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Ay, Chihuahua: She's No. 1 -- should we fear for the future?
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by Trey Graham

In what some cultural observers suggest is an indication that the end is near, the movie you liked best this weekend was ... Beverly Hills Chihuahua.

Now, bear in mind this is out of a crop that includes Jonathan Demme's critically hailed Rachel Getting Married, the music-fueled geek-in-love comedy Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, and the fancy-pedigree apocalyptic thriller Blindness, starring everybody's favorite wan-lady heroine, Julianne Moore.

OK, so Chihuahua opened on 3,215 screens, while the Demme film only hit nine. (So it's not like that one, anyway, was really in competition).

But still: $29 million for the "Chee-WOW-wa"-lost-in-Mexico movie. (Really: pronouncer courtesy of the Disney press kit.)

Fun times.

categories: Movies

9:27 - October 6, 2008

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