The recent summer movie season proved to be one of the most successful in Hollywood history, with many movies making millions of dollars and appealing to audience members around the globe.

But a few of these films stood out to the students of Brebeuf Jesuit.  As determined by a survey of Brebeuf students, here are the best summer movies of 2015.

1. Jurassic World

The highest grossing film of the summer was also the most loved. Jurassic World Indominus Rexed the competition in the polls and at the box office, raking in over 640 million dollars domestically with a total worldwide cume of over 1.6 billion. In addition, the film broke box office records with the highest weekend opening of all time and a position at number three of highest grossing films of all time, passing The Avengers. These enormous box office numbers along with the always likeable Chris Pratt as the lead led World to become the most liked summer movie of 2015 at Brebeuf.

2. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

The fifth installment of the Mission Impossible franchise was praised by both critics and audiences. The film Tom Cruised its way to over 180 million dollars domestically, becoming a financial hit. Chalk up the likeability of the movie to impressive action sequences, an interesting plot, and a string of double-crosses that always had the viewer guessing. Most likely due to this film’s success, a sixth Mission Impossible has been greenlit and will be arriving to theaters most likely in the next couple of years.

3. Avengers: Age of Ultron

Marvel Studios can do no wrong, or at least that is what it seems as of late. The sequel to the 2012 hit, The Avengers, arrived in theaters smashingly, making over 400 million dollars at the box office. Although the plot was more like a week of Ultron rather than an age, audiences generally enjoyed the somewhat darker plot, dark for Marvel, and the new character additions of Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, and Vision. In addition, this film could be the very important in the scope of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where it could affect the way Captain America: Civil War plays out.

4. Mad Max: Fury Road

The over thirty-year-old franchise about a post-apocalyptic wasteland was remade this year starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron.  It gained enormous praise from critics and audiences for using practical instead of special effects that added a depth to the action and made the movie feel more raw and realistic. Many students at Brebeuf reported that they were shocked by this movie; this shock factor, along with a box office of over 150 million dollars, helped propel it into the top five.

5. Magic Mike XXL

The sequel to the 2012 male stripper dramedy appealed to a somewhat ignored Hollywood demographic: young (as in 20-something) females. The majority of votes for this film came from women within the school who really enjoyed it and not just because it’s a movie about male strippers. Many said that the plot and story was compelling and the characters interesting. These factors pushed Mike into the number five slot on this list.

At the other end of the popularity spectrum, here is what most people conceived as the worst film of the summer.

Fantastic Four

This big-budget reboot of the popular superhero characters was a massive flop both with critics and audiences, earning a measly 50 million dollars at the box office (in Hollywoodland, that’s not a lot) on a reported budget of 130 million. The film, based on reports, has been Victor Von Doomed from the start with many production problems such as multiple reshoots of scenes and rewrites of the script happening on the daily. This film might the reason 20th Century Fox reverted the rights to these characters back to Marvel Studios, where they truly belong.