Night in the Museum 3: Secret of the Tomb (2014)

The Plot of Night in the Museum 3: To celebrate of the opening of the planetarium at the Museum of Natural History a dinner has been put on which will involve entertainment by the exhibits, which come to life during the night. But when the event is in full swing, everything goes awry, and the guests flee.  Dr McPhee, the director is fired, but never-the-less is able to arrange for Larry, the night-watchman and Ahkmenrah, the Egyptian exhibit, to go to London where the pharaoh is in place, and will provide info about what has gone wrong with the tablet which is the source of the exhibit’s animation. Larry blags his way past Tilly the security guard and once in the British Museum not only Ahkmenrah, but also Teddy Roosevelt and others have hidden in the box. The tablet activates the exhibits in the British Museum, including Sir Lancelot who battles with live serpents on their behalf, but is chased through the city as he searches for Camelot. The Pharaoh tells them how to fix the tablet, but that’s not the end of the story.

Content: No sex, nudity, drinking, drug taking or smoking. The film opens at a archeological dig in Egypt before WWII where the tablet is discovered. The in the present day the planetarium dinner goes to hell, and the wax figures start to disintegrate. Events quickly move to the British Museum. Tilly the security guard becomes involved. Inside the museum lots of things – sculptures, animal heads and fossils – are on the move endangering the crew. Once Sir Lancelot is active he wields is sword, and out in the city is chased by everybody. He sees a theatrical presentation of the show Camelot, and makes it to the stage, meeting Hugh Jackman and Alice Eve, playing themselves. The answer to the tablet problem seems to be simply dealt with. The show wraps up, how would be a spoiler.

A View: I was surprised to find that there had been a third film so I watched it, hoping for laugh, but no such luck. The whole museum business is a bit strange. I have been to a couple in North America which featured wax exhibits and dioramas, and they are fine in their place, but the old British Museum, which I have also been to, does not feature anything like that. It is full of old stuff, which some would say has been stolen from their countries of origin. Unfortunately that kept getting in the way of my possible limited enjoyment of the film. So I did not rate it, but you might want to wrap up your viewing of the NITM trilogy, but have your knitting to hand.

Fun Fact: The scenes inside the British Museum were filmed at the Vancouver Film Studios, Vancouver, BC.