Almost FRIDAY..!!!!!!!!!!!!

National Treasure 2...

Not as good. Not horrible, but not as good as #1. For some reason Nicolas Cage and Bridget Von Hammersmark hate each other at the beginning and there's a romantic comedy subplot between Jon Voight and Helen Mirren (!) that must have required all the jack-hammers in Burbank to jam in. Ed Harris sleepwalks his way through "Character #2" from his "Bad Guy" catalogue. Also, there were more times in this movie where I said to myself "Are you kidding me?" than in the first one, where I mostly said "Hmmm, okay. I'll buy that." (And the blatant set-up for "National Treasure 3" was a bit distasteful.)

I Have to Say...

..."National Treasure..." Not too shabby so far. It's taken me this long to see it and I have to admit it was a glimpse of an intriguing scene in "National Treasure II" that made me say "Wait a sec. I'd better start all this from the beginning."
FULL DISCLOSURE: I was a 2nd A.D. on Jon Turteltaub's very first movie and he was a Great Guy.
(It also doesn't hurt that this movie also stars "Bridget Von Hammersmark.")