Mr & Mrs Smith, starring Brad Pitt (DVDs) and Angelina Jolie (DVDs), has made it to the top of the American box office, proving that even mediocre films can be saved by a hefty dose of PR spin.

Mr & Mrs Smith, about Brad Pitt trying to kick Angelina Jolie to death, opened strongly in America, taking around $51 million in it’s first weekend. It seems that seeing Pitt and Jolie in all the newspapers every single day since the beginning of time has been more attractive than the middling reviews it received from the critics.

There’s a good chance that Mr & Mrs Smith has done so
well in the box office charts because everyone is desperate to see the
chemistry between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and to try and figure
out if all the rumours are true. How they’ll manage to actually do this
is unknown – it’s not as if during the sex scenes a caption pops up
reading ‘THIS REALLY HAPPENED, YOU KNOW’.

The film now stands on it’s own. If it drew the crowds simply
because of the constant tabloid speculation, the numbers will start to
drop off. If it’s a good film in it’s own right, word of mouth will
keep the audiences coming in.

In other Brad and Angie news, it was Angelina Jolie’s birthday a while ago. And, despite all the whispers, she did not have a private party with Brad. In fact, he clean forgot. "I wasn’t too happy about ‘celebrating’ by myself, watching a movie on
HBO and ordering a salad from room service." Then, apparently remembering that she’s got a film to promote, she added "If I’d had a gun, I’d have
shot him."

The full weekend US box office chart looks like this:

1) Mr And Mrs Smith (The ‘bang bang kick stab smoochie smooch’ film)

2) Madagascar (A film about the craziest island off the eastern coast of Africa)

3) Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith (Darth Vader goes "Nooooooooooooooo!" in a crap way)

4) The Longest Yard (Adam Sandler tries to be better than Burt Reynolds and still fails horribly)

5) The Adventures Of Shark Boy And Lava Girl In 3D (The film that’s like Spy Kids 3D, but even worse)

6) Cinderella Man (Russell Crowe hits people with his hands, not various pieces of a hotel room)

7) The Honeymooners (Cedric The Entertainer‘s millionth film so far this year)

The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pants (Looks a lot like Crossroads, but without Britney dancing in her bra)

9) Monster In Law (Jane Fonda is punished for her left-wing views by being pushed into a cake by J-Lo)

10) Crash (The most depressing film in the history of all the world)

[story by Stuart Heritage]