Marvel Barely Makes Top 10 Best Movie Franchises of All Time

How to Train Your Dragon, a series of short- and long-form motion pictures created by DreamWorks Animation, is loosely based on the eponymous series of children’s books by British author Cressida Cowell. The three feature films are: “How to Train Your Dragon” (2010), “How to Train Your Dragon 2” (2014), and “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” (2019).

Monty Python’s Flying Circus was an English troupe whose absurdist take on the world rewrote the rules of sketch comedy and was immensely influential on both sides of the Atlantic. After success on British television, the ensemble made six motion pictures: “And Now for Something Completely Different” (1971), “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (1975), “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” (1979), “Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl” (1982), and “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life” (1983), and “Monty Python Live (Mostly)” (2014).

The Before Sunrise trilogy consists of three American romance films directed by Richard Linklater: “Before Sunrise” (1995), “Before Sunset” (2004), and “Before Midnight” (2013). The first film was co-written by Linklater and Kim Krizan, and its sequels were co-written by Linklater. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy star.

The Toy Story series, produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures, consists of four CGI-animated films released over a 24-year period: “Toy Story” (1995), “Toy Story 2” (1999), “Toy Story 3” (2010), and “Toy Story 4” (2019). “Toy Story,” the first movie in the series was the first feature-length film to be made entirely using computer-generated imagery. The series average Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating of 98% is highest of any franchise on the list. “Toy Story 3” was the No. 1 movie in box-office gross in 2010.

There have been 27 versions of Batman on the big screen and director Christopher Nolan’s is the most famous. HisDark Knight Trilogy is based on the superhero Batman, aka Bruce Wayne, who appeared in DC Comics. The trilogy consists of “Batman Begins” (2005), “The Dark Knight” (2008), and “The Dark Knight Rises” (2012).