10 Movie Franchises That Set The Bar Too High For Themselves

Jurassic Park, much like the X-Men series, appears to have been a victim of its own success on two occasions.

1993's seminal dinosaur action/adventure/science fiction masterpiece both changed the game and ruined it for any subsequent dino flicks.

I mean, how do you top that water moving scene as the T-Rex approaches for the first time? Or that Velociraptor kitchen scene?

You don't apparently, or at least you don't for just over 20 years, as Steven Spielberg's follow up The Lost World (1997) and Joe Johnston's Jurassic Park III (2001) both didn't come close to matching the original with either their box office returns or overall popularity.

A welcome break from all things Jurassic eventually lead to 2015's mega hit and franchise re-energizing Jurassic World.

Sure, it still didn't hold a candle to the original, but it was a charming entry which introduced the concepts of genetically enhancing species and even creating whole new dinos altogether.

However, this box office smash (earning a gigantic $1.672 billion) couldn't effectively follow up on those promising elements in the sequel. Instead of giving us genetically altered raptors acting as biological weapons for the military (which was hinted at in JW) we got an odd narrative centred around human cloning.

Jurassic World 3 (or Dominion as it is rumoured to be going by) looks set to finally deliver on the promise of an all out war across the planet, pitching Dinosaurs against those pesky humans.

As of now, though, both Jurassic World and Jurassic Park are about as good as it gets for this prehistoric monstrosity.