Movie: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
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- Director: Shawn Levy
- Release Date:
21 May 2009 (Germany)
- Run Time:
105 min
- Country: USA , Canada
- Genre: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Family , Fantasy
- MPAA:
Rated PG for mild action and brief language.
Tagline: When the lights go off the battle is on.
Trivia: Director Shawn Levy told a National Public Radio interviewer that once the Smithsonian Institution agreed to lend their name to the film, their curators were very helpful and willing to share information about the real-life characters represented in the movie, but Levy had trouble with the intellectual property-holders for the fictional characters represented. For instance, for a scene in which Darth Vader interacts with the pharaoh played by Hank Azaria, there was a person on the set who came from LucasFilm and whose job it was to observe all scenes filmed that involved Darth Vader and to tell the filmmakers what Vader would or wouldn’t do.
Goofs: Continuity: When Jedediah (Owen Wilson) is in the hour glass, he is in the lower chamber, and the area between is too small for him to go through. When the minions are returning to the portal, in a close up he is obviously in the top chamber, only to return to the bottom when Octavius (Steve Coogan) breaks him free. (Some might say that the hourglass could have been turned, but that would obviously have caused him to suffocate.)
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Single-Disc Edition)
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Three-Disc Edition + Digital Copy + DVD) [Blu-ray]
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