Cars Doc Hollywoods US Weekend Box Office

Cars - the all-new, all-metallic, just-as-moral-as-ever Pixar movie - has done precisely what was expected of it; Cars has only gone and reached the top of the US weekend box office.

So congratulations on your weekend box office success, Cars, even though it's done nothing to shake the feeling that Pixar films are decided on the basis of nothing more than choosing a random object, anthropomorphising it a bit and then ripping off some old Michael J Fox movie as the plot, since Cars is pretty much Doc Hollywood… with cars! Let's hope the next Pixar movie has a similarly successful weekend box office stint - it's roughly Teen Wolf starring a pissing coathanger or something.

Cars, the latest Pixar computothon starring Owen Wilson and Paul Newman as, er, some cars, is the number one film in the US weekend box office, beating off last week's number one film, The Break-Up. So that's toys, insects, toys again, monsters, fish, superheroes and now cars that Pixar have exploited as subjects for movies. And that leaves just coathangers, test tubes and Grace from Big Brother as potential subjects that Pixar can human up a bit and turn into filmstars. Here's this week's US weekend box office top five:

1 - Cars (If you spell Cars backwards, what do you get? Srac, that's what. And Srac sounds a bit like Shrek. Coincidence? We think not) $62,800,000

2 - The Break-Up (Of course, Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn must never ever break up in real life, since they'd be all kinds of rubbish 'Break-Up' headlines. Similarly, Tom Hanks must never ever wear one red shoe and Steve Martin must never ever grow another brain) $20,495,000

3 - X-Men: The Last Stand (Vinnie Jones and Frasier in a film together? Hallelujah!) $15,550,000

4 - The Omen (The world didn't end last Tuesday. Get over it) $15,450,000

5 - Over The Hedge (A computer animated film that's about something other than some cars? Ugh, how May 2006) $10,301,000

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[story by Stuart Heritage]