yeah the centerpiece of the entire movie it's like the the romance stuff and the stuff with the sun is like pretty requisite pretty perfunctory but I'm also not sitting here hoping for some kind of rich romantic

and or family drama you know you want to enjoy the promise of the premise and I think in that sense like this movie is focused on and putting its best efforts into like the most important things you know Well, yeah, and it's got a good amount of heart as well.

It does, despite Ben Stiller in a way. Like, I like Ben Stiller in general, but I do get what you mean here in that, like, there's, he's not like a super warm or, like, empathetic character greatly. He's kind of off-putty. He's a little bit of an off-footing guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's certain instances where that works with Ben Stiller, I would say, in certain instances where that works in general. but here I feel like to clinch the heart of things like I don't know other than the fact that I like Ben Stiller and Carla Gugino like I didn't really feel much of any kind of anything between them and and I mean he is the it's like it's a 50-50 because like I get how having a character like him who's a little unaffected by things or at least who isn't like freaking out to the extent that I think like part of that's in the tone but yeah like he's kind of an island. and amidst all this chaos

and it's kind of just like aggravating because he's got to keep the job down and stuff like that more so than it is like oh my God my world is being expanded like you like you said I think like a little little pinch more of a wonder or like an arc into you know having that sense of wonder

might have been nice but you know it's something that like wrecks the movie again because part of the fun is the imagination and all that stuff coming to life yeah yeah that's something about comes a little smug I guess not sure what it is that that was and then even sometimes in the interact it's like part of the job that he has to do is really make it believable he's interacting with a lot of like if they're like little tiny miniatures that have come to life yeah like you have to really make that believable yeah and I guess I felt like he was just kind of doing his Ben Stiller stick yes like belittling like challenging attitude you know yeah his little like Ben Stiller gonna kind of mock you sort of thing

going to be a little you make you feel a little dumb about yourself yeah totally totally yeah there there was I mean he's fine like I'm not saying he's like bad in the movie

it's just I think it could have I think that could have been his performance could have been a little bit stronger or would have allowed for this to be a little bit more connecting it like I never was rooting

for Larry I never really cared one way or the other about Larry or any of his personal goals. Yeah, and I never felt like I was watching Larry. I was like just feel like I'm looking at Ben Stiller like Get it's paycheck right now. Yeah, and put himself into it.

The physicality of certain moments was the most I kind of felt for that. And it was interesting to me too because I was like, you clearly put so much physical effort into this. I kind of wish that the and I get that probably that was just his character choice or whatever they

talked about. But yeah, I felt like some kind of stronger sympathetic or empathetic thread or really even anything like I feel like they bring up the snapper thing but early on we were kind of sitting here going what is the thing he's falling back from exactly

and even that is like a little half baked and again it's one of those things I can't fault the movie hugely for because again it's not the point but at the same time this would be a stronger piece if I cared personally about Larry getting his life on track

or and even the thing with the snapper like it just comes back as like a cute little thingy and this fallback just i guess has worked and is becoming his whole life which is like not a bad message but it is just sort of like what is the what is the greater arc or message or yeah how does he i because two the thing is he's like he's like okay my wife's giving me guff i'm going to have to leave my house again i just got evicted things are dire my son's still making like 11 bucks an hour yeah but then he picks up the phone in that early scene and he just calls up he's just like hey i need a job right now I just need a job because I can't afford to lose that because my son.

And then by two scenes later, he's got a job. And so, like, there's not even, it doesn't even seem like it's that hard for him to get a job. It seems like he's sort of choosing to bring this life upon himself and with a few minor adjustments could probably make life a little less difficult for himself. Yeah. So, yeah, yeah, yeah. Not the most, like, warm and endearing presence on screen, but it's still the kind of movie that has enough heart elsewhere

that I feel like, yeah, you could pull this out for fun periodically, or you could pull this out in a family scenario and enjoy the lightness and the, and yeah, the social studies class medley of all these little different moments and beats from history. Like in that way, it does have like a little bit of Bill and Teddishness

about it. And in some ways, I kind of wish they would have maybe borrowed a little more from Bill and Ted because in that situation you have granted real time travel, but you know, here you swap out one mystical motif and then you could have some kind of yeah reason for him to like be more enriched or better for knowing the history but really all that even the message about learning the history just makes it slightly

