Easy being green? Film's biggest green icons revealed

Maybe it is easy to be green after all! To mark The Grinch being the highest new entry on this week’s Official Film Chart, we are revealing the biggest selling Green Icons from some of the biggest movies of all time.

We've looked at the sales on disc (DVD and Blu-ray) of films starring iconic characters who just happen to be green.

One character has all the others extra green with envy, while the Top 10 Green Icons can boast combined UK sales on disc of over 30 million copies across 30 movie titles and includes stars from the Star Wars and Muppets series.

Before we give you the full chart, let's check out some of the highlights.

7. The Wicked Witch Of The West
The Wicked Witch Of The West flies in to Number 7 in the Wizard Of Oz. The 1939 classic starring Julie Garland featured Margaret Hamilton as the terrifying Wicked Witch. A special mention goes to the Wizard himself, for being green initially (but of course turning out to be a total fraud – spoiler alert!).
The iconic musical film has sold over 2 million copies on disc, despite its original release date being almost 60 years before the introduction of DVDs.

5. The Grinch
It’s less hate, hate, hate and more love, love, love for Jim Carrey’s 2000 version of How The Grinch Stole Christmas, which we also announced as one of the Top 10 festive films of all time in December.

4. Kermit The Frog
What kind of run-down of green icons would this be without Kermit The Frog? He hops in at Number 4 with his Muppet pals on an array of Muppet movies – his biggest hit on disc being A Muppet’s Christmas Carol. 

3. Mike Wazowski
The child-size cylops steps through door Number 3 on our chart thanks to Monsters, Inc and Monsters University.

1. Shrek
Taking his Number 1 throne is of course Shrek. Voiced by Mike Myers, everyone's favourite ogre first graced our screens in 2001 as he set off on an adventure with a magical talking donkey (Eddie Murphy) to rescue Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz).

The success of the film spawned a cult following, three sequels and a handful of spin-offs. The combined sales of all four films on disc make Shrek our best-selling Green Icon. Of the four instalments in the series – and all of the films counted in this chart – Shrek 2 was the biggest seller.

Top 10 Biggest Selling Green Icons on Disc

© Official Charts Company 2019. Chart shows the biggest selling green characters based on DVD and Blu-ray sales up to the week ending 2^nd March 2019.

Article Image: Yoda © 1980 and 1997 Lucasfilm Ltd. All Rights Reserved. | Monsters Inc © DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS |Shrek © 2001 DreamWorks Animation LLC. All Rights Reserved. | Gamora (1) © 2018 Marvel