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Movies that feel like Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)

If you loved Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, the closest films we have are Epic (2013), Arthur and the Invisibles (2006) and The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019). All three share Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole's whimsical and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the legendary Guardians to stop the menace.

🍅 52% Rotten Tomatoes6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Zack Snyderwhimsicalepicwarmcozydreamlike

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Epic
2013 · dir. Chris Wedge
🍅 65%6.6animation · adventure · family

Common ground: villain

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.

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Arthur and the Invisibles
2006 · dir. Luc Besson
🍅 21%6adventure · fantasy · animation

Whimsical where it counts, epic underneath

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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

Both are built on the same subject: friendship

The difference: Without the same dream logic

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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Storks
2016 · dir. Doug Sweetland
🍅 65%6.8adventure · animation · comedy

The same preoccupation in both: villain

The difference: Lighter on dream logic

Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for a global internet retail giant. Junior, the company’s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorized baby girl...

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

One thread runs through both: friendship

The difference: Played as comedy first

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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🍅 14%5.3adventure · fantasy · animation

Both land warmth and comfort at once

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

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

Dreamlike animation, and it commits to that

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

Both lean on whimsy more than on adventure

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

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

Family with a pulse of scale, in both cases

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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How to Train Your Dragon
2010 · dir. Chris Sanders
🍅 99%8.1fantasy · adventure · animation

Warm fantasy in both cases

As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle. But after downing a feared dragon, he realizes that he no longer wants to destroy it, and instead befriends the beast – which he names Toothless – much to the chagrin of his warrior father.

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Return to Never Land
2002 · dir. Robin Budd
🍅 46%5.8adventure · fantasy · animation

Animation built on comfort, twice over

In 1940, the world is besieged by World War II. Wendy, all grown up, has two children; including Jane, who does not believe Wendy's stories about Peter Pan.

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

Dreamlike 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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