Night At The Museum 2

(Cert PG, 100 mins, Twentieth Century Fox, to buy DVD £19.99/DVD Box Set £22.99/Blu-ray £28.99/Blu-ray Box Set £39.99).

Stars: Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan

SECURITY guard Larry Daley (Stiller) has left behind his old job at New York City’s famed Museum Of Natural History to front his own company, which has just launched a glow-in-the-dark torch. Larry’s distraught to learn from Dr McPhee (Gervais) that the old exhibits are being replaced by state-of-the-art holographic technology, condemning cowboy Jed (Wilson), Roman emperor Octavius (Coogan) and Native American tracker Sacajawea (Peck) to storage in Washington. On arrival, Jed and co are attacked by cranky pharaoh Kahmunrah (Azaria), who intends to take over the world. Larry races to the rescue, flanked by gutsy pioneer Amelia Earhart (Adams), but Night At The Museum 2 is still a soulless exercise in digital might over emotional substance and subtlety.

Bruno

(18, 78 mins, Universal Pictures (UK), Comedy, also available to buy DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £24.99)

Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten, Clifford Banagale

BARON Cohen’s follow-up to the hit Borat follows a similar template, poking fun at celebrities and American culture.

However, whereas the previous central protagonist was a lovable innocent abroad – a naive Kazakhstani journalist travelling the US – gay Austrian fashionista Bruno is a crass, insolent media whore who needs to be taken down a peg or five. Disappointingly, only once in the film does he get his comeuppance, when he visits a party and a pneumatic blonde whips him with a belt.