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Max Braden: I think the darker material's rating affected business as much as the mixed reviews did. Paul Blart was a PG film while Observe and Report was rated R; all those 15-year-old boys who flocked to the first were locked out of the second. And maybe grossout comedies have finally found the "too far" line with post-vomit kissing.

Reagen Sulewski: I'm actually somewhat impressed that it earned this much - it's a film with a thoroughly unpleasant cast of characters that wasn't even really trying for mainstream success, and would have opened to about $2 million prior to Rogen becoming a name. It's sort of a case of Rogen being too well known at this point to make the counter-culture film. I have to wonder how hard his agent tried to push him away from this.

Gotta catch 'em...er, wait.

Kim Hollis: Dragonball Evolution, which is apparently a theatrical adaptation of well, whatever Dragonball is, opened to $4.8 million and a per location average of $2,132. Say something funny about Dragonball Evolution.

Josh Spiegel: Dragonball's Evolution was into the latest disappearing movie-of-the-week. It also evolved into a film that needed no marketing, since I saw no ads at all for this one.

Brandon Scott: Dragonball evolved into a fetus and died. Sick, but true.





David Mumpower: I...don't think it did, Captain Disturbing.

Tim Briody: Too bad the per screen average sucked so I am robbed of yet another OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAAND! joke.

Joel Corcoran: I didn't think anyone could throw under Dragon Wars in the genre of dragon-themed movies, but ... well, there you go.

Sean Collier: Umm.....Pokemon, Strong Bad, Akira, Tentacle Porn, No-Face from Spirited Away, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Street Fighter II...sorry, I got nothin'.

Max Braden: Joel brings up my secret shame - I paid to see Dragon Wars in the theater, but I wouldn't get caught paying to see their balls.

Reagen Sulewski: So opening a movie based on a trend five years afters its audience has outgrown is a bad thing? I had no idea.

David Mumpower: All kidding aside, we've seen this behavior before. In 1999, Digimon was a hugely popular Pokemon clone. The movie was greenlit for October of 2000. By the time it came out, the fad had died. The film wound up earning less than $10 million domestic after an opening weekend of $4.2 million. Once we adjust for inflation, it actually did about a million more than Dragonball, a film I expect to wind up with about $12 million in domestic revenue.

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