Wild Hogs sees the suburban bikers mixing with Hell's Angels

The film stars John Travolta and Tim Allen as middle-aged men who decide to ride through the US on motorbikes.

Including previews, it took £1.69m over the weekend, pushing Mr Bean's Holiday into second place. The Rowan Atkinson comedy has taken £18.3m in total.

In third place is Will Ferrell ice-skating comedy Blades of Glory (£740,872) and at number four is action movie Shooter (£716,202).

UK AND IRELAND TOP FIVE 1. Wild Hogs, £1.69m (including previews) 2. Mr Bean's Holiday, £1.52m 3. Blades Of Glory, £740,872 4. Shooter, £716,202 5. 300, £499,369 Source: Screen International

Sword and sandals epic 300 (£499,369) slips to fifth place with a total box office of more than £13m.

Danny Boyle's sci-fi film Sunshine drops to number six in the new chart, adding £443,368 to its box office total of £2.24m.

Two foreign-language films make their debut in the top ten, with Chinese action epic Curse of the Golden Flower taking over £350,000 at number eight.

Directed by Zhang Yimou, who made Hero and House of Flying Daggers, the film broke box office records on its release in China.