Can 'Horton' Get A Woop Woop?
Posted by Seth at 2:25 AM on March 25, 2008
You wake up cold and confused, naked except for the half-singed bonnet on your head, and surrounded by hundreds of empty Peeps boxes and decapitated chocolate bunnies. Damn it: You've surrendered to another Easter weekend bender. Enjoy the last pulses of glucose shooting through your veins as you peruse the box office numbers:
1. Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! - $25.1 million
A second solid week atop the box office officially cements this all-CGI adaptation of the beloved children's verse as a bona fide blockbuster. Proving a perfectly successful Seuss adaptation can come from not veering too far from the source material, directors are now lining up to pitch their own faithful versions of works from his canon. First up: Oliver Stone's searing take on The Butter Battle Book, tweaked to better evoke the Iraq War with suicide-Eight-Nozzled Elephant-Toted Boom Blitz-bombing Zook-insurgents.
2. Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns - $20.01 million
Oh, who really cares if it's anachronistically racist, sexist, and/or homophobic: Madea's back! And her legions of fans were eager to part with their disposable leisure-dollars just to catch the latest adventures of their favourite gat-toting drag-grandma.
3. Shutter - $10.7 million
Yet another horror thriller from the Far East about spooky digital photos that sneak up on you in the bathroom mirror de-Asianized for American consumption, the critically trounced U.S. version of the Thai original is notable only for starring Joshua Jackson, offering plenty of opportunities for smart-arse entertainment reporters to ask the, "Talk to Katie Holmes lately?" question at press junkets, just to see him get pissed off.
4. Drillbit Taylor - $10.2 million
Owen Wilson's return as a leading man was met with a lackluster response, as this Seth Rogen-co-written, Judd Apatow-produced comedy about--a kid bodyguard, or something?--lacked the menstrual blood heart of the creative team's last teen raunchcom foray.
5. 10,000 B.C. - $8.66 million
Run! CGI mammothsaurs! They'll kill us all!!!
- WEEKEND BOX OFFICE March 21-23, 2008 [Box Office Mojo]

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Dr. Spaceman
Posted 4:24 AM 25/3/08
@TheStarterWife: Probably, Jews?
Dr. Spaceman
hummingpenguin
Posted 4:24 AM 25/3/08
they BETTER NOT MESS with the Butter Battle Book, is all i'm sayin'. that's good part of my childhood right there.
hummingpenguin
TheStarterWife
Posted 4:24 AM 25/3/08
Whatever happened to the idea that Gibson and Icon would re-release Passion of the Christ each year at Easter?
TheStarterWife
Sweet Panda Love
Posted 5:09 AM 25/3/08
@TheStarterWife: I think Lionsgate would actually prefer to release Tyler Perry movies. Madea is the new Jesus.
Sweet Panda Love
el smrtmnky
Posted 5:56 AM 25/3/08
@Sweet Panda Love: ...and a drag queen shall lead them
el smrtmnky
Omelas
Posted 8:34 AM 25/3/08
@hummingpenguin: That & The Lorax = best Dr. Seuss books ever.
I would be disappointed to see either made into a modern feature-length film, though, because part of the beauty of both was that they distilled complicated issues into concise, but still nuanced, stories ...
Omelas
raincoaster
Posted 11:17 AM 25/3/08
@Omelas: I know a logging industry lobbyist, and they will NEVER let the Lorax see the light of day, I'm telling you. Mind you, they didn't want Horton to, either.
I'm going to show Owen the box office luv this week. Hell, he's prettier than anything else on screen lately.
raincoaster