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Night at the Museum

That's mostly what Ben Stiller and company have to offer with his latest comedy, "Night at the Museum," the story of a night watchman dealing with dinosaur skeletons, statues and wax figures that come to life at a museum.

Stretched to greater length than its thin idea merits, the movie mainly is a collection of slapstick vignettes as Stiller battles Attila the Hun, a mischievous monkey, tiny cowboys and Roman soldiers and other figures from museum exhibits.

Other than the basic plot point of inanimate creatures coming alive and some occasionally inventive visual effects, "Night at the Museum" is unimaginative and annoying, as movies by director Shawn Levy ("Cheaper by the Dozen," "The Pink Panther") often are.

And did we mention the movie makes a lot of noise?

Stiller is stiffer and blander than usual, and the comic talents of Levy's decent supporting cast, including Steve Coogan and Ricky Gervais, generally are wasted.

Robin Williams provides a few chuckles as the bullheaded incarnation of a wax figure of Teddy Roosevelt, though the laughs come more from seeing him in Rough Riders costume than from anything in the dopey script by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon.

Stiller plays divorced dad and all-around failure Larry Daley, whose schemes and dreams of making his mark as an entrepreneur have fallen through. Facing eviction and hoping to show his young son Nick (Jake Cherry) that he can be a responsible father, Larry takes a job as night security guard at New York's Museum of Natural History.

Backlog of reviews to write

I will be writing and posting movie reviews on the following items.
Flicka
Open season
over the hedge
derailed
history of violence
just friends
domino
yours mine and ours
jarhead
proof
saw2
northcounty
waiting
doom
in her shoes
lord of war
the man
cave
constant gardner
8 below

Cars - Movie review

Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. On route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in California to compete against two seasoned pros, McQueen gets to know the town’s offbeat characters--including Sally, a snazzy 2002 Porsche, Doc Hudson, a 1951 Hudson Hornet with a mysterious past, and Mater, a rusty but trusty tow truck--who help him realize that there are more important things than trophies, fame and sponsorship.

ICE Age 2 - the melt down

We saw Ice age 2 - the meltdown last Friday on the opening day. If you can believe it I still have not watched the first ice age movie. This movie has a good story line with a very family friendly story. The cast of celeberty voices was great, the characters matched up well.

anny the woolly mammoth, Sid the sloth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger, and the hapless prehistoric squirrel/rat known as Scrat are still together and enjoying the perks of their now melting world. Manny may be ready to start a family, but nobody has seen another mammoth for a long time; Manny thinks he may be the last one. That is, until he miraculously finds Ellie, the only female mammoth left in the world. Their only problems: They can't stand each other--and Ellie somehow thinks she's a possum! Ellie comes with some excess baggage in the form of her two possum "brothers"-- Crash and Eddie, a couple of daredevil pranksters and cocky, loud-mouthed troublemakers. Manny, Sid and Diego quickly learn that the warming climate has one major drawback: A huge glacial dam holding off oceans of water is about to break, threatening the entire valley. The only chance of survival lies at the other end of the valley. So our three heroes, along with Ellie, Crash and Eddie, form the most unlikely family--in any "Age"-- as they embark on a mission across an ever-changing, increasingly dangerous landscape towards their salvation.

Chicken Little is coming soon

The whole family is pretty excited to see chicken little tomorrow. The previews all have looked good. There should be good humor for adults and kids.

Will post our thoughts within a few days.

Wallace and Gromit Movie Review

Did not know mutch about these character before seeing the movie. Thought they were a spin off from Chicken run, maybe they are? But the previews looked ok and the kids were excited for the movie to come out. We took the kids with a friend of theirs and they came away super excited about the movie. It had some decent humor for adults and kept everyone pretty interested.

Undaunted by previous mishaps, Wallace remains the epitome of Gyro Gearloose madcap inventing, coming up with wacky machines like the Mind-O-Matic and the Bun-Vac 6000. He still loves cheese (who else has books like "East of Edam" and "Fromage to Eternity" in his library shelves) and still gets despairing looks of polite disbelief from Gromit, the only dog whose hobby is knitting.

What is different is the pair's new business, a humane, cruelty-free way to rid gardens of invading rabbits that goes by the name of Anti-Pesto. It's an especially booming business in Wallace and Gromit's neck of the woods, a neighborhood obsessed with its Giant Vegetable Competition, in particular the impending 517th annual edition.

Then, when the moon is full, there appears on the scene a monstrous rabbit with the strength of 10, teeth the size of ax blades and ears like terrible tombstones. He lays waste to the neighborhood produce and enables the filmmakers, as Park explains, "to use typical horror movie characters like the skeptical policeman and a vicar who spouts all kinds of mumbo-jumbo about the beast within."

Especially energized by the disaster is Lady Tottington (Bonham Carter), bestower of the prized Golden Carrot, a local eco-toff who wants the beast humanely removed. Being something of a peerage groupie, Wallace (voiced as he has since the beginning by Peter Sallis) is only too eager to oblige. But standing in the way is milady's bloodthirsty suitor, Victor Quartermaine (Fiennes), who is determined to blow everything that moves to Kingdom Come.

The last thing you expect from a "Wallace & Gromit" film is crackling plot twists, but "Curse of the Were-Rabbit" boasts a few. It also has the kind of wonderful cartoon chases that were a beloved feature of the shorts as well as a riff on "King Kong" and a monster transformation sequence that is a treat.