Over the weekend, the latest Disney animated movie Frozen joined the hollowed ranks of the few movies to cross the $1,000,000,000 mark at the worldwide box office. The ice-princess hit became only the 18th movie EVER to cross the billion dollar threshold, although the frequency of movies passing the magic nine-zero'd number is rising all the time. So we decided to look back over the other movies that have managed to back a billion, and rank them from worst to best, to see just how deserving they were of all of our monies.

17. ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Budget: $200 million
Box Office: $1.025 billion
Yep, the worst billion dollar making movie has got to be Tim Burton's take on the classic tale of a girl who shrinks and grows and meets an evil queen and yada yada yada. Johnny Depp plays a weirdo (yet again) and Burton provides some nice imagery (yet again) but the whole thing is so frightfully dull that you'll be longing for the 1951 animated version, which is what we'd recommend you watch instead of this.

16. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES
Budget: $250 million
Box Office: $1.045 billion
The fourth in the Pirates franchise was undoubtedly the worst, even under the guidance of a new director, and discarding Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom for a hot but forgettable new cast. The plot was also distinctly lacking in any kind of memorable event or standout action sequence, which is disappointing when you're spending a quarter of a billion on making the thing.

15. STAR WARS: EPISODE ONE - THE PHANTOM MENACE
Budget: $115 million
Box Office: $1.027 billion
Adjusted for inflation, A New Hope made $1.5 billion in the USA alone, but we're not discussing inflation, just plain and simple numbers, and by those rules, the worst film in the Star Wars series is also the only one to make a billion. Maybe Episode One is why non-fans avoided Attack Of The Clones ($649 million) and Revenge Of The Sith ($848 million), but the real new hope is that the new entries in the series will outperform The Phantom Menace.

14. TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON
Budget: $195 million
Box Office: $1.123 billion
The third - and arguably the best - in the Transformers series ended up outperforming anyone's guestimations of what a movie about giant robots that turn into cars could manage. A major step up in quality from the travesty that was Revenge Of The Fallen, but the fact that even that scrapheap managed to gross $836 million just goes to show that there's no real accounting for taste.

13. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST
Budget: $225 million
Box Office: $1.066 billion
Yep, ANOTHER Pirates movie made it into the billion dollar bracket, with another - At World's End - just shy with $963 million. Dead Man's Chest is kind of a mess, about half as good and half as much fun as The Curse Of The Black Pearl, yet managed to make almost twice as much money. Oh, and in case you weren't paying attention, that makes THREE Johnny Depp movies that made over a billion. Acting a weirdo sure does seem to pay off!

12. THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
Budget: $200 million - $315 million (unconfirmed)
Box Office: $1.017 billion
This is the point in the list where the movies become "good”. Audiences were still on a high from the ending of the Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, so obviously chomping at the bit for me, returned for some Middle Earth prequel stories. Not as good as the original trilogy, but still a decent action adventure with some great visuals and kinetic sequences. Improved upon by The Desolation Of Smaug, which fell just shy of this list with $922 million.

11. TITANIC
Budget: $200 million
Box Office: $2.186 billion
The first of two James Cameron movies on the list, and the first of the two movies to cross the TWO billion dollar mark, the other also being a James Cameron movie. Titanic is a very easy film to be cynical about, but at the time it was a cultural phenomenon, and even now, if you're in the right mood for it, the epic romance against the backdrop of an epic disaster can still manipulate you into having a good time. Even if that good time is nearly 200 minutes long.

10. HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HOLLOWS PART 2
Budget: $250 million (shared with Part 1)
Box Office: $1.341 billion
Eight films across ten years, and the Harry Potter series finally came to end with its most successful franchise entry to date. Not necessarily the best movie of the bunch (that title probably belongs to The Prisoner Of Azkaban), but the culmination of all the heroes and villains into a hugely destructive wizarding war scene across Hogwarts made it all worthwhile.

