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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)

PG  |   |  Action, Adventure, Comedy  |  22 May 2009 (USA)
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Security guard Larry Daley infiltrates the Smithsonian Institution in order to rescue Jedediah and Octavius, who have been shipped to the museum by mistake.

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Storyline

Ben Stiller returns as night watchman Larry Daily, now a successful business man, who gets back to the museum just in time to find that he needs to get his friends out of trouble. This new installment takes us to the Smithsonian, and introduces us to new characters, such as Amelia Earhart, General Custer, and many more!

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museum | security guard | hdtv | motorcycle | museum of natural history | See All (74) »

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When the lights go off the battle is on.

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Rated PG for mild action and brief language | See all certifications »

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$150,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£4,160,496 (UK) (22 May 2009)

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$177,243,721 (USA) (30 October 2009)
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Trivia

In the original script for Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Ahkmenrah (Rami Malek) had come to the Smithsonian with them and had a fight about the combination of the tablet with his brother, Kahmunrah (Hank Azaria) it is also revealed that in the end of the movie, it was originally Ahkmenrah who held a dagger to Kahmunrah's throat throwing him in the portal rather than Larry. See more »

Goofs

Surely Larry and Kahmunrah are intelligent men. They would know that the Cube of Rubik isn't a rectangular box. See more »

Quotes

Nick Daley: So you're working tonight?
Larry Daley: Used to work every night, remember?
Nick Daley: Yeah, that was back when you had, like, the coolest job in the world.
Larry Daley: Well, cool doesn't pay for your Guitar God 6 or whatever.
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Crazy Credits

There is an extra scene during the credits where Sailor Joey Motorola is seen reverse-engineering Larry Daley's cell-phone. He says to his mother (off camera) "I think I'm on to something!" See more »

Connections

References Apollo 13 (1995) See more »

Soundtracks

I Only Have Eyes for You
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Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Al Dubin
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Utter rubbish...
25 February 2012 | by (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews

The first film was far from spectacular, but it was tolerable and a bit of fun to watch. I came across the second movie when it was shown on television and its terrible. It has been done once and wasn't brilliant, the producers really shouldn't have bothered with number two. The whole film is filled with terrible far-fetched acting. Every line just tries to include a joke that is not even remotely funny and frankly, leaves me with a blank expression on my face the whole time. The whole movie is just "trying too hard". Too see some pretty famous faces in it, is a shame as it is a real downfall in their career. i'm surprised I actually ended up watching the whole movie, maybe I was hoping it would get better. Evidently not! It is saying something when you are watching this movie with kids and they even turn round to you and say "Is this meant to be funny?" 1/10
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