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Yeah, sure, The Princess and the Frog debuts at #1 this weekend after its nationwide expansion; however it barely opens with a croak, snatching up only $25 million. Could this be what Disney imagined it would take in this first three days? I would think so, considering their last 2D cartoon Home on the Range opened at #4 with $13.9 million. However their last animated fable with Pixar was Up, which made $68.1 million in its first weekend alone. I don’t think that 2D animation is quite dead yet, considering the fact that Disney took the risk of making another princess tale, but it appears that audiences still sided with me this weekend in hating on Princess and the Frog. If you want to look on the bright side, it’s up 3,243.5% from last weekend when it was in only two theaters.

At #2 this weekend is The Blind Side, still holding strong. The sports drama raked in another $15.5 million, bringing its total up to $150.2 million in four weeks. Another debut, Invictus opens behind Sandra Bullock’s latest with $9.1 million. A decent enough opening, considering the Nelson Mandela biopic is playing on a few hundred less screens than Clint Eastwood’s last film Gran Torino, which had opened in first with $29.5 million after it had expanded nationwide.

It seems that audiences continue to grow tired of The Twilight Saga: New Moon, in fourth place this weekend with $8 million. The film’s total is now an unfathomable $267.4 million in just about a month. A Christmas Carol drops a spot to fifth, taking in $6.9 million. It drops 11.5% from last weekend. The movie’s grand total is now $124.5 million.

Out of the top five-

• Tom Ford’s heavily-buzzed A Single Man debuts with $216,000 on nine screens.
• Peter Jackson’s poorly-reviewed The Lovely Bones opens with $116,000 on three screens, although when it expands nationwide in January that number will most likely increase.

Here are the box office results according to studio estimates Sunday:

1. 1. The Princess and the Frog…$25 million
2. 2. The Blind Side…$15.5 million
3. 3. Invictus…$9.1
4. 4. The Twilight Saga: New Moon…$8 million
5. 5. A Christmas Carol (2009)…$6.9 million
6. 6. Brothers…$5 million
7. 7. 2012…$4.4 million
8. 8. Old Dogs…$4.4 million
9. 9. Armored…$3.5 million
10. 10. Ninja Assassin…$2.7 million