Why didn’t we see this coming? What are the two things that people love more than anything else? That’s right.

Meteorology and mechanically-reclaimed meatstuffs. And that’s why Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs is the weekend box office number one again. It’s not because no good films were released this week, or because all people are stupid. It’s because Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs finally combined the public’s twin loves of overcast weather and globs of nonspecific meat.

Or not. Look, it’s a cartoon about meatballs. We’re finding it hard to care about this one, to be honest.

OK, so let’s get right down to it. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs is the weekend box office number one for the second successive week. Let’s run it against the Generic, Forgettable Animated Movie Checklist to see why.

Is Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs based on a beloved children’s book? Yes. Is it running in 3D? Yes. Does it star a number of comic actors hired specifically to boost the movie’s credibility? Yes. Are there poo jokes in the trailer? Yes.

Oh. Right. That’s why, then. Here’s the US weekend box office top five…

1 - Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (Officially now the most successful film about balls since Paris Hilton’s last home video. Boom TISH!) $24,600,000

2 – Surrogates (So let’s get this straight – there’s a computer-controlled world where anybody can be anyone they want, and Bruce Willis decides to be Bruce Willis in a shit wig? Makes sense) $15,000,000

3 – Fame (Fame! FAME! I wanna live forever! I wanna learn how to do less well at the weekend box office than a film about Bruce Willis in a shit wig! WIG!) $10,033,000

4 - The Informant! (The exclamation mark at the end of this movie’s title is important, because that’s the only thing distinguishing it from its upcoming sequels, The Informant?, The Informant?!?! and The Informant ) $6,915,000

5 - Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself (Tyler Perry’s I Can Make Bad Movies All By Myself, more like. Boom TISH! What? Everyone else on Earth has already made that joke? And the joke about Paris Hilton too? Oh look, we’ve been away for a week, cut us some slack) $4,750,000

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