The kid-friendly “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” (20th Century Fox; available Tuesday) is just as much fun for the adults as the little ones.

Ben Stiller and Dexter the monkey are among the familiar faces returning in this sequel to the blockbuster “Night at the Museum.” This time, Stiller’s Larry Daley has moved on from being a bumbling museum night guard to a successful inventor and pitch man.

When his museum friends — including Theodore Roosevelt (Robin Williams), cowboy Jedediah (Owen Wilson) and Roman General Octavius (Steve Coogan) — are retired to the archives of the Smithsonian where they are taken prisoner by the “evil” Egyptian Pharaoh (Hank Azaria), Larry runs to their rescue. Ricky Gervais also returns; Amy Adams appears as Amelia Earhart.

Like the original, this sequel is clever and fun, taking things a step further by bringing to life all of the artwork in the Smithsonian, including paintings, photographs and sculptures like “The Thinker.” That opens up all types of creative license, including a scene in which Larry and Amelia Earhart escape the bad guys by jumping into the iconic World War II photo of a soldier kissing a nurse. An ensuing chase through a black and white Times Square is terrific.

The single DVD ($29.99) has a commentary, featurettes, six deleted scenes, an alternate ending and gag reel. The “Monkey Mischief” double disc ($34.98) has all of that, plus a kid-friendly second disc of material focusing on the monkeys, including a DVD Rom game. (Dexter the monkey is actually Crystal, the “best simian actress in the world.”)

The Blu-ray DVD combo pack ($39.99) has commentaries, featurettes, a gag reel, 12 deleted scenes with an alternate ending, an interactive museum scavenger hunt game, a digital copy of the movie and a standard DVD copy.

Hey Twilighters, still can’t get enough of Robert Pattinson? Catch him as an aspiring, though fairly talent-less, musician in the British comedy, “How to Be” ($24.98, IFC Films, available now).

The film, which Pattinson made between the first two “Twilight Saga” movies, has that odd sense of Brit humor that can be strange to American audiences.

But Pattinson won a bunch of critical praise and even an award for playing Art, a pitiful young man who has been kicked out by his girlfriend, is surrounded by loser friends and is forced to move back in with his cold, self-centered parents.

Extras include a short interview with Pattinson, a 50- minute making-of featurette with more of Pattinson, and audition footage where you can watch him get into character.

Coming Tuesday

“The Cove” (Lionsgate), “Dog Eat Dog” (IFC Films), “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” (Warner), “Home Movies” (IFC Films), “Johnny Mercer: The Dream’s On Me” (Warner Home Video), “Julie & Julia” (Sony), “Lost: The Complete Fifth Season” (Disney), “Public Enemies” (Universal), “The Skeptic” (IFC Films), “SpongeBob SquarePants: Season 6, Volume 1” (Paramount/ Nickelodeon).