It's shaping up to be quite a controversial weekend box office summer, with films starring dead people, films that actors have refused to promote and – worst – Sex And The City.
But no film this summer is likely to be as controversial as Wall-E, the latest Pixar movie to top the weekend box office. It's hard to think of a more uncommercial-sounding movie than a film about a silent robot compacting rubbish on a deserted planet, but that's what Wall-E is.
And Wall-E isn't just a commercial success, either. As well as being number one in the US weekend box office, the movie has also been called 'perfect' by more than one reviewer. Yeah? So what – there's a bit in The Love Guru where it sounds like Mike Myers is calling someone 'cuntface' when he's not and it's funny, so shove that up your critically adored poop-chute, Wall-E.
Does anyone else get the feeling Pixar is out to make the least-appealing summer movie ever? It had a good crack at it with Ratatouille – a film about a dirty-pawed rat crawling all over people's food – but people loved that.
And now it's having another shot with Wall-E, a love story between two non-verbal metallic objects set in a dystopian futurescape.
But, guess what, it doesn't matter – Wall-E is still lording it over the rest of the weekend box office. When will Pixar learn that it won't be able to make a genuinely unappealing movie until it adapts that Rosie O'Donnell biopic screenplay that we sent it a few years ago? Here's this week's US weekend box office top five…
1 – Wall-E (Relish Wall-E while you can, for it won't be long before someone releases the Wall-E videogame and, if the Ratatouille game is any indication, it'll be so awful that you'll end up wanting to burn down any shop that you see it in) $62,500,000
2 – Wanted (OK Angelina Jolie, you've done your popular sexy assassin movie now. As per your contract, you're now allowed to make four small worthy movies about various world problems that nobody will see before we ask you to make another one) $51,118,000
3 – Get Smart (Female movie stars take note – get yourself romantically caught up with a potentially fraudulent Italian businessman who exploits his relationship with the Vatican and your movie will lose 48.3% of its audience between its first and second weekend of release. Happens every time) $20,000,000
4 – Kung Fu Panda (Thanks to the success of Kung Fu Panda, Kung Fu Panda 2 is apparently being fast-tracked into production now. We just thought we'd warn Angelina Jolie about this now, because it's production might clash with her new movie People In Darfur Are Sad) $11,746,000
5 – The Incredible Hulk (Finally, after the disappointment of the Ang Lee Hulk movie, this is an Incredible Hulk movie that people want to see. And forget the fact that it's made about $17 million less than Ang Lee's Hulk so far. That doesn't mean anything, you hear?) $9,226,000
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