Evan Almighty Floats To Top Of Weekend Box Office
Evan Almighty had a lot riding on it – it's officially the most expensive animal-based family comedy movie with a hokey religious moral strapped to it ever made – but it's paid off; Evan Almighty is number one at the weekend box office.
The sequel to Bruce Almighty, Evan Almighty ditched the things that were wrong about the first movie – like Jim Carrey gurning like an idiot and the presence of Jennifer Aniston – and replaced it with the plot of The Santa Clause with more animals and kiddie-friendly scenes of vast biblical disasters. Evan Almighty fared five times better at the weekend box office than A Mighty Heart, the new Angelina Jolie movie, which – judging by this week's weekend box office chart – probably could have benefited from a scene where a monkey saws some wood in a funny way.
Evan Almighty is the top movie at the US weekend box office, despite getting blanket bad reviews. One of the reasons that Evan Almighty managed to top the weekend box office is thought to be the way that it was aggressively marketed to Christians. Smart move – we forgot that Christians like nothing more than to see stories that form the foundation of their entire belief system mangled into a huge-budgeted movie sequel where God is played by the bloke from Lucky Number Slevin in a wonderful suit. Here's the US weekend box office top five…
1 - Evan Almighty (So that's why God started the flood – it was because he wanted a congressman to pay more attention to his family. We hear the plagues of Egypt were all over an electrical appliances shop's unsatisfactory returns policy) $32,112,000
2 - 1408 (John Cusack goes mad in a room. Probably because there's a nutter throwing bags of screwdrivers at his house outside the room) $20,175,000
3 - Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer (Where a silver man saves the world because he used to know a girl who looked a bit like Jessica Alba) $20,150,000
4 - Ocean's Thirteen (Don't expect an Ocean's 14, because it's thought the incredible smugness emanating from four Ocean's films will actually make the moon fall out of the sky) $11,345,000
5 - Knocked Up (Let's not talk about Knocked Up, let's talk about how badly A Mighty Heart did. That only raked in $4 million at the weekend box office – it's almost as if people don't want to spend their hard-earned money watching harrowing real-life stories about a man getting his head cut off by terrorists) $10,363,000
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