I keep using my amazing ‘knife in Speed Racer tire’ photoshop, because well, it’s appropriate. ‘Speed Racer’ is doing even worse than expected, going by the early box office numbers. It only made $5.85 million Friday and might not even top $20 million for the weekend! That’s an amazing low for a $100 million project, not to mention the $100 marketing budget — some even claim the movie’s budget was as high as $185 million.

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Iron Man: $123,134,395 ($186 million budget)
Made of Honor: $18,675,171 ($40 million budget)
Baby Mama: $12,613,110 ($30 million budget, second week)

A little later because of our server outage, but here’s the weekly roundup for the first week of ‘Iron Man.’

As expected ‘Harold & Kumar 2′ didn’t make the top 3 in its second week, but ‘Baby Mama’ hold up nicely with another $12.6 million in its second week. That’s 42% of its budget and makes to total go well above the $30 million budget.

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This weekend two low rated movies are coming up. ‘What Happens in Vegas’ with a metacritic.com score of 4.0 and ‘Speed Racer’ with an even lower 3.6. Here’s what the critics had to say:

‘Speed Racer’

Philadelphia Inquirer (7.5): “Speed Racer offers a crazy, turbo-charged mix of cartoon kitsch, gamer action, and a wild new way to think of - and look at - movies.“

San Francisco Chronicle (5.0): “If this action extravaganza represents the future of movies, it’s going to be a sad, dead and awful future.“

New York Magazine (2.0): “Orgy, hell: The film is like a nightmare in which you’re trapped in an arcade with screens on all sides and no eyelids“

‘What Happens in Vegas’

ReelViews (6.3): “Sadly, about the nicest thing I can say about What Happens in Vegas is that I didn’t hate it - although I suppose that’s something.“

The Onion (5.0): “Complain all you want about the affable slobs in Judd Apatow comedies; at least they’re not tools.“

Wall Street Journal (1.0): “What Happens in Vegas… should have stayed in development — forever. This ramshackle — and occasionally repulsive — farce doesn’t even deliver on the minimal promise of its title; most of it takes place in Manhattan.“

I guess this will be another week of ‘Iron Man,’ which picked up the nice metacritic.com score of 7.8 last week.