Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again

As a lover of the trilogy, I was excited when I heard another was coming. Then mildly disappointed when I heard it was animated. Then I watched it and was pleasantly surprised! It has serious Scooby-Doo vibes and feels like a genuine show! I hope they turn this into a series, because I feel it could be even better than the movie.

Rating: 2.5/5 - 7/10 - Worth Watching

As always, western animated movies seem to be perpetually geared towards kids. Not that that's bad, I just feel like the story could have been better and not so simplistic. It was still a decent watch either way and perfect for any kids under 10. Also, the animation was pretty good.

After having rewatched the original trilogy, I of course wanted to see what this new animated sequel was about. There was a lot of potential! But the execution was a bit rough

Quite solid animation and good capture of familiar characters, but the story is weak, why can Kahmunrah come back at all?

The main thing is that from a lore and timeline point, this movie does not match the rest of the series. The powers that the tablet has here did not exist before, and it seems silly to have it be controllable by very basic music compositions. Then the timeline. Nick is 17 (talking about college and a gap year) in the third movie, but 18 here? There's no talk of graduation or him having been held back a year, why does he join a school jazz band? Why does Larry leave the museum after maximum only a year? It would have been much better to have Nick be college age, you don't need a teenage protagonist for a kids movie!
I did watch all of this series in German (for nostalgia) and they kept a lot of the same voice actors for this movie from the previous ones. That helped a lot with immersion, and the art style was quite cool. Still, it doesn't have the same vibe and charm as the rest of the franchise.

No redeeming qualities.

'Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again' is sequelitis in a nutshell. It only holds the bare minimum of similarities to the original trilogy, with no main cast member from those movies returning. Even at just under 90 minutes, it's a mind-numbingly dull watch. The choice of animation is iffy, too.

I will say I could see youngsters enjoying this as a standalone film, to be honest it has the makings of being a television show - which is the avenue they should've gone down instead, could've made it 'What's New, Scooby-Doo?'-esque. The lack of any real connection to the preceding movies then wouldn't actually matter as it'd be a different thing entirely, but given it is a sequel you have to compare it to its predecessors.

I obviously wasn't expecting this to be anything quite as enjoyable as the Ben Stiller pictures, though I did think it would at least resemble the other flicks a little bit. Oh well, no biggie.

Woof. Parents & grown-ups beware, this one is for the kids only. Felt like a soft launch for a Saturday morning cartoon series. Ties into characters & moments from the film series but seems to be missing the actual fun & funny from the movies.

This was so bad. When I heard they were making this, I didn't expect a lot, but I at least was hoping for something that had the same feel as the live action movies, just in animated form. Like the same kind of writing, acting, and directing. You don't really get any of that here. None of the characters feel right, and the story is crap.