The Reel Rejects - NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB (2014) MOVIE REVIEW!!

Episode Date: August 3, 2024

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More on them after the reaction people. Gang, we're about to do this, but gee, do you have any other pearls of wisdom to give the people before we do? But I do think Larry actually would be a cool security guard at the TV. A night at the music, they're both under the Disney umbrella now

so you could get that crossover going. You can bring Ben Stiller to the MCU, sign the change.org, and we'll get it going. Roll the bumper. Let's do this thing. Well, I guess we did it. We did it. We completed the trilogy.

I guess we've spent every possible night in the museum. I mean, how many times can you save these immortal beings? We could go a few more. I could go a few more. Who locks Bob? Just tell me who that is. It's not. She's not credited as messed up.

All right. Anyway, you know, it's what's, Oh, there we go. Okay, I don't know who that is. Just pan that off real quick. Gang, listen. If you're listening to this on Apple or Spotify, you know what to do.

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i think that these clothes are really hot you look like you are hot it is hot weather you're not sweating as much as you could be i didn't move that much to avoid sweat yeah it is really hot you look so nice and a part of me was like do i take off my jacket but that would involve more

body movement so maybe i just don't take off More noise and all that sort of stuff. You're Larry Daly. What friction I do, the better off I am. You're Larry Daly, and I'm Sam right now. Yes, Sam. This is perfect, yes. Or Nick, sorry, there you go.

Kid name. Yeah, definitely. Sam, Tim, Nick, Tommy. It started off where I wasn't sure if Sean Levy directed it because it started feeling like one of those three quals that was feeling less than. Oh, no. And even though it was like good effects at the top and it was enjoyable, When they did get to London in the actual museum, right around the time Dan Stevens showed up.

No, no, no, no, no, a little bit before that. It was the bit at the door when he's telling him to stay, the caveman version of Larry, when that bit really worked where a switch started happening and then when Dan Stevens, the movie really did start to sing. And I thought it got better as it went along. Like literally once they make it inside the museum, the British Museum, yeah. It actually started to get a lot better. And I thought the movie was a solid installment to the...

I still think the second one's the best one. But I still feel like this is a really solid addition. And I'm glad we finished it because the last thing I expected was them to actually do a complete trilogy. I was under this assumption that, oh, did they only make three because the third one flopped? Like, that's where my mind was. Yeah, like they could always keep making these if they wanted to. Yeah, but I guess they didn't because they actually ended the movie. And I was surprised by that.

I was actually really touching. And then when he was saying goodbye, I was like, oh, this is actually really sad. This is really touching. Yeah. And it makes me wonder what the circumstances were because I could imagine them choosing to leave the franchise off

after losing certain people, namely Robin Williams, but this was made before that happened. So like, and at least it seems like the ending, the story was set before that would have happened. So it is kind of, and interesting that yeah they just kind of brought it to a cloth a soft close like he could always come back at some point if they really wanted to make that happen but for the journey of larry daily and for you know whatever arc they've made out of his character i thought that they even managed to bring at least enough additional quality to him that that i did care enough by the end that we were saying goodbye to all this i mean it is a true where they go they tie it back to the third one in the first movie the whole point of him getting a job

so that way he could be a better father to his son and then in this one it's about him learning to let go and now that his son is turning into a man allowing his son to make his own choices now that his son has grown up that's the heart that the movie grounds itself in I think the movies are a little bit more thoughtful than perhaps people might give it credit for I do think that this I thought the second one was a market improvement on the first one yes and I felt that this one kind of copies, not copies,

but structurally and stuff, it seemed like some of it was like the sequel remake to the second one in some ways. Sure. They just would kind of replace some other set pieces with this one.

