The Dreamworks animation, “Kung Fu Panda” proved to be more popular for the moviegoers than Adam Sandler’s return in “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan”. The fluffy Panda bear, voiced by Jack Black, has earned $60,000,000 in ticket sales, surpassing also this year’s previous record for an animation movie held by “Dr Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who!”

The Dreamworks animation tells the story of panda bear Po (Jack Black), who is disappointed that his aspirations in life are limited by his work in his father’s noodle restaurant, a job that a usual panda bear would certainly prefer to a kung fu career. But hey, our hero is no common panda! His incredible self-confidence makes him neglect the fact that he is fat and clumsy when he decides to become a fierce kung fu warrior.

His dream would have never come true if turtle Zen Master Oogway (Randall Duk Kim) hadn’t anointed him, to everyone’s surprise, “The Dragon Warrior,” a champion whose mission is to defend the valley from the wrath of Tai Lung (Ian McShane), a dangerous snow leopard. The community is shocked by the distracted Master’s decision, while Kung Fu master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman), Oogway’s assistant, is totally annoyed.

Tai Lung appears to be a somewhat Luciferian figure, having impersonated, a long time ago, Shifu’s top student and son-like figure. Tai Lung had somehow ended up in a custom-built prison from where he managed to escape and is now expected to bring chaos upon the peaceful community in which Po lives.

In order to fight against the terrible leopard, Shifu has especially trained his top students, who together form “The Furious Five: Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Monkey (Jackie Chan), Viper (Lucy Liu) and Crane (David Cross). This team is supposed to help Po defeat the dangerous enemy. This is, actually, the message of the movie: you should believe in yourself no matter what your limitations and weaknesses are and no matter what anybody else thinks about you.

However, “You Don’t Mess With The Zohan” has also a very good start and the movie has beat the forecasts by earning $40,000,000.

“You Don't Mess With the Zohan,” directed by Dennis Dugan and written by Adam Sandler, Robert Smigel, and Judd Apatow is a superfluous comedy in which Sandler plays the part of Zohan, a top Israeli commando who decides to flee his country because he wants to become a hairstylist in, you guessed it, the land of all possibilities, America. After faking his death, Zohan arrives in America and finds a job as a sweeper in a hair salon in Brooklyn. He changes his name to Scrappy Coco and, after proving his skills in the business, he becomes a real star, attracting many clients,

Zohan aka Scrappy Coco aka Mister Funny, Relaxed at All Times, Sex Machine aka Very Skillful Hairstylist falls in love with his Palestinian boss, Dalia (Emmanuelle Chriqui) and finds himself in the position to revive his old commando habits because a bunch of local Arabs recognize him and decide to take him out.

The movie is filled with physical humor and sex jokes, while the racial stereotyping remains present.

In its third weekend, Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” has gained the third spot, with $22,805,000. “Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” bears very close resemblance to what made its “forebears” so popular and successful. It is still set in the past, in a Nevada of 1957, it still appears to have that ineffable old fashioned style that is so simple and in the same time, so unseen before, which becomes exquisite.

The intrigue of the movie is the eponymous crystal skull, an artifact believed to have been left by aliens in some of their first incursions on the Earth. So far, the movie earned $253,026,000 in the U.S.

The guys at Warner Bros. can say they did a great job when they decided to produce ‘Sex and the City’. The HBO TV series inspired movie did extremely well at the box-office in its second weekend with $21,310,000 in ticket sales and earning the fourth place.

Starting off in present times, not where it left off four years ago, the movie finds Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her three gal pals, Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), Samantha (Kim Cattrall) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) at crossroads.

Carrie is engaged to Mr. Big and planning a major New York wedding. Miranda is trying to work out a balance between her family life and career. Samantha relocated to Los Angeles to be with Smith, her boy toy, who became a TV star in the meantime, while Charlotte is happily married to Harry and the mother of their adopted daughter Lily. The "Sex and the City" movie had a $65 million budget and is written and directed by Michael Patrick King. It runs 135 minutes and is distributed by New Line Cinema and HBO Films.

The fifth sport went to “The Strangers”, a horror movie released last week. The movie, starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman, tells the story of a couple, Kristen and James, who is heading to the vacation home of James’ family, located deep into the dark, scary woods. They seem to take the trip in order to refresh or repair their relationship. Once they arrive at the house, they have to put on hold their one on one quality time, as three masked killers, including a woman, begin to hunt them down. This weekend the movie earned $9,289,000, bringing its total gross to $37,646,000.

“Iron Man” is still an attraction for the moviegoers and made it into Top 10 with $7,522,000.

Enjoying many favorable reviews, the movie boosted the career of Robert Downey Jr., who plays the role of Tony Stark, a billionaire weapons manufacturer who turns himself into a superhero, after being kidnapped by terrorists in Afghanistan. The movie earned $288,893,000 since its release more than one month ago.

“The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" has failed two position, from fifth to seventh spot and earned $5,527,000 this weekend, bringing the total gross to $125,846,000, under its $200 million budget.

In this second movie about Narnia, the Telemarine Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes) is wakened by his mentor, Doctor Cornelius (Vincent Grass), who warns him that his life is endangered by his uncle’s malefic plans. Miraz (Sergio Castellitto), who is a usurper that killed his own brother, intended to make Caspian his heir, but only until he had his own child.

The four Pevensie children Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy (Georgie Henley) will journey back in their fantasy world to help the good prince in his fight against his evil uncle.

“What Happens in Vegas,” starring Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Rob Corddry, Lake  Bell and Dennis Farina, had another good weekend with $3,400,000 in ticket sales. Written by Dana Fox and directed by Tom Vaughan, the 99-minute-Tong comedy shares the story of two people who discover they’ve gotten married following a night of debauchery in Vegas, with one of them winning a jackpot after playing the other’s quarter. The pair tries to undermine each other and get their hands on the money, but they fall in love along the way.

The last two movies in Top 10 were “Baby Mama” with $779,000 and “Made Of Honor” with $775,000.

In “Baby Mama,” Tina Fey plays a career woman who feels that her biological clock ceased ticking subtly and is on the verge of ringing.

Directed by Paul Weiland, and co-written by debutant Adam Sztykiel and Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont, “Made of Honor” is a romantic comedy that did not receive too many favorable reviews. It tells the story of Tom (Patrick Dempsey) and Hannah (Michelle Monaghan), who are best friends until Hannah gets engaged and Tom realizes he is madly in love with her. The movie borrowed elements from several romantic movies and, despite its funny moments, it was considered too predictable.