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Movies that feel likeLeroy & Stitch (2006)

Lilo, Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley have finally caught all of Jumba's genetic experiments and found the one true place where each of them belongs. Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley are offered positions in the Galactic Alliance, turning them down so they can stay on Earth with Lilo, but Lilo realizes her alien friends have places where they belong – and it's finally time to say "aloha".

If you loved Leroy & Stitch, the closest films we have are Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), April and the Extraordinary World (2015) and Galaxy Quest (1999). All three share Leroy & Stitch's cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Paper Planes (2014).

🍅 43% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Bobs Gannawaywarmcozywittyplayfulcerebralawe
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Lilo & Stitch (2002)

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Zathura: A Space Adventure
2005 · dir. Jon Favreau
🍅 77%★ 6.3science fiction · adventure · familyNetflix

Common ground: alien

The difference: Reviewed even better

After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay inside. Walter and Danny, who anticipate a boring day, are shocked when they begin playing Zathura, a space-themed board game, which they realize has mystical powers when their house is shot into space. With the help of an astronaut, the boys attempt to return home.

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April and the Extraordinary World
2015 · dir. Franck Ekinci
🍅 97%★ 7.3animation · comedy · family

Both land warmth and comfort at once

The difference: Easier on the awe than Leroy & Stitch

It's 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

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Galaxy Quest
1999 · dir. Dean Parisot
🍅 90%★ 7.4comedy · science fiction · adventureParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: spacecraft

The difference: Takes it somewhere less warm than Leroy & Stitch does

For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector — Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Doctor Lazarus — set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space... until their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director, and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.

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Dark Star
1974 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 74%★ 6.1comedy · science fictionPrime Video

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.

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Paper Planes
2014 · dir. Robert Connolly
🍅 85%★ 6.2comedy · family · dramaStarz

Both lean on warmth more than on family

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Leroy & Stitch does

Dylan discovers he has a talent for making paper planes. He has a chance to compete in a world championship, but he'll have to face bullies and self-doubt to do so.

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Meet the Robinsons
2007 · dir. Stephen J. Anderson
🍅 68%★ 6.9animation · comedy · familyDisney+

Cerebral animation, and it commits to that

Lewis, a brilliant young inventor, is keen on creating a time machine to find his mother, who abandoned him in an orphanage. Things take a turn when he meets Wilbur Robinson and his family.

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Explorers
1985 · dir. Joe Dante
★ 6.4science fiction · adventure · family

One thread runs through both: spacecraft

Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books. Surprisingly, his affinity for all things fantastical yields a real result – when he has a vivid dream about technology, his prodigy best friend Wolfgang manages to create a working spacecraft. Joined by their buddy Darren, the boys take off into outer space and encounter some very odd extraterrestrial life.

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(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1
2004 · dir. Michael Herbig
★ 5.5comedy · science fiction · adventure

Comedy built on awe, twice over

Hundreds of years after humans have settled on Mars, Regulator Rogul and Lord Jens Maul lead a force of Martians to Earth in order to conquer the planet. Queen Metaphor looks to the gay heroes aboard the Dreamship Surprise – Captain Kork, Mr. Spuck, and first engineer Schrotty – for help.

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Home
2015 · dir. Tim Johnson
🍅 53%★ 6.5fantasy · comedy · animation

Both are built on the same subject: alien

When Earth is taken over by the overly-confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated, while all Boov get busy reorganizing the planet. But when one resourceful girl, Tip, manages to avoid capture, she finds herself the accidental accomplice of a banished Boov named Oh. The two fugitives realize there’s a lot more at stake than intergalactic relations as they embark on the road trip of a lifetime.

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Fala Sério, Mãe!
2017 · dir. Pedro Vasconcelos
★ 6.1comedy · family

Cozy tv movie in both cases

Ângela Cristina, mother of teenager Maria de Lourdes, has to deal with the difficulties and delights of guiding her daughter during one of the most complicated stages of life.

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Mr. Peabody & Sherman
2014 · dir. Rob Minkoff
🍅 81%★ 6.8animation · science fiction · comedy

Science fiction with a pulse of wit, in both cases

A young boy and his dog, who happens to have a genius-level IQ, spring into action when their time-machine is stolen and moments in history begin to be changed.

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Lightyear
2022 · dir. Angus MacLane
🍅 74%★ 6.1animation · science fiction · familyDisney+

Another one that scratches it

Legendary Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear embarks on an intergalactic adventure alongside a group of ambitious recruits and his robot companion Sox.

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