Hancock Pushes Weekend Box Office’s Head Up A Man’s Bum

Will Smith just can't do anything wrong, can he? People always see his movies, even when they're critically-mauled, about boozed-up supermen and have silly endings.

Exhibit A: Hancock is number one in the US weekend box office. And, considering that Hancock's a movie which contains a scene about one man physically pushing another man's head into a third man's rectum, that's actually quite impressive.

Hancock's weekend box office success just furthers his incredible run of movies that are wildly popular despite not being especially great - I Am Legend, The Pursuit Of Happyness, Hitch, I, Robot, Men in Black II, Bad Boys II. A couple more of these babies under his belt and he might even beat the record currently held by Adam Sandler.

This summer is clearly the summer of being clobbered over the head with superhero movies until we're all lying semi-conscious in a pool of our own blood pleading with Hollywood to stop. Iron Man, Batman, The Incredible Hulk - even noted superhuman crimefighters Abba have a movie out this summer. And now even Will Smith's got in on the act with Hancock.

And you have to admit that Hancock getting to be number one at the weekend box office is more down to Will Smith's charisma as an actor than anything else. It's mildly staggering to think that a dark comedy about a world-hating superhero of no fixed abode could be so successful, but imagine if it was a dark comedy about a world-hating superhero of no fixed abode starring Nicolas Cage. It wouldn't stand a bloody chance, would it? Here's this week's US weekend box office top five…

1 - Hancock (After denying that the acts of handing out free Scientology personality test vouchers to the Hancock crew and opening a school where Scientologist teachers teach a Scientologist curriculum make him a Scientologist, Will Smith faces another rough ride when his next movie Will Smith Stares Into A Camera And Repeats The Phrase 'I Am A Scientologist' For Two Hours is released later in the year) $66,000,000

2 - Wall-E (Wall-E's continued box office success now makes him the second most excitement-provoking robot of all time, after that time our entire family walked in on us humping our Roomba) $33,417,000

3 - Wanted (For a film about physics-defying ultra-assassins, Wanted's got a bit of a crap name, hasn't it? According to IMDb it's actually the 19th film to be named Wanted, and none of the other 18 sound particularly thrilling. Let's hope that nobody in the future confuses this Wanted with the 13-minute German Wanted or the 1983 Bollywood Wanted. It's easily done, you know) $20,607,000

4 - Get Smart (Get Smart has now utterly outclassed The Love Guru in the lame summer comedy movie stakes, with the latter still only halfway to making its money back. If only Mike Myers had made a spy spoof first) $11,125,000

5 - Kung Fu Panda (A computer animated movie about funny animals starring famous actors? What a great idea - why didn't anyone think of this first?) $7,500,000

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