Best of the summer box office 2006: Onward to the round of 32

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The best of the summer box office 2006 rolls into the round of 32 with most of the top seeds surviving the first-round voting.

Straight away, I will be honest: I do not have any true "favorite films" from that summer. Do I really, really like any of these pieces of cinema? Yes. Little Miss Sunshine, The Devil Wears Prada, The Break-Up, and An Inconvenient Truth are all films I think highly of. Yes, Snakes on a Plane is good fun and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby truly is a quotable gem that friends and I still quote to this day.


Other films, such as John Tucker Must Die, Accepted, Click, and The Benchwarmers once served as nice background noise with decent cinematic moments mixed in. And others yet were disappointments upon their release, like X-Men 3: The Last Stand and Clerks II, that I don't believe I have seen them more than once. (Okay. Maybe twice.)

All these films and more are still alive in this tournament. One no. 2 seed (You, Me and Dupree) tumbled but all the top seeds remain intact. Will the favorites hold strong to advance? Will the top grossing film of that summer (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest) be the favorite here 20 years later? Vote on Threads or in the comments on the following matchups in the four regions below. 

Happy voting!

May region

  • 1 - X-Men 3: The Last Stand
  • 8 - The Benchwarmers
  • 12 - An Inconvenient Truth
  • 4 - Mission Impossible III
  • 6 - RV
  • 3 - Over the Hedge
  • 7 - Poseidon
  • 2 - The Da Vinci Code

June region

  • 1 - Cars
  • 9- The Lake House
  • 5 - The Break-Up
  • 4 - The Devil Wears Prada
  • 6 - Nacho Libre
  • 3 - Click
  • 10 - Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties
  • 2 - Superman Returns

July region

  • 1 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  • 8 - John Tucker Must Die
  • 5 - Little Miss Sunshine
  • 4 - Miami Vice
  • 11 - My Super Ex-Girlfriend
  • 3 - Monster House
  • 10 - Clerks II
  • 15 - Edmond

August region

  • 1 - Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
  • 8 - Snakes on a Plane
  • 5 - Invincible
  • 4 - Step Up
  • 11 - Beerfest
  • 3 - World Trade Center
  • 7 - Accepted
  • 2 - Barnyard

Seedings were based on the top grossing films according to Box Office Mojo and divided into regions based on their release date. In the May region, a couple films released in April were included to round out the field. 

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