The July 4 weekend box office is always a big deal. It’s when America comes together and celebrates the birthday of noted French economist Gerard Debreu.

And what better way to commemorate the life of the man who so famously revealed that economies have a finite number of price equilibria than by crowning two movies as the weekend box office number one?

That’s right, Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen and Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs are both the number one movies at the US weekend box office. It’s all for you, Gerard Debreu.

We were just kidding with all that Gerard Debreu stuff, you know. We do realise that it’s just been American Independence Day. But sadly the weekend box office has ended in a tie between Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs and Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, which means that no single movie will get to encapsulate the American spirit this year.

So which one of the weekend box office number ones is most like America? Well, Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs is a cartoon about some dinosaurs, while Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen is bloated, violent, filled with a misguided sense of its own importance, loud for the sake of being loud and pretty much hated by the vast majority of people. It’s a close one, that’s for sure. Here’s the US weekend box office top five…

1 - Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen (Luckily, thanks to the recession all but destroying the car industry, there probably isn’t going to be a Transformers 3. Or, if there is, the giant robots will all have to transform into something more climate-appropriate, like an overpacked train full of miserable commuters or a job centre or a jam jar full of tears) $42,500,000

1 - Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (Oh, boggle-eyed Ice Age chipmunk thing, what increasingly tedious, overlong, slightly too smug, self-consciously zany scheme will you dream up to catch that acorn and obviously pad out what’s clearly quite an undercooked main Ice Age plot this time? You’ll be the death of us, chipmunk, you really will) $42,500,000

3 – Public Enemies (A fairly poor showing for Public Enemies. If only John Dillinger spoke like a boozed-up British earl, dressed like a homeless fairy and ran around in a funny way pulling a series of “God I’m SO crazy, whatever are you going to do with ME?” faces, we’re sure this wouldn’t have happened) $26,172,000

4 - The Proposal (Hey Sandra Bullock, we’ve got a proposal for you – stop making rubbish films that are identical to each other and we’ll stop being mean about you. And then we’ll get into all sorts of hilarious mishaps along the way and end up improbably falling in love. It’ll be fun) $12,779,000

5 - The Hangover (Following the success of The Hangover, The Hangover 2 is all but guaranteed. Here’s hoping it’s called The Onset On Decompensated Cirrhosis, because that would be just hysterical) $10,415,000

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