Big week for the weekend box office this week – just look at all the incredible films that were released on Friday.

There was Michael Moore’s latest, searingly topical, effort. Drew Barrymore’s debut as a director. The latest breathlessly-anticipated movie by The Coen Brothers. That Ricky Gervais film that’s garnered glowing reviews from all corners. Which one of these equally worthy new releases ended up topping the US weekend box office chart?

Oh, it was Zombieland. A film about Woody Harrelson shooting a bunch of zombies while wearing a funny hat. Of course – why didn’t we think of that?

Sorry if we came off as a bit cynical in the last paragraph. We didn’t mean to be. In fact we’re actually thrilled that Zombieland has topped the weekend box office. For one, Zombieland actually looks sort of fun. And also it’s nice to see Woody Harrelson do something other than write meandering letters about his birthday to judges to try and stop Wesley Snipes from going to prison.

But mostly we’re thrilled that Zombieland is the weekend box office number one because it’s a comedy-horror. And Jennifer’s Body was a comedy-horror. And everyone said that Jennifer’s Body failed because it was a comedy-horror. But Zombieland’s success has destroyed that argument, so hopefully it means we can go back to thinking that Jennifer’s Body failed because Megan Fox isn’t very good at acting. Works for us. Here’s the US weekend box office top five…

1 - Zombieland (A film that asks you to imagine that, to ensure the survival of the human race, you have to constantly be in close proximity to Woody Harrelson. And it isn’t even a morbidly depressing melodrama. Weird) $25,000,000

2 - Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (A movie where people eat things that fall from the sky isn’t really so fanciful. True, we say that six weeks into our new Hailstones And Pigeon Shit diet, but so what?) $16,700,000

3 - Toy Story/ Toy Story 2 (3D) (Yay! Toy Story and Toy Story 2 in 3D! Brilliant! Hopefully the royalty cheques will stop Tim Allen from making any more films for a while! Yay!) $12,500,000

4 - The Invention of Lying (Some are saying that The Invention Of Lying’s modest opening is a sign that Stephen Merchant was really the funny one all along. This is obviously stupid because, as The Office and Extras proved, the funny one was always Fat Keith and Dean Gaffney respectively) $7,350,000

5 - Surrogates (If the producers of Surrogates had just called the movie Bruce Willis In A Silly Wig, we’re sure it would have done much better. Please note that the tactic wouldn’t work as well for Nicolas Cage films, because Nicolas Cage In A Silly Wig could easily refer to any Nicolas Cage film ever) $7,344,000

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