It is a joy, gentlemen, that even a deeply vicious genre of family comedy can give rise to a pleasant film. The beginning of the film, however, did not inspire optimism. Again, the father is a loser, divorced from his wife, who is trying to prove to his son that he is not at all such a loser as he seems (especially in comparison with the new fiance of the boy's mother). After such a tie, I was ready to watch the demonstration of family values for the next hour and a half.
I don't know if the director intended it this way, or it turned out by itself, but the propaganda of family values was compactly packed in a few minutes at the end of the film. The main intrigue also neatly fit there. Otherwise, the movie is a fun, bright, elegantly decorated (separate respect for special effects) attraction. As follows from the definition of the attraction, its only purpose is to entertain, and with this mission, "Night at the Museum" copes perfectly. So you can just relax and enjoy the many funny things happening on the screen, without flinching from the unexpected moralizing inherent in family comedies.
So in this case, "family comedy" is not a sentence, it is a promise of unobtrusive humor (no jokes below the belt, which is absolutely atypical for modern Hollywood comedy) and a pleasant pastime.
I don't know if the director intended it this way, or it turned out by itself, but the propaganda of family values was compactly packed in a few minutes at the end of the film. The main intrigue also neatly fit there. Otherwise, the movie is a fun, bright, elegantly decorated (separate respect for special effects) attraction. As follows from the definition of the attraction, its only purpose is to entertain, and with this mission, "Night at the Museum" copes perfectly. So you can just relax and enjoy the many funny things happening on the screen, without flinching from the unexpected moralizing inherent in family comedies.
So in this case, "family comedy" is not a sentence, it is a promise of unobtrusive humor (no jokes below the belt, which is absolutely atypical for modern Hollywood comedy) and a pleasant pastime.