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Movies that feel likeThe Flintstones (1994)

Modern Stone Age family the Flintstones hit the big screen in this live-action version of the classic cartoon. Fred helps Barney adopt a child. Barney sees an opportunity to repay him when Slate Mining tests its employees to find a new executive. But no good deed goes unpunished.

If you loved The Flintstones, the closest films we have are Addams Family Values (1993), Hocus Pocus (1993) and The Santa Clause (1994). All three share The Flintstones' dreamlike and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Babe (1995).

πŸ… 23% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Brian Levantdreamlikewittyplayfulwarmcozy
7 of 12 streaming nowAmazon Prime Video Β· Hulu Β· Disney Plus

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Addams Family Values
1993 Β· dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
πŸ… 76%β˜… 6.9comedy Β· family Β· fantasyParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: jealousy

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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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Hocus Pocus
1993 Β· dir. Kenny Ortega
πŸ… 42%β˜… 6.9fantasy Β· comedy Β· familyDisney+

Both land dream logic and wit at once

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 Santa Clause
1994 Β· dir. John Pasquin
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.6fantasy Β· drama Β· comedyDisney+

The same mix in both: play, then warmth

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Flintstones does

On Christmas Eve, divorced dad Scott Calvin and his son discover Santa Claus has fallen off their roof. When Scott takes the reins of the magical sleigh, he finds he is now the new Santa, and must convince a world of disbelievers, including himself.

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Nanny McPhee
2005 Β· dir. Kirk Jones
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.6fantasy Β· comedy Β· family

Fantasy built on comfort, twice over

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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Matilda
1996 Β· dir. Danny DeVito
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7comedy Β· family Β· fantasy

Dreamlike comedy, and it commits to that

Matilda Wormwood is an brilliant and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and Zinnia, fail to see that fact. As time passes, she finally starts school and has a kind teacher, loyal friends, and a terrifying, sadistic headmistress. As she becomes fed up with the constant cruelty, she discovers she has a special gift that she just might be able to use to outwit the unruly adults around her.

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Babe
1995 Β· dir. Chris Noonan
πŸ… 98%β˜… 6.9fantasy Β· drama Β· comedy

Family with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hoggett knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.

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Jingle All the Way
1996 Β· dir. Brian Levant
πŸ… 20%β˜… 5.8family Β· adventure Β· comedyDisney+

Brian Levant directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Trades the dream logic of The Flintstones for an angle of its own

Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite television hero for Christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man. Now, Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else to find a Turbo Man action figure.

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Doctor Dolittle
1998 Β· dir. Betty Thomas
πŸ… 44%β˜… 5.5comedy Β· family Β· fantasyDisney+

Playful fantasy 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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Casper
1995 Β· dir. Brad Silberling
πŸ… 59%β˜… 6.2fantasy Β· comedy Β· familyHuluPeacock

Common ground: friendship

Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow spirits, he brings along his teenage daughter, Kat. Casper quickly falls in love with Kat, but their budding relationship is complicated not only by his transparent state, but also by his troublemaking apparition uncles and their mischievous antics.

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Evan Almighty
2007 Β· dir. Tom Shadyac
πŸ… 24%β˜… 5.5fantasy Β· comedy Β· family

Both lean on warmth more than on comedy

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

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Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020 Β· dir. Robert Zemeckis
β˜… 5.4comedy Β· fantasy Β· familyRent or buy

Family with a pulse of comfort, in both cases

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

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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Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
1999 Β· dir. Claude Zidi
β˜… 6family Β· adventure Β· comedyPrime Video

Both lean on dream logic more than on fantasy

Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsfolk into mighty soldiers. When Roman troops carve a path through Gaul to reach the English Channel, Caesar and his aide de camp Detritus discover the secret elixir and capture the Druid leader who knows its formula, and Asterix and Obelix are sent off to rescue them.

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