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Movies that feel likeThe Watch (2012)

Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice but to save their neighborhood – and the world – from total extermination.

If you loved The Watch, the closest films we have are Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024), The World's End (2013) and Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002). All three share The Watch's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Legend of Drunken Master (1994).

🍅 16% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Akiva Schafferwittyplayfulkineticcerebralwarm
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Sonic the Hedgehog 3
2024 · dir. Jeff Fowler
🍅 86%★ 6.9action · science fiction · comedyPrime VideoParamount+

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. With their abilities outmatched in every way, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance in hopes of stopping Shadow and protecting the planet.

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The World's End
2013 · dir. Edgar Wright
🍅 89%★ 6.9comedy · action · science fictionPeacock

Both land momentum and ideas at once

The difference: Easier on the warmth than The Watch

Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.

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Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
2002 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 75%★ 5.3family · action · adventure

Both lean on warmth more than on comedy

The difference: Sits closer to family than The Watch does

Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy business as Level 2 OSS agents. Their new mission is to save the world from a mad scientist living on a volcanic island populated by an imaginative menagerie of creatures. On this bizarre island, none of the Cortez's gadgets work and they must rely on their wits--and each other--to survive and save the day.

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Men in Black 3
2012 · dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
🍅 67%★ 6.8action · comedy · science fictionParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: alien

Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K never told him - secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent K to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind.

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The Legend of Drunken Master
1994 · dir. Lau Kar-leung
🍅 85%★ 7.5action · comedy

Common ground: friendship

Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-hung is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. Fei-hung must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father's antagonism as well.

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PK
2014 · dir. Rajkumar Hirani
🍅 82%★ 8.1comedy · drama · science fictionNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: friendship

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Watch does

A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. Known only by his initials, the man's innocent questions and childlike curiosity take him on a journey of love, laughter and letting go.

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Kopps
2003 · dir. Josef Fares
★ 6.7action · comedy

Action with a pulse of wit, in both cases

A small Swedish village, Högboträsk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime.

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Evolution
2001 · dir. Ivan Reitman
🍅 44%★ 6.1comedy · science fiction · action

Science fiction built on play, twice over

A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "survival of the fittest." David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, and Julianne Moore are the only people standing between the aliens and world domination... which could be bad news for the Earth.

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American Ultra
2015 · dir. Nima Nourizadeh
🍅 44%★ 6.1action · comedy

Kinetic comedy in both cases

Mike is an unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.

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🍅 38%★ 5.9action · adventure · comedyParamount+

Cerebral action, and it commits to that

After supervillain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.

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Dumb and Dumber To
2014 · dir. Peter Farrelly
🍅 31%★ 5.6comedy

Warm science fiction, and it commits to that

20 years since their first adventure, Lloyd and Harry go on a road trip to find Harry's newly discovered daughter, who was given up for adoption.

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Battle: Los Angeles
2011 · dir. Jonathan Liebesman
🍅 37%★ 5.7science fiction · action

One thread runs through both: alien

When once distant UFOs become a terrifying threat and an alien invasion force begins attacking Earths major costal and riverside cities, a U.S Marine staff sergeant and his team are sent into battle only to find they must take it upon themselves to defeat an unknown enemy and protect what remains of Los Angeles.

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