12 5 Star Wars: The Clone Wars $2,711,145 -52.1% 2,444 -1,008 $1,109 $29,619,167 18 16 Fly Me to the Moon $1,509,198 +6.1% 630 +90 $2,395 $6,242,261 21 17 Wall-E $1,175,863 +21.8% 1,155 +370 $1,018 $217,973,943 24 20 Kung Fu Panda $633,024 +9.3% 460 +23 $1,376 $213,591,364 29 24 Space Chimps $342,627 -15.2% 401 -66 $854 $28,862,148 90 89 Horton Hears a Who $3,662 -2.9% 12 -2 $305 $154,528,032
The Force turned against "Clone Wars" quickly. Its boxoffice plummetted last week, and again though not as much this week. It's already getting hustled out of theaters, which makes sence what with the TV series premiering in less than a month. I guess the "Clone Wars" movie served its purpose of being a big TV commercial.
In the meantime, "Fly Me to the Moon" maintains its modest numbers, gradually increasing its theaters.
I checked the 3D movie out last weekend. Now the 3D effect of the backgrounds actually looked appealing. More believable than the backgrounds in "Beowulf" for sure. 3D still doesn't work well for moving objects though. I had too much trouble keeping characters focused whenever they moved closer or further. The human characters looked pretty good. Their facial features had a roundness and softness that made them more appealing than I expected. But there was no hope for the fly characters. They all had very unimaginative heads, just two big eyes stuck on spheres, stuck on humanlike bodies. I'd need to see "A Bug's Life" again, or even "Ant Bully" and "AntZ", to get some insight as to how to design insect characters appealingly. I couldn't stand to look at the flies in this movie. The movie had extended scenes with no dialogue, and they were the film's best scenes. Particularly the scene of the astronauts wandering around on the Moon, where the movie was at its most charming. When characters did talk, the film reverted to being a mediocre kid's movie. A subplot involving Soviet baddies is thrown in just to eat up time.
