Going to the movies should be fun. Sometimes that fun is just a byproduct of a great film, expertly made, that blows you away with a deep understanding of human interaction and dramatic arcs. Other times the fun comes from sitting down in a darkened theatre, shutting off your higher brain functions, eating some popcorn and letting a movie sweep you away with action and adrenaline-fueled fun. One is not better than the other. They serve different functions. TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON is the latter and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

There has been a lot of hype surrounding the latest TV project from Steven Spielberg. This isn't the first time Big Steve has taken aliens to the small screen. Back in the early 90s, Spielberg brought forth two ambitious TV projects in the forms of SEAQUEST and EARTH 2. 

Both were no where near the quality they should have been and both had an identity crisis soon into production. 

Pixar Animation Studios has a knack for dreaming up wildly inventive story ideas and then seeing them through to finished film with a consistency of quality that no other studio has been able to match. Movies like WALL-E, UP and the TOY STORY series have critics drooling over themselves like Anton Ego over a plate of RATATOUILLE. Then in 2006 Pixar released the first CARS to middling reviews. It was deemed an acceptable movie, good by some standards but not great like we have come to expect from Pixar.

Then something strange happened. Children latched on to CARS. More so than any other Pixar film CARS spoke to the youth market. Toy sales went crazy. Sure parents weren’t as sucked into the story as they might perhaps like – the movie being equivalent of watching cars race in circles around a track – but they didn’t argue when their children wanted to watch it again and again. CARS was a hit with the audience Pixar was created to please. That has to be a win in anyone’s book.

Well, X marked the spot over the weekend. As the X-MEN: FIRST CLASS landed yet again to win the weekend.

This fifth film in the expanding series hauled in $55.1 million. This is far lower than the previous three films but beats the opening of 2000's X-Men and because they are rebooting the franchise from square one with not that well established actors the studio is not nervous.

The movie cost $160 million to produce and has already made close to $120 million if you take in worldwide grosses. By the time it hits VOD it should be lapping up the gravy train.

GOOD NEIGHBOURS is now playing in Toronto and Vancouver