Like with the painting, you know, it's pretty much my only comparison that I actually have. I mean, structurally, there are a fair amount of things. Like just some kind of thing

happens at the beginning and he's got to talk to Ricky Jervais and then he's got to go and fly to this next museum and I Jings and Sue there. More important things with the Rami Mollick Malik family. family thing. It's more of it's more of like

a mystery thing in the first movie and then Romima comes in at the very end. But it doesn't feel like it's so much about the tablet, whereas the second and third one feel like there's so much, the plot really, I mean

the first one does revolve around it, but the second and third one really revolve around the lore on the tablet. Yeah, and the true extent of the magic and where it comes from. Yeah, so I feel like it's it's a tad more thoughtful than perhaps people might even I feel like if you lead with that people will be like

it's not as thoughtful but I think if you don't lead with that you might find that it's a little more thoughtful yeah I mean like I come into this with the air of like ah you know I've heard these movies are fine like they clearly are appealing enough that they made a few of them but I've never heard anybody be like I adore these movies so it was yeah it's like when you come in I think from that perspective in particular

you know there is greater appreciation you can have for a when things do feel a little more thought out or more interesting than you would initially imagine or when they do put those historical details for anybody who does happen to know them so you can be like oh yeah it's actually kind of a smart inclusion or something that's you know fun to include in the spirit of what this is that you didn't have to do

that shows you're making a little bit of an extra effort and everybody is so committed to their characters and I think that's a big you know boost is that like You know, by a third movie like this, anybody could choose to phone it in, but everybody who we've known since the first movie seemed like they were having a blast and the new blood they inject each time has been pretty fun and rousing as well. You know, in the last movie having like Amy Adams was great and Hank Azaria was great. And in this one, you know, I think it's been cool to watch Rami Malick's character go from like this background thing. Don't wake them up to like, oh, you're actually one of the most important figures involved in this whole thing. most important figures. Yeah, because without you, without the connections to your family,

you know, like all of this, yeah. And we get a little bit of that backstory with the whole like Kansu thing, which I thought was just a neat like, thanks Marvel. Now we all have like a little better of a pop culture frame of reference for something that also comes from actual lore. And from here I learned that Sir Lancelot, not based on a real guy. Or if he was, you know, obviously many layers of separation. He's not. He's a legend. That's why I was. That's why was confused at first and the movie acknowledged and the movie plays even looser with the rules than before. Well, that's my question always

is like, you know, the Arthurian legends, I'm like, okay, is this based on like a real group, a real guy or a group of people that has like, was there a guy called Arthur and a guy called Lancelot and we heaped all this mystique on top of them? Or is it like, there were different

people, different names, but like based kind of on certain people, you could connect to history. These legends have grown. I think you want it to be true. I would love it to be true. I just want to know the nuances. Now I'm inspired to read what the nuances of the actual truth. The truth of something must have inspired these legends.

But yeah, I thought Dan Stevens was the perfect inclusion here. He works so well in so many different kinds of fiction from actual dead serious stuff to stuff like this that is like broad, but he's good at still taking that stuff seriously and his timing and his accent work is always great. liked his creepy nose yeah it's kind of gross but as a fun bit the huge yeah that's celebrity cameo i mean alice eve wasn't funny but but huge jackman was really funny that was a surprise i was surprised how much he they i mean he's sean levy's asking for from him but that was that's like a borderline like that's like a zoolander cameo that's like an adam sandler movie cameo

where it could have just felt incredibly cringy but it was actually really funny yeah yeah one having it be like a performance of Camelot like yeah that was a joke that seemed relatively well inspired and two like yeah Hugh Jackman is like the the centerpiece of that scene but I do like they cast somebody next to him that's at least

a little bit recognizable so it's not just like oh here's another actress to be a prop even though she is just being the straight man essentially of the scene but yeah like the amount of time they spent there that could have been a bit that went on way too long but like all the beats were really funny and then capping it off

with Ben Stiller being like, he was really great, you know. Yeah, it was super charming. I did think this one actually had the most heart of the three of them.

Agreed. And the most wonder to an extent. I would still give that to the second one, personally. The wonder? I would give it,

I would give the heart to this one over, but the wonder to me, I think the second one is still like, the second one's easily my favorite one of the three.

