It just goes to show - at this time of year, moviegoers like nothing more than to snuggle down and enjoy lighthearted festive japes starring two of America’s most recognisable comic stars. That’s why Four Christmases has topped the US weekend box office for the second week running.
Well, it’s either that or because the most high-profile movie released on Friday was Punisher: War Zone, a film that looks as if it’s almost aggressively bumhole. Either one’s fine.
Two weeks at the top of the weekend box office? You know what this means - it means that Four Christmases is a hit! Reese Witherspoon must be so thrilled - Four Christmases is the first really successful movie she’s made since she won that Oscar for Walk The Line.
Hopefully now Reese has realised that she’s good at making this sort of lighthearted fluff and awful at making serious issues-based dramas that are put into production solely because she thinks it’ll get her an Oscar like Rendition. So what does IMDb say Reese Witherspoon’s next film will be? Monsters Vs Aliens. Sadly, that’s not the forthcoming knockabout 3D animated comedy, but a done-dry movie about the moral grey area that surrounds immigration control and human trafficking. Oh, Reese, will you ever learn? Here’s the US weekend box office top five…
1 - Four Christmases (Two weeks at the top of the weekend box office? Uh-oh - we smell a sequel. And that means we should all get set for Five Christmases, where Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon spend their Christmas day visiting Reese’s mother, Reese’s father, Vince’s mother, Vince’s father and Vince’s one-legged orphan boy lovechild who was oddly never mentioned in the first film. Mark our words) $18,180,000
2 - Twilight (Make the most of Twilight’s weekend box office success while you can, fans of abstinence-promoting vampire romances, for it won’t last for long - any day now JK Rowling is going to sign over the film rights to The Tales Of Beedle The Bard, and your weird little phenomenon is going to be blown out of the water. What’s more, it’ll be blown out of the water by something called Babbity Rabbity And Her Cackling Stump. Oh, the ignominy!) $13,197,000
3 - Bolt (A 3D remake of the Buzz Lightyear plot from Toy Story starring an animated dog with the voice of John Travolta. To save the cost of admission, we hear you can experience a fairly close approximation of the Bolt experience by getting shitfaced on fermented cheese and then falling asleep on a ghost train) $9,696,000
4 - Australia (Australia has yet to make the weekend box office impression that everyone hoped - unlike Madagascar, which has so far ratcheted up close to $165 million at the domestic box office. Australia had better pray that nobody releases a blockbuster movie called Greenland any time soon, because then Australia would be relegated to the bronze medal position of unusually large yet ultimately pointless islands with movies named after them) $7,000,000
5 - Quantum Of Solace (Still here? This isn’t a good sign - if 007 producers work out that their films do better if they’re obviously stupid, then we may as well accept that the next Bond film will contain nothing but James Bond kicking a dead cow in the eye and laughing at his own farts) $6,600,000
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