Weddings comedy tops UK film chart

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LONDON (Reuters) - Romantic comedy "27 Dresses" topped the British film charts after its opening weekend, knocking Dr Seuss off its perch, according to Screen International on Wednesday.

The story of a perpetual bridesmaid longing for her own big day, starring Katherine Heigl of "Grey’s Anatomy" fame, took 1.75 million pounds.

In second place, up one, was dance-school caper "Step Up 2 The Streets," a successor to 2006’s "Step Up."

Down one place in third was "The Spiderwick Chronicles", the story of a New York couple and their three children moving into one of moviedom’s spookiest houses.

Dr Seuss’s "Horton Hears a Who," the animated tale of an elephant trying to save a microscopic world on a speck of dust was at four.

New at five was teen comedy "Drillbit Taylor" with Owen Wilson as a down-at-heel bodyguard hired by three geeks to stop them being bullied at school.

At six, down two was "Meet The Spartans," a parody of the Spartan epic "300," while at seven, also down two, was caveman epic "10,000 BC."

The story of a presidential assassination plot, with Dennis Quaid and William Hurt, "Vantage Point," was down two places at eight while Disney’s "The Game Plan," with wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, .....continued below

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"The Orphanage" a Spanish horror movie about a missing child, was unchanged at 10.

(stephen.addison.reuters.com@reuters.net)