Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!, by Fox, topped this Easter weekend's box office revenues with $25.1 million, according to estimates by Box Office Mojo. Second came new entry Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns, with $20 million, a Lion's Gate Film production. Third place belongs to another new entry, the horror remake Shutter, with $10.7 million, closely followed by another B grade movie, Owen Wilson's Drillbit Taylor.

Overall, a weak weekend with most new entries not very interesting films, maybe excepting Meet the Browns. This enabled Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! to maintain its lead for a second week in a row. The popular animation is thus already 2008's top film so far, with $86.5 mil in total revenues.

Horton is an elephant whose ears are extremely talented. Apart from substituting modern objects, such as a bath cap, for example, they are very sensitive to noises imperceptible to others. It was Horton’s ears that discovered the tiny world hidden in the dust speck. Moreover, his soul is animated by a belief that becomes the leitmotif of the movie “A person’s a person, no matter how small” and it drives him to do anything to protect the little creatures.

Jim Carrey, who at the age of 46 years is more of kid than an adult, brings Horton to life and he is capable to make Horton as genuine as possible. Steve Carell joins the crew as the Mayor of Who-ville, father of 96 daughters and one son and husband of a loyal wife.

The Easter weekend's only notable new entry, Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns, depicts the story of Brenda (Angela Bassett), a single mom of a son and two daughters, battling alone with financial difficulties. As if her initial situation was not precarious enough, she is given the sack from her factory job. With nothing to lose, she takes her three children and heads for a funeral to rural Georgia where she meets her newly found family.

Brenda, played by a talented Angela Bassett, depicts Perry’s favorite type of character: the good-looking woman who has to deal with life troubles alone.

The movie on the third place, a somewhat unimpressive remake of a 2004 Asian movie. But then again I am biased, because I just hate remakes of recent films. Cinemascore also seems to agree and has slapped a C grade on the Joshua Jackson horror.