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Movies that feel likeLilo & Stitch (2002)

As Stitch, a runaway genetic experiment from a faraway planet, wreaks havoc on the Hawaiian Islands, he becomes the mischievous adopted alien "puppy" of an independent little girl named Lilo and learns about loyalty, friendship, and ʻohana, the Hawaiian tradition of family.

If you loved Lilo & Stitch, the closest films we have are Meet the Robinsons (2007), Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014) and Despicable Me 2 (2013). All three share Lilo & Stitch's warm and cozy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is April and the Extraordinary World (2015).

🍅 86% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Chris Sanderswarmcozywittyplayfulcerebral
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Leroy & Stitch (2006)

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

An orphaned oddball finding that family is the thing worth keeping

The difference: Zippier and busier — the emotional beats land softer

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

An unconventional adoptive family the world keeps trying to break up

The difference: Gag-driven time-travel romp — clever more often than tender

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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Despicable Me 2
2013 · dir. Pierre Coffin
🍅 75%★ 7.3animation · comedy · familyPeacock

A gruff outsider softened by the little girls who claim him

The difference: Minion slapstick first, feelings second — lighter in every way

Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal.

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Ralph Breaks the Internet
2018 · dir. Rich Moore
🍅 88%★ 7animation · comedy · adventureDisney+

Both land warmth and comfort at once

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than Lilo & Stitch does

Video game bad guy Ralph and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz must risk it all by traveling to the World Wide Web in search of a replacement part to save Vanellope's video game, Sugar Rush. In way over their heads, Ralph and Vanellope rely on the citizens of the internet — the netizens — to help navigate their way, including an entrepreneur named Yesss, who is the head algorithm and the heart and soul of trend-making site BuzzzTube.

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Hoppers
2026 · dir. Daniel Chong
🍅 94%★ 7.4adventure · animation · comedyDisney+

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

Scientists have discovered how to 'hop' human consciousness into lifelike robotic animals, allowing people to communicate with animals as animals. Animal lover Mabel seizes an opportunity to use the technology, uncovering mysteries within the animal world beyond anything she could have imagined.

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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
1989 · dir. Joe Johnston
🍅 76%★ 6.4adventure · comedy · familyDisney+

Both lean on ideas more than on family

The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.

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Space Jam
1996 · dir. Joe Pytka
🍅 46%★ 6.5family · science fiction · fantasyMax

Chaotic alien mischief colliding with an everyday human world

The difference: A branded spectacle with none of the emotional weight

With their freedom on the line, the Looney Tunes seek the help of NBA superstar Michael Jordan to win a basketball game against a team of moronic aliens.

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

A lonely girl and a fugitive alien misfit becoming each other's family

The difference: Broader and more formulaic — the sweetness feels engineered

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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Flubber
1997 · dir. Les Mayfield
🍅 24%★ 5.3comedy · family · science fictionDisney+

Comedy built on warmth, twice over

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president. He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon of his third wedding, Professor Brainard creates flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air.

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

Cozy animation in both cases

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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Ice Age: Collision Course
2016 · dir. Michael Thurmeier
🍅 18%★ 5.7adventure · animation · familyHuluDisney+

Witty science fiction, and it commits to that

Set after the events of Continental Drift, Scrat's epic pursuit of his elusive acorn catapults him outside of Earth, where he accidentally sets off a series of cosmic events that transform and threaten the planet. To save themselves from peril, Manny, Sid, Diego, and the rest of the herd leave their home and embark on a quest full of thrills and spills, highs and lows, laughter and adventure while traveling to exotic new lands and locations.

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101 Dalmatians
1996 · dir. Stephen Herek
🍅 39%★ 5.8family · comedyDisney+

Scrappy animal charm against a cartoonishly vain villain

The difference: Live-action slapstick that's thinner than its animated source

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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