Superbad Does Sortadecent At The Weekend Box Office

Come the tail-end of summer, movie studios like to clog up the weekend box office with any old crap, safe in the knowledge that cinemas will be over-run by teenagers keen to think about anything but going back to school.

But sometimes a late summer movie will trundle along that people actually want to see, and that's the case with Superbad. A movie about the bloke from Knocked Up being a policeman and japering around with a younger version of the bloke from Knocked Up with the same name as the bloke from Knocked Up until everyone shouts the word "McLovin!" again and again and again over and over for 73 solid minutes, Superbad has topped the US weekend box office by taking $31 million. Not bad for a teen comedy that came out of nowhere, but somewhat disappointing for a teen movie that's been hyped so ubiquitously we can't even close our eyes without seeing visions of the kid from Arrested Development any more.

Summer 2007 seems to be the summer of Seth Rogen. First Seth Rogen-starring Knocked Up was touted as the year's funniest comedy, and now the Seth Rogen-starring, Seth Rogen-written Superbad has topped the weekend box office and been called the funniest movie since Borat. Such is Superbad and Seth Rogen's impact on the weekend box office that all other summer 2007 movies are now going to be reshot to include scenes of Seth Rogen's lovably hangdog face, like the new scene in Transformers where Seth Rogen turns into a helicopter, the new scene in The Simpsons Movie where Seth Rogen tells a joke that isn't slightly disappointing and the scene in Spider-Man 3 where Seth Rogen walks into the kitchen where Kirsten Dunst is dancing the twist and making an omelette, slaps the eggs out of her hands and loudly asks her just what the tits she thinks she's doing. Here's the weekend box office top five…

1 - Superbad (Don't get used to calling it Superbad - by Christmas it'll be That Fucking McLovin Movie and you know it) $31,200,000

2 - Rush Hour 3 (Henchforth known as the movie where Jackie Chan witnesses the horrific murder of his brother and then sufficiently forgets about it to do a funny dance to an Edwin Starr song 90 seconds later) $21,830,000

3 - The Bourne Ultimatum (The other day we forgot something too, although we just sat down until we remembered it instead of going on a global car-chase that was filmed by an epileptic with Parkinson's. Something Matt Damon might want to consider next time) $18,986,000

4 - The Simpsons Movie (Still knocking about in the weekend box office top five even though Spiderpig stopped being funny after you'd seen the trailer twice) $6,675,000

5 - The Invasion (The fourth version of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, the one that almost killed Nicole Kidman and the one that everyone thinks is crap because it doesn't have Donald Sutherland doing this at the end) $6,000,000

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