This weekend, Roland Emmerich's high-budget B-Movie 10,000 BC dominated the box office because everyone likes to look at cool effects, even if the movie itself is rotten. The strategically timed, family-friendly offering College Road Trip came in second.

A Globe copyeditor had fun with Ty Burr's review of 10,000 BC, titling the piece "Yabba Dabba Don't."

The other new movies, The Bank Job and Mrs. Pettigrew Lives for a Day, opened at a blah No. 5 and No. 11. It takes a lot to hold our own against a woolly mammoth. The Bank Job wasn't particularly ambitious, but a good Jason Statham vehicle with some well-choreographed action scenes can be worth the price of admission. David Wildman at the Weekly Dig found himself liking it: "... it's still a well-paced, crackling little film, acted with a distinctively British sense of humility and stiff-upper-lip decency, and it does deliver the promised payoff." Compared to lumbering prehistoric creatures, The Bank Job looks like your best bet if you're trolling through the multiplex.

Elsewhere, the Brattle Theatre's "'80s Rock" series continues, culminating with the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense on Thursday.

Poster of 10,000 BC.