Movie Review - Night At The Museum 2

Just thinking about Night At The Museum 2: Battle Of The Smithsonian (ergh, even the title sucks) again is getting me angry. So rather than diving headlong into an irate eruption on it's obvious crapness, I'll kick off by listing the 3 good things about it:

1) Jonah Hill's turn as a Smithsonian security guard
2) Bill Hader's take on General Custer
3) Amy Adams in tight, tight pants

Ok, now that I have gotten that out of the way....

Of all the god-awful Hollywood sequels and remakes that have been spewed forth over the past decade, this has to be up there with the worst. The script is weak and so full of holes that if you tried to drain pasta through it you'd end up with a sink full of soggy spaghetti. The mythology of the first movie is handled with reckless abandon, with paintings and photos coming to life and planes able to fly and jet engines able to start without any form of fuel. A kid is able to guide his Dad throughout the Smithsonian basement remotely from his computer in New York - yeah right! Normally busy New York streets are deserted enough for a resurrected Amelia Earhart to land a plane on with no witnesses. There's even rapping cherubs. I kid you not, no depth is too low for NATM2 to sink to.

Ben Stiller dials his performance in - you can practically see the $$ in his eyes. As much as I respect Hank Azaria for his work on The Simpsons, he flubs his way through his role as the evil Kahmunrah, his accent switching from French to English to Arab to god knows what else depending on what stupid dialogue he'd been forced to vomit out.

NATM2 is the most god-awful Hollywood tripe that you can possibly imagine. Avoid at all costs, unless you want to see Amy Adams in tight, tight pants. Which I kind of want to see again. Maybe.

Rating 1 spud out of 5