We're confused – we thought the only family movies that were supposed to do well these days were computer animated flicks about anthropomorphised creatures that sound like Brittany Murphy doing bodypops on a glacier, but what do we know?
Night At The Museum, the Ben Stiller movie about what happens when the plot of Jumanji gets mysteriously shoehorned into a museum – at night – has topped the US weekend box office for the third week on the trot. And now that Night At The Museum's US weekend box office success has established Ben Stiller's leap from risque comedy star to family movie idol, we're fully expecting him to become the new Robin Williams. OK, we'll admit it – we just said that because we want to see a tiny Jewish bipolar version of Bicentennial Man get made as soon as is humanly possible.
Now that Night At The Museum has done so well at the US weekend box office, taking more than $164 million in three weeks, there's bound to be some kind of inevitable Night At The Museum sequel before long. But how? We've narrowed the plot possibilities down to two main ideas: Another Night At The Museum, where a bunch of crazy stuff happens in a museum at night and nobody cares; or Day At The Museum, where all the museum's exhibits come to life and instantly turn to dust as stated in Night At The Museum. Either way we're excited! Here's the US weekend box office top five:
1 – Night At The Museum (Night At The Museum has accomplished more in three US weekend box offices than Casino Royale managed in eight. Luckily the Bond producers are one step ahead, and the new 007 movie will see James Bond pitting his wits against an out-of-control T-Rex skeleton and a weeny little Alan Partridge, plus M will be replaced by a waxwork that looks a bit like Robin Williams) $24,000,000
2 – The Pursuit Of Happyness (Where Will Smith teaches the world's poor and homeless that they too can become successful, obscenely wealthy movie stars if they basically learn how to do a Rubik's Cube really bloody quickly) $13,000,000
3 – Children Of Men (Featuring a near-apocalyptic vision of Bexhill-On-Sea which – despite all the armies and bazookas and gangs of roaming murderers – still looks about a billion times nicer than a real day out in present-day Bexhill-On-Sea) $10,295,000
4 – Freedom Writers (Freedom Writers doesn't look like it'll have the same awards season pull as previous Hilary Swank vehicles; an outcome that has resulted in a last-minute reshoot; from now on the film will climax with Hilary Swank, triumphant that she's finally been able to get through to her class of underprivileged reprobates, fatally chewing off her own tongue in a deeply inappropriate show of celebration) $9,705,000
5 – Dreamgirls (First Johnny Cash dies just before his biopic gets released, and then James Brown pops his clogs just before a movie where Eddie Murphy does a semi-impressive impersonation of him gets released; perhaps that's why Bob Dylan is so determined to get Factory Girl shelved) $8,825,000
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Kweni says
I love Night At The Museum!
selena says
loved it!!!! check out the monkey in the movie.
Elizabeth says
Does anyone know where i can find the lyrics to the songs on the movie? HELP!
mark says
it´s a grate movie… before read this article i knew they´ re going to do a sequel…
but a good historia for the second part is that a all new atraction or statue arrived to the museum and obviously when the exibit come to life the problems begin couse his creepy and bad mood.