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The big cheese
Who says people don't want to see animated movies about rats? Pixar's "Ratatouille," a terrific tale of a rodent who longs to become a chef, took the top spot at the box office this weekend with $47.2 million. That's a bit low for the animation studio that also created "Toy Story," "A Bug's Life" and more--the opening for "Ratatouille" places it fifth out of Pixar's eight movies, behind "Finding Nemo," "Cars," "Monsters, Inc." "Toy Story 2" and "Ratatouille" director Brad Bird's "The Incredibles," but it was still enough to take down Bruce Willis' weirdly topical action sequel, "Live Free or Die Hard." The chrome-dome cop took in $33.1 million (and $48.2 million since opening Wednesday) to land at No. 2. In only 441 theaters, Michael Moore's funny and upsetting "Sicko" racked up $4.5 million (more than $10,000 per screen), while the twinkly and pretentious "Evening" made only $3.5 million in just shy of 1,000 theaters.
Is "Ratatouille" the year's best movie? Did "Sicko" make you want to leave the country and go somewhere like Canada with universal health care coverage? How excited are you for "Transformers"?
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