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Movies that feel likeAnimal Crackers (1930)

The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.

If you loved Animal Crackers, the closest films we have are Top Hat (1935), Waiting for Guffman (1997) and A Mighty Wind (2003). All three share Animal Crackers' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Court Jester (1955).

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Victor Heermanwittyplayfulstylish
4 of 12 streaming nowAmazon Prime Video · MGM Plus

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Top Hat
1935 · dir. Mark Sandrich
🍅 100%★ 7.7music · comedy · romance

Two things both keep coming back to: musical and black and white

The difference: Sits closer to romance than Animal Crackers does

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.

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Waiting for Guffman
1997 · dir. Christopher Guest
🍅 91%★ 7.4comedy · music

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.

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A Mighty Wind
2003 · dir. Christopher Guest
🍅 87%★ 7.2comedy · music

Comedy built on style, twice over

Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor, at the request of his son.

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The Court Jester
1955 · dir. Melvin Frank
🍅 97%★ 7.8music · adventure · comedy

Witty music, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Animal Crackers does

A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.

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An American in Paris
1951 · dir. Vincente Minnelli
🍅 95%★ 7.1music · romance · comedy

The same preoccupation in both: musical

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.

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White Christmas
1954 · dir. Michael Curtiz
🍅 76%★ 7.6comedy · music · romancePrime Video

Both lean on play more than on comedy

Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.

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A Night at the Opera
1935 · dir. Sam Wood
🍅 97%★ 7.8comedy · music

Stylish music in both cases

The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

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You, the Living
2007 · dir. Roy Andersson
🍅 98%★ 7.4drama · comedy · music

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.

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Funny Face
1957 · dir. Stanley Donen
🍅 85%★ 7music · comedy · romance

Playful music in both cases

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

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My Fair Lady
1964 · dir. George Cukor
🍅 94%★ 7.7comedy · music · drama

A streak of style through both

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

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Wayne's World
1992 · dir. Penelope Spheeris
🍅 79%★ 7comedy · music

Cut from the same comedy cloth

The adventures of two amiably aimless metal-head friends, Wayne and Garth. From Wayne's basement, the pair broadcast a talk-show called "Wayne's World" on local public access television. The show comes to the attention of a sleazy network executive who wants to produce a big-budget version of "Wayne's World"—and he also wants Wayne's girlfriend, a rock singer named Cassandra. Wayne and Garth have to battle the executive not only to save their show, but also Cassandra.

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The Chorus
2004 · dir. Christophe Barratier
🍅 68%★ 7.9drama · comedy · music

Both play music straight

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

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