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Movies that feel like Epic (2013)

If you loved Epic, the closest films we have are Arthur and the Invisibles (2006), The Good Dinosaur (2015) and The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019). All three share Epic's whimsical and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world—and ours.

🍅 65% Rotten Tomatoes6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Chris Wedgewhimsicalepicwarmcozydreamlike
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Arthur and the Invisibles
2006 · dir. Luc Besson
🍅 21%6adventure · fantasy · animation

Whimsical and epic in the same breath

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Ten-year-old Arthur, in a bid to save his grandfather's house from being demolished, goes looking for some much-fabled hidden treasure in the land of the Minimoys, tiny people living in harmony with nature.

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The Good Dinosaur
2015 · dir. Peter Sohn
🍅 76%6.7adventure · animation · family

The same preoccupation in both: nature

The difference: Missing the dream logic of Epic

An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.

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

One thread runs through both: villain

The difference: Not nearly as dreamlike as Epic

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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The Croods: A New Age
2020 · dir. Joel Crawford
🍅 76%6.9animation · family · adventure

Both land warmth and comfort at once

The difference: Sits closer to comedy than Epic does

Searching for a safer habitat, the prehistoric Crood family discovers an idyllic, walled-in paradise that meets all of its needs. Unfortunately, they must also learn to live with the Bettermans -- a family that's a couple of steps above the Croods on the evolutionary ladder. As tensions between the new neighbors start to rise, a new threat soon propels both clans on an epic adventure that forces them to embrace their differences, draw strength from one another, and survive together.

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The Boxtrolls
2014 · dir. Graham Annable
🍅 78%6.8animation · comedy · family

Both lean on dream logic more than on animation

An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.

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Rio 2
2014 · dir. Carlos Saldanha
🍅 50%6.3animation · adventure · comedy

Common ground: villain

It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary of all: his father-in-law.

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The Book of Life
2014 · dir. Jorge R. Gutierrez
🍅 82%7.2animation · family · fantasy

Whimsical family in both cases

The journey of Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart. Before choosing which path to follow, he embarks on an incredible adventure that spans fantastical worlds where he must face his greatest fears.

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🍅 14%5.3adventure · fantasy · animation

Adventure built on scale, twice over

Arthur answers a distress call from Princess Selenia, who is menaced by the nefarious Maltazard.

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Ice Age
2002 · dir. Chris Wedge
🍅 76%7.5animation · comedy · family

Chris Wedge directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

Manny the mammoth, Sid the loquacious sloth, and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger go on a comical quest to return a human baby back to his father, across a world on the brink of an ice age.

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Trolls
2016 · dir. Mike Mitchell
🍅 76%6.4adventure · animation · comedy

Warm fantasy, and it commits to that

After the monstrous Bergens invade Troll Village, Princess Poppy, the happiest Troll ever born, and overly-cautious, curmudgeonly outcast Branch set off on a journey to rescue her friends. Their mission is full of adventure and mishaps, as this mismatched duo try to tolerate each other long enough to get the job done.

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

Animation with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

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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Kubo and the Two Strings
2016 · dir. Travis Knight
🍅 97%7.7animation · adventure · family

Cozy adventure, and it commits to that

Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seeking vengeance, Kubo is forced to go on a quest to solve the mystery of his fallen samurai father and his mystical weaponry, as well as discover his own magical powers.

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