Night at the Museum : An Appeal for Unity
January 11th 2007 08:11
Night at the Museum
Night at the Museum was billed as an old fashioned action comedy but when I went to watch the show, I found the matter was more involved than that. Ben Stiller plays this frequently out of job dad whose ex-wife thinks that their son cannot handle any more "disappointment." So, he takes up this job as a night watchman at the museum of natural history. The museum has three ageing watchmen who are being laid off. They give him a thick sheaf of instructions and leave him alone. But they forget to tell one thing. Everything comes alive in the museum at night and create a mayhem unless controlled rather niftily.
The first night predictably goes horribly wrong. But, Stiller has to come over and again to the action, because daddy can't risk another disappointment for his son. So, he decides to learn to manage the waxworks come to life.
The movie clearly follows the same premise and pattern seen in Zumanji and Zathura but unlike them ties up its loose ends rather comprehensively if a bit slowly at the end. What is old-fashioned about it is that it is an appeal for unity. Ancient Europeans, Romans and Mongols have all to get together with the cowboys. It doesn't lay out for what but in a movie that looks at longingly at Sacagawea and pokes fun amiably at Theodore Roosevelt and imagines their courtship and union, it could only be for one thing.
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