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BenStiller reprised his role as earnest security guard Larry Daley in the 2009 fantasy comedy Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, the highly-anticipated follow-up to the original hit that follows Larry as he fights to save his magical pals from some of history's most infamous villains after the exhibits are transferred to the Smithsonian Institution. When the former night guard for the Museum of Natural History learns that notorious figures like Al Capone, Ivan the Terrible, and Napoleon Bonaparte are plotting to take over the world with the help of the enchanted tablet, Larry races against time to stop them and save his friends.

The sequel was a knockout with moviegoers, earning over $413 million despite receiving a mixed response from critics. Fan favorites from the original also returned including Owen Wilson, Robin Williams, and Steve Coogan, along with newcomers Amy Adams as Amelia Earhart, Hank Azaria as Kahmunrah, and Jon Bernthal as Capone. The performances of Adams and Azaria were also singled out as some of the sequel's finest.

Serving as the fourth installment in the spellbinding franchise, 2022's Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again is the first animated film of the series and introduces a completely new voice cast, with the premise shifting its focus to Larry Daley's son Nick as he takes over duties as night watchman at the Museum of Natural History. Starring the vocal talents of Joshua Bassett, Zachary Levi, Steve Zahn, and Jack Whitehall, the film follows Nick as he attempts to recapture the devious Kahmunrah, who has escaped his confinements and wants to gain complete power with the help of the sacred tablet.

While none of the previous stars returned for the animated installment, Kahmunrah Rises Again still went on to become the highest-rated movie of the franchise and successfully targeted a younger demographic via its light-hearted humor and fun animation. However, some viewers felt the sequel lacked the heart and magic of the previous films without the performers they know and love.

The lovable band of magical misfits returned once again with 2014's Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, this time shaking up its locale by sending Larry to London as he races against time to fix the enchanted tablet that has begun to deteriorate and lose its all-important power. Without the assistance of the sacred book, Larry's historical museum friends will lose their ability to come to life at night and he must help save the crucial magic before it's too late. While Larry is joined on his vital mission with pals like Theodore Roosevelt, Jedediah, Octavius, and Sacagawea, he also meets new famous faces including Sir Lancelot (Dan Stevens) and the mummy Merenkahre (Ben Kingsley).

The star-studded third installment marks the completion of the original trilogy and its dynamic cast, and it also features the final performances of Robin Williams and Mickey Rourke, who both passed away before the film's release. Secret of the Tomb once again delivers the fun and excitement of its predecessors while letting the wholesome gang go out with a thrilling bang.

Shawn Levy directed the captivating 2006 film that kicked off the lucrative and celebrated franchise with Night at the Museum, in which the always hilarious Ben Stiller portrays divorced father Larry Daley, who is hired to be the night guard at the Museum of Natural History in an effort to demonstrate stability and responsibility to his young ten-year-old son Nick. Larry is notorious for hopping from one job to the next without ever fully committing, so he sets out to prove to both his child and his ex-wife that he can be a good example.

Don't trust me on this movie. It rubbed me the wrong way. I can understand, as an abstract concept, why some people would find it entertaining. It sure sounds intriguing: "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian." If that sounds like fun to you, don't listen to sourpuss here.

Oh, did I dislike this film. It made me squirm. Its premise is lame, its plot relentlessly predictable, its characters with personalities that would distinguish picture books, its cost incalculable (well, $150,000,000). Watching historical figures enact the cliches identified with the most simplistic versions of their images, I found myself yet once again echoing the frequent cry of Gene Siskel: Why not just give us a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

One actor surpasses the material. That would be Amy Adams, as Amelia Earhart, because she makes Amelia sweet and lovable, although from what I gather, in real life that was not necessarily the case. I found myself thinking, isn't it time for a biopic about Earhart? Over the closing credits, Bonnie Koloc could sing Kinky Friedman's "Amelia Earhart's Last Flight:"

Just a ship out on the ocean, a speck against the sky/Amelia Earhart flying that sad day/With her partner, Captain Noonan, on the second of July/Her plane fell in the ocean, far away/(Chorus) Happy landings to you, Amelia Earhart/Farewell, first lady of the air.

Sigh. Sort of floats you away, doesn't it? But then I crash-landed in the movie, where Amelia Earhart has to become the sidekick of Larry Daley (Ben Stiller), who has faked his resume to get hired as a security guard and rescue his buddies from "A Night at the Museum" (2006).

