It's all diverting enough and holds your interest without ever getting too exciting.
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12/21/07
National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007)
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Reviews Counted:112
Fresh:35
Rotten:77
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: A talented cast goes to waste in the improbable National Treasure: Book of Secrets, which is eerily similar to the first film.
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $219,932,519
Synopsis: Treasure hunter Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) embarks on a new adventure in director Jon Turtletaub's sequel to NATIONAL TREASURE. Ben and his father, Patrick (Jon Voight), take great pride in their... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Ed Harris
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Reviews for National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets
An action adventure flick that careens from one preposterous plot development to another.
12/21/07
You will probably want to spend some time with Wikipedia after watching this film, and you may never look at famous monuments and presidential furniture in quite the same way again
12/21/07
Some of Book of Secrets is quite ridiculous, but in a film that plays fast and loose with history and reality, nothing is impossible.
12/21/07
Book of Secrets isn't just outlandish or ludicrous -- these are embraceable qualities -- but stupefying lazy.
12/21/07
nothing more than a series of ADD driven vignettes held together by the flimsiest of plots, helmed by the dude who made 3 Ninjas.
12/21/07
With just as many locales, historical landmarks and secret codes as the original, Book of Secrets is just as much implausible fun.
12/21/07
Tepid and predictable though the action largely is, Bartha provides intermittent comic relief and Mirren is her usual droll self.
12/21/07
This National Treasure sequel, like its 2004 original, is a dumb movie about smart people that uses just enough historical trivia to make you feel like you're bettered by the experience.
12/21/07
As long as it's galloping along, the movie's perfectly good popcorn -- in itself a rarity these days -- but eventually you get down to the burnt kernels at the bottom of the bag.
12/21/07
It doesn't cheat series fans but it doesn't offer many thrills or surprises or lingering puzzles, either.
12/21/07
As with the first movie, Book of Secrets leaps around like a choppy travel documentary.
12/21/07
More than content to simply toss the same exact formula into the microwave and deliver its lukewarm cinematic leftovers to an always-hungry audience.
12/21/07
This diminishing-returns sequel sends Nicolas Cage on another quest to strike it rich, get young auds excited about history and solve puzzles that are generally less stimulating than yesterday's Sudoku.
12/21/07
Top CriticA thumping, gabby slog.
12/21/07
...an absurd story that invites you to sit back and go along for the ride.
12/21/07
Everything has been significantly amped up -- bigger, louder, further removed from reality -- but it also feels that much more forced. Cage and Kruger seem like they're not having much fun this time around, and Bartha still gets the best throwaway lines.
12/21/07
Top CriticA clearinghouse for Things You Wouldn't Expect to See A-List Actors Say With a Straight Face.
12/20/07
Little seems to be designed to make a lasting impression, though the movie may achieve its modest goal of providing mild fun.
12/20/07
A nice confidence and easy energy, three Oscar winners happily chewing every piece of scenery in sight, and one great action sequence with four characters trying to maintain the balance of a swaying platform.
12/20/07
Latest News for National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets
September 25, 2008:
Nic Cage Officially Hunting for More National Treasure 
To no one's surprise, Disney is officially moving forward with "National Treasure 3," as announced yesterday by Nicolas Cage, Jerry Bruckheimer, and studio executive Dick Cook. More...
August 15, 2008:
OtherCool.com: Too bad such a stellar combo cast had to get dumbed down for such inconsequential pandemonium.
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May 19, 2008:
RT on DVD: National Treasure 2, Diary of the Dead, Plus Salo News!
Exciting announcements abound this week (Fearless Director's Cut! A new Little Mermaid movie! Gossip Girl on DVD!) while Nicolas Cage's treasure-hunting adventure sequel,... More...
May 17, 2008:
Nicolas Cage back for another round as world-renown treasure hunter.
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