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Ip Man is a five-film martial arts-theme franchise based on the life of Ip Man, a martial-arts grandmaster and the teacher of Bruce Lee. The films focus on events in Ip’s life, beginning in the 1930s at the start of the Sino-Japanese War. Donnie Yen stars in all five motion pictures as Ip Man. The first of the series, “Ip Man,” premiered in 2008, and was followed by “Ip Man 2” (2010), “Ip Man 3” (2015), “Master Z: Ip Man Legacy” (2018), and “Ip Man 4: The Finale” (2019). The series scored almost identical positive scores among Rotten Tomatoes critics and audiences alike.

The three Captain America films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe – “Captain America: The First Avenger” (2011), “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” (2014), and “Captain America: Civil War” (2016) all starred Chris Evans in the title role. A fourth movie, “Captain America: New World Order,” is scheduled for release in 2024. Captain America has almost identical positive reception between Rotten Tomatoes critics and audiences.

The Shaun the Sheep movie franchise is based on a BBC stop-animation series about a sheep in northern England who leads his flock. The first film in the series, “Shaun the Sheep Movie,” was written and directed by Richard Starzak and Mark Burton and released in 2015. Rotten Tomatoes critics gave it a near-perfect score of 98%. The sequel, “A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon,” was released four years later and has an RT score of 96%.

The beloved three-film Back to the Future series was a fun time-travel ride with Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, and Lea Thompson. All three movies were directed by Robert Zemeckis. “Back to the Future,” the first of the series that was released in 1985, holds a 97% Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes. The film was the top-grossing movie in 1985.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Avengers is one of the highest-grossing movie franchises of all time. There are four movies in the franchise: “The Avengers” (2012), “Avengers: Age of Ultron” (2015), “Avengers: Infinity War” (2018), and “Avengers: Endgame” (2019). The superheroes are based on characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.