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Kim Hollis: Little Boy, a film that ends (I don't care, I'm spoiling it), with a boy wishing for the bomb that ends World War II, earned $2.8 million this weekend. Say... something about this movie.

Edwin Davies: Never has a film gone from being something I didn't know existed to something I couldn't believe existed quite as quickly as Little Boy managed it. I mean, the premise of the film is ridiculous, offensive, and baffling in its attempt to be an uplifting, faith-affirming story about a little boy who essentially wishes for death and misery to be visited upon hundreds of thousands of people. It really is quite something, and this is one of the many times that I'm sad that no one is breaking down the demographics of how many people see a film out of morbid curiosity. If anything less than 30% of the audience for Little Boy this weekend went to see it for reasons of schadenfreude, I will be shocked.

Matthew Huntley: Without having seen this movie yet, the ending alone makes me angry. Then again, the trailer, when I saw it, also made me angry. At least it wasn't a big moneymaker this weekend. So as the "Little Boy" in the movie was wishing for a bomb to be dropped, the movie itself was turning into one. Karma, perhaps?

Jason Barney: It opened in 13th place nationally. Not a lot of people are going to see it. It will be forgotten sooner rather than later, but there are plenty of other bad ideas that were made into film.

Ryan Kyle: Can I just copy and paste what Edwin says? Not only does Kevin James star in a movie he should be embarrassed about at the top of the box office, but one he should redact from his resume at the bottom of the box office as well.

Michael Lynderey: I liked it better when it was called Fat Man and Little Boy and co-starred Paul Newman (a lot of people don't know that he was actually grossly overweight).

By the way, I saw Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 and I liked it. I liked it even better than the first Paul Blart, which was okay. I stand in solidarity with the two reviewers on Rotten Tomatoes who share my view on the matter. It appears the overwrought critical hate for the Blart sequel is some form of mass hysteria or extremist groupthink. What has this man done to earn such hate?

Tim Briody: I hope nobody who writes about box office without reading plot descriptions says that this movie bombed.

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