Ranking the 10 best Jack Black movies

Based on the popular children’s horror novels by R.L. Stein, Goosebumps is a film that follows a fictionalized version of the author, played by Black, as he attempts to wrangle in the monsters who have gotten loose around the town of Madison, Delaware. This is a great one for families who want some tame horror with a touch of humor that Jack Black always infuses into even the darkest situations. A sequel without Black was released in October of 2018 titled Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween.

While companies like DreamWorks and Pixar have dominated the animation scene for the last two decades, there are a few franchises that have been able to blossom outside of this dominant orbit. Ice Age from Blue Sky Studios has been one of the most successful family-friendly movie series since the 2000s. The first film features three era-specific animals that form a bond with a human baby while trying to save it from the dangers of the natural world around them. Jack Black provides voice work as Zeke, one of the saber-toothed tigers opposing the protagonist group. Unfortunately, Black never appeared in any of the sequels of Ice Age.

There’s no movie quite like Tropic Thunder, a war spoof carried by a Ben Stiller-led ensemble cast. Black plays an actor who is addicted to drugs and has no real acting skills other than to make inappropriate poop and fart gags. Black leans all the way into this role, accentuating all of his typical humorous traits to perfection in a much more adult setting than what we usually expect him to appear in.