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Movies that feel likeLegend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)

When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the legendary Guardians to stop the menace.

If you loved Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, the closest films we have are Epic (2013), Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998) and Anastasia (1997). All three share Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole's whimsical and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Secret of Kells (2009).

🍅 52% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Zack Snyderwhimsicalepicwarmcozydreamlike
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Epic
2013 · dir. Chris Wedge
🍅 65%★ 6.6animation · adventure · familyMax

Common ground: villain

A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world—and ours.

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Kirikou and the Sorceress
1998 · dir. Michel Ocelot
🍅 96%★ 7.5fantasy · adventure · animationPrime Video

Whimsical where it counts, epic underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

Drawn from elements of West African folk tales, it depicts how a newborn boy, Kirikou, saves his village from the evil witch Karaba.

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Anastasia
1997 · dir. Don Bluth
🍅 83%★ 7.2animation · family · fantasyDisney+

The same preoccupation in both: villain

Ten years after she was separated from her family, an eighteen-year-old orphan with vague memories of the past sets out to Paris in hopes of reuniting with her grandmother. She is accompanied by two con men, who intend to pass her off as the Grand Duchess Anastasia to the Dowager Empress for a reward.

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The Secret of Kells
2009 · dir. Tomm Moore
🍅 90%★ 7.5animation · family · fantasy

Both land warmth and comfort at once

The difference: Goes its own way on the scale

Adventure awaits 12 year old Brendan who must fight Vikings and a serpent god to find a crystal and complete the legendary Book of Kells. In order to finish Brother Aiden's book, Brendan must overcome his deepest fears on a secret quest that will take him beyond the abbey walls and into the enchanted forest where dangerous mythical creatures hide. Will Brendan succeed in his quest?

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How to Train Your Dragon
2010 · dir. Dean DeBlois
🍅 99%★ 8.1fantasy · adventure · animationParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: friendship

As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle. But after downing a feared dragon, he realizes that he no longer wants to destroy it, and instead befriends the beast – which he names Toothless – much to the chagrin of his warrior father.

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The Rescuers
1977 · dir. Wolfgang Reitherman
🍅 79%★ 6.9fantasy · family · animationDisney+

Dreamlike animation in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

Two agents of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society search for a little orphan girl kidnapped by sinister treasure hunters.

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Arthur and the Invisibles
2006 · dir. Luc Besson
🍅 21%★ 6adventure · fantasy · animation

Whimsical adventure, and it commits to that

Ten-year-old Arthur, in a bid to save his grandfather's house from being demolished, goes looking for some much-fabled hidden treasure in the land of the Minimoys, tiny people living in harmony with nature.

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Return to Never Land
2002 · dir. Robin Budd
🍅 46%★ 5.8adventure · fantasy · animationDisney+

Family with a pulse of scale, in both cases

In 1940, the world is besieged by World War II. Wendy, all grown up, has two children; including Jane, who does not believe Wendy's stories about Peter Pan.

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The Polar Express
2004 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
🍅 55%★ 6.6adventure · animation · family

Fantasy built on warmth, twice over

When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.

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Brave
2012 · dir. Mark Andrews
🍅 78%★ 7.1adventure · animation · familyDisney+

Both lean on comfort more than on animation

In the mystical Scottish Highlands, Merida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Queen Elinor. An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Merida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently brings turmoil to the kingdom. In an attempt to set things right, Merida seeks out an eccentric old Wise Woman and is granted an ill-fated wish.

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Song of the Sea
2014 · dir. Tomm Moore
🍅 99%★ 8family · animation · fantasy

Family built on dream logic, twice over

The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with Granny in the city. When they resolve to return to their home by the sea, their journey becomes a race against time as they are drawn into a world Ben knows only from his mother’s folktales. But this is no bedtime story; these fairy folk have been in our world far too long. It soon becomes clear to Ben that Saoirse is the key to their survival.

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The Good Dinosaur
2015 · dir. Peter Sohn
🍅 76%★ 6.7adventure · animation · familyDisney+

One thread runs through both: friendship

An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.

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