


Toy Story 3 (movie)
This 'Museum' piece is as funny as a tomb

There's a mildly amusing Pompeii gag midway through "Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb." It involves a scale model toy Roman soldier Steve Coogan and his Old West cowboy pal (Owen Wilson) and a monkey in need of extinguishing a model volcano's fire. Later, there's a funny bit of business with Ben Kingsley, playing a pharaoh brought back to life, riffing with Ben Stiller as security guard Larry Daley, about "Exodus" the Old Testament event, not the new movie co-starring Ben Kingsley but not Ben Stiller. And then there's a gag that tops both those rare highlights, one which involves a famous song and dance man, a London theater and a wax figure...