easier for him to get around it's like it's it's odd in its construction but it's fun and satisfying as a watch and and like steve coogan and owen wilson were hilarious uh i think this is the movie i can't remember it was this one or the sequel where like right after wills uh won Wilson had that like dark mental health episode and there was all that like conspiracy about whether or not Steve Coogan like was a bad influence on him or something. Oh really? I think so. I think I've never heard that resolved and it's debated as to if that's real, but it was like a

strong narrative of the time. I didn't know that. But I thought they were really funny playing off each other and both individually, just the energy they brought. They were great. Robin Williams, I thought was really fun. You know, I liked. A lot of the other characters just kind of show up to, you know, be the image more so than, like, a character.

But I liked a lot of the presences and, you know, the T-Rex and all the sort of. And I thought the effects, for the most part, still held up pretty well. CGI animals are a little bit hard to get down even today. Because we know what they look like in real life. So, like, when they're CGI, they're like, oh, that's literally not a real animal. There's so many little of candy valleys. Yeah, like, you know, immerse them into, like, the Lion King world. And even then, sometimes you could tell.

Yeah. But, like, the dinosaur especially, I could see why that was, like, their centerpiece. Like, you know, start this off, put a lot of emphasis on it. And that looked great, especially for a film from almost 20 years ago. Surprised how much I bought into it. I want to take a quick moment to thank today's sponsor Acorns. I first heard about this investment app from Dwayne to Rock Johnson. Not directly.

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I felt like we need another additional late. to it that was it the three to make it a little more three dimensional so yeah and i like uh carlo gagina yeah what is it carlo gagina it's either gugino or gugino but i think it's gugino carlo gugino that's how i've always heard it said he made me watch he made me watch yeah yeah she's she was really uh pleasant yeah believed her here i think she's a really underrated actress sure she could kind of be in any genre and she has a lot of versatility and even a role that seems like as simple as this as like the smart woman at the museum yeah um but she can also play like the commanding sexy woman yeah she could do like a whole bunch of roles just those two that's her range

commanding or smart yeah yeah no no no she's got a good range and she's been holding it down and i think of way more movies than might initially come to mind and yeah like she can snake through different genres and stuff like that and I liked her presence here like that's the thing is like all the stuff around the I think everyone around Penn Stiller's really enjoyable yeah this like this movie is is one of those like concept is as genre things to me because like you know night in a museum or a wax museum or something something overnight where everything comes to life it's like a groundhog day it's like we've done this so many times before so I feel like in a way I that kind of gives you carte blanche to not have to it's always good when you do obviously it's always advisable but you don't really have to like concoct the best baked story around it and so i feel like yeah a lot of this does ride and shine on the actor's natural charisma and it does make me wonder you know looking at sean levy's catalog over time if you know this had to have been an experiment in wrangling a lot of well-established personalities and and you know and and statuses

amongst your cast of actors and so I wonder too if this would have been maybe just him sort of learning better throughout how to you know sculpt the performances and sculpt that aspect of it rather than having it feel like a medley of sketches where everyone's kind of bringing their own level because every movie after this I've loved every single the ones I've seen I'm sure there's something that I'm not like aware he's directed but the ones that I get like free guy yeah real steel Adam project or the only three i can really think of right now and some stead whatever of the stranger things he's yeah i feel like he's uh i think he's got like a cool distinct direction i feel like his movies

are like bases every time like they got so much wonder and heart and i that i think that's the part of it that kind of um surprised me about this that might have been a bit of a uh a letdown because while i feel like the movie gets the job done i could totally see why i got a sequel it's I think the premise of it just lends itself to automatically being like, wow, there'd be so much wonder and heart. Oh, Sean Levy, who like excels at bringing that into all his films. And this actually seemed like the one with the less wonder and less hard. Yeah, it's more hyjinks and it's more like cacophony and it's more slapstickiness. Yeah, that was the part that I was surprised by because I associate those two words so much with things he directs.

