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Movies that feel likeThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.

If you loved The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the closest films we have are Monster Hunt (2015), Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) and Jungle Cruise (2021). All three share The Secret Life of Walter Mitty's epic and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013).

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Monster Hunt
2015 · dir. Raman Hui Shing-Ngai
🍅 68%★ 6.1comedy · fantasy · adventure

Gentle-hearted fantasy adventure with a streak of pure silliness

The difference: Chinese CGI creature romp — cute chaos, no soul-searching

Young monster kids try to make peace between the world of humans and the world of the monsters.

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Jumanji: The Next Level
2019 · dir. Jake Kasdan
🍅 71%★ 6.6adventure · comedy · fantasyHulu

Timid people discovering bolder selves in spectacular terrain

The difference: Video-game logic and body-swap gags — adventure as pure play

As the gang return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown and unexplored in order to escape the world’s most dangerous game.

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Jungle Cruise
2021 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 62%★ 6.5fantasy · comedy · adventureDisney+

A grand old-fashioned expedition with banter to spare

The difference: Theme-park supernatural romp — no quiet longing underneath

Dr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in his dilapidated boat. Together, they search for an ancient tree that holds the power to heal – a discovery that will change the future of medicine.

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🍅 94%★ 6.7action · fantasy · adventurePrime Video

A humble seeker's quest told with wild imaginative swings

The difference: Cartoonish demon battles — slapstick with sudden darkness

In a world plagued by demons who cause great human suffering, young demon hunter Tang Sanzang must fight against monstrous demons, as well as contend with a beautiful demon hunting woman on his path to enlightenment.

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The Brand New Testament
2015 · dir. Jaco Van Dormael
🍅 82%★ 7.1comedy · fantasy

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad...

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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
2023 · dir. John Francis Daley
★ 7.2adventure · fantasy · comedyNetflixParamount+

The same mix in both: scale, then dream logic

The difference: Less contemplative, more its own thing

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

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🍅 90%★ 6.9drama · comedy · fantasy

Deadpan daydream logic — life observed from a strange, sad angle

The difference: Bleak Swedish absurdism — the whimsy here has teeth

An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.

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Ted 2
2015 · dir. Seth MacFarlane
🍅 45%★ 6.3comedy · fantasyRent or buy

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

The difference: Lighter on scale

Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.

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Zoolander 2
2016 · dir. Ben Stiller
🍅 21%★ 4.7action · adventure · comedyParamount+

Stiller in front of the camera again, globe-trotting included

The difference: A gag-machine sequel with none of Mitty's sincerity

Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the business.

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17 Again
2009 · dir. Burr Steers
🍅 57%★ 6.4comedy · fantasyNetflix

Playful fantasy, and it commits to that

On the brink of a midlife crisis, 30-something Mike O'Donnell wishes he could have a "do-over." And that's exactly what he gets when he wakes up one morning to find he's 17 years old again. With his adult mind stuck inside the body of a teenager, Mike actually has the chance to reverse some decisions he wishes he'd never made. But maybe they weren't so bad after all.

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Into the Woods
2014 · dir. Rob Marshall
🍅 71%★ 5.9fantasy · comedyDisney+

Both lean on dream logic more than on adventure

In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

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The Myth
2005 · dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
🍅 20%★ 6.1action · adventure · comedy

An ordinary professional whose visions pull him into real adventure

The difference: Creaky fantasy kung fu — earnestness without the craft

When a fellow scientist asks for Jack's help in locating the mausoleum of China's first emperor, the past collides violently with the present as Jack discovers his amazing visions are based in fact.

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