9. IRON MAN 3
Budget: $200 million
Box Office: $1.215 billion
The first of the stand-alone Marvel superhero movies after The Avengers finally assembled, Iron Man 3 saw a massive boost to its box office thanks to new writer and director, Shane Black, returning a certain level of acerbic quality to the series after the lacklustre second outing. Oddly though, the closest competitor in the Marvel universe was Thor: The Dark World, but that barely made half what Iron Man 3 did, with $641 million.

8. THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
Budget: $250 million
Box Office: $1.084 billion
Once the dust had settled, it became clear that TDKR was obviously not as good as The Dark Knight, but nor was it the disappointment some made it out to be. Between the bodybuilding Bane, the slinky Catwoman and plot that borrowed liberally from today's headlines, Rises is still a pretty great Batman film, even if the plot holes were big enough to drive the Batmobile through.

7. AVATAR
Budget: $237 million
Box Office: $2.782 billion
Here we are, the biggest box office hit of ALL TIME. Is it the greatest movie of all time? Far from it. But still, this was the movie that really put modern 3D on to the cinematic map (for better or for worse), and nobody knows how to direct epic action scenes like James Cameron. Yes, it was Dances With Ferngully, but this was still event film-making on a scale and scope that isn't really reached for much these days.

6. MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS
Budget: $220 million
Box Office: $1.518 billion
Bringing together their superheroes was risky - for every Iron Man and Thor, there was a Captain America or Hulk that didn't quite work out - and putting them all under the control of Joss Whedon - a man who's only other directorial outing made $38 million worldwide - but it all paid off in the end. One of the most fun, entertaining and bombastic movies of the decade, this was the benchmark that all other comic book movies were soon comparing themselves against.

5. SKYFALL
Budget: $200 million
Box Office: $1.108 billion
After the fantastic Casino Royale, and the not-so-fantastic Quantum Of Solace, things really could've gone either way. Turns out, thanks to some fantastic directing by Sam Mendes, Skyfall would be one of the best Bond movies ever. Everything from the cinematography to the soundtrack to the action scenes to the character quirks (that touchy-feely interrogation scene!), this pushed Bond in a new direction, while solidifying everything we loved about the series.

4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
Budget: $94 million
Box Office: $1.120 billion
One of the lowest budgeted movies on the list, the finale of The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy was a fitting climax to a landmark cinematic saga. Brilliantly staged war scenes, amazing special effects, and all of the endings you could possibly ask for and then some! Some people may nitpick, but this truly was OUR generation's Star Wars, and The Return Of The King was an awesomely impressive finale.

3. TOY STORY 3
Budget: $200 million
Box Office: $1.063 billion
It seems odd that until Frozen, Toy Story 3 was the only animated movie to have crossed the billion dollar mark, but that just goes to show that it really does take an animated movie that appeals to both children and adults alike for it to make this kind of money. Arguments could potentially go on until the end of time about which of the three was the best Toy Story movie, so let's just say that they're all equally great, and leave it at that.

2. THE DARK KNIGHT
Budget: $185 million
Box Office: $1.004 billion
Scrapping past the billion dollar mark by the skin of its teeth, The Dark Knight may not have the commercial and populist appeal of The Avengers, but it is the best comic book movie ever made, so it has that on its side. It was a perfect storm of Nolan's direction, Zimmer's score work and Ledger's unhinger performance that made TDK totally unmissable, and completely rewatchable.

1. JURASSIC PARK
Budget: $63 million
Box Office: $1.029 billion
This might be a little bit like cheating since this movie didn't cross the billion dollar mark until after its 3D re-release, but it did manage to cross it, so not only does it make this list, but it tops it. The daddy of the modern blockbuster, with still impressive SFX, a great cast, some killer scenes and… dinosaurs. It's just so deceptively simple, we're shocked nobody thought of it earlier. Dinosaurs in a dinosaur park break loose, eat the visitors. Brilliant.