No more live dinosaurs means no more property damage, right?Īlas, Larry feels he must save “everything that’s special about this place.” (Really, buddy? There’s nothing else special about the American Museum of Natural History?) So he flies to the British Museum in London, which holds the Pharaoh who was buried with the tablet, and his museum friends tag along-even the pissing monkey, which the film all but admits is there solely to pander. The tablet’s sudden corrosion doesn’t seem like a problem in fact, it feels more like a solution. Ben Stiller’s security guard Larry played foster dad to figurines at the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institution, where, thanks to a glowing Egyptian tablet, the exhibits came to life at night and destroyed everything in sight. The first two Museum films were noisemakers masquerading as education advocacy. Williams never gets to play Roosevelt, but worse, he never gets to play Robin Williams, either. Even when there’s a malfunction in the device that gives him life and he starts reciting Franklin Roosevelt quotes, Williams stays on a tight leash, unable to put his magnificent gift for improvisation to use. Yet his presence is thankless: The wax Rough Rider replica recites plot points about curses and continues an icky romance with Sacajawea (Mizuo Peck).
It’s nice that Williams has an expanded role in the film, including a tender goodbye scene. And like too many of his efforts in this category, it’s junk. But it is the last time his wonderfully elastic face will grace the kind of film that made him a household name: big-budget, effects-laden comic spectacle. Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb isn’t the last time Williams will be seen or heard onscreen: He also lends a voice to Terry Jones’ Absolutely Anything and stars in the indie drama Boulevard, both likely to release next year. Robin Williams had completed his work on the third entry in Shawn Levy’s spiceless history gumbo before committing suicide this summer. But there are no worse movies in which to play Teddy Roosevelt than the Night At The Museum series.
As last roles go, there are worse ones to play than Teddy Roosevelt.
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