Want to know the best Tim Allen movies? How about the worst Tim Allen movies? Curious about Tim Allen box office grosses or which Tim Allen movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Tim Allen movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Tim Allen (1953–) is an American actor and comedian. Allen became famous for his role on the American television show Home Improvement from 1991 to 1999. Over the last quarter of a century he has also been starring in movies. His IMDb page shows over 49 acting credits since 1988. This page will rank 21 Tim Allen movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies not released in North American theaters were not included in the page.
Tim Allen Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Year
Movie (Year)
Rating
S
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
2010
Toy Story 3 (2010)
AA Best Picture Nom
Voice Only
1995
Toy Story (1995)
2019
Toy Story 4 (2019)
Voice Only
1999
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Voice Only
1994
The Santa Clause (1994)
1999
Galaxy Quest (1999)
2002
The Santa Clause 2 (2002)
2007
Wild Hogs (2007)
1997
Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)
2006
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)
1997
For Richer or Poorer (1997)
2004
Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
2008
Redbelt (2008)
2006
The Shaggy Dog (2006)
2001
Joe Somebody (2001)
2002
Big Trouble (2002)
2001
Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001)
2017
El Camino Christmas (2017)
Netflix
2006
Zoom (2006)
2010
Crazy on the Outside (2010)
1997
Meet Wally Sparks (1997)
2013
3 Geezers! (2013)
Tim Allen Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
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- Sort Tim Allen movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Tim Allen movie received.
- Sort Tim Allen movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CreditRank | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review % | Oscar Nom / Win | S | UMR Score |
| 1 | Toy Story 3 (2010) AA Best Picture Nom Voice Only |
Tom Hanks & Michael Keaton |
420.00 | 573.8 | 1,459.4 | 1 | 88 | 05 / 02 | 99.5 | |
| 2 | Toy Story (1995) | Tom Hanks & Pixar |
190.80 | 472.8 | 894.5 | 1 | 94 | 03 / 00 | 99.3 | |
| 3 | Toy Story 4 (2019) Voice Only |
Tom Hanks & Keanu Reeves |
434.00 | 510.8 | 1,263.2 | 5 | 86 | 02 / 01 | 98.8 | |
| 4 | Toy Story 2 (1999) Voice Only |
Tom Hanks & Joan Cusack |
241.90 | 515.3 | 1,024.8 | 3 | 87 | 01 / 00 | 98.6 | |
| 5 | The Santa Clause (1994) | Judge Reinhold | 144.80 | 382.7 | 501.6 | 4 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 94.6 | |
| 7 | Galaxy Quest (1999) | Sam Rockwell & Sigourney Weaver |
71.60 | 152.5 | 193.2 | 29 | 76 | 00 / 00 | 92.8 | |
| 6 | The Santa Clause 2 (2002) | Spencer Breslin & Elizabeth Mitchell |
139.20 | 258.8 | 321.3 | 16 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 90.7 | |
| 8 | Wild Hogs (2007) | John Travolta | 168.30 | 263.7 | 397.4 | 12 | 35 | 00 / 00 | 82.7 | |
| 9 | Jungle 2 Jungle (1997) | Martin Short | 59.90 | 140.7 | 140.7 | 29 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 80.5 | |
| 10 | The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006) | Martin Short & Kevin Spacey |
84.50 | 138.4 | 181.5 | 25 | 40 | 00 / 00 | 71.9 | |
| 11 | For Richer or Poorer (1997) | Kirstie Alley | 31.60 | 74.3 | 76.9 | 64 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 67.3 | |
| 12 | Christmas with the Kranks (2004) | Jamie Lee Curtis & Dan Aykroyd |
73.80 | 128.1 | 167.6 | 39 | 38 | 00 / 00 | 65.6 | |
| 13 | Redbelt (2008) | Chiwetel Ejiofor | 2.30 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 184 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 55.6 | |
| 14 | The Shaggy Dog (2006) | Kristin Davis | 61.10 | 100.1 | 142.8 | 48 | 39 | 00 / 00 | 52.4 | |
| 15 | Joe Somebody (2001) | Julie Bowen | 22.80 | 43.4 | 46.8 | 96 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 40.7 | |
| 16 | Big Trouble (2002) | Rene Russo | 7.30 | 13.5 | 15.8 | 150 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 36.0 | |
| 17 | Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001) | Christian Slater | 0.30 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 256 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 20.3 | |
| 18 | El Camino Christmas (2017) Netflix |
Vincent D'Onofrio | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 390 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 19.8 | |
| 18 | Zoom (2006) | Chevy Chase & Courteney Cox |
12.00 | 19.6 | 20.5 | 148 | 34 | 00 / 00 | 4.2 | |
| 19 | Crazy on the Outside (2010) | Sigourney Weaver | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 256 | 37 | 00 / 00 | 2.6 | |
| 21 | Meet Wally Sparks (1997) | Rodney Dangerfield | 4.10 | 9.6 | 9.6 | 148 | 32 | 00 / 00 | 2.0 | |
| 20 | 3 Geezers! (2013) | J.K. Simmons | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 389 | 34 | 00 / 00 | 1.6 |
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The Toy Story movies are my childhood. Love Tim Allen and Tom Hanks in those movies. Love Tim Allen as Santa as well as his tv roles.
