National Treasure 2 Wigs Out Weekend Box Office

Big cinema weekend, this one - there's Will Smith's giant monster movie still out, plus new releases like the Oscar-likely Sweeney Todd and the unstoppable Judd Apatow's new comedy Walk Hard.

But none of these movies topped the weekend box office. No. The top movie at the US weekend box office chart this week is National Treasure: Book Of Secrets, a sequel to a film that the majority of people forgot even existed about a day after it was released. But National Treasure: Book Of Secrets isn't just important because it topped the weekend box office - it's also important because it's a successful Nicolas Cage film, and that fact alone has turned our perception of the world upside down to such a hideous extent that we're half expecting Santa Claus to come down our chimney and crap in our mouths tonight.

National Treasure: Book Of Secrets is the top movie at this week's weekend box office, a bizarre choice of film to be at the top of anything other than a list of sequels that nobody was really expecting with anything other than a resigned apathetic shrug. But still, it just goes to show that millions of people must have been looking forward to National Treasure: Book Of Secrets, if only on the off-chance that Nicolas Cage would punch a woman in the face and scream at some bees like he did in The Wicker Man. He doesn't, by the way. Here's this week's US weekend box office top five…

1 - National Treasure: Book Of Secrets (What is this book of secrets of which you speak? Why, it's the diary of Julie Parkin from class 9B, and the secrets are that she hates her stepdad and that Josh Dickinson is well lush IDST LOL) $45,000,000

2 - I Am Legend (Despite what you may think, it's not vain at all for a Will Smith vehicle to call itself I Am Legend. His next film, though - Will Smith Is Basically Jesus - is a slightly different matter) $34,225,000

3 - Alvin And The Chipmunks (Still riding high at the weekend box office because, well, it's been cold and idiots need to keep warm too) $29,000,000 

4 - Charlie Wilson's War (Written by the man who wrote Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, but don't let that scare you off - we hear this film doesn't grind to a halt every five or six minutes so everyone can have SERIOUS discussions about IRAQ and how the RELIGIOUS RIGHT makes CHANDLER FROM FRIENDS quite unhappy sometimes) $9,618,000  

5 - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (So then, Sweeney Todd - the movie award-gobbling masterpiece by Tim Burton - is now officially not as good as a cartoon about a shit-eating rat. Take that, awards season! And you, Johnny Depp, do more funny runs! We only like you when you do that) $9,350,000

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