10 Best Movie Franchises That Started In The 1990s

10 Best Movie Franchises That Started In The 1990s

Franchises dominate today’s Hollywood, but they’re nothing new. The 1990s brought such franchises as Toy Story, Blade, and Mission: Impossible.

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With the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the DC Extended Universe, and countless other shared movie universes, it’s safe to say that franchises dominate today’s Hollywood. But they’re not a brand-new phenomenon. Going back half a century to the James Bond and Planet of the Apes movies, franchises have been around for a while.

The 1990s introduced audiences to such beloved series as Toy Story, The Matrix, and Mission: Impossible. Some of the decade’s most renowned movie franchises are still pumping out highly anticipated sequels to this day.

10 Blade

The success of the MCU is often attributed to Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man and Bryan Singer’s X-Men. While the superhero film genre wouldn’t be where it is today without those game-changing classics, Wesley Snipes’ Blade movie predates both of them.

The critically panned Howard the Duck was the first major studio tentpole adapted from a Marvel Comics character, but Snipes’ Blade launched the first Marvel movie franchise.

9 Austin Powers

After turning an SNL sketch into a successful movie for the first time since The Blues Brothers, Mike Myers brought an original creation to the big screen. The Austin Powers films combine a spoof of the James Bond tropes with a satire of the long-gone Swinging Sixties era.

On top of being a spot-on lampoon of the Bond formula, the Austin Powers franchise has a hilarious fish-out-of-water culture-clash element as a hippie from the ‘60s struggles to adapt to the ‘90s.

8 Candyman

1992’s Candyman is one of the most beloved slashers ever made. The franchise uses a ghost story about an ex-slave who was brutally murdered as an exploration of urban myths and racially motivated violence.

Earlier this year, Nia DaCosta’s acclaimed Candyman reboot – which significantly expanded the lore from the previous movies – proved that the story’s themes are just as poignant and relevant today.

7 View Askewniverse

Before Marvel and DC were ambitiously crossing over their recurring characters from movie to movie, Kevin Smith was doing just that in the “View Askewniverse,” his shared cinematic universe of pop culture-loving New Jersians.

From Clerks to Chasing Amy, some of the most acclaimed comedies of the ‘90s belong to the View Askewniverse. The movies are primarily tied together by the presence of Jay and Silent Bob, two slackers who hang out outside a convenience store and sell weed, played by Jason Mewes and Smith himself.

6 Bad Boys

Will Smith became one of the biggest movie stars in the world throughout the ‘90s, and he used that star power to launch two franchises: Bad Boys and Men in Black. While the Men in Black movies put a fun sci-fi spin on the familiar “buddy cop” premise, the Bad Boys movies have been more consistently awesome with a more conventional take on the formula.

Michael Bay’s explosive action filmmaking style brought the spectacle, while Smith’s impeccable chemistry with Martin Lawrence brought the substance.

5 The Matrix

The Wachowskis blew audiences away with their action-packed sci-fi epic The Matrix. Combining explosive action sequences and thought-provoking meditations on the fabric of reality, The Matrix became one of the biggest hits of the ‘90s.

After the runaway success of the original, the Wachowskis helmed back-to-back sequels, Reloaded and Revolutions, that matched the first movie’s box office success (although, unfortunately, not its critical acclaim). Lana Wachowski has helmed a new sequel, The Matrix Resurrections, as a solo director.

4 Scream

Throughout the ‘80s, as every horror filmmaker took a crack at the Halloween formula, the slasher genre became tired and overdone. Then, in the mid-‘90s, Wes Craven managed to revamp the genre with the self-aware satire of Scream. The characters in Scream are familiar with the kind of horror movie they’re in, and Kevin Williamson’s script also has a refreshing whodunit element.

As with any game-changing horror movie, Scream’s unique premise has since become a franchise formula. The movie was followed by three sequels – with another one on the way in January – that all have a self-aware edge and a whodunit angle.

3 Mission: Impossible

Brian De Palma kicked off the Mission: Impossible franchise with a middling spy thriller. The movies that followed, helmed by John Woo and J.J. Abrams, were somewhat hit-and-miss, but M:I became a must-see action series with its fourth installment, Ghost Protocol.

Since then, the franchise has been defined by the one-upmanship of Tom Cruise’s death-defying stunt work. He’s dangled from a helicopter, jumped from rooftop to rooftop, and scaled the side of the tallest building in the world.

2 Before Trilogy

Richard Linklater’s Before movies comprise one of the most perfect trilogies in film history. Before Sunrise opens with a chance meeting on a train between Julie Delpy’s Céline and Ethan Hawke’s Jesse. As they wander around Vienna, they fall madly in love.

The equally beautiful sequel, Before Sunset, picks up nine years later as the couple spends another day walking around a European city (Paris this time). Before Midnight, one of the few satisfying threequels, picks up nine years after that. Together, these three movies make up one of the greatest love stories ever told.

1 Toy Story

Pixar made film history in the mid-1990s with Toy Story, the first ever fully computer-animated feature-length movie. On top of being a technological breakthrough, Toy Story was also praised for its airtight storytelling, lovable characters, and engaging worldbuilding.

The studio followed up Toy Story with three sequels that all managed to match its universal critical acclaim. Even the fourth movie, after the third one provided pitch-perfect emotional closure, satisfied fans.

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