Summer movie season has officially begun, and The Devil has set things ablaze. Just…not as much as some overly optimistic forecasters were predicting.

Yes, our first blockbuster of the season, as far as I’m aware, doesn’t contain any explosions (or maybe it does and they’re hiding that in all the trailers). The Devil Wears Prada 2 struck a pose on the financial runway, bringing in $77 million. That’s huge. And to be blunt, that’s as big as this movie was ever going to get. Not to pat myself on the shoulder too much (alright, maybe a little), I rolled my eyes more than Miranda every time I heard someone say “The Devil Wears Prada 2 is going to make $100 million” or “Meryl Streep is going to bring in Barbie numbers.” That was never going to happen.

So…why are we getting a sequel nearly twenty years after the first one anyway? Going back to 2006, the original Devil Wears Prada opened against Superman Returns as counterprogramming to what was supposed to be the action extravaganza of the year (ironically, Bryan Singer was desperately trying to make a comic book film that was marketable to women). It opened to a healthy $27 million and kept itself in line for a solid run, even as it faced off against the true action extravaganza of the year–Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest–the following weekend (the female audience Singer was trying to court instead helped give the Disney sequel the biggest opening ever at the time). Ultimately Prada would finish with $124 million stateside, but where it really sealed its legacy was cable television. Constant repeats over the past two decades have made it a comfort classic. Yes, yes, you’re going to read about those strong streaming numbers in recent years, but they aren’t why it became as huge as it has. They’re just why Disney noticed it was big.

The “bad news” if we can call it that is that Prada 2 is getting a respectively less warm reception that the first movie critically, even though it deceptively has a higher Rotten Tomatoes score (so-called “chick flicks” simply got a harsher response from reviewers back in the day). Does that mean Devil is frontloaded? Does it even matter? Prada 2 has already brought in $233 million globally. I doubt Disney is worried, even with that $100 million+ price tag.

Arguably just as much as a winner this weekend is Michael, which is continuing to moonwalk over the genre with an outstanding second weekend of $54 million. That’s more than Bohemian Rhapsody made during its opening! So far, Michael has $183 million in the bad bank, and potentially has a lot more to go.

Elsewhere, Neon’s Hokum made $6 million. That’s typical for the hipster studio and a good start for the low budget horror movie. But the “bigger” story was Animal Farm, which got taken to the back of the barn by critics. Is this one as bad as everyone is claiming it is? Probably not. Angel acquired distribution rights for the film after its premiere at Annecy last year, and I think that’s kind of funny. Like, intentionally or not, they tricked their typical faith-based, right-wing audience into seeing a movie with strong anti-capitalist themes (which is the probably the real reason it got that dismal “C-” CinemaScore). Funnily enough, even with its fart jokes, the new Animal Farm is possibly more in line with the book’s message than the 1954 British animated adaptation, which was secretly funded by the CIA to be warped into anti-communist propaganda during the Cold War (that’s not a joke, by the way). Anyway, Animal Farm made only $3.3 million, so it’s off to the slaughterhouse.

Anyway, the top ten, via Box Office Mojo