His grandiose, yet slightly fey bad guy is equally funny when he's chewing out minions as he is when deliberating if Oscar the Grouch and Darth Vader are evil enough to join his team. Michael Rechtshaffen of "The Hollywood Reporter" and A.O. Scott of "The New York Times" enjoyed both performances. One critic panned the movie on its excessive use of special effects as noted by Scott Tobias of "The A.V. Club" when he described the film as "a baffling master plot and a crowded pileup of special effects in search of something to do." Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun Times" awarded the film 1½ stars out of 4 claiming "its premise is lame, its plot relentlessly predictable, its characters with personalities that would distinguish picture books." In CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale. "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" was made available December 1, 2009 on DVD and Blu-ray as a two-disc Special Edition and a three-disc Digital Copy Edition.  , the film has sold 4,083,829 DVDs and 585,023 Blu-ray discs grossing $51,481,903 and $11,674,546 totalling $63,156,449 in North America. The video game based on the film was released on May 5, 2009. It was fairly well received in comparison to the majority of film-based video-games, netting a 7.5 out of 10 from IGN.com.  Ben Stiller admitted that a sequel was "a possibility" and on January 22, 2010, co-writer Thomas Lennon said to "Access Hollywood", "That after the success of two "Night at the Museum" films, it's no surprise that 20th Century Fox is looking to develop a third and that those suspicions are indeed true and how could you not? I think it's a really outstanding idea to do "Night at the Museum 3", in fact," he said. "I wonder if someone's not even already working on a script for that," he added with a raised eyebrow. "I cannot confirm that for a fact, but I cannot deny it for a fact either... It might be in the works." In an interview, Stiller confirmed the sequel, however, he said that it was only in the "ideas stage".