This past Memorial Day weekend was surprising in more ways than one. Although the total U.S. box office take, at $221.8 million was slightly higher than last year’s $219.4 million, the top movie, Night At the Museum: Batle of the Smithsonian, had a total gross of $70 million, much lower than last year’s winner, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which took in $126.9 million during the same weekend.

Utilizing the ticket sales information posted at The-Numbers.com I derived the average ticket prices between 1995 and 2009 and then ranked the 16 #1 Memorial Day weekend movies during those years according to tickets sold.

Pirates of the Carribean: At World’s End, from 2007 won both in terms of ticket sales and the total weekend gross. However in the second place ticket sales position stands a much older movie, The Lost World: Jurrasic Park, which was released over 10 years ago and denotes just how popular that movie really was. BTW, this year’s top movie, Night at the Museum 2, sold under 10 million tickets which places it in the #15 spot.