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Movies that feel likeDespicable Me (2010)

Determined to prove he's the world's greatest supervillain, Gru hatches an audacious plan to steal the Moon. To pull it off, he adopts three orphaned girls—Margo, Edith, and Agnes—intending to use them as pawns in his scheme. But the unexpected bond they form forces him to question the criminal life he's always known.

If you loved Despicable Me, the closest films we have are Minions & Monsters (2026), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022). All three share Despicable Me'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 Big Bad Fox and Other Tales (2017).

🍅 80% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Pierre Coffinwittyplayfulwhimsicalwarmdarkly funny
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Despicable Me 2 (2013) · Despicable Me 3 (2017) · Despicable Me 4 (2024)

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Minions & Monsters
2026 · dir. Pierre Coffin
🍅 89%★ 6.3adventure · animation · comedyRent or buy

The same hand behind both of them: Pierre Coffin

The difference: Easier on the dark humor than Despicable Me

This is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the planet from the mayhem they had just created.

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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
2013 · dir. Cody Cameron
🍅 71%★ 6.3animation · family · comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: villain

The difference: Takes it somewhere less darkly funny than Despicable Me does

After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, which has been tasked to clean the island, and where the best inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. When Flint discovers that his machine still operates and now creates mutant food beasts like living pickles, hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees and apple pie-thons, he and his friends must return to save the world.

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The Banshees of Inisherin
2022 · dir. Martin McDonagh
🍅 96%★ 7.6drama · comedyRent or buy

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Trades the whimsy of Despicable Me for an angle of its own

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.

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

An outsider's naive logic exposes how silly the world really is

The difference: Live-action religious satire — earnest message, long runtime

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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🍅 90%★ 7.4comedyPrime Video

A gleeful agent of chaos whose awfulness is the whole joke

The difference: Real people, real cringe — far too crude for family night

Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.

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The Simpsons Movie
2007 · dir. David Silverman
🍅 87%★ 7.3animation · comedy · familyDisney+

The same preoccupation in both: parents and children

After Homer accidentally pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpsons are declared fugitives.

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Toy Story 2
1999 · dir. John Lasseter
🍅 100%★ 7.9animation · comedy · familyHuluDisney+

Slapstick invention wrapped around where you truly belong

The difference: Gentler and more classical, without the villain's-eye mischief

Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, owner of Al's Toy Barn kidnaps Woody. Andy's toys mount a daring rescue mission, Buzz Lightyear meets his match and Woody has to decide where he and his heart truly belong.

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The Lego Movie
2014 · dir. Phil Lord
🍅 96%★ 7.7animation · family · adventureParamount+

One thread runs through both: parents and children

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Despicable Me does

An ordinary Lego mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from conquering the universe.

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Chicken Run
2000 · dir. Peter Lord
🍅 97%★ 7.1animation · comedy · familyRent or buy

A ramshackle escape plan built out of scrap, gags and stubbornness

The difference: Claymation and British-dry, a prison-break spoof with no sweetness

The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens determined to fly the coop–even if they can’t fly! It’s hardly poultry in motion when Rocky attempts to teach Ginger and her feathered friends to fly…but, with teamwork, determination and a little bit o’ cluck, the fearless flock plots one last attempt in a spectacular bid for freedom.

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The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales
2017 · dir. Benjamin Renner
🍅 97%★ 7.4family · animation · comedy

Whimsical where it counts, warm underneath

The countryside isn't always as calm and peaceful as it's made out to be, and the animals on this farm are particularly agitated: a fox who mothers a family of chicks, a rabbit who plays the stork, and a duck who wants to be Santa Claus.

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Surf's Up
2007 · dir. Ash Brannon
🍅 78%★ 6.7animation · comedy · familyHulu

Both lean on wit more than on animation

With a documentary crew in tow, Cody Maverick—a young surfer from Antarctica—travels to the pacific for his first professional competition. Determined to earn respect and live up to his idol, Big Z, Cody pushes himself to the limit. But all that changes when an encounter with a laid-back local forces him to rethink his values.

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In the Loop
2009 · dir. Armando Iannucci
🍅 94%★ 7.4comedy

Darkly funny comedy, and it commits to that

The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, but—behind the scenes—government officials and advisers are either promoting the war or are trying to prevent it.

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