Roger Ebert’s Review of National Treasure brings back some of the biting sarcasm:
‘National Treasure’ is so silly that the Monty Python version could use the same screenplay, line for line.
Ebert considers the whole thing a rip-off of The Da Vinci Code — which he didn’t exactly like:
I should read a potboiler like The Da Vinci Code every once in a while, just to remind myself that life is too short to read books like The Da Vinci Code.