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Movies that feel like CJ7 (2008)

If you loved CJ7, the closest films we have are A Letter to Momo (2012), Just Another Christmas (2020) and Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs (2019). All three share CJ7's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A poor construction worker, who struggles to keep his son in private school, mistakes an orb he finds in a junkjard for a toy which proves to be much, much more once the young boy starts to play with it.

🍅 49% Rotten Tomatoes6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Stephen Chowwittyplayfulcontemplativewarmcozydreamlike

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A Letter to Momo
2012 · dir. Hiroyuki Okiura
🍅 80%7.2comedy · fantasy · animation

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A shy 11-year-old's life takes a strange turn when she discovers three hungry goblins living in the attic of her new house. She misses her old life. She misses her father so very much. Until she makes some new ghoulish friends.

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Just Another Christmas
2020 · dir. Roberto Santucci
6.7comedy · drama · fantasy

Contemplative where it counts, warm underneath

After taking a very nasty fall on Christmas Eve, grinchy Jorge blacks out and wakes up one year later, with no memory of the year that has passed. He soon realizes that he’s doomed to keep waking up on Christmas Eve after Christmas Eve, having to deal with the aftermath of what his other self has done the other 364 days of the year.

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Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
2019 · dir. Hong Sung-ho
🍅 40%6.5animation · fantasy · family

Common ground in both: candid and whimsical

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as CJ7

Princes who have been turned into Dwarfs seek the red shoes of a lady in order to break the spell, although it will not be easy.

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Pinocchio
2019 · dir. Matteo Garrone
🍅 84%6.3drama · family · fantasy

The same preoccupation in both: whimsical

The difference: None of the wit CJ7 is built on

Old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio, who magically comes to life. Pinocchio longs for adventure and is easily led astray, encountering magical beasts, fantastical spectacles, while making friends and foes along his journey. However, his dream is to become a real boy, which can only come true if he finally changes his ways.

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Paper Planes
2014 · dir. Robert Connolly
🍅 85%6.2comedy · family · drama

Comedy built on comfort, twice over

Dylan discovers he has a talent for making paper planes. He has a chance to compete in a world championship, but he'll have to face bullies and self-doubt to do so.

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Doctor Dolittle
1998 · dir. Betty Thomas
🍅 44%5.4comedy · family · fantasy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: fathers and sons

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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🍅 94%6.7action · fantasy · adventure

Stephen Chow working the same nerve twice

The difference: Sits closer to action than CJ7 does

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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Babe
1995 · dir. Chris Noonan
🍅 98%6.9fantasy · drama · comedy

Dreamlike drama, and it commits to that

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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Home
2015 · dir. Tim Johnson
🍅 52%6.5fantasy · comedy · animation

Common ground: alien friendship

The difference: Leans harder into animation than CJ7 does

When Earth is taken over by the overly-confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated, while all Boov get busy reorganizing the planet. But when one resourceful girl, Tip, manages to avoid capture, she finds herself the accidental accomplice of a banished Boov named Oh. The two fugitives realize there’s a lot more at stake than intergalactic relations as they embark on the road trip of a lifetime.

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Fala Sério, Mãe!
2017 · dir. Pedro Vasconcelos
6.1comedy · family

Family with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Ângela Cristina, mother of teenager Maria de Lourdes, has to deal with the difficulties and delights of guiding her daughter during one of the most complicated stages of life.

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Nanny McPhee
2005 · dir. Kirk Jones
🍅 74%6.6fantasy · comedy · family

Both are built on the same subject: single father

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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The Mermaid
2016 · dir. Stephen Chow
🍅 95%6.2comedy · fantasy · romance

Stephen Chow directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

When Xuan's real estate project threatens the home of mermaids, Shan is sent to stop him. When they fall in love, he is encouraged to cancel the project. However, he must save them from bigger danger.

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