Despicable Me has toppled Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and held off competition from The Social Network to top the UK box office this week.
It's been a great year for animation movies and Despicable me follows in the footsteps of toy Story 3 and How To Train Your Dragon, which have all enjoyed huge box office success.
In a happy suburban neighbourhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn.
Unbeknownst to the neighbours, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover Gru planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon.
But all of his dastardly plans are thrown into disarray the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad.
The movie grossed over £3.6 million at the box office this weekend to hold off the challenge from The Social Network. Directed by David Fincher the movie tells the story of the creation of Facebook.
The movie has been met well by the critics and has already topped the box office in America. But taking £2.4 million the movie had to settle for second.
Vampires Suck, which is a spoof movie of Twilight, was the third and final new entry inside the top ten this week as it opened at number three.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps fell three place to number four while comedy Life As We Know It rounded off the top five.
Ben Affleck's The town fell just a single place to number six while Made In Dagenham held onto the seventh spot. Comedy The Other Guys, which sees Mark Wahlberg team up with Will Ferrell, fell four place to number eight.
But this week's biggest faller came in the form of Death & Life of Charlie St Cloud as it dropped six places from three to number nine. Eat Pray Love dropped two places to complete the top ten
1. (-) Despicable Me - £3,664,376
2. (-) The Social Network - £2,486,454
3. (-) Vampires Suck - £1,089,339
4. (1) Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - £675,549
5. (2) Life As We Know It - £624,367
6. (5) The Town - £343,620
7. (7) Made In Dagenham - £343,222
8. (4) The Other Guys - £332,064
9. (3) Death & Life Of Charlie St. Cloud - £314,873
10. (8) Eat Pray Love - £153,276
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