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Show Hear that Horton? You're No. 1 inema An elephant stampeded into e e at the this weekend, with "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!" garnering $45 million in weekend ticket sales, according to industry estimates. The animated movie produced by 20th Century Fox features the voices of Jim Steve Carell, and Carrey-anfocuses on an elephant who tries to save an invisible, endangered world. "Horton" lurched past the Warner Bros, adventure epic "10,000 B.C.," with $16.7 million in receipts for its second weekend, bringing the movie's e sales to $61.5 total million. Summit Entertainment's "Never Back Down about a young man who turns to martial arts as he struggles to make good against tough odds, pulled in third, with $8.6 million in receipts on its opening weekend. box-offic- first-plac- o V i" v' .jr- ' " " box-offic- t i'J''-- ' i'-- box-offic- Andrea Coombes SUZANNE Ryan Troy Gentile, left, Drillbit Taylor Owen Wilson, Wade bully in "Drillbit Taylor." a nasty school HANOVERParamount Pictures Nate Hartley and Emmit David Dorfman conspire to defeat Box Office Dibit Dr. Paging Low-ke- y high school comedy gives you 50 Cody Clark CCs angst-rid-de- Compiled by Exhibitor Relations Co. and Nielsen EDI Inc. for last 1. "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who," Fox, $45,012,998, 3,954 locations, $11,384 average, $45,012,998, one week. . of laughs of harassed newcomer Emmit gangly Wade (Nate Hartis natural and touching. DAILY HERALD ley) and tiny Emmit (David Drillbit is Owen Wilson. That Dorfman) make it through a week's worth of brutal, humili- is to say, Wilson plays the charsays something about "Drillbit Taylor" that the ating horseplay at the hands of acter, and the character is, esFilkins (Alex Frost) and Ronor at least thing I remember most sentially, Wilson from its litany of gags is nie (Josh Peck), before taking the laidback, genially kooky modest bit in which the matters into their own hands. persona that he uses in whole Or rather, into Drillbit's titular Taylor, posing as a subor in part (mostly in whole) for hands he talks a good game every role he plays. The Wilson stitute teacher, starts to give his first name and then, reand keeps the straight truth of persona works better in some movies than in others, and is membering his disguise, shifts his being residential bereft on the fly to "Dr. IUbit." on the down low. He's also a more or less perfectly suited to The moment is more charm"Drillbit Taylor." Special Forces vet and a wideBoth the bullying and the ing than it sounds and the ly experienced bodyguard of writers don't run the joke into the rich and famous. Er, or so bullies are overplayed and the ground. On the other hand, hesays. uninteresting. Any real kids it doesn't seem like a whole lot who got pushed around this Ryan, Wade and Emmit to hang your hat on, does it? don't have a lot of money to cruelly and relentlessly would The movie has an affably be terrified and heartbroken, offer, but Drillbit's not of a mind to pick and choose. And something the movie doesn't split personality, dividing its n time between three the flirty English teacher (Les- even suggest. lie Mann) at the boys' school friends determined to The filmmakers probably make the most of their first turns out to be a big incentive didn't want a sense of genuine menace in their lighthearted year at high school and loosey-goose- y to stay invested in his work. Drillbit, the take-li- f Casting is the movie's bigcomedy. Fair enough, except comes homeless panhangest asset. Young stars Gentile that the characters, especially dler who meets the kids in a and Hartley are both believWade and Ryan, seem so gencoffee shop after they post an able and interesting. Wade uine in other respects that the ad seeking a bodyguard. and Ryan's friendship feels bullying, the key story mechasincere, and their acceptance nism, after all, feels that much Pudgy Ryan (Troy Gentile), It MarketWatch Review CD locations, Brill Cast: Owen Wilson, Leslie Mann, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley Running time: Rating: PG-- 1 1 hrs., 42 min. 3 for crude sexual references throughout, strong bullying, language, drug references and partial nudity Location: Opens Friday at aters everywhere 3. "Never Back Down," Summit Entertainment $8,603,195, 2,729 $3,153 average, $8,603,195, one week. Drillbit Taylor Director: Steven 2. "10,000 B.C.," Warner Bros., $16,773,312, 3,410 locations, $4,919 average, $61 ,577,423, two weeks. the- more phony and contrived. There are torrents of wisecracking whenever the movie isn't reflecting on the dilemmas of young adulthood which it does charmingly, at times and the delivery is often lively and sometimes inspired. The jokes may go in one ear and out the other, but you'll smile as they're passing through the space in between. 4. "College Road Trip," Disney, $7,810,400, 2,706 locations, $2,886 average, $24,203,543, two weeks. 5. "Vantage Point," Sony Pictures, $5,462,747, 2,761 locations, $1,979 average, $59,263,128, four weeks. 6. "The Bank Job," Lionsgate, $5,054,961, 1,613 locations, $3,134 average, $1 3,257,949, two weeks. 7. "Doomsday," Universal Pictures, $4,926,565, 1,936 locations, $2,545 average, $4,926,565, one week. New Line, $3,043,162, 8. "Semi-Pro,- " 2,270 locations, $1,341 average, $29,809,714, three weeks. 9. "The Other Boleyn Girl," Sony Pictures, $2,882,846, 1,212 locations, $2,379 average, $19,153,729, three .weeks. 10. "The Spiderwick Chronicles," Paramount $2,335,238, 2,407 locations, $970 average, $65,376,031, five weeks. |