15 Highest Grossing Movies Of The Decade: Ranked Worst To Best

13. Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Worldwide Box Office: $1.045 billion

All-Time Ranking: #19

2010s Ranking: #15

Consider this: a movie that nobody really cared for at the time and now few people remember is one of the highest grossing movies of all time. Yup, the fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean (the one with the Fountain of Youth) was a billion dollar success, such is the strength of the theme park-cum-movie franchise's name.

That is really the only way to explain away such success, because while On Stranger Tides was intended to be a stripped back return to the franchise after the heavy, convoluted sequels, it remained as leaden as what had come before. Part of the problem is that the main thing that waylaid Dead Man's Chest and At World's End was the one element Disney chose to retain: Captain Jack Sparrow. Johnny Depp's Oscar-nominated character is a great creation, and remains incredibly fun in The Curse Of The Black Pearl, but as the series transformed to put Jack at its centre it became more about enabling Depp's misadventures than it was about entertainment.

Oh, and there's another one coming next year, which will no doubt make even more money.