Night in Armour

A familiar cast – a new location – a notable new addition. Larry (Ben Stiller), the night watchman at the Museum of Natural History, along with the familiar cast of Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), Jedediah (Owen Wilson), Octavius (Steve Coogan), Akhmenrah (Rami Malek) and Attila (Patrick Gallagher) find themselves at the British Museum in London, to salvage the spell under the tablet of Akhmenrah, that would save all of the above cast, and more, from not waking up at all. In the bargain, they wake up Sir Lancelot (Dan Stevens) and find themselves in complicated situations with the latter's adventurous pretensions getting in the way. Quite entertaining, the newest edition – Night at The Museum – Secret of the Tomb – is faithful to the franchise even as it ostensibly wraps it up in a dash of Brit flavor

12.5/20

Darjeeling?? Never mind.

This is not a 2010/ 2011 movie, but thought I would put in a little note in any case. A train that looks suspiciously like the Palace on Wheels, and travels entirely through scrubland and desert, incongruously named The Darjeeling Limited, is the focal point of the movie by the same name. The train is the meeting point of brothers Francis (Owen Wilson), Peter (Adrien Brody) and Jack (Jason Schwartzmann). With misunderstandings of the past, including events related to their estranged and semi-ascetic mother, and their father’s funeral, on their minds, the trio spend a few days on the Indian subcontinent, in seeking bonding and certain inner realizations available in the Indian Subcontinent to occidentals. One can watch it as an apt precursor to Slumdog Millionaire, a movie made with equally amazingly miniscule empathy with India (with due leeway for the fact that the movie in question is principally intended to be a comedy), but one that nevertheless strikes a chord with an audience that is equally ignorant

7.5/10

Museum of Horrors

After the first edition, one could at the very lest expect that Night at The Museum II - Battle of the Smithsonian would only build upon the excitement of museum exhibits coming alive. After all, could the theme of a museum – with untold possibilities in terms of exhibits – possibly go wrong? Yes it can. It is possible to go overboard with too many characters, completely misplace characters (a pathetically funny Kamun-ra who is neither menacing nor amusing), a Capone who has nothing to do in the movie to speak of, an Amelia Earhart who seems to have confused irrepressible flirting with a sense of adventure, and, in the middle of it all, a Ben Stiller – why he is posited as a millionaire entrepreneur in the overall context of the movie is the only mystery that lingers in my mind after this movie. One movie that I will forget overnight, not in days

7/20