There are a few things in this world that we thought we'd never see, and top of the list – above England winning the World Cup and Jamie Oliver being anything than a fat-mouthed Michael Winner lookalike – was a Jennifer Aniston box office hit.

But we can strike that off the list, because The Break-Up – the first film Jennifer Aniston has made that hasn't been incurably lousy – is standing on top of the US weekend box office. Hopefully all this US weekend box office attention that The Break-Up has got will give Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn the impetus to make rubbish cryptic comments about their relationship until the end of time. Or until people start to die of boredom, whichever comes first.

The Break-Up is the number film in the US weekend box office, despite taking much less than Mission: Impossible III, The Da Vinci Code or X-Men 3 did in their opening weekends. But a number one weekend box office movie is a number one weekend box office movie – and more people wanted to watch Vince Vaughn playing GTA: San Andreas while Jennifer Aniston whinges away in the background in The Break-Up than any other film this weekend.

Why has The Break-Up done so well? Have movie audiences started to accept Jennifer Aniston as something other than Rachel from Friends? Are people so pleased by Jennifer's relationship with Vince Vaughn that they wanted to pay money to show their support for the couple? Maybe they just wanted to see lots of scenes of Jennifer Aniston crying, who knows. Here's the US weekend box office top five…

1 - The Break-Up (The Break-Up, in case you didn't know, is this year's Wedding Crashers, which was last year's Dodgeball, which was that year's Old School, which was that year's Dust: An Extraordinary Correspondence. Or something) $38,053,000

2 - X-Men: The Last Stand (Christ. Vinnie Jones is in the fourth-biggest opening movie of all time. Imagine what ghastly spin-offs his overinflated sense of self worth will cause him to make this time. A Juggernaut Sings The Hits Of Spandau Ballet CD, perhaps?) $34,350,000 

3 - Over The Hedge (A computer generated movie about funny animals? What an original idea) $20,647,000

4 - The Da Vinci Code (The Catholics needn't have worried – two weeks in and this is the thought-process of an average moviegoer: "We could go and see that long film about Jesus and the history of theology. No! Wait! Look – funny animals stealing stuff out of a fridge! Let's see that!") $19,300,000

5 – Mission: Impossible III (Featuring the best scene of a woman's eyes going a bit wonky and crusting over of any film ever!) $4,679,000

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[story by Stuart Heritage]