New Week, New Top Ten

Time for the weekly rundown on this past weekend's big movies. A couple of openings taking the first few spots this week. Let's take a looksie.

1. The Pink Panther
2. Final Destination 3
3. Curious George
4. Firewall
5. When a Stranger Calls
6. Big Momma's House 2
7. Nanny McPhee
8. Brokeback Mountain
9. Hoodwinked
10.Underworld: Evolution

What was it last week that was terrible but was still making a mint at the box office? Oh yeah, Big Momma's House 2. That's down to 6 which puts the National Security Alert Level back at yellow, but it's replaced by the awful remake of The Pink Panther, starring Steve Martin. Beyonce Knowles is also in this, along with the poor Jean Reno, who should know better than taking money to make a terrible movie. Steve Martin I can understand. He needs money so he can make quirky indies like last year's Shopgirl. Final Destination 3 also opened this weekend, inventively killing enough teens to make it into the #2 spot. Not too shabby I guess, but who was intereted in seeing this . . . again? Oh yeah, the Sal was.

For the kids, Curious George premiers at #3, which means nothing to me since I'm totally not interested in watching this. I'm no longer 4 years old, but I do love monkies. Hmm . . . dilemma. No, wait, Drew Barrymore (voice) is in this, so that turns me off completely. And no, she's not playing the monkey.

Harrison Ford shuffles his way to 4th place with his bank heist movie. I might have been interested in this movie if he had made it 20 years ago . . . but seeing a 60 something year old take on a band of criminals is just a little too much for me to believe. Maybe if the criminals were also old, and had missed the early bird dinner specials at Denny's and they could not fight back because they were so hungry. Then, maybe Harrison Ford could have taken them out.

The rest of the countdown is full of forgettable films, and one movie that the audiences of America just can't quit on. Yes . . . Broke-Behymen Mountain. The gay sheepherder movie. I don't know what the big deal about this movie is. It's just gay people. Anyone can take a drive out to West Hollywood and check out gay dudes in cowboy hats riding each other on the streets. Don't have to pay 10 bucks at a movie theater to see this.