What has happened, see, is that the Museum of Natural History is remodeling. They're replacing their beloved old exhibits, like Teddy Roosevelt mounted on his horse, with ghastly new interactive media experiences. His friends are doomed to go into storage at the National Archives, part of the Smithsonian Institution. We see something of its sterile corridors stretching off into infinity; it looks just a little larger than Jorge Luis Borges' Library of Babel, and you remember how big that was.

However, Larry is able to manage one last night of freedom for them before the crates are filled with plastic popcorn. This is thanks to, I dunno, some kind of magic tablet of the villainous Pharaoh Kah Mun Rah (Hank Azaria). Among the resurrected are Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), General Custer (Bill Hader), Ivan the Terrible (Christopher Guest), Octavius (Steve Coogan) and Albert Einstein (Eugene Levy).

Also, the stuffed monkey from our first manned (or monkeyed) satellite, on a flight where the mission controller is played, of course, by Clint Howard, who has played mission controllers in something like half a dozen movies, maybe a dozen. When he gets a job, he already knows all of the lines. I could give you the exact number of the mission controllers he has played, but looking up his IMDb credits for a review of "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" seems like dissipation.

These characters and others do what they do in action that sometimes resembles the video game this film will inspire. Wilbur Wright is here with the first airplane, and Amelia pilots the plane she went down in on that sad second of July. Rodin's The Thinker (Hank Azaria) is somewhat distracted, his chin leaning on his hand, no doubt pondering such questions as: "Hey, aren't I supposed to be in the Musee Rodin in Paris?"

The reanimated figures are on three scales. Some are life-size. Some are larger than life-size, like the statue in the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall. Some are the size of tiny action figures, and they're creepy, always crawling around and about to get stepped on. Nobody asks Abe Lincoln any interesting stuff like, "Hey, you were there -- what did Dick Nixon really say to the hippies during his midnight visit to your memorial?"

I don't mind a good dumb action movie. I was the one who liked "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor." But "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" is such a product. Like ectoplasm from a medium, it is the visible extrusion of a marketing campaign.

The Night Watch was completed in 1642 at the peak of the Dutch Golden Age. It depicts the eponymous company moving out, led by Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (dressed in black, with a red sash) and his lieutenant, Willem van Ruytenburch (dressed in yellow, with a white sash). Behind them, the company's colors are carried by the ensign, Jan Visscher Cornelissen. Rembrandt incorporated the traditional emblem of the arquebusiers in the figure of the young girl who carries a dead chicken on her belt, referencing the clauweniers (arquebusiers) and a type of drinking horn used at group banquets.[3]

The painting was commissioned around 1639 by Captain Banninck Cocq and seventeen members of his Kloveniers (civic militia guards).[4] Eighteen names appear on a shield, painted circa 1715, in the center-right background, as the hired drummer was added to the painting for free.[5] A total of 34 characters appear in the painting. Rembrandt was paid 1,600 guilders for the painting (each person paid one hundred), a large sum at the time. This was one of a series of seven similar paintings of the militiamen (Dutch: Schuttersstuk) commissioned during that time from various artists.[citation needed]

The painting was commissioned to hang in the banquet hall of the newly built Kloveniersdoelen (Musketeers' Meeting Hall) in Amsterdam. Some have suggested that the occasion for Rembrandt's commission and the series of other commissions given to other artists was the visit of the French queen, Marie de' Medici, in 1638. Even though she was escaping from her exile from France ordered by her son Louis XIII, the queen's arrival was met with great pageantry.[citation needed]

The Night Watch first hung in the Groote Zaal (Great Hall) of Amsterdam's Kloveniersdoelen. This structure currently houses the Doelen Hotel. In 1715, the painting was moved to the Amsterdam Town Hall, for which it was trimmed on all four sides. This was done, presumably, to fit the painting between two columns and was a common practice before the 19th century. This alteration resulted in the loss of two characters on the left side of the painting, the top of the arch, the balustrade, and the edge of the step. The missing portions have not been found; Taco Dibbits, director of the Rijksmuseum, has some hope that possibly at least the left-hand side might not have been destroyed as it contained three figures, and at the time the painting was trimmed Rembrandt paintings were already expensive.[6][7]

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