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Rating:  282 reviews
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Format: Dolby, Surround Sound
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
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Running Time: 256
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.4 x 0.9
UPC: 786936770902
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Theatrical Release Date: November 19, 2004
Release Date: May 20, 2008
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 The Wisdom of Roger Ebert (& Movies Like This One) April 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
One of the smartest things I've ever heard Roger Ebert say was, "Never take a film more serious than it takes itself."
That saying came to mind after watching NATIONAL TREASURE 2: BOOK OF SECRETS. It would be doomed otherwise.
The only other big Hollywood spectacle I'd seen recently was the horrific TRANSFORMERS, a loud, lame movie that celebrates the worst of modern movies. Every single scene in that movie was a direct rip-off of every other movie ever made. But that might have been overlooked if there was a single human character worth caring about.
NATIONAL TREASURE 2 isn't breaking any new ground, that's for sure (most of it plays like a hybrid of the Indiana Jones films and the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE films) but the cast manages to make the characters likable and watchable. For the most part, Nicolas Cage stoically shows up for his paycheck but Jon Voight and Helen Mirren bring some humor and humanity to the mayhem.
No one seems to take too much seriously, especially the often silly script (a deadpan Cage breaks into both Buckingham Palace AND the White House?), so it's hard to be critical. I like the review here that credits these movies with getting his kids interested in history. The pace keeps you from thinking about the script too much and at least this movie isn't based on a toy.
So have fun.
Better than the original April 15, 2008
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Our kids were never good at history and were this-close to flunking out of the top private schools that we had found them places in. History was like poison to them. For right or wrong their generation doesn't believe in anything that took place before, say, French situationalism. Ask them about the Beatles, they'll look absolutely blankly at you. When the headmaster called me four years ago, threatening to dropkick my oldest son Brandon right out of school if his history grades did not improve, I was at the door of despair. Then happily Nicolas Cage saved the day by releasing NATIONAL TREASURE part one, and my kids got hooked on history. They don't know who Nicolas Cage is, in fact I don't think they believe he is an actor, they think he is Ben Gates the "history guy."
They also like his father, played by Jon Voight, and now they have a new hero, Helen Mirren's Egyptologist character who proves just as brave and plucky as her son and estranged husband.
Before Part Two I had no idea that there was an actual Book of Secrets that all American Presidents are forced to read and hide! But I have since been assured that all of it is true.
It is funny that Hollywood producers, who would as we all know sell out their own grandmothers, have now made two pictures in a row in which "family honor" is the prime motivating factor. Not only do the Gates family feel stung when it is "proven" that their ancestor helped assassinate Lincoln, but Ed Harris is similarly suffering from the disgrace of bad blood. It's not exactly convincing, and the actors don't really play it out very well, but hey, it got my kids interested in Lincoln and in Dr, Samuel Mudd, the man after whom, as Nicolas Cage explains, we got the common expression, "His Name Is Mudd." Long ago, director John Ford shot the excellent biopic "The Prisoner of Shark Island" about this very same case, and my kids seem to love it. They have recently asked me if they could become members of the American Cinematheque and get seasons tickets to the Cinematheque's current program of screening every one of John Ford's films.
I liked seeing Jon Voight and Helen Mirren play off of each other like the Nick and Nora of history. In actuality, both Voight and Mirren had something in common, each had made a seminal film with the British auteur John Boorman, DELIVERANCE for Voight and EXCALIBUR for Mirren. Something of Boorman's shadowy, erratic glow hovers over all the Voight-Mirren sequences in the film, far outclassing the Cage-Kruger affair, for which I did not care a whit, though Brandon has recently left Princeton to try to track down Diane Kruger and ask her about how to become a topnotch expert in forensics analysis, as he believes her to be. Finally, the real-life Book of Secrets, now owned by President Bush, tells the whole story about Area 51 and how Eisenhower was brought there in a secret plane and shook hands and played cards with two dying aliens before they died, and other stories we thought were tall tales were true, just like the legendary city of gold under Mount Rushmore.
Lafe's Review April 15, 2008
I think that National Treasure 2 is very good. All ages will like it. I like it because it is very interesting. But the first one was a little better. In this one they are trying to find a city made of gold. But they have a little trouble on the way. Some people are trying to find it first. So they have to go in different places wear there not suppose to be. He has to find a way to talk to the PRESIDENT alone. He almost gets caught by the FBI and he runs from them. I think you would like it.
I think that you would like the first one, National treasure and wild hogs it's kind of funny, and dukes of hazard. There all kind of funny.
 As Good As First National Treasure April 10, 2008
Me and my friends went and saw this the first day it was in theaters since we all loved the first one...I thought the second was funny and had alot more action since they didn't have to spend time intorducing the characters. While me and my friends loved it my friend's mother did not she would probably give it 3 stars but I don't know why because like the first one 5 stars can't even do it justice...it deserves at least 10!
Excellent! 5 stars! April 2, 2008
This movie was excellent! I was not disappointed at all. I don't know how others can say it sucked, when it was truly great! Nicolas Cage did a fantastic job. I so can't wait to own this video. I really hope they make a 3rd, and it's just as great!
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