In these days of aggressive opening weekend box office promotion it's rare for a film to reach the US weekend box office number one in its second week, but that's exactly what Bee Movie has done.

Bee Movie - the computer animated bee-based movie about bees written by Seinfeld star Jerry Seinfeld – has managed to out-do American Gangster, the movie that beat it to the weekend box office top spot last week, in its second week of release. And since Bee Movie has shown that movies can climb the weekend box office in successive weeks, let's hope that Lions For Lambs follows the trend next week and goes from having a deeply crappy weekend box office outing to the giddy heights of having just a slightly crappy weekend box office outing in seven days' time.

This time last week it looked like Bee Movie had been well and truly spanked at the weekend box office by American Gangster, the movie with billboards that loudly proclaim it to be the equal to The Godfather, one of the most critically-revered films of all time. Fast forward seven days and Bee Movie is the new box office number one – losing just 31% of its opening weekend gross against American Gangster's 44% – which proves that, while 'as good as The Godfather' is a decent enough plaudit, 'Sort of the same as Antz and A Bug's Life but quite good if you haven't seen either of those films' is better. Here's this week's US weekend box office top five…

1 - Bee Movie (Now that Bee Movie is officially a weekend box office success, it means two things will happen. Firstly Jerry Seinfeld is going to look like even more of an ego-driven billionaire madman when he appears on talkshows and secondly he can start writing Bee Movie's sequel – an animated love story between Renee Zellweger and every single one of the world's oceans entitled Sea Movie) $26,000,000

2 – American Gangster (Perhaps the reason why American Gangster is no longer the weekend box office number one is because of Jay-Z's new American Gangster album – having a rapper release an album named after your movie days after its release might have confused the public slightly. And, equally, we're going to blame Lions For Lambs' box office failure on the forthcoming Lions For Lambs album by 1986's Holiday Rap hitmakers MC Miker G & DJ Sven) $24,319,000

3 - Fred Claus (Proving that you should never release a Christmas movie seven weeks before Christmas, not even really shit ones that everybody hates) $19,225,000

4 - Lions For Lambs (It's official – Tom Cruise movies don't do well at the box office unless he spuriously gets engaged to his unconvincing girlfriend or has a baby with her in the days and weeks before they're released. Forcing her to run a marathon just isn't going to cut it, Tom) $6,710,000 

5 - Dan In Real Life (Proving that audiences are still being fooled into thinking that Steve Carrell's face on a movie poster means hilarious laughs are in store instead of a bittersweet story of a grieving husband coming to terms with his loss) $5,872,000

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American Gangster - the movie that's a little bit like Donald Trump's life story, only with more illegal drug trafficking and hair that doesn't look like the clippings from a baboon beauty salon – is number one at the box office.

And comprehensively so, too – American Gangster's opening US weekend box office takings are around $46 million, proving that if there's one thing people like to watch, it's morally-ambiguous stories about getting people hooked on cheap drugs and/or murdering them. In fact, American Gangster's moral ambiguity is probably what's made it such a success at the weekend box office – because, really, strip away all of American Gangster's illegality and you're pretty much left with Good Burger.

Sometimes a film comes out that seems destined to go down as a classic, and that appears to be the case with new US weekend box office number one American Gangster – a movie so iconic that Jay-Z recorded an album based on it before it even came out. Pity that the far more hyped weekend box office number two, Jerry Seinfeld's Bee Movie, didn't have the same effect, although we hear that Chico from X Factor did go "bee bee bee bee bee bee bee bee" into a 1980s tape recorder when he heard the movie was being made, which is sort of the same. Here's this week's US weekend box office top five…

1) American Gangster (Such has been the box office success of American Gangster that a UK-based remake - British Gangster – is already in the works. It'll be exactly the same as American Gangster, only about a pikey in a baseball cap selling gold earrings that turn your skin green round the back of Kwik Save) $46,344,000

2) Bee Movie (All this time away from the limelight and Jerry Seinfeld's new movie can't even get to number one, making his comeback less successful than Larry David's and less chew-your-own-fist-off than Michael Richards'. Must try harder) $39,100,000

3) Saw IV (The upcoming writer-strike won't affect the forthcoming Saw V in the slightest – rather than employing a traditional writer, it's well-known that the Saw production team just make up their plots by getting monkeys to point at different objects which are then used to smash through people's skulls on film) $11,010,000

4) Dan In Real Life (Advertised by a poster of Steve Carrell's head on a pile of pancakes, which is also a deleted scene from the upcoming Saw IV DVD) $8,125,000

5) 30 Days Of Night (The sequel to vampire movie 30 Days Of Night – entitled 30 Days Of Day – probably won't have as many vampires in it as people would like for some reason) $4,000,000

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