Night at the Museum

Theatrical Release Date: 2006 12 22 (USA - IMAX) / 2006 12 22 (USA)

UPC: 024543420965

Studio: 20th Century Fox

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Mild Violence, Watch With Your Kids]

Summary: The new night watchman at New York's Museum of Natural History finds that the job comes with more responsibility than he ever dreamed in this wild fantasy comedy directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Mickey Rooney, and Dick Van Dyke. Larry Daley (Stiller) is a kind-hearted dreamer who always knew that he was destined for greatness, he just never quite knew how. None of his ideas or inventions has panned out, so with a heavy heart, he takes a regular job as a lowly graveyard-shift security guard at the Museum of Natural History in order to provide a more stable life for himself and his ten-year-old son. His first night on the job, however, he finds that guardianship of the museum is far from stable -- at nightfall, an Egyptian spell brings the artifacts and wax figures to life! With Attila the Hun charging to war through the hallways, the diorama miniatures embroiled in a deadly feud, and a two-ton Tyrannosaurus Rex nagging to play fetch, Larry has half a mind to turn tail and run. On top of cleaning up after two million years of historical chaos every night, he also has to make sure that not a single museum piece leaves the building -- from the bratty Capuchin monkey in the African exhibit, to the life-sized Neanderthal in the prehistoric display -- because if morning light falls on an escaped artifact, it will turn to dust. Larry turns to a wax replica of President Roosevelt (Williams) for a little advice on keeping things in tact, but Teddy seems to think that a man of Larry's greatness needs little help. Larry isn't sure if the former commander in chief is right; this is hardly what he signed up for, but he can't pass up the chance to care for a museum where history really does come to life. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Features: Commentary by director Shawn Levy
Theatrical trailer in high definiton
Commentary by writers Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon
Trivia track

Night at the Museum

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 04/24/2007

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: DTS Digital Theater Systems, DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 110 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,Spanish,French

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Region: Blu-ray region A (North America, Central America, South America, Japan, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia)

Cammila Collar

It's pretty rare for a movie to evoke laughter and delight for audiences both young and old, but Night at the Museum pulls it off. The film stars Ben Stiller as Larry, a divorced dad who's reluctantly given up his dream of entrepreneurial stardom to take a position as the night watchman of the New York Natural History Museum so he can provide more stability for his son. If the sound of an inanely sweet family-oriented comedy makes you want to wretch, however, you have nothing to fear. Night at the Museum occupies itself with Larry's personal story just enough for you to follow him on his wild ride. This film doesn't kid itself: you don't see a movie about a museum where the dinosaurs and mummies spring to life at night because you want to learn a heartwarming lesson. What you want from this kind of fantastical adventure is a couple hours of fun, and this is Night at the Museum's brilliantly simple secret to success. It skips many of the sappy and contrived clich?s of the PG realm and doesn't spend too much time revisiting Larry's home life. Instead, the film lets Stiller (along with straight-man co-stars Carla Gugino and Jake Cherry) bring Larry to life through his reactions to what you came to the movie for in the first place: the magic. Stiller is a delight in this regard, at long-last finding a comedic balance between his squeamish, embarrassment-comedy side (? la Meet the Parents) and his over-the-top, bombastic-farce side (? la Dodgeball). With just enough restraint to play the foil for the funny and enchanting special-effects ensemble, he conjures up an average guy we can both laugh at and cheer for -- all while exercising a great skill at physical comedy, of which there is plenty. Stiller throws himself into dives, pratfalls, and chases with impressive energy and deft control (suggesting that he must be in seriously good shape). But along with all the slapstick you'd expect from an adventure comedy, Night at the Museum also benefits from the ironic wit and smart satire of screenwriter Ben Garant (Reno 911!). The result is a clever trick: while your grown-up side is sated with the kind of dry humor that marks Stiller's collaborations with Owen Wilson (who co-stars as a miniature cowboy from an Old West diorama, but spends most of his screen time feuding with Steve Coogan, a miniature Roman Emperor from the warring display next door), the kid in you is free to revel in childish wonder and excitement so completely that when the requisite dorkily happy ending appears in the distance, you probably won't even notice. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Shawn Levy  Director 
Shawn Levy  Producer 
Chris Columbus  Producer 
Mark A. Radcliffe  Executive Producer 
Alan Silvestri  Composer (Music Score) 
Ira Shuman  Executive Producer 
Thomas M. Hammel  Executive Producer 
Michael Barnathan  Producer 
Thomas Lennon  Screenwriter 
Robert Ben Garant  Screenwriter 
Ben Stiller  Actor 
Carla Gugino  Actor 
Dick Van Dyke  Actor 
Mickey Rooney  Actor 
Bill Cobbs  Actor 
Jake Cherry  Actor 
Ricky Gervais  Actor 
Robin Williams  Actor 
Kim Raver  Actor 
Patrick Gallagher  Actor 
Rami Malek  Actor 
Pierfrancesco Favino  Actor 
Charlie Murphy  Actor 
Steve Coogan  Actor 
Mizuo Peck  Actor 
Kerry Van Der Griend  Actor 
Owen Wilson  Actor 
Dan Rizzuto  Actor 
Matthew Harrison  Actor 
Jody Racicot  Actor 
Paul Rudd  Actor 
Anne Meara  Actor 
Martin Christopher  Actor 
Martin Sims  Actor 
Randy Lee  Actor 
Darryl Quon  Actor 
Gerald Wong  Actor 
Paul Chih-Ping Cheng  Actor 
Teagle F. Bougere  Actor 
Pat Kiernan  Actor 
Nico McEown  Actor 
Meshach Peters  Actor 
Matthew Walker  Actor 
Jason McKinnon  Actor 
Jonathan Lee  Actor 
Jason Vaisvila  Actor 
Cade Wagar  Actor 
Cory Martin  Actor 
Brad Garrett  Actor 
Jason Glass  Actor 
Brent Woolsey  Actor 
Blaise Corrigan  Actor 
Adam Bryant  Actor 
Kimberly Bailey  Actor 
Gil Birmingham  Actor 
Robby Bruce  Actor 
Doug Burch  Actor 
Alexander J. Castillo  Actor 
Catherine Cavadini  Actor 
Paul Chen  Actor 
Alex Cong  Actor 
Jessie Flower  Actor 
Pedro U. Garcia  Actor 
Aaron Hendry  Actor 
Barbara Iley  Actor 
Erica Jones  Actor 
Cohl Kenneth Klop  Actor 
Daamen Krall  Actor 
Tommy Lamey  Actor 
Mirayda Levi  Actor 
Raymundo Magana  Actor 
Zahn McClarnon  Actor 
Roberto Medina  Actor 
Arlin Miller  Actor 
Khanya Mkhize  Actor 
Abdoulaye N'Gom  Actor 
Vivianne Nacif  Actor 
Benjamin A. Onyango Ochieng  Actor 
Maggie Palomo  Actor 
Martin Poz Perez  Actor 
Michael Ralph  Actor 
Noreen Reardon  Actor 
Richard Scobie  Actor 
Craig Ricci Shaynak  Actor 
Gubbi Sigurdsson  Actor 
Stefan Karl Stefansson  Actor 
Mark Sussman  Actor 
Joel Sweto  Actor 
Regina Taufen  Actor 
Travis Quentin Young  Actor 
Ruth Zalduondo  Actor 

Country: USA