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''Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian'' is a 2009 American adventure comedy film directed by Shawn Levy, and starring Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Owen Wilson, Hank Azaria, Christopher Guest, Alain Chabat, and Robin Williams. It is the second and penultimate instalment in the ''Night at the Museum'' trilogy, and a sequel to the 2006 film ''Night at the Museum''. It is also the last ''Night at the Museum'' film to feature Jake Cherry as Nick Daley. The film, like its predecessor, received mixed critical reception and a box office success by grossing over $413 million. ==Plot== Two years after the events of the previous film, Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) is now CEO of Daley Devices, a direct response television company that sells inventions inspired by his experiences as a night security guard at the American Museum of Natural History. While wealthy and successful, he has not had the time to see his museum exhibit friends in several months. One day when Larry returns to the museum, he finds out that it is closed for renovations and upgrades. He asks his former boss Dr. McPhee (Ricky Gervais) about it. McPhee tells him that because not many people have come to the museum in a long time, he has been asked to replace 90% of the museum exhibits which are moving to the Federal Archives at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.; and fill the museum with new holographic exhibits that automatically answer questions on historical subjects. Later that night, Larry goes into the museum to visit his friends one last time and he is told that while Theodore Roosevelt (Robin Williams), Rexy the Tyrannosaurus skeleton, the Easter Island Head (Brad Garrett), and Pharaoh Akhmenrah (Rami Malek) will remain at the museum, Jedediah (Owen Wilson), Octavius (Steve Coogan), their fellow minifigures, Attila the Hun (Patrick Gallagher), Sacagawea (Mizuo Peck), Dexter the Capuchin Monkey, and the Neanderthals will no longer come to life since the Golden Tablet of Akhmenrah that animated the exhibits each night will also remain. After the exhibits leave, Larry receives a call from Jedediah. Dexter stole Akhmenrah's tablet and brought it to the Federal Archives and that Akhmenrah's evil older brother Pharaoh Kahmunrah (Hank Azaria) is attacking Jedediah and the other exhibits. Larry travels to Washington, D.C. and visits the National Air and Space Museum, the National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution Building, searching for the Federal Archives with the help of his son Nick (Jake Cherry). Larry sneaks into the Archives disguised as a Smithsonian guard and locates the exhibits, frozen in their shipping container in the middle of a battle with Kahmunrah. As Larry obtains the tablet, the sun sets and the exhibits and others at the Smithsonian come alive. Kahmunrah tells Larry that bringing exhibits to life is just one of the tablet's powers and that he intends to use it to conquer the world by raising an army from the Egyptian Underworld. Larry releases a gigantic octopus in storage. The octopus attacks the Egyptian troops while Larry escapes them with the help of General George Armstrong Custer (Bill Hader). Armstrong is captured after he is knocked off the motorcycle Larry uses to escape. Larry meets the beautiful and adventurous Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams), who is attracted to Larry and accompanies him through the National Gallery. While moving through the paintings, Larry and Amelia end up in V-J Day in Times Square with a sailor named Joey Motorola (Jay Baruchel). Larry and Amelia trap Kahmunrah's soldiers in the photograph. After losing his men Kahmunrah allies with historical leaders Ivan the Terrible (Christopher Guest), Al Capone (Jon Bernthal), and Napoleon Bonaparte (Alain Chabat). Napoleon captures and takes Larry to Kahmunrah. Jedediah is captured by Al Capone's men trying to rescue Larry, but Octavius escapes. Kahmunrah attempts to open the Gate of the Underworld by pressing the symbols on the tablet, but the combination has changed. Kahmunrah forces Larry to obtain the new combination before sunrise by trapping Jedediah in a filling hourglass. Larry returns to the National Gallery and reunites with Amelia. They pass a bust of Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams) who reads the hieroglyphics on the tablet revealing that Larry can find the combination by figuring out the secret at the heart of Pharaoh's tomb. Amelia takes Larry to a statue of The Thinker (Hank Azaria) for help, but he gets distracted. Amelia says he's "no Einstein" making Larry remember that he saw Einstein bobble heads in the National Air and Space Museum. They end up sharing a kiss. Ivan the Terrible brings Darth Vader and Oscar the Grouch to Kahmunrah saying they want to help take over the world but Kahmunrah rejects them. When Larry and Amelia walk over to the Air and Space museum, Kahmunrah assumes he's trying to escape and tells his allies to kill Larry and bring him the tablet. Meanwhile, Octavius goes to the White House to find help but can't make it across the lawn, and is kidnapped by an eastern gray squirrel. Larry and Amelia hide from Russian troops and visit the statue of Abraham Lincoln (Hank Azaria) at the Lincoln Memorial. When it is safe they go to the National Air and Space Museum where Larry stops the rockets from blasting off and meets Able the space monkey. They consult the Albert Einstein bobbleheads (Eugene Levy), who tell them that the new combination is the value of pi. When they are found by Napoleon, Ivan, and Capone, Larry and Amelia escape in the Wright Flyer while the exhibit Tuskegee Airmen hold them off, and they return to the Smithsonian Institution Building. The two separate with Amelia searching for help while Larry delays Kahmunrah. Napoleon, Ivan, and Capone obtain the combination from one of the bobbleheads. Kahmunrah opens the Gate of the Underworld and summons an army of Horus Warriors. Octavius returns on the squirrel and brings along The Lincoln statue, forcing the Horus Warriors to retreat to the Egyptian Underworld and Amelia frees the New York exhibits from their container and also recruits the Smithsonian exhibits. As the exhibits battle, Octavius frees Jedediah from the hourglass and they attack the enemies from below and Larry is able to obtain the tablet. Napoleon Bonaparte, Al Capone and Ivan the Terrible stop Larry, but he distracts them by asking them who is the boss enabling him to escape while the three of them argue. Larry is stopped by Kahmunrah, but overpowers him and banishes him to the Egyptian Underworld. While the gigantic octopus goes into the waters near the Washington Monument, Amelia flies Larry and the New York exhibits back to the Natural History Museum before flying back to Washington, knowing that she will turn to dust at sunrise if she does not return to the Smithsonian. Larry sells his company and donates the money to the museum to restore the exhibits. Two months later, the museum reopens with Roosevelt and Akhmenrah as tour guides, Attila as a storyteller, and other exhibits come to life in public as "animatronics" at the museum, which now stays open after sunset. Larry is rehired as the night guard, and meets a young woman named Tess (Amy Adams) who looks like Amelia. She asks for help going through the museum because she is "always getting lost." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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