We let our guard down. With our attentions focused on all things Oscar – which parties to attend, which black dress to wear, how much cocaine to bring — Tyler Perry managed to once again slip past our defenses, kill our end-of-level boss and rule supreme over yet another box office weekend. And while I’ve yet to be able to willfully sit through more than a minute or two of any of his entertaintainment properties, I say more power to him. Seriously. Because hopefully Tyler Perry can finally bury the misconceit that you can’t let a black man top-line a movie unless a) his name is Will Smith or b) he’s sharing top bill with a Chinese guy. Maybe all you studio execs, oblivious to the irony inherent in that Obama sticker on the bumper of your Prius, will finally stop asking writers to figure out ways to make all the characters in their urban comedies white. Maybe you’ll stop using international box office as an excuse to Clorox every film on your development slate. And maybe, just maybe, Tyler Perry can pave the way for a NEW generation of Tyler Perrys, a generation that actually makes watchable, entertaining films instead of whatever that feces is that Tyler Perry squirts out. Seriously — every film he makes has the writing, acting and production value of a bad Canadian movie-of-the-week. Only Canadian drag-queens are at least funny. But whatever, you keep doing what you’re doing, Tyler Perry. I’ll never have the stomach to sit through one of your movies, but as long as someone does, you serve as a beacon of CHANGE and HOPE and all that awesome Hands Across America crap.

The weekend top ten is listed below.

1. Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail(LGF)… $41,120,000
2. Taken (Fox)… $11,400,000
3. Coraline (Focus)… $11,031,000
4. He’s Just Not That Into You (NL)… $8,540,000
5. Slumdog Millionaire (Searchlight)… $8,050,000
6. Friday the 13th (NL)… $7,825,000
7. Confessions of a Shopaholic (BV)… $7,019,000
8. Paul Blart: Mall Cop (Sony)… $7,000,000
9. Fired Up (SGem)… $6,000,000
10. The International (Sony)… $4,450,000

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