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Join Nicolas Cage on a heart-pounding adventure that will have you on the edge of your seat in a race to find the Lost City of Gold. Grounded in history imbued with myth and mystery Disney's NATIONAL TREASURE 2: BOOK OF SECRETS takes you on a globe-trotting quest full of adrenaline-pumping twists and turns -- all leading to the final clue in a mysterious and highly guarded book containing centuries of secrets. But there's only one way to find it -- Ben Gates must kidnap the President. Packed with fast-paced action and crackling humor NATIONAL TREASURE 2: BOOK OF SECRETS is a movie your entire family will want to rediscover again and again.System Requirements:Running Time: 125 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIEEditorial Reviews
Amazon.comLess engrossing than its 2004 predecessor National Treasure, Jon Turteltaub's busy sequel National Treasure: Book of Secrets is nevertheless a colorful and witty adventure, another race against overwhelming odds for the answer to a historical riddle. Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage), the treasure hunter who feverishly sought, in the first film, the whereabouts of a war chest hidden by America's forefathers, is now charged with protecting family honor. When a rival (Ed Harris) offers alleged proof that Gates' ancestor, Thomas Gates, was not a Civil War-era hero but a participant in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Ben and his father (Jon Voight) and crew (Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger) hopscotch through Paris, London, Washington DC, and South Dakota to gather evidence refuting the claim. The film is most fun when the hunt, as in National Treasure, squeezes Ben into such impossible situations as examining twin desks in the queen's chambers in Buckingham Palace and the White House's Oval Office, or kidnapping an American president (Bruce Greenwood) for a few minutes of frank talk. Helen Mirren, the previous year's Oscar winner for Best Actress, wisely joins the cast of a likely hit film as Ben's archaeologist mother, long-estranged from Voight's character but as feisty as the rest of the family. Returning director Turteltaub takes excellent advantage of his colorful backdrops in European capitals and the always-eerie Mount Rushmore, and oversees some wildly imaginative sets for this dramedy's feverish third act in an audacious and completely unexpected, legendary setting. If National Treasure: Book of Secrets doesn't feel quite as crisp and unique as its predecessor, it is still ingenious and wry enough to laugh a bit at itself.
Customer Reviews
Great family adventure movie!
If you are worried about watching this because your afraid it won't match up to the first one - go watch it! National Treasure 2 is one of those rare sequels that are actually just as good as the first one. I saw it at the theatre in January with my family and everybody loved it! And best of all the entire cast returns! Riley (Justin Bartha) is just as hilarious as ever!
"Do you own a red Ferrari?"..."Why, yes, I do!"..."Well, it's getting towed."
A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY!
Hey, if you are looking for a plot a fifth grader could write, combined with the hollow, monotone acting of Nicolas 'Lame' Cage, then this is the movie for you.
I would file National Treasure (1&2) under movies you will have to watch over and over, in the afterlife...the kind of afterlife where a guy in a red suit with horns is heard constantly laughing in the projection room.
Loved it
I think this film is better than the first and cant wait for the third! I read Mr Instability and it had stories from the set of this movie!
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