Night at the Museum (2006)
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44% of critics liked it
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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… More 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
- Directed By
- Shawn Levy
- Written By
- Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Kids & Family, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Dec 22, 2006 Wide
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
Critic Reviews
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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
What a dull, nice movie, wrenched from a wild premise and battered into docility.
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Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times
A film that veers, often without much direction, between a family-friendly comic romp and an attempt to touch our souls with heartfelt emotion.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
As mindless spectacle, this is reasonably entertaining.
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Derek Adams, Time Out
... an aimless and riotous mess.
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Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
It's just so dopey.
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Cast
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Ben Stiller
as Larry Daley
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Carla Gugino
as Rebecca
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Dick Van Dyke
as Cecil Fredricks
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Mickey Rooney
as Gus
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Bill Cobbs
as Reginald
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Jake Cherry
as Nick Daley
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Ricky Gervais
as Dr. McPhee
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Robin Williams
as Teddy Roosevelt
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Kim Raver
as Erica Daley
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Patrick Gallagher
as Atilla The Hun
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Rami Malek
as Ahkmenrah
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Pierfrancesco Favino
as Christopher Columbus
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Charlie Murphy
as Taxi Driver
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Steve Coogan
as Octavius
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Mizuo Peck
as Sacajawea
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Kerry Van Der Griend
as Neanderthal #1
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Owen Wilson
as Jedediah
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Dan Rizzuto
as Neanderthal #2
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Matthew Harrison
as Neanderthal #3
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Jody Racicot
as Neanderthal #4
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Paul Rudd
as Don
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Anne Meara
as Debbie
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Martin Christopher
as Lewis
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Martin Sims
as Clark
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Randy Lee
as Hun #1
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Darryl Quon
as Hun #2
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Gerald Wong
as Hun #3
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Paul Chih-Ping Cheng
as Hun #4
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Teagle F. Bougere
as Teacher (Mike)
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Pat Kiernan
as TV News Anchor
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Nico McEown
as Friend #1
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Meshach Peters
as Friend #2
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Matthew Walker
as Politician
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Jason McKinnon
as Irish Worker
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Jonathan Lee
as Chinese Rail Worker
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Jason Vaisvila
as Vikings
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Cade Wagar
as Vikings
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Cory P. Martin
as Chinese Terra Cotta Solidier
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Brad Garrett
as Easter Island Head
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Jason Glass
as Blind Driver
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Brent Woolsey
as Larry Riding Double
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Blaise Corrigan
as Stunt Driver
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Adam Bryant
as Teddy Stand-In
- Kimberly Bailey
- Gil Birmingham
- Robby D. Bruce
- Doug Burch
- Alexander J. Castillo
- Catherine Cavadini
- Paul Chen
- Alex Cong
- Jessie Flower
- Pedro U. Garcia
- Aaron Hendry
- Barbara Iley
- Erica Jones
- Cohl Kenneth Klop
- Daamen J. Krall
- Tommy Lamey
- Mirayda Levi
- Raymundo Magana
- Zahn McClarnon
- Roberto Medina
- Arlin Miller
- Khanya Mkhize
- Abdoulaye N'Gom
- Vivianne Nacif
- Benjamin A. Onyango Ochieng
- Maggie Palomo
- Martin Poz Perez
- Michael Ralph
- Noreen Reardon
- Richard Scobie
- Craig Ricci Shaynak
- Gubbi Sigurdsson
- Stefan Karl Stefansson
- Mark Sussman
- Joel Sweto
- Regina Taufen
- Travis Quentin Young
- Ruth Zalduondo








