Los Angeles - The Other Guys are the main guys at the box office, knocking off Inception to take the No 1 spot.
The buddy-cop parody starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg made $35.6m in its opening weekend, according to Sunday estimates from Sony Pictures.
Inception, which had been the top film in the country the past three weeks, fell to No 2 with $18.6m.
Christopher Nolan's mind-bending dream picture from Warner Bros has now made $227.7m since its debut July 16.