Night at the Museum 3 film critique- by GorTheMovieGod

Full text transcript of the Night at the Museum 3 film critique

Hey, what’s up, everyone, and welcome to my review for a night at the museum, the secret of the Tomb, which, of course is the third and final film in the night, the museum series starring Ben Stiller. And I got to admit, I was not looking forward to this film. I thought the trailers look terrible. I thought it was way too long in between sequels. The second one came out like five and a half years ago. It’s been so long. And to be honest, I’m not a big fan of the series. I mean, they’re OK. I thought the first one was good, just straight up good. It was like a seven out of 10. I liked it. Second one, slightly less. So I gave it like I would give it like a six at 10. And Amy Adams is great and that’s very much. And special effects were good. This one comes out almost six years later and the trailer looked awful. I look like, oh, I was just milking the franchise one last time. It was bringing back everybody, of course, Robin Williams, it’s his final film that’s, you know, that’s sad and all. But I was not looking forward to seeing it. I saw it. Well, let’s just get into it. What did I think of night at the museum three? Let’s talk about it. The story for the secret of the tomb is very shallow and very paper thin.

It is a weak conclusion to a trilogy. And yes, I do know it doesn’t really matter. It’s just, you know, it’s for families. It doesn’t need a big hobbit like epic conclusion. There’s no battle of the five armies in this film. You don’t need that. I know that. But it’s still a very weak conclusion, I felt. And it’s a very weak last film for both Mickey Rooney and Robin Williams, who, you know, God bless them. They’re you know, they’re trying in this film. Mickey Rooney is barely in it, to be fair. But, you know, Robin Williams is trying. But it’s it’s I don’t know, it’s just a shallow last film for those two. And it’s a shallow last film for this trilogy that made like I think overall both the the first two films made over a billion dollars or something like that. So it’s a very weak conclusion. The story here follows Larry, played by Ben Stiller once again, who is a nighttime security guard at a local museum. And of course, at night, the museum comes to life because of this ancient Egyptian tablet. The story here is about the ancient Egyptian tablet. Now, you don’t really get to know much about it. You do know who owns it. You get to know that. But you don’t know why it brings everything to life, doesn’t they don’t tell you really.

You get to know who found it. You get to know who brought it to the museum. Well, that’s that’s about it. And also, you get to know who owned it, which is a pharaoh played by Ben Kingsley. So, of course, this tablet is starting to deteriorate and actually starting to disappear. So Ben Stiller and a bunch of other museum attractions have to go and find out why it is deteriorating. And they have to go to this British Museum where this pharaoh, played by Ben Kingsley, is. They have to figure out why it is and how to fix it before it’s gone forever. I mean, it doesn’t help that the story really is predictable as all hell, you know exactly where it’s going to go. There’s a whole subplot with Larry and his son and his son wants to not go to college or something or whatever. It doesn’t it doesn’t matter. It gets resolved in the end in a bland way. All the character little side pots get resolved in a bland way. But I have to say, even though the story itself is not great, really isn’t. And even the comedy at times can be very, very like just straight up bad. Like there’s a whole part where the monkey starts peeing on Owen Wilson and Steve Coogan. That wasn’t funny.

There’s a whole part where they’re using a flashlight to these like these stone lions. And of course, because they’re cats do follow it and stuff that was lame. There’s also a whole lame moment where where they’re on a bus and everybody’s looking at them because, you know, it’s a bunch of museum attractions and stuff on a bus. That was lame, too. There’s a lot of lame jokes in here, but there’s actually some really good parts where they I like to call them obstacles because that’s exactly what they are, where they have to actually overcome something in the museum to get to a different section of the museum. So it’s very much like in a video game where they have to beat up a bunch of enemies and then the door will open and you could pass through pretty much what is happening here. There’s a couple of obstacles that are actually really inventive and very fun. There was one where you actually they actually jump into an M.C. Escher painting. The one was it called relativity, where it’s all a bunch of stairs and stuff and it’s always confusing to look at. They actually jump into this one. And it’s actually really entertaining, very unique scene where they’re actually jumping out jump. They’re running, trying to catch one guy that has the tablet and stuff. It was actually a lot of fun.

It was actually a really cool little art style that was going on in that one scene. There’s also there’s also a part in the movie with Owen Wilson. Steve Coogan’s characters were there in Pompeii, and that was actually pretty entertaining, even though that’s the one that ends with a joke. There’s some good entertaining sequences here. Also, the special effects, even though I thought they looked bad in the trailer, look way better in the actual film, which is good because I thought the first two films had some pretty damn good special effects and some good designs. This one does a good job as well. I didn’t think the movie was hilarious. I really don’t think it was. Like I said, there were moments where I actually thought it was pretty funny. Now it was a. Laughing Like Robert De Niro in Cape Fear, mind you, but it was still funny. One person I have to give just a lot of credit to, and this is he’s one of my favorite actors right now. And that’s Dan Stevens who plays the Lancelot. This guy right here, he’s first of all, he’s gorgeous and girly man is gorgeous. But I have to also say he’s really funny in this film. He’s actually really, really funny. I like that they don’t play the whole oh, he’s out of time or whatever, you know, like because Lancelot first of all, he’s not even a real character.

And second of all, he’s in the 2000s and, you know, his character was from like what they whenever the hell King Arthur was written. So they don’t play that whole thing where he’s out of time or something like that. I mean, they do, but they don’t do it too much. You know, they don’t do it to the point where I was like, oh, my God, get this character on my face. I was more like, please make that character the focus. Because first of all, Dan Simon, Dan Stevens is charming and really funny in the role. I really like that guy. And also, he’s gorgeous. Look at that guy. Gorgeous Zawi, he’s great, I still think Ben Stiller was OK. He plays a caveman in this film, though he was pretty funny as the caveman. I don’t rebel Wilson was annoying as hell, even though I do like her. I do. But she was annoying as hell in this film. Every time she was on screen, I felt comedy died just a wee bit because she was not funny at all in this film. Really not funny at the Owen Wilson. Steve Coogan was still a good pair. I thought they’re you know, they’re fine. Everybody else is great. I Robin Williams had a really good final scene that was really touching, but not to like over sentimental, which is, you know, makes sense seeing that he didn’t know he was going to be dead by the end of this.

You know, by by the time this movie came out, it’s not like he knew he was going to die. So he was just going to be like, oh, let me make this really heartfelt speech at the end or something like that. No, it’s more like he just he’s just like, I have a good time. See you later, Ben Stiller. And then you just do he does his pose and whatever. And it was a nice moment, I have to admit. And he made me laugh at the end, too. So a final little laugh from Robin Williams. I’ll take that. So overall, I did not hate this film. I’m very mixed on it, but I would say fifty five percent of the movie I liked and the forty five percent I didn’t care for at all. I will give it a twenty, I’ll give it a twenty three out of forty. I didn’t think it was terrible at that stands Dan Stevens was great. There was some inventive moments but there’s a lot of unfunny moments. There was a lot of moments that got on my nerves too. And Rebel Wilson was I’ll just say it. She was terrible. So anyway, there you go. Thank you and goodbye.