Probably because, I probably feel the wonder is more fun. I guess you do get the biggest convergence of things. in the second one so you do get the overwhelming like oh my god there's space age and there's like early flight and there's ancient and there's you know other stuff too yeah yeah plus you have uh the reactions of amelia earhart to play off with that and i thought this was but i thought this

was ben stiller's best one and i actually feel like the movie figured out who who larry should be like they actually acknowledge the things we've said about him yeah and like oh this is the first bit the first one of the three where they're pointing out like this is just how he responds to things. Yeah, this is just who this guy is. And I enjoyed. Suddenly it made Larry like more of a complete package to me. I'm like, okay, all right. It made it feel

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That got so good. It looks so dumb. And I was like, okay, cool. Like you're in here doing clearly You wanted to have some more fun Be more character, do more physical And like the ADR on that It was always weird

But I feel like yeah Once you get to that point Where they do that first bit back and forth Next to the door And you really get to watch Benz Like it was in that moment I was like This is an actual exercise

Because whether you're acting against no one Or acting against double You're still filling in a lot of the blanks And like he played off himself so well In those separate moments And that's really hard to time and choreograph to map that out, especially that one shot. Because you can make up a lot of that in editing, that first sequence that really worked. But the sequence, when they're trapped inside of the break room, yeah, when it's like mainly one big master shot, that is a really impressive shot to me.

Because you have to time the hell out of that to make sure it is all in sequence or low. looks like they are really reacting to each other and doing things at the same. It's like every bit of that timing had to be down. So I think that sequence was one of the most impressive ones too. Like I feel like on a on just a general viewing level, you might not, what from understanding the parameters that go into some shit like that. I'm like, wow, that is so hard to put that together. And I like the whole thing.

And I appreciated the writing of the whole like, open your mind. No, like, oh, I need to open my mind when really what he's saying is I'm going to open the door with my head like was a really nice little fulcrum of a joke uh i like the pompey bit yeah that was pretty fun i liked uh and too as much as we dog the rules because they are vague it is really fun when they do stuff where you're seeing other uh forms of art and architecture come to life you got the like the creepy half formed statues and whatnot and you get the uh there was another pretty good one uh i mean like you know you get the big snakes and stuff which was fun but uh oh there's something else that the painting

crazy one the MCSher painting yeah and that's an example of something where I like the look of it could that it's one of those things where these are clearly movies with a budget but I'm also sort of interested because like that's a scene that works really well simply

because of the amount of imagination like there are things in the construction of like how the camera moves or how some of like the effects layers look where it looks like a very CGI scene however you know, given the, again, use

of the imagination of it, I thought it was really fun, and it worked nicely despite some of the scenes that were on it. I just appreciate the movie's intention to actually tell a trilogy, because this one came out several years after. The second one came out like a couple of years after, and to me it was like, well, obviously, make us equal.

The first one was a smash it, make a sequel. And this one, they took several years, so in my mind, I'm thinking they must have thought we want to have some way of actually wrapping this all. up like they even bring back the guards from the first movie they tie in the history of the guards yeah they do all this like fun stuff yeah they they really the junk carroll too they tell like the same we didn't recognize the first time we get all three of them are right i will say the part

of it that was a bit odd to me was the robin williams performance he seemed because he's in this movie he's barely in the second one yeah and he's in this one a lot and granted as the as the situations around past the hour mark um start kicking in you know it becomes more dire for him uh all them so makes a little more sense to me there but for so much of this he seemed like so low energy and actually seemed sad and despondent and then to see the loving memory of i was i was actually watching and trying to piece it together of like when did he pass away yeah and and what was he feeling when he made this yeah because he didn't seem like he was having anywhere near as much fun even for the little bits he showed up in the second movie for he didn't quite as

he didn't have that natural zap of animation quite i kept feeling like is something wrong when i was watching it you know it wasn't it's not really a dog on the performance it seemed like he was actually like kind of sad yeah it's like i still enjoyed watching him and i still enjoyed his presence but you can feel something in the timbre which is just interesting to know yeah i guess question is if is it a choice but that choice wouldn't make sense to me to like way later in the movie yeah 100% when it becomes when the dire nature becomes clear um but i'm not sure it could be a choice still throughout he was malfunctioning at the very beginning of the film so it could have been an entire existential choice it just seemed very apparent that like oh something's

this is i started wondering is this when um the troubling stuff started really kicking in hardcore for him and so i don't know a movie like this takes a couple of years to really complete sure um so after shooting i imagine like another year year and a half a post until it's out So I could be, you know, he's a struggle with stuff his whole life. But, yeah, I don't know. I'm not going to read too much into it. Ryan Malick was fun. Ben Kingsley was funny.

