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Humour within limits

(Night At The Museum)


        Aslapstick comedy invariably is targeted at a select audience. In those lines is the dubbed version of Twentieth Century Fox - incidentally the first time in the history of Indian cinema.

        Down and out is the Good Samaritan Larry Daley on luck. He is the proverbial sort who keeps fighting the odds and taking delight in meeting any adversity. His dream of landing at the assignment of his life happens but at a cost he had not bargained for.

        Action unfolds when Daley starts reading between the lines of what had appeared to be a regulation job of a graveyard shift security guard in a museum. It is nightmarish time for him as weird things happen at the wee hours leading to total chaos at the work spot. Epic battles are the order when the Mayans, Roman Gladiators and cowboys emerge from nowhere to fight a battle within themselves. In his hour of crisis, Daley rides on the solicited help of the wax figure of former US President Theodore Roosevelt to emerge clear of the mess. Ben Stiller has the looks and the means to carry the role with utmost conviction. The support of Owen Wilson and Robin Williams is something he could not have done without.

        — K V Vasudevan
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