Here’s a surprise – New Moon might have the teenage girls spraying urine everywhere, but it’s not the most popular film around.

No, that’d be The Blind Side. Released on the same day as New Moon, The Blind Side looked doomed to play perpetual bridesmaid to New Moon, but now the unthinkable has happened – thanks to strong word of mouth, The Blind Side has now overtaken New Moon to reach the top of the weekend box office. It just goes to show that you need hundreds of pasty boy-nipples to make an enduring, well-loved movie.

From this you might have got the impression that The Blind Side is some kind of masterpiece. It isn’t – it looks rubbish.

There’s a bit of a lull in the US weekend box office this week, because studios are worried that their new films won’t get a fair punt. They think that Avatar will crush everything before it when it’s released in a few weeks, even though it looks like a film about a Smurf with Marfan syndrome. And nothing will be released before then because they think that New Moon would still be an unstoppable box office force by now.

Or they thought that so many screaming teenage girls would wet themselves during the first showing of New Moon that all the cinemas would have to close so that the urine could be steam-cleaned out of the seats by now. One or the other.

But that hasn’t happened. Plucky little underdog The Blind Side has quietly slipped passed New Moon to become the weekend box office number one. Look, here’s the weekend box office top five to prove it…

1 – The Blind Side (The success of The Blind Side has proved that any little film can hit the big time if enough people get behind it. Oh, and it helps if it’s an awful TV movie-looking slice of real-life slush about sickly sweet crap, too) $20,400,000

2 - New Moon (New Moon is number two. But we’ve been saying that for months) $15,700,000

3 - Brothers (A film starring Natalie Portman and Toby Maguire about the emotional agony of a soldier who… god, are you still reading this? Your tolerance for dreadful worthy-sounding movies is higher than we thought) $9,700,000

4 - A Christmas Carol (Apparently Robert Zemeckis wants his motion capture films to get their own Oscar category. That’s fair enough – the only other way A Christmas Carol would be likely to win anything is if the academy introduced a Best Genuinely Pointless Remakes Of Beloved Novels Starring Several Dead-Eyed Versions Of Jim Carrey category) $7,500,000

5 - Old Dogs (Not strictly an accurate depiction of what it’d be like if Robin Williams was forced to look after some children, because at no point during Old Dogs is there a scene where the children are forced to endure hour after hour of Robin Williams yammering out an imagined three-way conversation between Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Clinton and a cartoon antelope) $6,900,000

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