like even free guy I would say that about you know what it makes me curious now to look at like the sequel and see if maybe we see maybe some of the things that might have been missing from this experience perfected there or maybe see more of his grip on like this in terms of the rest of his catalog this feels like the one where you could might have been his first huge studio film yeah and it kind of feels like that it kind of feels like I can't necessarily like detect the the vision the voice clearly coming through behind the camera as much. Like this feels like more of a hired gun scenario than, you know, obviously his later stuff leading up till now. But it does, yeah, make me wonder if maybe on the second one,

the direction side will be more a little bit more commanding or unified or just more confident or whatever it is. Not to say that this wasn't. And there were certainly some fun and dazzling shots, but knowing where he's come to and what stylistic earmarks he's picked up over time and

Clearly. There's a lot more movies than I realized. Oh, really? I mean, okay. He's done some, like, studio film. I think this is, like, biggest, like, CGI one, maybe. Big Fat Liar before this. Oh, another one I haven't seen, damn.

Just married. Oh, Shazbott. Cheaper by the dozen. I did see that. The Pink Panther. Oh, really? With Steve Martin? Yeah.

And then he skipped to Night at the Museum. So, yeah, night at the museum would be, like, his, I mean, before that Pink Panther was, like, pretty but this is, like, you're dealing with CGI and all these things. Yeah, yeah. Like, this is when he starts to dip into, like, more of, like, action. More spectacle stuff, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, he did the internship. That was all right. I didn't mind that. Okay. Okay. Date night? That was okay. That's some okay movies.

Well, yeah. And this, this, I remember at the time, even, this having sort of a, not Luke, but one of those responses where it's clear yet to see how this would have spawned a sequel, how this is popular, but where it does have room to improve. like i remember hearing at the time it came out maybe that like it's not amazing but it's really fun like you know and yeah i think it gets the job done i think rigged your base is hilarious too so yeah that i hope yeah kids can't speak i felt like uh teddy roosevelt was the real heart of the story yeah 100% and i like the whism in post ben stiller never sleeps i questioned the rules throughout what because you're not supposed to think about it you're not supposed to but i did

because i wanted to yeah where's the security cameras they answered the question that i was wondering i'm like are these like the souls trapped in them and they're like no they're not they're just like the wax museums who like adapt they're like a downloaded memory thing yeah they've just heard this the history so many times yeah for their respective roles so they they have assumed the personas um but then i so it makes me a question all the years of the night guards of like how did you clean this up all the time because it seems like it was always just like I feel like every night it would be a wreck. I feel like every night they were just battling and battling and battling.

Yeah. Because that's what he inherited when he got here. It's just them with so much friction. So how was it always, how do they clean it up every night? You know, how they get that in order? What were the rule book that would establish? What magically resets and what stays destroyed and why? Yeah.

It was like they were aware. They were just, it seems like they were all aware they were just waxes, but they still proceeded with. fulfilling the role of the historical figure they played. Yeah. You know? They were like, yeah, we should fight still. We should

battle. I'm going to attack. And it was... So there are rules questions, guys. Why does there no security cameras? This does not feel like the kind of movie that had to be meticulously written to get put into production. No, it's a great plot. It's a great plot.

It's a perfect high concept plot. Like, it is such a great plot. Yeah. Like, the audience can fill in the blanks on half the things, and it's okay, because as long as we do enough history stuff and, like, enough of the natural world stuff, and as long as we have enough of those things colliding and we have appealing people to deliver those jokes and those bits, like, it's all you really need. You're supposed to let go and just enjoy. It's like a big sketch movie. Just get yourself escaped into it. Yeah, I understand. I understand.

But there's questions. There's questions that I'm infuriated over it, guys. I am so vexed that I do not know the answers to be stewing on this until Deadpool 3 comes out. I don't give a shit. That is fun. Yeah, absolutely. Literally, it's like a good passing the time film. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you could throw it on, have a nice time while you do some other stuff as well. Yeah. Well, all right, gang. When do you put night at the museum on? This is your favorite comedy? Are we full of? Sure, someone's favorite.

poop or you know yeah do you agree leave us your thoughts down below with the target market we are this was aimed right at me right it succeeded and in their 30s yeah that's the same day men in your 30s comment below what's your favorite period of history why is it the roman empire and how many times today did you think about it least once leave a like and a comment and all that good stuff and we'll catch you next time be well people cheers Thank you.