Director: Shawn Levy
Producers: Shawn Levy, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan
Story/Script: Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon
Cast: Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Owen Wilson, Hank Azaria, Christopher Guest, Alain Chabat, Ricky Gervais, Steve Coogan, Bill Hader and Robin Williams.
In this second instalment of the Night At The Museum saga, Larry faces a battle that unfolds in the corridors of the world’s largest museum.The fun begins as Larry has left behind the low-paying world of guarding museums to become a sought-after inventor of Daley Devices infomercial products. He seems to have it all - but something is missing in his life, something that draws him back to his old haunt, the Museum Of Natural History, where he once had the magical night of a lifetime. There, he makes an unsettling discovery. His favourite exhibits, indeed some of his truest friends, have been deemed out-of-date. Packed into crates, they await shipment to the vast archives of the Smithsonian. Their fate is unknown - that is, until Larry receives a distress call from the miniature cowboy Jedediah (Owen Wilson), who informs him of an impending disaster. Speeding to the nation’s capital, Larry is clearly in over his head. But he’s got some impressive new friends who take his breath away – the irrepressible Amelia Earhart who spurs Larry to rediscover his missing sense of fun and adventure. Along with his old buddies, Larry will stop at nothing to regain his friends and restore order to the National Mall, from the Lincoln Memorial to the Air and Space Museum, before the stroke of dawn.
We wanted everything we did in the first movie to be not only bigger but better in the second. We wanted a journey for Larry that would be even more captivating, that would help him find his way back to the better self he got a glimpse of in Night At The Museum. Ben Stiller and I had always agreed that we wouldn’t continue this tale unless we had a great new story – so when the idea came up of taking Larry and his friends to the Smithsonian, we knew this was it. We couldn’t have been more excited in developing the new story, I think we brought out a lot of the traits that people loved about the first movie – it’s funny, warm-hearted and full of spectacle. This time it’s not just a guy running away from exhibits that have come to life. It’s emotionally more interesting because the love story between Larry and Amelia becomes the heart of the movie. Our goal was to make the sequel more astounding and adventurous, but also to deepen the themes and relationships, and this screenplay pulls it off.