Hey Dawn….thanks for stopping by and commenting. I agree Tim Allen has had two great movie franchises and two long running television shows…that is a hard thing to do.
HI BRUCE: I have not seen one of the 21 films in the above tables and must confess that I would still have little interest in any of them, the Toy Story franchise for example [albeit massively successful and now even legendary] not being to my personal tastes. Nevertheless objectivity obliges me to say that undoubtedly Tim deserves his new page when one considers factors such as-
1/his overall box office performance is solid for so relatively few movies, with 58% of them crashing your $100 million barrier. The combined worldwide gross of the Top 10 movies for which you have given us global stats is almost $4.6 billion or a whopping average per movie of $460 million per movie.
One would suspect that only a select few would beat that performance over 10 movies
2/Tim is said to have a net personal worth of $80 million, a large chunk of which will have come from his long running TV series Last Man Standing [2011 – present]. Tim is the top-billed lead in it and apparently currently earns a lucrative $235,000 per episode. When one learns that he has made 130 episodes to date one can appreciate the gold mine the series has been for him – along with his previous TV sitcom Home
Improvements which ran for 204 episodes from 1991-1999! Over the years he has also appeared in 12 other TV productions and 6 video games, in 5 of which he has been Buzz Lightyear.
One of the beauties of being a box office stats movie buff is that even if you have little interest in a particular performer for his/her own sake you can still take a keen statistical interest in the career itself [sorry that you will never experience such joys Steve!]. As always from you the box office information here is comprehensive, and the career concerned is of reasonable historical importance in modern entertainment. For those reasons and because of what I have said at 1/ and 2/ above I welcome Tim’s new page with a “Voted Up!” IMDB credits Tim with 23 acting awards and 34 noms.
PS Good thoughts on Brando, Garfield and Muni – thanks for sharing them. [Muni was Marlon’s idol.]
Hey Bob. So your grandkids have not dragged you to a single Toy Story movie or made you watch a single Santa Clause movie? That is shocking. Toy Story 1 and Toy Story 2 along with the first Santa Clause movie are worth checking out. On the low budget side…I would recommend Who Is Cletis Tout? In that one Allen plays a hitman named Critical Jim. Critical Jim is a huge movie buff and does his job while treating it like a movie. At one point in the movie….Christian Slater is begging for his life….and Allen’s character treats it as a “movie pitch”.
Without a doubt Tim Allen’s television career has made him a very wealthy man. Having not one but two massively successful television shows is very impressive. That makes his impressive movie stats even more impressive….and with the box office haul Toy Story 4 is about to get…those numbers will only get better…..that movie is being forecasted to reach one billion in worldwide box office.
Glad our Tim Allen page lets you see his career through the statistical eyeglass. Glad you liked my thoughts on Muni, Garfield and Brando. Good feedback as always.
HI BRUCE Thanks for your thoughts on my own comments. I appreciate also your viewing recommendations. I have taken my grand kids to see so many movies at cinemas and provided them with so much home entertainment that I am sure they would always cut me some slack. However Critical Jim sounds like something I might like and as I love Christmas movies I’ll look out for the Santa Claus flicks when the festive season comes around again.
