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Movies that feel like Jingle All the Way (1996)

If you loved Jingle All the Way, the closest films we have are The Muppet Movie (1979), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000). All three share Jingle All the Way's warm and cozy feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Disney Plus and others, checked against today's data.

Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite television hero for Christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man. Now, Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else to find a Turbo Man action figure.

🍅 20% Rotten Tomatoes5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Brian Levantwarmcozyepicwittyplayful
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If Jingle All the Way hit the spot, these will too

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The Muppet Movie
1979 · dir. James Frawley
🍅 89%7.6family · comedy · adventure

One thread runs through both: puppet

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

The Muppets gather to watch their newly-finished big-budget rich-and-famous feature film: a talent agent persuades Kermit the Frog to leave the swamp to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there, he meets a bear, a pig, a whatever (his future muppet crew), and some special celebrity guest stars, while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!

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Cheaper by the Dozen
2003 · dir. Shawn Levy
🍅 25%5.9comedy · family

The same two preoccupations: husband wife relationship, and fathers and sons

The difference: Not nearly as epic as Jingle All the Way

The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Kate, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands pull the parents away from home, leaving the kids bored -- and increasingly mischievous.

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas
2000 · dir. Ron Howard
🍅 50%6.4family · comedy · fantasy

Both are working the same pair: holiday, christmas party

The difference: None of the scale Jingle All the Way is built on

The Grinch decides to rob Whoville of Christmas - but a dash of kindness from little Cindy Lou Who and her family may be enough to melt his heart...

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Help! I'm a Fish
2000 · dir. Michael Hegner
6adventure · animation · comedy

Warm and cozy in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into animation than Jingle All the Way does

Three children are accidentally transformed into fish after consuming a potion made by an eccentric scientist. The kids end up in the sea, with one problem: they must find and drink the antidote within 48 hours, or forever remain as fish.

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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
1992 · dir. Chris Columbus
🍅 35%6.9comedy · family · adventure

Both keep coming back to the same thing: holiday

Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he's determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas Eve.

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101 Dalmatians
1996 · dir. Stephen Herek
🍅 39%5.8family · comedy

Both land wit and play at once

An evil, high-fashion designer plots to steal Dalmatian puppies in order to make an extravagant fur coat, but instead creates an extravagant mess.

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Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
1999 · dir. Claude Zidi
6family · adventure · comedy

Epic family, and it commits to that

Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsfolk into mighty soldiers. When Roman troops carve a path through Gaul to reach the English Channel, Caesar and his aide de camp Detritus discover the secret elixir and capture the Druid leader who knows its formula, and Asterix and Obelix are sent off to rescue them.

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Mr. Bean's Holiday
2007 · dir. Steve Bendelack
🍅 50%6.4family · comedy

Both lean on warmth more than on comedy

Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two reunite. On the way he discovers France, bicycling and true love, among other things.

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Where Am I Going?
2016 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
🍅 60%6.7comedy · family · adventure

Adventure with a pulse of comfort, in both cases

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Checco is 39 and lived his entire life with his parents. He loves his job where he does nothing the whole day, until something happens that will change his behavior and his life forever...

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Mr. Popper's Penguins
2011 · dir. Mark Waters
🍅 47%6comedy · family

Witty family in both cases

Tom Popper is a successful businessman who’s clueless when it comes to the really important things in life...until he inherits six “adorable” penguins, each with its own unique personality. Soon Tom’s rambunctious roommates turn his swank New York apartment into a snowy winter wonderland — and the rest of his world upside-down.

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An American Tail
1986 · dir. Don Bluth
🍅 76%6.9adventure · animation · comedy

Adventure built on scale, twice over

A young mouse named Fievel and his family decide to migrate to America, a "land without cats," at the turn of the 20th century. But somehow, Fievel ends up in the New World alone and must fend off not only the felines he never thought he'd have to deal with again but also the loneliness of being away from home.

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Home Alone 3
1997 · dir. Raja Gosnell
🍅 36%4.6comedy · family

Comedy built on play, twice over

9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concealing a top-secret microchip. Now Alex must fend off the spies as they try to break into his house to get it back.

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