Beverly Hills Chihuahua took first place at the box office for the second week in a row suffering only a 40% drop from its opening week. The talking dog movie featuring, um, talking dogs unexpectedly felled Leonardo DiCaprio and Russel Crowe’s Body of Lies which only managed to take in $13.1 million, not even good enough for second place. The horror movie Quarantine took that spot with $14.2 million. Opening tenth was City of Ember a Bill Murray kid’s film about something or other.

This must suck for DiCaprio, Crowe and Ridley Scott. Getting a $70 million budget for their movie only to be humiliated by CGI manipulated dogs. I heard Crowe was so pissed he beat a couple chihuahuas senseless with a telephone. Some people call him an animal abuser. Others like to think he’s just passionate.

Following up on Pajiba’s review of “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” (try to guess if they liked it), Box Office Mojo says that it was number one over the weekend. Going up against other new releases like “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” and “Blindness,” it managed to best them and make $29 million. $12 million more than last week’s number one, “Eagle Eye”. No small feat considering the trailer looked absolutely horrible. Like, if you bleached your brain, you still wouldn’t forget how horrible it is. It would make even the most enthusiastic chihuahua lover kick one out of spite.

“Nick and Norah” came in third. Possibly because people have finally realized they can’t relate to these “Juno” type comedies. Honest to blog.

“Blindness” opened up in 12th place. There were reports that the blind were going to protest this movie, but I don’t think that’s what affected their numbers as I’m pretty sure, unbeknownst to them, they were redirected towards the Scientology building.