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Not your average ninja, nor your average kids movie about ninjas, the Danish animated feature Checkered Ninja (Ternet Ninja) lies somewhere between a clever coming-of-age cartoon and a racy comedy more suitable for a slot on Adult Swim.

The brainchild of comedian, writer and co-director Anders Matthesen (The Trouble With Terkel), who adapted from his best-selling book, this well-conceived sophomore effort has been a whopping success in Denmark, where it has scored the most admissions for a homegrown movie since the mid-1980s. Overseas sales have been brisk, although the film isn't entirely appropriate for the PG-and-under set.

Any cartoon whose ...

Not your average ninja, nor your average kids movie about ninjas, the Danish animated feature Checkered Ninja (Ternet Ninja) lies somewhere between a clever coming-of-age cartoon and a racy comedy more suitable for a slot on Adult Swim.

The brainchild of comedian, writer and co-director Anders Matthesen (The Trouble With Terkel), who adapted from his best-selling book, this well-conceived sophomore effort has been a whopping success in Denmark, where it has scored the most admissions for a homegrown movie since the mid-1980s. Overseas sales have been brisk, although the film isn't entirely appropriate for the PG-and-under set.

Any cartoon whose ...

A not-for-children CG 'toon that isn't suited for grown-ups, either, the Danish import The Trouble With Terkel follows its title character through a high-school crisis involving death threats, bullying and almost unbelievably bad musical numbers. Amateurish on many levels and at some point seeming to have been made up on the spot (which would be quite a feat for animation), the collaboration between directors Thorbjorn Christoffersen and Stefan Fjeldmark is a strong contender for the year's worst film, and not in a fun way. Distributors say it is expanding into additional theaters in its second week of release — not...

While it was comparatively unheralded prior to release, N-Secure managed to easily top all limited releases in its debut weekend. Waiting for "Superman" had another solid showing, and John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy expanded its way up the chart. Tea Party documentary I Want Your Money was unable to grab much cash from audiences, while Clint Eastwood's Hereafter had a strong limited . N-Secure opened to $1.17 million at 486 locations, which was good for 14th place on the overall weekend chart. The drama had a poor $2,400 per-theater average. This was a recent pick-up for Freestyle Releasing, and it yielded the distributor's biggest opening since The Collector from last July. Waiting for "Superman" nearly doubled its theater count to 182 and was up 16 percent to $742,725. This was the documentary's largest weekend yet, though its per-theater average of $4,081 was a step down from past sessions. Through its fourth weekend, "Superman" has earned $2.52 million. Nowhere Boy...