I can’t help wondering though what The Great Man would have thought of all these endless voice role franchises. When he wrote his 1983 masterpiece the likes of Toy Story, Ice Age, Shrek etc weren’t around. For what it’s worth my own feeling is that they might not have been his cup-of-tea as with only a voice performance to target he would not have had the usual scope for savaging an actor that he didn’t like.
You may know that before The Oracle’s favorite punch bag, The Great Mumbler , died he was involved in a production called Big Bug Man in which Brendan Fraser played the title role and Mr Mumbles provided the voice of a Mrs Sour a candy store owner. Mr M is said to have sat around dressed up as a woman when speaking that role.
Advance posters were actually released for it [with Mr M getting equal 2nd billing to Brendan] but for some reason it has never seen the light of day to the best of my knowledge. All of these thoughts do though raise the question of whether it would be feasible to hand 4 stars out for just a voice performance?
Anyway much of the voice role [to my mind] c**p make fortunes so maybe there’s a juicy billion dollar gross waiting to be added to The King of Method’s Cogerson page if Big Bug Man IS ever released, so keep your calculator on standby WH – and meanwhile have a good weekend!
Hey Bob….let me know if your ever track down Who Is Cletis Tout? Never heard of Big Bug Man…I will have to do some research on this movie….surprised it never saw the light of day. Glad you provide them with so much entertainment. I plan on doing that with my granddaughter later this summer. Good feedback.
HI BRUCE For years I tried to find out what happened to Big Bug Man but without success. As I say there’s maybe a massive gross out there just waiting to blow the Cogerson site apart at the seams and send all that over-hyped stuff about The Thin Woman’s box office grosses off into a parallel world somewhere in which the only person that I’ve ever heard of who will hereafter read the latter is Charlie Bill Stuart in some new guise.
However here is a reproduction of a current article from an internet site called “Lost Media.”. The original article is accompanied by many tweets from irate Brando fans protesting about not being able to see their idol’s last act of genius. I am sure that if Hirsch were still around, he would be leading the protests!
There are posters for the movie in the public domain but my own artistic skills are not up to reproducing them so maybe STEVE could help us in that respect?
“Big Bug Man is an unreleased animated superhero television movie that was Written by Simpson’s Writer Bob Bendetson (Who was also co-director) along with Family Guy director Peter Shin and starred the voices of Brendan Fraser and Marlon Brando. It was noteworthy for being Brando’s last film (his last performance would be for The Godfather Game, or at least most of it if not all of it). The film starred Fraser as Howard Kind, an employee of a candy factory that is bitten by bugs and becomes the superhero Big Bug Man. However, he soon becomes corrupted by the business world.
Marlon Brando had initially been approached to play the part of evil businessman, Nicholas Dunderbeck, but Brando, who had always wanted to play a woman, decided to play the small role of the elderly candy company founder, Mrs. Sour, instead. When the directors arrived at his home to record him, they found that Brando had even dressed up in a wig, dress, gloves and makeup to get into character. Brando was frail and required oxygen throughout the recording, but he remarked it was the most fun he had since acting in Julius Caesar. He died the very next month on July 1, 2004.
The film was scheduled to be released in 2006, then 2007, then in 2008. However, nothing has been heard regarding the project’s release since, and its future is uncertain. Storyboard sequences have been since found online.”
Joe Somebody is without a doubt the best Tim Allen movie ever!
Hey Scott D. I liked Joe Somebody….but it would not make my personal Top 5 Tim Allen movies. Hard to believe that movie is now 18 years old. Good comment.
Galaxy Quest is my favorite. Followed by the Santa Claus movies.
Hey Dave W. I love Galaxy Quest…his take on William Shatner is classic!
Loved Home Improvement. Movie career has been good but not spectacular. Love his Buzz Lightyear.
Hey Reggie…..I watched a few episodes of Home Improvement but not many. I do remember it was a massive tv hit that played for years. I agree his movie career has not been as impressive. Buzz and Tim are a great combo. Thanks for stopping by.