Good-hearted dreamer Larry Daley, despite being perpetually down on his luck, thinks he's destined for something big. But even he could never have imagined how big, when he accepts what appears to be a menial job as a graveyard-shift security guard at a museum of natural history. During Larry's watch, extraordinary things begin to occur: Mayans, Roman Gladiators, and cowboys emerge from their diorama to wage epic battles; in his quest for fire, a Neanderthal burns down his own display; Attila the Hun pillages his neighboring exhibits, and a T-Rex reminds everyone why he's history's fiercest predator. Amidst the chaos, the only person Larry can turn to for advice is a wax figure of President Teddy Roosevelt, who helps our hero harness the bedlam, stop a nefarious plot, and save the museum.

Intense. That is the one word that seems to fit the movie the best because the movie comes at you almost like a freight train rumbling up to speed and then going out of control as it crashes into you head-on full speed. The movie is relentless, the action keeps building and the drama keeps intensifying and it makes for a movie that was very enjoyable and highly entertaining. There isn’t a lot of depth to the movie, there is no real surprises even if the movie does attempt to throw a few at you, heck it even attempts a moral that we can all change but the movie isn’t about that it’s a much simpler tale told in an intense gun fighting kind of way.

Night at the Museum has a good story that’s fun, silly and entertaining in a fluffy kind of popcorn filmish kind of way. That's basically what the movie is a fun and silly kind of movie where you can shut off your brain and enjoy the crazy happenings that are transpiring on the screen. Mingle in a little history, and throw in some outrageous characters and events and you have the gist of the movie. I have to admit that I am impressed with the creativity of the screen writers even when the movie doesn't fire on all cylinders for whatever reason from Ben Stiller hamming it up or Owen Wilson being Owen Wilson which a lot of times is a very unskilled and unfunny actor. The story is unique and it draws you in, like when you were a child hiding under the covers with a flashlight making up worlds and events that were fantastic and imaginative.

I do question the casting a little, it's long past the point when I have thought of Ben Stiller as even remotely funny as he has three characters and he just revolves them depending on the movie. Night of the Museum is his There's Something about Mary character the loveable loser who ends up winning in the end. I can just see an dozen actors doing just as good or better of a job then he did in the film. Then there is Owen Wilson who isn't funny at all play the petulant cowboy who acts like Owen Wilson and idiot playing an idiot. Robin Williams was funny and enjoyable as Teddy Roosevelt but its obvious his comedic days are long past and he should stick to the dramas. The movie was fun; it was enjoyable the only problem was it was ruined somewhat by choice of casting.

Grade: B