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Movies that feel likeThe Incredibles (2004)

Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbia. But when he receives a mysterious assignment, it's time to get back into costume.

If you loved The Incredibles, the closest films we have are Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), The Karate Kid (2010) and The Iron Giant (1999). All three share The Incredibles' epic and warm feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Transformers: The Movie (1986).

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Incredibles 2 (2018)

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
2017 · dir. James Gunn
🍅 85%★ 7.6science fiction · adventure · actionDisney+

Common ground in both: hero and superhero

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than The Incredibles does

The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mysteries of Peter Quill's true parentage.

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The Karate Kid
2010 · dir. Harald Zwart
🍅 67%★ 6.3action · adventure · dramaNetflix

The same mix in both: momentum, then scale

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Incredibles does

12-year-old Dre Parker could've been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying but the cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre's feelings make him an enemy of the class bully, Cheng. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is a kung fu master. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life.

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The Iron Giant
1999 · dir. Brad Bird
🍅 96%★ 8.1animation · drama · family

Bird's earlier masterpiece — extraordinary beings choosing who to be

The difference: Cold-War tenderness, small-town scale

In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.

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The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008 · dir. Mark Waters
🍅 81%★ 6.5family · adventure · fantasyParamount+Peacock

Both are built on the same subject: family relationships

Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.

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Raya and the Last Dragon
2021 · dir. Carlos López Estrada
🍅 93%★ 7.3animation · action · adventureDisney+

Extraordinary heroes stitching a fractured world back together

The difference: Quest fantasy, trust the theme

Long ago, in the fantasy world of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. But when an evil force threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, that same evil has returned and it’s up to a lone warrior, Raya, to track down the legendary last dragon to restore the fractured land and its divided people.

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Castle in the Sky
1986 · dir. Hayao Miyazaki
🍅 97%★ 8adventure · fantasy · animationMax

Retro-futurist adventure with real peril and wonder

The difference: Miyazaki's airborne poetry, no supersuits

A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.

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The Transformers: The Movie
1986 · dir. Nelson Shin
🍅 63%★ 7.2animation · science fiction · action

Action built on warmth, twice over

The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.

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🍅 94%★ 7.4action · thriller · adventureParamount+

Brad Bird's other precision-tooled team caper, this time live-action

The difference: No family at stake — pure spy spectacle, light on heart

Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.

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🍅 59%★ 7.4action · adventure · fantasyMax

Kinetic adventure in both cases

Following Smaug's attack on Laketown, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.

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Eragon
2006 · dir. Stefen Fangmeier
★ 5.1fantasy · action · adventureDisney+

Family with a pulse of scale, in both cases

In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.

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The Magnificent Seven
2016 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 64%★ 6.9adventure · action · western

Warm animation, and it commits to that

Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.

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How to Train Your Dragon
2025 · dir. Dean DeBlois
🍅 78%★ 7.7fantasy · family · actionNetflix

Both lean on momentum more than on action

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

On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup stands apart, defying centuries of tradition when he befriends Toothless, a feared Night Fury dragon. Their unlikely bond reveals the true nature of dragons, challenging the very foundations of Viking society.

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