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Movies that feel likeScooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)

A masked villain wreaks mayhem on the city of Coolsville with a monster machine that creates real-life versions of Mystery Inc.'s former foes like The 10,000 Volt Ghost, The Cotton Candy Glob, The Skelemen and The Pterodactyl Ghost. Fred, Daphne, Shaggy, Velma and Scooby-Doo launch an investigation into the monster outbreak that leaves Shaggy and Scooby questioning their roles in Mystery Inc. Eager to prove their detective skills, the ever-ravenous duo comes up with a secret plan to solve the mystery all by themselves. Can the gang unravel their most challenging case?

If you loved Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, the closest films we have are Hail, Caesar! (2016), Zero Effect (1998) and The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972). All three share Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed's twisty and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Estômago: A Gastronomic Story (2008).

🍅 22% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Raja Gosnelltwistyepicwittyplayful
8 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Disney Plus

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Hail, Caesar!
2016 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 86%★ 6.3comedy · mystery

Twisty and witty in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.

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Zero Effect
1998 · dir. Jake Kasdan
🍅 66%★ 6.9mystery · crime · comedy

Common ground: detective

The difference: Less epic, more its own thing

Daryl Zero is a private investigator and—along with his assistant, Steve Arlo—he solves impossible crimes and puzzles. Although Daryl's a master investigator, he doesn't know what to do with himself when he's not working; he has no social skills, writes bad music and drives Steve crazy.

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🍅 67%★ 7.2comedy · mystery

Mystery built on play, twice over

The difference: Lighter on scale

A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.

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Inherent Vice
2014 · dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
🍅 73%★ 6.6drama · mystery · comedyRent or buy

Both are built on the same subject: detective

The difference: Leans further into drama

In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009 · dir. Terry Gilliam
🍅 63%★ 6.7adventure · fantasy · mystery

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The difference: Played as fantasy first

After a carnival troupe saves his life, a man agrees to help its immortal leader collect five souls and win a bet with the devil.

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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994 · dir. Tom Shadyac
🍅 48%★ 6.9comedy · crime · mystery

Twisty comedy in both cases

He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The Ace is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!

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Inheritance
2024 · dir. Sylwester Jakimow
★ 5.1comedy · mysteryNetflix

Both lean on wit more than on mystery

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2020s show

When their rich uncle passes, his mansion of intricate puzzles becomes the backdrop for his estranged family's quest to secure a portion of his wealth.

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In for a Murder
2021 · dir. Piotr Mularuk
★ 5.5crime · comedy · mysteryNetflix

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

A stay-at-home mom and avid reader of crime stories discovers the deepest secrets of a small town's residents while investigating a woman's murder.

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Murder Mystery
2019 · dir. Kyle Newacheck
🍅 43%★ 6.1comedy · mystery · crimeNetflix

Twisty adventure, and it commits to that

On a long-awaited trip to Europe, a New York City cop and his hairdresser wife scramble to solve a baffling murder aboard a billionaire's yacht.

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Estômago: A Gastronomic Story
2008 · dir. Marcos Jorge
★ 7.8drama · comedy · mystery

Witty mystery, and it commits to that

In a dog-eat-dog world, Raimundo Nonato has found an alternative way to move ahead: he cooks. No matter what social strata this deceptively innocent young man inhabits, he hones his skills and sharpens his knives—and then he falls in love. Jorge's nimble comic fable provides a smartly constructed gastronomic allegory for ambition and survival.

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🍅 80%★ 6.6action · adventure · dramaPrime Video

Adventure built on scale, twice over

When the future empress Wu Zetian's two courtiers die in a mysterious fire, she gets Di Renjie, a former detective and rebel, released from prison to solve the mystery of the fire.

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National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007 · dir. Jon Turteltaub
🍅 35%★ 6.5action · adventure · mysteryDisney+

Epic comedy, and it commits to that

Benjamin Franklin Gates and Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben must follow a clue left there to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

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