So impatiently and uncomfortably sat through Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb and did not actually fall asleep. So credit where it’s due: that’s fortitude!

Yes, this is part 3 of a series of movies I’ve barely tolerated (part 2 was actually an uptick in the series) so it should come as no surprise I didn’t really enjoy it. But this movie is barely a movie – it has a plot that’s even more of an excuse to run around and show off visual FX and deliver really lazy jokes than the previous two (which had threadbare plots but actually seemed to be trying). Somehow it both felt unending and anticlimactic since it just kind of ended its main story and then went for a lot of unearned pathos (with some unintentional pathos as Robin Williams as Teddy Roosevelt says his goodbye). It had a distinct “we can be Toy Story 3” too feel. No it can’t.

A lot of this flick really felt more like a set up for Rebel Wilson to take over the franchise from Ben Stiller than an actual movie. Maybe Rebel Wilson and Ricky Gervaise will team up with half the cast of animated statues next time… I dunno. Sure seemed like Stiller wanted out. I know I did.

Score: 59