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We fully expect a spoof movie completely made up of only Adam Sandler comedies. From the Wayans Brothers, of course.

Kim Hollis: I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry fell only 44% to $19.1 million. The title has a running tally of $71.6 million. Do you consider it a hit?

Reagen Sulewski: It's basically there. It should see about $125 million by the end, which is on the lower end of Sandler's oeuvre, but is still really strong relative to most comedies.

David Mumpower: I think it exemplifies just how much trust Adam Sandler's core group of fans trusts him. Let's be honest about the fact that this looks like garbage and has been shredded by critics. For a title such as that to make $100 million is impressive.

Joel Corcoran: It's already earned more than most comedies released this year, so I think it's safe to call Chuck and Larry a "hit," as much as I don't want to.

Kim Hollis: I wouldn't call it a hit or a miss. It's just, well, a movie that will make Sandler a bunch of money that won't be remembered all that positively.

Shane Jenkins: Dear Adam: Every time we laughed at one of your jokes, we were faking it too. Yes, we know. We're monsters.

Michael Bentley: With the exception of The Wedding Singer, all of Sandler's movies are starting to blend together for me.

When Hairspray meets An Inconvenient Truth, who wins?

Kim Hollis: Hairspray fell 43% to $15.6 million. Its cumulative gross of $59.3 million is great, but this is a larger drop than expected, right?

Reagen Sulewski: This ended up being exactly what I predicted on Thursday. I know the expectation was that the great reviews were going to push it strong through the second weekend, but the drop each day through its opening pointed to something like this for it this weekend. The audience for musicals is deep but not wide - and there are a lot of people that just aren't going to go see a musical no matter how good people tell them it is.

David Mumpower: In addition to Reagen's comments, I also think this behavior reflects Dano's assertion last week. He maintained that Hairspray is effectively High School Musical 1.5, so a film with a primarily teen audience is not expected to hold up as well in its second weekend.

Kim Hollis: Given how solid the word-of-mouth and reviews are, I'm a little surprised this didn't hold up better in weekend two. I guess it had a bit of a fanboy rush that I wasn't expecting.

Jim Van Nest: Tacking onto to David's comment about it having a largely teenage audience, I would think that same audience was part of what made the Simpsons so huge this weekend. And apparently, when forced to choose between Spider-Pig and Travolta in drag, the pig won.

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