20 Highest-Grossing Movie Franchises Ranked Worst To Best

Worldwide box office: $3 billion.

Animated movies aren't always held to the same standards as live-action film, and that really is a shame, because there can be no doubt that Toy Story deserves to almost top this list.

Released back in 1995, the series has only four movies to its name, spread over nearly twenty-five years and predating many of its biggest fans. But, as the saying goes, it's quality, not quantity, and over those four films Pixar Studios crafted one of the most affecting big screen stories about growing up, moving on, and accepting life as it comes.

Equal parts hysterically funny, tragic and relatable, the films were bursting with unforgettable characters, visceral social commentary, and plotlines so unique and clever they effortlessly appeal to both young and old alike.

From the first time we see Buzz Lightyear fall with style to the moment it looks like the toys are doomed to be incinerated, Toy Story made its audiences laugh, cry and think like no other family adventure before or since, and helped shape an entire generation of young moviegoers in the process.