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By The Associated Press, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Movies
Wed, 07/09/2014 - 11:53am

Hollywood is often criticized for its constant recycling, but the top six movies at the summer box office are all either sequels, reboots or new twists on old properties: X-Men: Both became hits by irreverently parodying their own crassness as a toy movie and as an unnecessary sequel. [...] the other family films, "How to Train Your Dragon 2" ($142 million) and "Rio 2" ($142 million), have failed to generate the kind of summer box office usually expected of such big-budget animated releases.

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