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Movies that feel likeThe Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)

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.

If you loved The Mitchells vs. the Machines, the closest films we have are Isle of Dogs (2018), Checkered Ninja (2018) and A Cat in Paris (2010). All three share The Mitchells vs. the Machines' whimsical and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Steamboat Willie (1928).

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mike Riandawhimsicalepicwittyplayful
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Isle of Dogs
2018 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 90%★ 7.8adventure · comedy · animationMaxDisney+

Both land whimsy and scale at once

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

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Leans further into fantasy

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

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

Whimsical animation in both cases

The difference: Goes its own way on the scale

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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Sausage Party
2016 · dir. Conrad Vernon
🍅 82%★ 6.1adventure · animation · comedyRent or buy

Adventure built on scale, twice over

Hot dog Frank leads a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they're chosen to leave the grocery store.

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Steamboat Willie
1928 · dir. Walt Disney
🍅 100%★ 7.4animation · comedyDisney+

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: 93 years apart, and the 1920s show

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

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Mon Oncle
1958 · dir. Jacques Tati
🍅 94%★ 7.6comedyMax

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

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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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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Storks
2016 · dir. Doug Sweetland
🍅 65%★ 6.8adventure · animation · comedy

Another one that scratches it

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for a global internet retail giant. Junior, the company’s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorized baby girl...

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The Secret Life of Pets 2
2019 · dir. Chris Renaud
🍅 60%★ 6.4animation · comedy · family

Both lean on wit more than on animation

Max the terrier must cope with some major life changes when his owner gets married and has a baby. When the family takes a trip to the countryside, nervous Max has numerous run-ins with canine-intolerant cows, hostile foxes and a scary turkey. Luckily for Max, he soon catches a break when he meets Rooster, a gruff farm dog who tries to cure the lovable pooch of his neuroses.

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🍅 66%★ 5.9adventure · animation · comedyParamount+

Both lean on play more than on adventure

When his best friend Gary is suddenly snatched away, SpongeBob takes Patrick on a madcap mission far beyond Bikini Bottom to save their pink-shelled pal.

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Ferdinand
2017 · dir. Carlos Saldanha
🍅 71%★ 6.7animation · family · adventureMax

Cut from the same comedy cloth

Ferdinand, a little bull, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree just smelling the flowers versus jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow. But one day five men come to choose the "biggest, fastest, roughest bull" for the bullfights in Madrid— and Ferdinand is mistakenly chosen.

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Ronal the Barbarian
2011 · dir. Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen
★ 6.5animation · adventure · fantasy

Both play animation straight

Ronal is a young barbarian with low self-esteem, the polar opposite of all the muscular barbarians in his village. He's a real wuss. However, as fate would have it, responsibility for the tribe's survival falls on Ronal's scrawny shoulders, when the evil Lord Volcazar raids the village and abducts every living barbarian with the exception of Ronal, who is forced to go on a perilous quest to save his enslaved clan and thwart Volcazar’s plot to rule the world.

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