- “Boom, BANG! Firepowerrr”
- ―The Thinker to Venus Italica
The Thinker is a famous statue that was created by Auguste Rodin in 1904. It is featured in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, where the sculpture is portrayed by Hank Azaria.
Appearances[]
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian[]
In Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, the Thinker is among the Smithsonian Institution's exhibits (specifically in the National Gallery of Art) that are brought to life by the Tablet of Ahkmenrah. Although he seems to be quite intelligent, as Larry Daley and Amelia Earhart believe him to be so due to being named- 'The Thinker', he disappoints them.
After Amelia asks him about the tablet, he rants on, saying- "I'm thinking" over and over again before he shifts his focus to a nearby statue, Venus Italica. With this, he starts to show off his muscles to her, flexing and stretching them as he basically starts to flirt with her. He created a somewhat amusing sight when he shouted, " Boom, BANG! Firepower......"
Due to him acting like this, Amelia states that he isn't no 'Einstein', which causes Larry to remember the Einstein bobble-heads that he saw in the National Air and Space Museum, leading the pair to go there for the combination on the tablet.
The Thinker then later appears in the final battle of the movie, being seen with everyone else as well as punching a few soldiers, and is last seen waving goodbye to Larry as Amelia flies him and his friends back to New York City.
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Video Game)[]
Wii/PC/Xbox 360[]
In this version of the video game, The Thinker is seen in the Washington Art Museum, like in the movie, in which he is sitting in the middle of a room, thinking. When Larry goes up to him, he is about to say who he is before realizing the statue is thinking, leading to the Thinker to ask Larry if he was talking to him. Then, the statue sees that the place has been wrecked by Ivan the Terrible and his knights, asking about what had gone down in there, leading Larry to respond asking if the Thinker will help. The Thinker says he will, leading to the cutscene ending.
Due to his and Larry's conversation, if an enemy goes over to where the Thinker statue sits, he will move his arm and hit them, turning said enemy to dust.
Trivia[]
- The Thinker and Abraham Lincoln are the only characters of Hank Azaria who survived the film.
- In the first draft script of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, the Thinker doesn't do as much as he had done in the movie. Instead of flirting with Venus Italica, he is shown to be 'thinking' on page 47, not responding to Larry since he's thinking.[1]
- In the final battle, he and Venus are shown to kiss in the script after the two take out a bunch of Napoleon's soldiers on page 108.