Every Shawn Levy Movie, Ranked!
From 'Big Fat Liar' to 'Real Steel', Moviefone counts down every film of director Shawn Levy's impressive career.
Shawn Levy attends the UK Fan Event of Marvel Studios' 'Deadpool & Wolverine' at Eventim Apollo, London on July 11th, 2024. Photo by StillMoving.Net for The Walt Disney Company Limited.
Director Shawn Levy's string of consecutive hits has made him one of the most popular filmmakers working today.
Levy began his career making successful comedies like 'Just Married', 'Cheaper By the Dozen', 'The Pink Panther', 'Date Night' and 'The Internship', but it was his work on the 'Night at the Museum' trilogy that really made him a top director in Hollywood.
Since then he has dabbled in other genres with films like 'Real Steel', 'This is Where I Leave You,' 'Free Guy' and 'The Adam Project', not to mention executive producing Netflix's juggernaut series 'Stranger Things'.
Now Levy is entering the MCU with 'Deadpool & Wolverine', which opens in theaters on July 26th and reunites him with frequent collaborators Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman.
In honor of the new film, Moviefone is counting down every movie Shawn Levy has ever directed, including his latest.
NOTE: For this list, we are only including movies Levy has directed, and we are not including his vast television work.
Let's begin!
16. 'Big Fat Liar' (2002)
(L to R) Paul Giamatti and Frankie Muniz in 'Big Fat Liar'. Photo: Universal Pictures.
After one of his class papers is stolen and turned into a movie, a young student (Frankie Muniz) and his best friend (Amanda Bynes) exact a hilarious, slapstick revenge on the Hollywood hot shot (Paul Giamatti) who has taken credit!
Big Fat Liar
15. 'The Pink Panther' (2006)
Steve Martin as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in 2006's 'The Pink Panther.' Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Releasing.
When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Inspector Dreyfus (Kevin Kline) assigns the worst police inspector Jacques Clouseau (Steve Martin) to the case.
14. 'Address Unknown' (1997)
1997's 'Address Unknown'. Photo: Leucadia Film Corporation.
A 16-year-old boy who had thought that his fathers death was an accident suspects otherwise when he receives a 10-year-old lost letter his father had written just before his death.
13. 'Just in Time' (1997)
After his wife's death, Michael (Mark Moses) loses track of whats important. Thats why its strictly business between Michael and Faith (Rebecca Chambers) the attractive nanny he's hired to take care of his troubled 7-year-old daughter Lily (Brittany Alyse Smith). When Faith helps Lily deal with her mothers death she earns a place in Michaels heart. But to keep Faith in their lives Michael has to decide whats really important to him.
Just in Time
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12. 'Cheaper by the Dozen' (2003)
Steve Martin in 'Cheaper by the Dozen'. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom (Steve Martin) gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Mary (Bonnie Hunt), and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands pull the parents away from home, leaving the kids bored -- and increasingly mischievous.
11. 'Just Married' (2003)
(L to R) Brittany Murphy and Ashton Kutcher in 'Just Married'. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
Tom Leezak (Ashton Kutcher) and Sarah McNerney (Brittany Murphy) fall in love and plan to get married, despite opposition from Sarah's uptight, rich family. When they do get married, and get a chance to prove Sarah's family wrong, they go on a European honeymoon and run into disaster after disaster. They have to decide whether the honeymoon from hell and a few pre-marital mistakes are worth throwing away their love and marriage.
10. 'Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian' (2009)
(L to R) Ben Stiller and Amy Adams in 'Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian'. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
Hapless museum night watchman Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) must help his living, breathing exhibit friends out of a pickle now that they've been transferred to the archives at the Smithsonian Institution. Larry's (mis)adventures this time include close encounters with Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams), Abe Lincoln (Hank Azaria) and Ivan the Terrible (Christopher Guest).
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
9. 'Date Night' (2010)
(L to R) Tina Fey and Steve Carell in 'Date Night'. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
Phil (Steve Carell) and Claire (Tina Fey) Foster fear that their mild-mannered relationship may be falling into a stale rut. During their weekly date night, their dinner reservation leads to their being mistaken for a couple of thieves—and now a number of unsavoury characters want Phil and Claire killed.
8. 'Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb' (2014)
(L to R) Mizuo Peck, Robin Williams, Ben Stiller, Rami Malek and Patrick Gallagher in 'Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb'. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
When the magic powers of The Tablet of Ahkmenrah begin to die out, Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
7. 'The Internship' (2013)
(L to R) Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in 'The Internship'. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
Two recently laid-off men in their 40s (Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson) try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.
6. 'The Adam Project' (2022)
(L to R) Walker Scobell and Ryan Reynolds in 'The Adam Project'. Photo: Netflix.
A time-traveling pilot (Ryan Reynolds) teams up with his younger self (Walker Scobell) and his late father (Mark Ruffalo) to come to terms with his past while saving the future.
5. 'Night at the Museum' (2006)
(L to R) Ben Stiller and Robin Williams in 'Night at the Museum'. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
Chaos reigns at the natural history museum when night watchman Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) accidentally stirs up an ancient curse, awakening Attila the Hun, an army of gladiators, a Tyrannosaurus rex and other exhibits.
4. 'Real Steel' (2011)
(L to R) Dakota Goyo and Hugh Jackman in 'Real Steel'. Photo: Walt Disney Studios.
Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is a washed-up fighter who retired from the ring when robots took over the sport. After his robot is trashed, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son (Dakota Goyo) to rebuild and train an unlikely contender.
3. 'This Is Where I Leave You' (2014)
(L to R) Tina Fey, Corey Stoll, Jane Fonda, Jason Bateman and Adam Driver in 'This Is Where I Leave You'. Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures.
When their father passes away, four grown (Tina Fey, Jason Bateman, Corey Stoll and Adam Driver), world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother (Jane Fonda) and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.
2. 'Free Guy' (2021)
(L to R) Ryan Reynolds and Jodie Comer in 'Free Guy'. Photo: 20th Century Studios.
A bank teller (Ryan Reynolds) discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, and decides to become the hero of his own story. Now, in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way before it's too late.
Free Guy
1. 'Deadpool & Wolverine' (2024)
(L to R) Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool/Wade Wilson and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine/Logan in 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios' 'Deadpool & Wolverine'. Photo by Jay Maidment. © 2024 20th Century Studios / © and ™ 2024 MARVEL.
Marvel Studios' 'Deadpool & Wolverine' delivers the ultimate, iconic, cinematic team-up throw-down on July 26th.
