Weird Comedies Take Movie Box Office Lead
The Bucket List, starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman in a comedy about two terminal cancer patients living it up before they'll have to cash it in, came in number 1, with a three-day take of $19.5 million in its first week of broad release, even though it got mainly very bad reviews from critics.
Number 2 was First Sunday, a comedy starring Ice Cube and centering on a group of thieves who decide to rob a church. It snagged $19 million from a mostly young, African-American crowd. Like Bucket List, the film got generally poor reviews.
Rounding out the top five were Juno, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and Alvin and the Chipmunks.
The computer-animated comedy The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A Veggie Tales Movie opened at number nine with just $4.4 million.