Ben Stiller, Steve Coogan, Ricky Gervais, Alain Chabat, Owen Wilson; On paper, it's a hell of a cast - Some comedy heavy weights given featherweight parts in a movie!!! How could they deliver? Ricky Gervais, I've barely seen him. In the first movie, his unfinished sentences were pure bliss. The more, the better. But his character was reduced to an almost serious emotional boring museum director. Owen Wilson, ... well I still remember him in the first movie ... was he really in the second? The first movie was about a jobless guy, having difficulties with family life; he gets a job at a museum only to move on as quickly as possible. Then, his world explodes into unimaginable proportions. All very nice, something you can relate to, there was no need for moral etiquettes to be attached to every scene in the movie.
Now, you've got a successful guy thinking about reverting back to a museum security guy. Oh come on!!!
However, there are some nice comedy scenes and the film IS enjoyable and you get that taste throughout - It could have been so much better. Instead of seeing too big and being too greedy - they should have kept it simple - work more on the background story and overall plot rather than dumping everybody in the biggest museum in the world and see what happens.
Now, you've got a successful guy thinking about reverting back to a museum security guy. Oh come on!!!
However, there are some nice comedy scenes and the film IS enjoyable and you get that taste throughout - It could have been so much better. Instead of seeing too big and being too greedy - they should have kept it simple - work more on the background story and overall plot rather than dumping everybody in the biggest museum in the world and see what happens.