Cars had enough left in the tank to win the weekend box-office race, despite a big road bump named Jack Black and three other new releases.

The Disney-Pixar 'toon revved up $33.7 million in its second weekend, a decline of about 44 percent from its opening victory lap, but held off a strong challenge from Black's wrestling comedy Nacho Libre, which pinned down the second-place slot with $28.3 million, according to final studio figures Monday. Cars' overall box-office take is up to $117.1 million.

Trailing in third was The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, the third entry in the slam-bang franchise, which crossed the line with $24 million.

Onetime Speed freaks Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock's reteaming for the time-bending romance The Lake House was apparently caught up in a real-estate downturn, checking in at number four with just $13.6 million.

The fifth and final new film in wide release, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, wound up in the proverbial litter box, only scratching up $7.3 million in seventh place.

Paramount's Nacho Libre had the best per-screen average in the Top 10, with $9,221 at 3,070 sites. While Black's School of Rock debuted at number one in 2003, it raked in $19.6 million on an average of $7,507 (by comparison, his most recent film, a little ditty called King Kong, muscled its way to $50.1 million on a $14,050 average). Nacho Libre did mark a personal best tally for director Jared Hess, whose cult hit Napoleon Dynamite opened in 2004 with $116,666 (although that was at just six sites for $19,444 per-screen average).

Cars, meanwhile, averaged $8,458 per site at 3,988 theaters.

Although the PG-13 rated Tokyo Drift, starring Lucas Black as a Yank hot-rodding fast and loose in the Japanese underworld, came nowhere near the $50.4 million kickoff of 2 Fast 2 Furious in 2003, a Universal spokesperson said the studio felt the Paul Walker-less new movie "opened well," and would do well on DVD. The film averaged a decent $7,920 at 3,207 locations, with an audience that was 58 percent male and 60 percent under 25, and performed very well in foreign markets, finishing first in the U.K. and Australia.

That left Warner Bros.' The Lake House (a $5,166 average at 2,645 sites) in the dust. The studio claimed the Bullock-Reeves reteaming, which attracted a 73 percent female audience, did better than expected and could be the sleeper hit of the summer.

Tail of Two Kitties, in which the ill-mannered feline (again voiced by Bill Murray) switches places with a posh look-alike in London, failed to come close to the $21.7 million debut of 2003's Garfield: The Movie. Fox's PG sequel release averaged $2,474 at 2,946 locations.

Elsewhere at the mulitplex, Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn's The Break-Up edged closer to $100 million, earning another $9.8 million in fifth place to bring its three-week gross to $92.3 million.

And while the Garfield sequel was a veritable hairball, Fox's X-Men: The Last Stand continued to rake it in, picking up $7.8 million in sixth place for a four-week total of $216.2 million, surpassing the $214 million earned by its predecessor, X2: X-Men United.

In limited release, Wordplay, the new game-happy doc by New York Times puzzlemaster Will Shortz, scored, averaged a weekend-best $16,424 on two screens to net $32,847.

The overall box office was down 2 percent from last weekend but up 12 percent from the same time last year, when Batman Begins had flown to the rescue.

Here's a rundown of the top-grossing weekend films, compiled by Exhibitor Relations from final studio tallies:

1. Cars, $33.7 million
2. Nacho Libre, $28.3 million
3. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, $24 million
4. The Lake House, $13.6 million
5. The Break-Up, $9.8 million
6. X-Men: The Last Stand, $7.8 million
7. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, $7.3 million
8. The Omen, $5.6 million
9. The Da Vinci Code, $5.3 million
10. Over the Hedge, $4.3 million

(Originally published June 18, 2006 at 2:35 p.m. PT.)