Ben Stiller might be the key human in the Night At The Museum films, but director Shawn Levy and his team know that the primarily younger audience is in it for the animals and the wackier supporting cast. So Dexter (played by Crystal the capuchin) is front and centre in this second trailer for third outing Secret Of The Tomb along with newer faces such as Dan Stevens and Rebel Wilson.
Stiller returns as Larry Daley, one of the few people that know the secret held within New York’s American Museum of Natural History – a stone tablet from the time of the Pharaohs that brings all the exhibits to life and has caused him no end of trouble. But in his capacity as watchman of the building, he’s grown to be friends with many of the historical figures and other displays that magically start to move and speak at night, so when they discover the tablet is corroding, the quest is on to stop them all reverting to wax figures, stone statues and rigged collections of bones.
Larry and some of the gang including Pharaoh Ahkmenrah (Rami Malek), Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), Attila the Hun (Patrick Gallagher), Sacagawea (Mizuo Peck), Roman centurion Octavius (Steve Coogan) and Jedediah (Owen Wilson) must travel to London’s British Museum to find out how to fix it. There, they’ll encounter the object’s creator, Ahkmenrah’s father (Ben Kingsley), Stevens as Sir Lancelot and Wilson as a security guard at the museum who is surprised when her charges start coming to life – and spilling out on to the streets of the capital.
This one is heavy on the Neanderthal gags and features more from Octavius and Jedediah, who have adapted to the modern world to such a degree that they’re watching and commenting on cat videos... Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb lands in the UK on December 19.