There are a lot of stupid things in this world. Roughly fifty-five percent of them are the Nicolas Cage, Goonies-meets-a- 3rd-grade-American-history- textbook-but-on-fire movie National Treasure. That percentage may seem a little inflated, but not if you've seen the movie.
Just how stupid was National Treasure? Well, at one point near the end of the movie, I thought the treasure Nicolas Cage and friends were searching for the entire film might end up being a "treasure," like freedom, or true love, or the pursuit of happiness. That would have been pretty stupid, but not as perfectly stupid as the actual ending: Nicolas Cage and friends finding a comically large vault underneath New York City filled with more chests of gold, and diamonds, and rubies than 1 million Scrooge McDuck cartoons. There were also several giant gold sarcophagi sitting right next to subway tunnels for over 100 years, and probably a couple diamond-encrusted Ferraris buried in there somewhere, next to the gilded pyramid full of tiaras.