MTV’s big screen version of the small screen show, Jackass: Number Two was the first movie since August’s Talladega Nights to open above $20 million in what has been a fairly tepid period at the box office. Also with a solid debut was Jet Li’s Fearless, which pulled in over $10 million, which was on par with his previous picture, Unleashed.

The disappointments this week were Flyboys ( and I thought the plane fight sequences looked kind of cool) and All the King’s Men, with some critics citing Sean Penn as having an over the top performance which looked like an obvious ploy to snag an Oscar nomination.

The weekend’s top ten:

1) Jackass: Number Two – Paramount Pictures – $29.0 million
2) Jet Li’s Fearless – Rogue Pictures (Focus) – $10.6 million
3) Gridiron Gang – Sony Pictures Releasing – $9.5 million
4) Flyboys – MGM Distribution Company – $6.0 million
5) Everyone’s Hero – 20th Century Fox Distribution – $4.7 million
6) The Black Dahlia – Universal Pictures Distribution – $4.4 million
7) All the King’s Men – Sony Pictures Releasing – $3.7 million
The Illusionist – Yari Film Group – $3.3 million
9) The Covenant – Sony Pictures Releasing – $3.2 million
10) Little Miss Sunshine – Fox Searchlight Pictures – $2.8 million