Christmas is starting to do our heads in. Christmas day is still a whole week away, and yet everyone’s already become so sentimental that they’re letting a nauseatingly cute film about Will Smith hugging his own son top the US weekend box office.

It’s strange to see how the US weekend box office reacts against itself sometimes. Last week Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto – a couple of hours of blood-splattered violence that managed to out-shock even Saw 3 – was the number one weekend box office movie, and this week The Pursuit Of Happyness – an insufferably twee film about how much Will Smith’s love for his son can even overcome obstacles such as being sack, becoming homeless and having the woman from Mission: Impossible II walk out on them both. We’d be happy to describe The Pursuit Of Happyness further, but thinking about it has made us cry vomit out of our arses.