20 Highest-Grossing Movie Franchises Ranked Worst To Best

Worldwide box office: $6.4 billion.

When the first Fast & Furious was released back in 2001, taking the form of a Point Break rehash but with gorgeous sports cars instead of surf boards and skydiving, no one could have possibly foreseen where things would end up over the next twenty years.

The Fast Saga has morphed its identity throughout its run to feature films about illegal street racing, drug runners, robberies, espionage, supervillains, and world-saving calamities. The characters at its core have gone from criminals to heroes, law enforcement officials to secret agents, and antagonists to vigilantes.

Amongst all the genre-changes and cast switch-ups, the series has also prided itself on being as adrenaline-fuelled and stunt-happy as humanly possible. Cars have flown through the Dubai skyline, characters have cheated death in the most unintentionally hilarious ways, and recently they've even made their way into space.

The series isn't exactly high art, and its constant references to family, its inability to just let villains be villains, its ridiculously implausible storylines and its endless melodrama can be a lot to take, but there's no denying the level of leave-your-brain-at-the-door fun they bring to blockbuster cinema as a whole.