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Movies that feel likeSteamboat Willie (1928)

Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie Mouse, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.

If you loved Steamboat Willie, the closest films we have are Mon Oncle (1958), A Cat in Paris (2010) and You Can't Take It with You (1938). All three share Steamboat Willie'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 One Week (1920).

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Walt Disneywhimsicalwittyplayful
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Mon Oncle
1958 · dir. Jacques Tati
🍅 94%★ 7.6comedyMax

The same mix in both: whimsy, then wit

The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.

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A Cat in Paris
2010 · dir. Jean-Loup Felicioli
🍅 83%★ 6.9animation · comedy

Animation with a pulse of play, in both cases

A thrilling mystery that unfurls in the alleys and on the rooftops of the French capital, Paris, over the course of one adventurous evening.

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You Can't Take It with You
1938 · dir. Frank Capra
🍅 94%★ 7.8comedy · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: black and white

The difference: Leans harder into romance than Steamboat Willie does

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

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

Comedy built on whimsy, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to music than Steamboat Willie does

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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Checkered Ninja
2018 · dir. Thorbjørn Christoffersen
★ 7.1animation · comedy · adventurePrime Video

Witty animation in both cases

A possessed Ninja doll teams up with a teenage boy to avenge the murder of a poor child factory worker.

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Slayers Return
1996 · dir. Hiroshi Watanabe
★ 6.9animation · comedy · fantasy

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

Lina Inverse and Naga the White Serpent are back! What begins as a routine bandit-stomping turns into the adventure of a lifetime involving magical golems, an ancient Elven weapon and even someone bent on destroying the world. It's a predicament only Lina and Naga could get themselves in to.

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Secret Magic Control Agency
2021 · dir. Alexey Tsitsilin
★ 6.2animation · comedy · fantasyNetflix

Both lean on whimsy more than on animation

The Secret Magic Control Agency sends its two best agents, Hansel and Gretel, to fight against the witch of the Gingerbread House.

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The Mitchells vs. the Machines
2021 · dir. Mike Rianda
🍅 97%★ 7.6animation · adventure · comedyNetflix

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

A quirky, dysfunctional family's road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity's unlikeliest last hope.

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Three Little Pigs
1933 · dir. Burt Gillett
★ 7.5music · animation · comedyDisney+

One thread runs through both: short film

The two pigs building houses of hay and sticks scoff at their brother, building the brick house. But when the wolf comes around and blows their houses down (after trickery like dressing as a foundling sheep fails), they run to their brother's house. And throughout, they sing the classic song, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?".

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One Week
1920 · dir. Buster Keaton
🍅 100%★ 8.1comedy

Common ground: short film

The difference: Trades the whimsy of Steamboat Willie for an angle of its own

Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.

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Isle of Dogs
2018 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 90%★ 7.8adventure · comedy · animationMaxDisney+

A streak of play through both

In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.

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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
1999 · dir. Trey Parker
🍅 81%★ 7.7animation · comedyParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: musical

The third graders of South Park sneak into an R-rated film by ultra-vulgar Canadian television personalities Terrance and Phillip, and emerge with expanded vocabularies that leave their parents and teachers scandalized. When outraged Americans try to censor the film, the controversy spirals into a call to wage war on Canada and Terrance and Phillip end up on death row, with the kids their only hope of rescue.

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