In the beginning God created heaven and earth. And the earth was formless and empty; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said: Let there be films: and there were films.
And then God said, Hey, you know, we could make a lot more money off this stuff if we did sequels. And there were sequels.
And then these sequences started to intersect with other sequences. So things really I started cooking.
Today, the world of cinema has become a true cinematic universe where individual film series intersect all the time. Several superheroes will come together to fight a threat that none of them could face alone. Or Godzilla and King Kong will fight and/or fight other kaiju to see who is the true king of the monsters.
When these crossover sequences work, they’re a lot of fun; they explore our collective love of imagination and cinema’s unique ability to transform the impossible into reality. When they don’t work, frankly, they stink. They are just horrible. But hey! When any type of film doesn’t work, it stinks. This is no different.
The list of ten films below doesn’t stink. Each of them brought together two (or more!) film franchises for a crossover that proved that sometimes a whole ends up being greater than the sum of its parts. Ranked from pretty fun to epic, here are the best crossover sequences of all time…
The best crossover sequences
When franchises come together, a lot can go wrong. When it works, the results are quite fun.
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