Mysterious Museum (1999)

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While visiting a museum, siblings Ben and Kim a fierce electrical storm creates a passage between the real world and worlds within the paintings. They are magically whisked through time to the 1600’s and find they must square off against a wicked magician and also locate a valuable jewel in order to return to the present day.

This is a made for TV movie that ended up on my “8 Movie Family Collection” DVD, so I’m watching it. I feel like I’ve watched this before, but maybe I’ve left the DVD on while I’ve slept so, I’m going with that.

One thing about these kid movies, escpecially the ones I’ve been watching lately, is where are the parents? There’s only one parent, and they’re busy trying to keep the debt collectors at bay, or they’re involved with their own problems and neglect the kids so they drop them off at a museum (well, one of the kids does “work” there).

I did like how everyone worked together to defeat the bad guy and get back home again. But, again, that’s how family movies work, the family gets over the little irritating things and realize they do actually love each other.

My Rating: ★★