Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Aces Weekend Box Office
This week was a momentous one in America’s history, and America reacted in time-honoured fashion – by going to see a silly cartoon about funny animals.
That’s right – Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa isn’t just number one at the US weekend box office this week, but – since it’s the first weekend box office number one since the general election – it’ll forever be linked with Barack Obama’s historic achievement.
So remember this day well, readers, for Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa will one day be the answer to a pub quiz question you’ll be asked. Admittedly the question will be ‘Which lowbrow animated movie sequel completely undermined the significant gravity of the appointment of America’s first black president by reaching number one in the weekend box office in the same week?’ but history is history.
You there! Did you see the movie Madagascar three years ago and fret endlessly over what happened to the characters after the movie finished? You did? Well you’re the only one. And, as such, you’re the only person who Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is aimed at. Enjoy.
But, aside from being yet another tedious animated movie about some funny animals, and for reaching number one in the weekend box office, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is important for one other reason – it’s a film starring David Schwimmer that some people actually want to go and see. And they said this day would never come. Here’s the weekend box office top five…
1 - Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (Do you see? Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is a sequel, so they’ve put a ‘2′ where the word ‘to’ should be. Let’s hope this tradition continues, because that way we’ll get to see Madagascar: 3 At Last, Madagascar: I’m Just Going 4 A Piddle and Madagascar: Honestly, We Didn’t Really Expect This Mediocre Franchise To Sur5.) $63,500,000
2 - Role Models (A film where some children look at Seann William Scott as a role model and, as such, make a career out of playing the exact same character in every film they ever star in, to ever-diminishing critical and commercial rewards) $19,251,000
3 - High School Musical 3: Senior Year (A movie so successful that it’s now being remade in Spanish as High School Musical 3: Senor Year, about a man called Senor Year who… oh, look, this pun clearly hasn’t succeeded to the extent that we wanted to. Let’s just all draw a line under it and move on, OK?) $9,293,000
4 - Changeling (Going on Angelina Jolie’s foolproof pattern of making one dreary movie to get her an Oscar, and one movie where she plays a tattooed woman with a gun to keep her popular, we’re expecting her next film – a biopic about Catherine The Great – to have so real kickass car chases in it) $7,281,000
5 - Zack And Miri Make A Porno (A movie that’s disappointed many because it hasn’t gained the weekend box office tally of the Judd Apatow movies it’s been compared to so often. And Judd Apatow made Drillbit Taylor, for crying out loud) $6,521,000
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