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Movies that feel likeJumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)

Four teenagers in detention discover an old video game console with a game they’ve never heard of. When they decide to play, they are immediately sucked into the jungle world of Jumanji in the bodies of their avatars. They’ll have to complete the adventure of their lives filled with fun, thrills and danger or be stuck in the game forever!

If you loved Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, the closest films we have are Jungle Cruise (2021), Monster Hunt (2015) and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013). All three share Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle's epic and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013).

🍅 76% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jake Kasdanepicwittyplayfuldreamlike
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Jumanji (1995) · Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)

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Jungle Cruise
2021 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 62%★ 6.5fantasy · comedy · adventureDisney+

A ramshackle jungle quest run on wisecracks and cheerful peril

The difference: Period river adventure with a romance and no game rules to exploit

Dr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in his dilapidated boat. Together, they search for an ancient tree that holds the power to heal – a discovery that will change the future of medicine.

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Monster Hunt
2015 · dir. Raman Hui Shing-Ngai
🍅 68%★ 6.1comedy · fantasy · adventure

A goofy adventure where humans and impossible creatures collide

The difference: Kid-skewing Chinese fantasy — humor gets broad and cartoonish

Young monster kids try to make peace between the world of humans and the world of the monsters.

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
2013 · dir. Ben Stiller
🍅 52%★ 7.3adventure · comedy · drama

An unremarkable person finding out they can do the brave thing

The difference: Gentle daydream drama, wistful instead of loud and joke-driven

A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.

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🍅 94%★ 6.7action · fantasy · adventurePrime Video

Slapstick and spectacle fused into one big fantastical quest

The difference: Stephen Chow's absurdism — stranger and more uneven in tone

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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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
2023 · dir. John Francis Daley
★ 7.2adventure · fantasy · comedyNetflixParamount+

A mismatched party bickering through a quest built on game logic

The difference: Full sword-and-sorcery world, with no teenagers or real-life stakes

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

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The Brand New Testament
2015 · dir. Jaco Van Dormael
🍅 82%★ 7.1comedy · fantasy

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Goes its own way on the scale

God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad...

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Red One
2024 · dir. Jake Kasdan
🍅 29%★ 6.2action · adventure · comedyPrime Video

Kasdan again sending mismatched partners on a lore-heavy romp

The difference: Critics panned it — franchise gloss with far fewer laughs

After Santa Claus (codename: Red One) is kidnapped, the North Pole's Head of Security must team up with the world's most infamous tracker in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to save Christmas.

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Ted 2
2015 · dir. Seth MacFarlane
🍅 45%★ 6.3comedy · fantasyRent or buy

A ridiculous high concept used mostly to let a cast riff

The difference: Raunchy adult comedy that stays put instead of going adventuring

Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 76%★ 6.6comedy · fantasyMax

Ordinary people yanked into a rule-bound supernatural world

The difference: Burton's macabre streak — gags skew ghoulish, not adventurous

After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.

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Into the Woods
2014 · dir. Rob Marshall
🍅 71%★ 5.9fantasy · comedyDisney+

Characters dropped into a story world and made to play its parts

The difference: A musical that turns dark, with songs where this has slapstick

In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

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Bad Teacher
2011 · dir. Jake Kasdan
🍅 46%★ 5.7comedyStarz

Kasdan's comic timing with a gleefully terrible protagonist

The difference: A mean-spirited classroom farce — no adventure, no fantasy

A lazy, incompetent middle school teacher who hates her job and her students is forced to return to her job to make enough money for a boob job after her rich fiancé dumps her.

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17 Again
2009 · dir. Burr Steers
🍅 57%★ 6.4comedy · fantasyNetflix

The comedy of a mind stuck in entirely the wrong body

The difference: High-school do-over comedy, with no quest and no jungle

On the brink of a midlife crisis, 30-something Mike O'Donnell wishes he could have a "do-over." And that's exactly what he gets when he wakes up one morning to find he's 17 years old again. With his adult mind stuck inside the body of a teenager, Mike actually has the chance to reverse some decisions he wishes he'd never made. But maybe they weren't so bad after all.

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