# Best crossover movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 8, 2014, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643 "2014-12-08T07:47:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643/1 "2014-12-08T07:47:45Z")
I like crossovers but other than fan fiction or Youtube the only ones I can think of were “Freddy vs Jason” and “Predator vs Aliens”. I would so like to see say Superman in the Star Wars universe or even a Terminator vs Robocop. Any other good crossovers you would like to see? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643/2 "2014-12-08T10:15:51Z")
There was a lot of crossover of cartoon characters from various studios in _Who Framed Roger Rabbit_: > **[List of cameos in Who Framed Roger Rabbit](https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_cameos_in_Who_Framed_Roger_Rabbit)** > > All the Toon characters on this list have either appeared physically or in another form in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. These characters had either appeared in animated features or cartoon shorts made by various studios, presented here. Note: This list... ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643/3 "2014-12-09T08:03:43Z")
Well, there’s that new Hobbit movie opening next week. Gandalf and the ghost of Obi-Wan join Forces to battle and defeat Smaug, Sauron, and the next Sith Lord. ETA: With a cartoon before the main feature, in which Roger Rabbit and the Pink Panther mix it up with Jar Jar. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643/4 "2014-12-09T09:52:13Z")
Murder By Death is a famous detective crossover with the names filed off… ---
**Author:** ![Idilia\_Dubb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c2a13f/32.png) [@Idilia\_Dubb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idilia_Dubb)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643/5 "2014-12-09T18:02:29Z")
_The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_ (2003) was a crossover - or messy mischmasch - of characters from popular 19th century novelists including Rider Haggard, Verne, Stoker, Wilde, Twain and Stevenson. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643/6 "2014-12-09T19:01:23Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Murder By Death is a famous detective crossover with the names filed off… _The Cheap Detective_ was in the same vein by sort of the same folk. _The Maltese Falcon_ meets _Casablanca_ meets … Steve Martin’s _Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid_ mixes up a lot of old movie stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643/7 "2014-12-09T19:52:21Z")
If Lego versions of characters from different franchises count, _The Lego Movie_ is a crossover movie. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643/8 "2014-12-09T23:00:23Z")
[Here’s a whole bunch.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Crossover_films) It includes the one I was going to mention, which is [Bambi Meets Godzilla](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi_Meets_Godzilla). ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643/9 "2014-12-10T15:20:49Z")
If you’re a fan of the 60’s Hanna Barbera characters the movie “Laff A-Lympics” is surprisingly good. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643/10 "2014-12-10T15:32:37Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > If you’re a fan of the 60’s Hanna Barbera characters the movie “Laff A-Lympics” is surprisingly good. They made a movie of it? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643/11 "2014-12-10T15:43:14Z")
R2 D2 & C-3PO were depicted in Raiders of the Lost Ark Howard the Duck had a cameo in Thor: The Dark World. Going forward, I’d like some of the superheroes in various movies at least acknowledge that other famous superheroes _exist_. I realize a crossover isn’t an option, but having Spiderman say “Where are The Avengers when you need them?” would be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643/12 "2014-12-10T15:44:08Z")
I like \*Snow White and the Three Stooges \* (1961) myself. It also includes at least one pretty cool figure skating (!) sequence (the lead is an Olympic gold medalist) and some ventriloquism, if I recall… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643/13 "2014-12-10T16:00:23Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > R2 D2 & C-3PO were depicted in Raiders of the Lost Ark > > Howard the Duck had a cameo in Thor: The Dark World. > > . Are you sure you don’t mean _Guardians of the Galaxy_? By the way, in-jokes like R2D2 and C3P0 being in the wall art in Raiders is nothing new. R2D2 was sculpted into the Mother Ship for _Close Encounters of the Tird Kind_, and actually made it into the final film. There’s a fighter plane from Apocalypse Now sculpted there, too, but it didn’t make the final cut. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643/14 "2014-12-10T16:16:10Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Are you sure you don’t mean _Guardians of the Galaxy_? > By the way, in-jokes like R2D2 and C3P0 being in the wall art in Raiders is nothing new. R2D2 was sculpted into the Mother Ship for _Close Encounters of the Tird Kind_, and actually made it into the final film. There’s a fighter plane from Apocalypse Now sculpted there, too, but it didn’t make the final cut. Remember that LAwrence Kasdan was the screenwriter of both _ **Raiders of the Lost Ark and Empire Strikes Back.** _ Then, next time you see _ **The Big Chill** _ (which Kasdan wrote and directed), note that 1. Kevin Kline’s kids have R2 D2 and C3PO blankets on their beds. 2. When Kevin Kline charges into the attic to catch a bat that’s been scaring the women, he sings out John Williams’ Indiana Jones theme music. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643/15 "2014-12-10T16:18:09Z")
Back in the 1930s and 1940s, Universal Pictures regularly had their popular monsters (Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolfman) cross paths. Two or more of those monsters appeared in: Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein House of Frankenstein House of Dracula. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643/16 "2014-12-10T16:51:10Z")
I’m looking forward to the Batman Vs Superman movie…that counts, right? ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643/17 "2014-12-11T08:47:02Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > I like crossovers but other than fan fiction or Youtube the only ones I can think of were “Freddy vs Jason” and “Predator vs Aliens”. > > I would so like to see say Superman in the Star Wars universe or even a Terminator vs Robocop. > > Any other good crossovers you would like to see? Bourne and Mission impossible would be nice to see cross paths. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643/18 "2014-12-11T09:01:00Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Well, there’s that new Hobbit movie opening next week. Gandalf and the ghost of Obi-Wan join Forces to battle and defeat Smaug, Sauron, and the next Sith Lord. Or Gandalf and Saruman team up to fight Magneto and Count Doku. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643/19 "2014-12-12T17:14:54Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > They made a movie of it? TV movie. You can probably find it on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-crossover-movie/706643/20 "2014-12-12T18:20:35Z")
Xena: Warrior Princess goes to Gor. You know there’s gonna be fighting. And arguing. And fighting! Ninjas vs. Pirates of the Caribbean Conan Meets Xena. At first, they are enemies, then they are friends. Then they are friends with benefits. And in the meantime, they stab a whole lot of bad people. Lawyers, Congressmen, and cannibals, oh my! Enterprise vs. a Star Destroyer. [Actually someone has already done it on Youtub](https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Youtube+Enterprise+vs.+Star+Destroyer)e. A lot.