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Movies that feel likeMary Poppins Returns (2018)

Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.

If you loved Mary Poppins Returns, the closest films we have are Nanny McPhee (2005), Addams Family Values (1993) and Christopher Robin (2018). All three share Mary Poppins Returns' dreamlike and warm feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Enchanted (2007).

🍅 80% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Rob Marshalldreamlikewarmcozywittyplayful
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Mary Poppins (1964)

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Nanny McPhee
2005 · dir. Kirk Jones
🍅 74%★ 6.6fantasy · comedy · family

Common ground in both: nanny and family relationships

Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the kids, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee.

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Addams Family Values
1993 · dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
🍅 76%★ 6.9comedy · family · fantasyParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: nanny

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

Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.

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Christopher Robin
2018 · dir. Marc Forster
🍅 73%★ 7.2adventure · comedy · familyDisney+

Common ground: family

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than Mary Poppins Returns does

Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something.

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Hocus Pocus
1993 · dir. Kenny Ortega
🍅 42%★ 6.9fantasy · comedy · familyDisney+

One thread runs through both: magic

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.

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The Christmas Chronicles
2018 · dir. Clay Kaytis
🍅 67%★ 7comedy · adventure · familyNetflix

Dreamlike and warm in the same breath

Siblings Kate and Teddy try to prove Santa Claus is real, but when they accidentally cause his sleigh to crash, they have to save Christmas.

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Enchanted
2007 · dir. Kevin Lima
🍅 93%★ 7.1comedy · family · fantasyDisney+

Both are working the same pair: musical, a woman at the center

The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her aid - even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince back home - she has to wonder: Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?

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Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
★ 5.4comedy · fantasy · familyRent or buy

Both land comfort and wit at once

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.

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Just Another Christmas
2020 · dir. Roberto Santucci
★ 6.7comedy · drama · fantasyNetflix

Fantasy with a pulse of play, in both cases

After taking a very nasty fall on Christmas Eve, grinchy Jorge blacks out and wakes up one year later, with no memory of the year that has passed. He soon realizes that he’s doomed to keep waking up on Christmas Eve after Christmas Eve, having to deal with the aftermath of what his other self has done the other 364 days of the year.

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Evan Almighty
2007 · dir. Tom Shadyac
🍅 24%★ 5.5fantasy · comedy · family

Both lean on dream logic more than on family

God contacts Junior Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.

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Doctor Dolittle
1998 · dir. Betty Thomas
🍅 44%★ 5.5comedy · family · fantasyDisney+

Warm comedy in both cases

A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor's advice, unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turns his world upside down!

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CJ7
2008 · dir. Stephen Chow
🍅 49%★ 6.4comedy · drama · family

Fantasy built on comfort, twice over

A poor construction worker, who struggles to keep his son in private school, mistakes an orb he finds in a junkjard for a toy which proves to be much, much more once the young boy starts to play with it.

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Dolittle
2020 · dir. Stephen Gaghan
🍅 15%★ 5.6family · comedy · fantasyRent or buy

Witty family, and it commits to that

After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and discovers wondrous creatures.

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