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Movies that feel likeHorton Hears a Who! (2008)

An imaginative elephant named Horton hears a faint cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Horton suspects there may be life on that speck and despite a surrounding community, who thinks he has lost his mind, he is determined to save the tiny particle.

If you loved Horton Hears a Who!, the closest films we have are Storks (2016), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) and Flushed Away (2006). All three share Horton Hears a Who!'s whimsical and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Trolls (2016).

🍅 79% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Steve Martinowhimsicalwittyplayfulwarmcozyepic
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Storks
2016 · dir. Doug Sweetland
🍅 65%★ 6.8adventure · animation · comedy

Whimsical and witty in the same breath

Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for a global internet retail giant. Junior, the company’s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorized baby girl...

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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
2009 · dir. Carlos Saldanha
🍅 46%★ 6.9animation · comedy · familyNetflixHulu

Both keep coming back to the same thing: jungle

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Times are changing for Manny the moody mammoth, Sid the motor mouthed sloth and Diego the crafty saber-toothed tiger. Life heats up for our heroes when they meet some new and none-too-friendly neighbors – the mighty dinosaurs.

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Flushed Away
2006 · dir. David Bowers
🍅 72%★ 6.6adventure · animation · comedyNetflix

Playful where it counts, warm underneath

London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the sewer bowels of Ratropolis, where Roddy meets the resourceful Rita, the rodent-hating Toad and his faithful thugs, Spike and Whitey.

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🍅 66%★ 5.9adventure · animation · comedyParamount+

Both land comfort and scale at once

When his best friend Gary is suddenly snatched away, SpongeBob takes Patrick on a madcap mission far beyond Bikini Bottom to save their pink-shelled pal.

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Trolls
2016 · dir. Mike Mitchell
🍅 76%★ 6.4adventure · animation · comedy

Whimsical animation in both cases

After the monstrous Bergens invade Troll Village, Princess Poppy, the happiest Troll ever born, and overly-cautious, curmudgeonly outcast Branch set off on a journey to rescue her friends. Their mission is full of adventure and mishaps, as this mismatched duo try to tolerate each other long enough to get the job done.

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The Road to El Dorado
2000 · dir. Bibo Bergeron
🍅 49%★ 6.9family · adventure · animation

Comedy built on wit, twice over

Stowing away after a failed con, a pair of swindlers end up on El Dorado, the fabled "city of gold", where they quickly get in over their heads when they are mistaken as gods by the inhabitants.

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Rio 2
2014 · dir. Carlos Saldanha
🍅 50%★ 6.3animation · adventure · comedyDisney+

The same preoccupation in both: jungle

It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary of all: his father-in-law.

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Penguins of Madagascar
2014 · dir. Simon J. Smith
🍅 74%★ 6.7family · animation · adventure

Common ground: rescue

Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.

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Ferdinand
2017 · dir. Carlos Saldanha
🍅 71%★ 6.7animation · family · adventureMax

Family with a pulse of play, in both cases

Ferdinand, a little bull, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree just smelling the flowers versus jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow. But one day five men come to choose the "biggest, fastest, roughest bull" for the bullfights in Madrid— and Ferdinand is mistakenly chosen.

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The Secret Life of Pets 2
2019 · dir. Chris Renaud
🍅 60%★ 6.4animation · comedy · family

Both lean on warmth more than on adventure

Max the terrier must cope with some major life changes when his owner gets married and has a baby. When the family takes a trip to the countryside, nervous Max has numerous run-ins with canine-intolerant cows, hostile foxes and a scary turkey. Luckily for Max, he soon catches a break when he meets Rooster, a gruff farm dog who tries to cure the lovable pooch of his neuroses.

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The Smurfs
2011 · dir. Raja Gosnell
🍅 21%★ 5.4animation · family · adventureNetflixParamount+

Cozy fantasy, and it commits to that

When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world and into ours -- in fact, smack dab in the middle of Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before Gargamel tracks them down.

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Bolt
2008 · dir. Chris Williams
🍅 90%★ 6.8animation · family · adventureDisney+

Animation built on scale, twice over

Bolt is the star of the biggest show in Hollywood. The only problem is, he thinks it's real. After he's accidentally shipped to New York City and separated from Penny, his beloved co-star and owner, Bolt must harness all his "super powers" to find a way home.

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