It's the second-most controversial film of the year – after Paul Blart – but Bruno has aced the weekend box office.
Despite attracting waves of controversy based on its edgy subject matter, Bruno – Sacha Baron Cohen?s follow-up to Borat – has entered the US weekend box office at number one, where it will definitely remain next week even though Harry Potter?s coming out.
It just goes to show that Transformers isn't the only movie that can break records this year – Bruno has officially become the highest-grossing movie ever to feature a talking urethra. Michael Bay, we await your response with baited breath.
More than any other film this year – even that one where Serge Gainsbourg?s daughter snips her fanny off with some scissors – weekend box office number one Bruno has inflamed the passions of the broadsheet press. Some say that Bruno is homophobic. Some say that Bruno is the opposite of homophobic. Some say that Bruno is smug. Some say that if only Ali G Indahouse hadn?t been rushed into production then Sacha Baron Cohen wouldn't have run out of characters to make films with already. Actually, nobody has said that yet. But, you know.
Here?s the weekend box office top five…
1 – Bruno (So there's been an Ali G film, a Borat film and now a Bruno film. What's next for Sacha Baron Cohen? Let's hope it's a film based around this embarrassingly earnest youthy Windsor-based local television presenter. Talk about humiliating) $30,426,000
2 – Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (Not having seen Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs, we're a little confused. Didn't dinosaurs happen before the ice age? Is time going backwards here? Let's hope so, because we?d love for Ice Age 4 to be about single cell prokaryotes. Single cell prokaryotes chasing an acorn around and being HILARIOUS!!!) $28,500,000
3 – Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen (Yesterday we heard about a competition where one of the prizes was a walk-on part in Transformers 3. we're assuming that that's the second prize, though, because that way the first prize would have to be something better. Like, you know, a jab in the eye with a shitty stick or whatever) $24,200,000
4 – Public Enemies (A film about a criminal starring that bloke who screams at his underlings and the woman with a sideline in uncomfortably barmy 9/11 conspiracy theories. No, we can't understand why it didn't do better either) $14,111,000
5 – The Proposal (Doing better than the just-released I Love You Beth Cooper, proving that Hayden Panettiere?s naked body isn't quite as popular as Hayden Panettiere seems to think it is. Still, at least she's got that sparkling personality of hers to fall back on, hasn't she? Oh.) $10,507,000
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