Ben Kingsley. Ben Kingsley bit was funny. Absolutely. Larry Jewish confirmed. They actually did it. Oh, my God. That bit about the singing. Yeah.

That was good. I didn't expect them to go that far on that. This is, this I would say, is a unique trilogy of movies in that I think this is like the whole is greater than the sum of its parts yeah like each movie like has ups and there are better elements and not as good elements

about each movie like none of them I think are like quite the slam dunk but at the same time the totality of all three is so endearing and does feel like this you know quaint little heartwarming imaginative story about you know just some night watchman and a bunch of historical figures and and the yeah the amalgamation of it all

actually is making me feel kind of warm and affectionate even though, again, like, the initial I'm glad I dressed up. You did, and I'm glad you did. You did. He arced, man, this was peak, Larry. You were peak Larry. I wish I got

the memo. I would have dressed up, too. Even arched with the monkey. Even arched with it. That was a sweet seat. It was so strange. It was so sweet. At the end, yeah, with just a little, and I, again, I have to wonder how they do that and what kind of foods they're dangling Or to what degree of sophistication

The monkey is a hell of a night When the monkey was like dying I was like How does this monkey know to do this? So crazy Because you can tell when the monkey's CGI It's obvious that there's CGI in the monkey But then when he's not

I'm like wow that monkey's really angry his ass off right now I know I know and I gotta check the credits again I'm like this is the same monkey Each film just like building on this character As a really great monkey And the kiss like was lovely Super adorable lovely that they did that

Yeah Oh goodness now they got to make some legacy sequel where it's like you know takes play like they film in ten more we have to wait like 10 more years oh yeah do it and like Larry's all sad and depressed and he doesn't talk to his kid anymore Nick is gotta like ruin the character

Nick is coming back to be a night watchman but he's estranged from Larry yeah and then Larry like Taylor Kitch to play yes Taylor Kitch and then Larry breaks back in to steal the tablet because his life is in the crapper now it's supposed to feel

exciting but for some reason the movie just feels Seth. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's one of those comedy sequels that's like surprisingly dark and despondent, like, not even whimsical or anything like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's good. And we can visit all the most atrocious figures in history, just like the harshest. They should do a legacy sequel. Yeah. Night in the Museum of Death. Yeah.

Or, I don't know, there's a museum of torture. To go to the Hollywood Wax Museum. The movie costs $1 billion to due to all the celebrity cams. Snoop Dog and Dwayne Johnson and Dolly Parton and George Clooney and Brad Pitt. It would be a super expensive movie, yeah. It would be.

Who do you want in the Wax Museum's spinoff from Night at the Museum? And who would you want to star? Should Rebel Wilson come back and lead the series? Only do Penn Stiller. Only Penn Stiller. Legacy character sequel. Yeah, we should get him as the Nightgars.

He made them sad. places instead of a museum next time yeah he's at a wax museum but then later than that instead of in a museum he's in like an impound or something where people's cars get locked here like a multiverse of museums yeah yeah he's guarding all kinds of things and each universe has a different set of stuff that comes to life instead of just going through other museums he goes through multiverse yes alternate universe history would be perfect and he can amalgamate the perfect museum in the final timeline. Yeah.

Crew with them all together. I love this. I love it too. Gang, leave us your pitch for the next night at the museum motion picture. Rank these movies. What's your favorite bit?

And, hey, thanks for joining us on this journey. I really enjoyed these a lot more than expected. So, hey, hats off to Sean Levy. Ben Stiller is an inspiration. We'll see you next time.