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The weekend box office estimates, transcribed for your Monday morning pleasure:

1. National Treasure — $17.1 million
Let us pause to survey the sorry landscape of the entertainment world in the post-Thanksgiving weekend, as National Treasure finishes in first place for the third straight week: Nicolas Cage bestrides Hollywood like a twitchy, overacting Colossus, and Jerry Bruckheimer stands between his star's legs, lovingly staring upward at his 30-foot package. The box office results are clearly a mandate for a bushel of Oscar nominations.

2. Christmas With the Kranks — $11.7 million
More like Christmas With the Can We All Just Kill Ourselves and Skip the Movie?

3. The Polar Express — $11 million
Maybe it's not too late for the makers of The Polar Express to slap some motion sensors on Tim Allen and drag their movie into profitability.

4. The Incredibles — $9.2 million
Box office gross in fifth week of release: $226,000,000. 2003 GNP of Vanuatu: $230,000,000. Give Disney a couple of days to even things up.

5. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie —$7.8 million
SpongeBob's continuing success can mean only one thing: someone at Paramount is going to be fired for their senseless profiteering.