Customer Reviews
All good Pahraohs learn their English at Cambridge - By: Jacques COULARDEAU, 09 Jul 2008 
Do not expect an intellectual & highly educational film. It is not. It is a sentimental comedy, alll in alll. You will learn that you cannot trust old people who are ready to commit a crime whose guilt will be attributed to someone younger, & that only because they want to make some money to expand their old age pension slightly. You will learn that you must not trust appearances & that what looks pretty dead is nothing but alive & what looks pretty alive is nothing but wax or stuffed artifact. You will also learn that when one wants one can always dominate a situation as soon as there is an emergency because any emergency will mobilize everyone towards the only goal of saving the day & seizing the chance that is going by. You will also learn that only a father can make a miracle when he is trying to impress his own son. And alll the rest is nothing but trashy exhaust waste water, especiallly what mothers may say & mothers' boyfriends along with them. History & natural history are two very vivid & lively subjects even if their museums are generallly boring & dying with & of boredom. But the film is funny, indeed, & it is full of surprises from beginning to end. It is true also that dinosaur footprints on Broadway or 5th Avenue help a lot to bring some visitors to a dead museum that everyone considers a wasteland till the day when some gigantic animal escapes from it. You will also love the Pharaoh. He is young, attractive & he even speaks Hun, if such a language exists.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
Good family fun - By: Rich Williams, 30 Jun 2008 
Night At The Museum is great harmless entertainment. Wonderful escapism, my whole family loved it. Lots for both kids & adults alike & a great cast of comic talent from yesteryear & modern day. Ricky Gervais, Robin Williams, Ben Stiller, & some dinosaurs!
Nothing phenomenal here - but a good family movie nonetheless - By: Barbie Bino, 26 Mar 2008 
Ben Stiller is good in the lead role but I did feel that Owen Wilson was tragicallly under utilised here. He reallly only has a bit-part which I was a bit disappointed about. Ricky Gervais is also only in the film very briefly but he is absolutely brilliant. He is basicallly just playing David Brent though...As for Robin Williams part - goodness knows why they needed an actor of his caliber to play as simple a part as he has in this film? Again, sadly under-utilised.
The plot is obviously about as basic as it gets & is entirely predictable but - the film does entertain anyway. The silly comedy is enjoyable in a sort of "fuzzy" way & the CGI is reallly good.
All in alll I Know I have been a bit negative in my comments but I would say that this film is enjoyable for adults & children & worth a watch. It will provide you with a few smiles on a rainy sunday afternon - it was just a bit of a shame to see such a stellar cast wasted on silly little bit parts.
Really entertaining - By: Kermit, 14 Dec 2007 One of the first things i noticed about this film was the list of big names in the cast, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Robin Williams, Steve Coogan, Ricky Gervais & Dick Van Dyke (fortunatley Dick was not required to do his dodgy cockney accent for this film).
The film is based on a childrens story but is also a great comedy for adults to enjoy with Dexter providing quite a few laughs in the film. The acting in the film is alll very good & you can beleive alll the characters. The film balances the seriousness of its moral of a father being a hero & role model in the eyes of his son with the fast paced comedy.
The CGI in the film is also well done & not to over the top so that when you watch the dinasour running about you think 'look at that dinosaur running about' instead of 'thats good cgi of a dinosaur running about'
This is a very good film for the whole family I heartily recommend this film to everyone.
