10 Terrible Movies That Still Managed To Break The Box Office

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 21%

Nobody could ever accuse Alvin and the Chipmunks of being a quality property, originating as it does from a 1950s music industry ploy to sell more records to children. Nevertheless, the brand has enjoyed success across the decades since, and in 2007 made it into the big-time with a CGI/live-action adaptation that introduced the critters to a whole new generation of youngsters.

Enter the, uhh, Squeakquel. If the first film in the franchise was based on a desire to make money and sell toys, the second film perfected this notion, scouring away anything vaguely interesting or inspired and getting out the other side in 88 minutes flat. To their shame, Zachary Levi, Jason Lee and David Cross continued to put their faces on this series of diminishing returns, and only gradually stepped away through two further sequels.

But it's not difficult to see why they stuck around - the films were short, easy shoots and a $70 million budget meant they could all get plenty of the spoils. But what sustained the Squeakquel and its successors most was not the famous faces, but the $443 million box office - a number that had almost halved by the time the series called it quits in 2015.