Happy Feet More Popular Than Jesus At US Weekend Box Office

By all accounts, 2006 has been the year of the disappointing computer-animated movie. Between Barnyard, Hoodwinked and Everyone's Hero's inept cheapo lameness, the computer-animated movie world has taken a critical knocking.

Critical, but not fatal - as Happy Feet has shown. Happy Feet, a movie about tap-dancing environmental penguins, is enjoying its third week sitting proudly at the top of the US weekend box office. Happy Feet has already seen off US weekend box office challenges from James Bond and a long film about a tree in a bubble floating across space, but now Happy Feet has defeated its biggest opponent yet - the actual birth of Jesus Christ himself.

Now that Happy Feet has been top of the US weekend box office for three solid weeks, you know everything about it. There's a bunch of penguins, some of them dance, some of them sound like Robin Williams, some are less annoying. But the new news is that Happy Feet has now destroyed the birth of Jesus at the weekend box office, as The Nativity Story has limped into the fourth-place spot. So, as the title suggests, Happy Feet is now more popular than Jesus. OK, shitty-looking Tony Scott-directed movies about rubbish time travel is also more popular than Jesus, but we have a character limit for our headlines. Here's the US weekend box office top five…

1 - Happy Feet (Having beaten both James Bond and Baby Jesus at the US weekend box office, next week Happy Feet is going up against the mightiest foe of them all - The titting Holiday) $17,045,000

2 - Casino Royale (It seems that the new, gritty James Bond regime involves making films about subjects as dull as cards. Maybe Bond 22 will go the whole hog and feature James Bond involving himself in the murky world of crown green bowling) $15,100,000

3 - Deja Vu (Remember that shitty-looking Tony Scott-directed movie about rubbish time travel we ragged on earlier? Yeah, we were talking about Deja Vu. Yes, we know that's the same line we rolled out last week. Now that's both lazy and vaguely something to do with deja vu) $11,032,000

4 - The Nativity Story (Now featuring even more pregnant teenagers than the original!!) $8,025,000

5 - Deck The Halls (Now that Danny DeVito has realised that monging around drunk won't save his rubbishy Christmas film, his next plan might involve gunning for the Nativity crowd by getting God to knock him up real quick) $6,650,000  

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