There was only one thing on everyone's mind this weekend – no, not "My house appears to have flooded" or "Sweet mother of God, we're all going to die" but "Is Ratatouille going to do better than Die Hard 4 at the weekend box office?"

And now the answer has become apparent – Ratatouille has done better than Die Hard 4 at the US weekend box office, taking more than $14 million than its rival in the process. Not only has Ratatouille managed to destroy Bruce Willis' hopes of making his big cinematic comeback, but industry watchers are also calling Ratatouille "The best borderline unpronouncably-titled cartoon about a rat doing some cooking since 1968 East European claymation masterpiece Fplachlacachtkopft Makes Some Soup."

Ratatouille is the number one movie at this week's weekend box office, continuing Pixar's red-hot commercial streak. After heartwarming movies about friendship like Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles and Cars, Ratatouille marks something of a radical departure for the animation unit, in that it's about a filthy bloody rat dicking around in a restaurant for a couple of hours. But the risk seems to have paid off, with children all over the world now scouring their local rubbish dumps for vermin to hilariously crawl around their kitchens.  Here's the US weekend box office top five…

1 - Ratatouille (Ratatouille wasn't expected to do well at the weekend box office thanks to it's confusing title, but why has it managed to defy the odds? We're guessing that it's because it's not about arseing penguins for a change) $47,227,000

2 – Live Free Or Die Hard (On the other hand, the way that Live Free Or Die Hard hasn't topped the weekend box office has been put down the fact that – even though a car smashes through a flying helicopter at one point – it has the very worst film title in living memory) $33,150,000

3 - Evan Almighty (Now officially a box office turkey, Evan Almighty proves once and for all that rat-chefs and bald old men are better than Jesus) $15,089,000

4 – 1408 (Word to the wise – don't go and see 1408 unless you've seen all of its one thousand, four hundred and seven prequels, or else it won't make sense) $10,610,000

5 - Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer (Word to the wise – don't go and see Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer. Because it's shit) $9,000,000

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