Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Dvd

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb is a 2014 American comedy adventure film directed by Shawn Levy and written by David Guion and Michael Handelman. It is the third and final installment in the Night at the Museum film series, and a sequel to Battle of the Smithsonian. The film stars Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Dan Stevens, and Ben Kingsley. In Secret of the Tomb, security guard Larry Daley must travel to London to return the tablet of Ahkmenrah, an Egyptian artifact which causes the exhibits to come to life, before the magic disappears.

Plot

In 1938 Egypt, a team of archaeologists discover the tomb of pharaoh Ahkmenrah, including a young Cecil “C.J” Fredericks, finding the Tablet of Ahkmenrah. The locals warn the group that if they remove the tablet from the tomb, then “the end will come.”

In present-day New York City, Larry Daley remains the night guard of the American Museum of Natural History. He and the other exhibits help re-open the Hayden Planetarium. A new Neanderthal resembling Larry named Laaa is introduced, who identifies Larry as his father. Ahkmenrah shows Larry that the tablet is suffering from a corrosion, which later causes the exhibits to act abnormally, causing massive chaos at the planetarium’s reopening. Afterwards, Larry catches his son Nick, who plans on taking a gap year to sort out his life, throwing a house party.

Larry reunites with Cecil, now in retirement, and tells him about the tablet’s corrosion. Cecil remembers “the end will come” prophecy and realizes that it meant the end of the tablet’s magic, which will cause the exhibits to become lifeless. Cecil explains that Ahkmenrah’s parents, Merenkahre and Shepseheret, may be able to restore the tablet’s power but that they are located in the British Museum. Larry convinces the museum’s curator, Dr. McPhee, to let him ship Ahkmenrah to London to restore the tablet, convinced that McPhee knows its secrets. Larry and Nick travel to the British Museum, bypassing the night guard Tilly. To Larry’s surprise, his favorite exhibits from the museum, Theodore Roosevelt, Sacagawea, Attila the Hun, Jedediah, Octavius and Dexter the capuchin monkey have come as well, and Laaa (who stowed away in the box) is left to stand guard while the others search the museum, the tablet bringing its own exhibits to life.

They are joined by a wax figure of Sir Lancelot, who helps them fight off aggressive museum exhibits like a Triceratops skeleton and a Xiangliu statue. Jedediah and Octavius fall through a ventilation shaft but are rescued from an erupting Pompeii model by Dexter. The group find Ahkmenrah’s parents, learning the tablet’s power can be regenerated by moonlight, since it is empowered through the magic of Khonsu. Lancelot steals the tablet, mistaking it for the Holy Grail, and prepares to leave for Camelot. Larry and Laaa are locked in the employee break room by Tilly, but they escape, and Laaa remains behind to distract Tilly, during which they become attracted to each other.

Lancelot crashes a performance of the musical Camelot, starring Hugh Jackman and Alice Eve as King Arthur and Queen Guinevere, Larry and the others chase him to the theatre’s roof, where the New York exhibits begin to die. Lancelot then sees that the quest was about them and gives the tablet back. The moonlight restores the tablet’s power, saving the exhibits. They decide that Ahkmenrah and the tablet should stay with his parents, even if it means the New York exhibits will no longer come to life. Back in America, Larry spends some final moments with his friends as the sun rises and leaves the museum. Three years later, Larry, having taken the blame for the planetarium incident, thus giving McPhee his job back, now works as a school teacher, and a traveling British Museum exhibit comes to New York. Tilly becomes the new night guard, and gives the tablet to McPhee, showing him its power and allowing the exhibits to awaken again as they throw a huge party. Outside, Larry quietly observes the party from across the street.

Cast

Dick Van Dyke as Cecil Fredericks, a retired security guard from the first film.[citation needed]
Percy Hynes White plays the younger Cecil “C.J” Fredericks
Mickey Rooney as Gus, a retired security guard from the first film.[citation needed]
Bill Cobbs as Reginald, a retired security guard from the first film.[citation needed]
Andrea Martin as Rose, an archivist at the Museum of Natural History.
Brennan Elliott as Robert Fredericks, C.J.’s father in the prologue.
Matt Frewer as Archibald Stanley, an archeologist who accompanies Robert and Cecil in the prologue.
Anjali Jay as Shepseheret, the mummy of a Great Royal Wife of Merenkahre and Ahkmenrah’s mother.
Crystal the Monkey as Dexter, a Capuchin monkey.
Hugh Jackman as Himself (uncredited)
Alice Eve as Herself (uncredited)