Okay, it seems that we have a hangup on Alvin and the Chipmunks, but the success of that movie suggests that children are more in charge of their parents' dollars than ever. We're not talking teenagers controlling the box office--we're talking the little critters. Further proof of that was provided when Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour was number one at the box office.

If teenagers controlled the world, the horror remake The Eye, with Jessica Alba, would have been number one, but it settled for the second spot after the spawn of Billy Ray Cyrus.

Who is this Hannah Montana person? Is Disney sure she's not the same person as Hilary Duff? And what does she have to do with Billy Ray Cyrus? Hannah Montana is a television show popular with the young ones, and Miley Cyrus, the aforementioned spawn of Billy Ray, plays the title character, an ordinary teen with a double life as a pop star. Yet the character is so wildly popular that the personalities of Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus appear to have merged. A graduate paper is waiting to be written on this very subject. Hannah Montana is all fun and games as long as these multiple personalities don't drive Ms. Montana/Cyrus into a padded cell like a certain other teen starlet.

In other box office news, no one was excited to see Eva Longoria on the big screen in Over Her Dead Body. But a real baffler was the failure of Strange Wilderness. A big dumb comedy usually makes a little coin, but apparently Wilderness was neither big enough nor dumb enough. At least Strange Wilderness gave Ty Burr the opportunity to use the phrase "righteous bowl."