There was only one thing that could dethrone Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, and that was zombies. Specifically, Zombieland, which won the weekend box office with a take of $25 million. I saw it this weekend (see my review here) and despite going at an off-peak time, the theater was packed. It's a good time to be a fan of zombies.

Cloudy's first weekend out of the top spot still managed to gross an impressive $16.7 million (good for second), but it was the performance of a couple of 10+ year old movies that was most impressive. That would be the Toy Story/Toy Story 2 double feature. Making their combined debut in 3-D, the original computer animation hit and its sequel performed very strongly, bringing in $12.5 million, good for third place. Not too shabby for a couple of old VHS releases!

Fourth place this weekend was The Invention Of Lying, yet another attempted Ricky Gervais vehicle, which grossed $7.35 million this weekend. Not bad, but not too good either. I'm not sure what it's going to take to get him over here in the States, but it's going to be something other than a romantic comedy.

The other big debut this weekend, Whip It, managed sixth place with $4.85 million. It's getting some very positive buzz for star Ellen Page and first-time director Drew Barrymore, which might help it linger around the box office in its first week of wide release.

Joining Whip It in wide release is firebrand Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story, which picked up $4.85 million as well, making it a statistical tie with Whip It. Moore's particular brand of edutainment documentary doesn't play well in a lot of areas of the country, but the places where it hits generally carry his movies to success. With Barack Obama in the White House, it seems as though Moore's fans/detractors aren't exactly rampaging to theaters to support/boo the man, and Capitalism: A Love Story is getting less theaters than Sicko did.

Last week's second place film, Surrogates, dropped to fifth this weekend with $7.344 million at the box office. For a movie that cost $80 million to make (and more to market), it's looking as though Bruce Willis In A Bad Wig is going to have to hit much bigger internationally to make its money back than it has in the US. I think maybe American audiences are robotted-out after a glut of sci-fi action blockbusters in the past few years. The fact that it looks so damn generic won't win any attention from people who aren't serious Bruce fans.

Dropping to eighth place is Fame, the ill-advised remake of the cult-classic 80s picture of the same name. It picked up $4.754 million this weekend, falling slightly behind the debuting Whip It and expanding Capitalism: A Love Story.

Rounding out the rest of the bottom is The Informant! (ninth place, $3.8 million) and Love Happens (tenth place, $2.77 million). Can we all agree that Jennifer Aniston is getting too long in the tooth to do these kind of romantic comedies? Or that she needs to try to do something else other than rom-coms for a while? Thank you.

Coming out this weekend, coincidentally, is a movie starring one of Jennifer Aniston's post-Brad Pitt exes, Vince Vaughn. He's the big star in Couples Retreat, which reunites him with Jon Favreau (as an actor, not a director). There's also, less surprising, another appearance from this year's That Guy, Ken Jeong, which might make Couples Retreat worth seeing. But probably not.