And I think I liked it more than they did.  It’s your typical Disney movie, but it really works!  It was a very cute movie!

From EW:

Forget about what all the politicians say: You should never underestimate the enduring strength of the American family. Take this weekend at the box office. (Please!) The Rock’s domestic comedy The Game Plan, the only PG-rated movie in the top 10, won a showdown with no fewer than eight R-rated wide-release opponents, with a $22.7 million gross, according to Sunday’s estimates.

In fact, it did so pulling away — Friday’s box office reports showed The Game Plan running neck-and-neck with the war thriller The Kingdom; a mere $245,000 separated the two. But the weekend receipts sealed the deal, as out-of-school kids and their parents took to the multiplex and boosted The Game Plan to an easy win, well above The Kingdom’s $17.7 mil second-place finish. But that’s not all that The Rock was cooking in this movie about a football player who must take care of the young daughter he never knew he had. With this big win, the former wrestler may have finally arrived as a financial force to be reckoned with. Discounting his first starring effort, the franchise film The Scorpion King, which wasn’t very dependent on his drawing power, The Game Plan has given The Rock his best opening yet as a lead star, more than $4 mil above the $18.6 mil take for his 2003 action flick, The Rundown. Of course, his real calling in the movies is action, but if he only makes father-out-of-water movies for the rest of his life, this guy’ll be golden.

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