It was a straight battle of the heroes in this week’s weekend box office. In one corner there was Iron Man.
In the other, Robin Hood. In the other, if we’re being thorough, there’s the Amanda Seyfried character from that new film about letter-writing that looks like it’ll be a load of old bollocks. Who’ll come out on top? Why, Iron Man of course.
It goes without saying that Iron Man 2 beat both Robin Hood and Letters To Juliet at the US weekend box office this week. After all, Iron Man is a flying robot playboy who can shoot lasers out of his hands. And, you know, Robin Hood is a fat bloke with an unspecified regional accent who kills people with little bits of wood and then splodges around in some mud. And Amanda Seyfried is just annoying, obviously.
Congratulations to Iron Man 2 for seeing off Robin Hood‘s weekend box office challenge. It’s not entirely unexpected, to be fair – for its flaws, Iron Man 2 is still a typical fun summertime blockbuster, with jokes and special effects and pretty girls killing baddies with their thighs. On the other hand Robin Hood isn’t particularly fun, contains no jokes, minimal special effects and a tubby man in rubbish clothes who can’t decide if he’s supposed to be Irish or Welsh. Here’s the US weekend box office top five…
1 – Iron Man 2 (Remember to stay in your seats until the end of the credits. Not because there’s a cool extra scene at the end, but because you’ll really annoy the people who want to leave because their lives aren’t as comprehensively empty and miserable as yours) $53,000,000
2 – Robin Hood (The worst film ever made, if only because it makes you slightly nostalgic for Kevin Costner. At least he had a consistent accent) $37,100,000
3 – Letters To Juliet (We haven’t seen this yet, nor do we plan to, but if at least one letter in this film doesn’t read ‘Dear Juliet, HURRY UP AND FINISH THIS SHIT-AWFUL EXCUSE FOR A FILM YOU AWFUL WITCH’ then we’ll be terribly disappointed) $13,700,000
4 – Just Wright (A film where Queen Latifah falls in love with Common and… oh, wait, we think we know why this could only get to number four now) $8,500,000
5 – How To Train Your Dragon (Oh, just die already) $5,100,000
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