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Movies that feel like Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

If you loved Mary Poppins Returns, the closest films we have are Into the Woods (2014), Enchanted (2007) and Nanny McPhee (2005). All three share Mary Poppins Returns' dreamlike and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Paramount Plus Premium and Disney Plus and others, checked against today's data.

Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.

πŸ… 80% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Rob Marshalldreamlikewarmcozywittyplayful
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Mary Poppins (1964)

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Into the Woods
2014 Β· dir. Rob Marshall
πŸ… 71%β˜… 5.9fantasy Β· comedy

Rob Marshall directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Not nearly as warm as Mary Poppins Returns

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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Enchanted
2007 Β· dir. Kevin Lima
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· family Β· fantasy

Both are working the same pair: magic, musical

The difference: Sits closer to romance than Mary Poppins Returns does

The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her aid - even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince back home - she has to wonder: Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?

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Nanny McPhee
2005 Β· dir. Kirk Jones
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.6fantasy Β· comedy Β· family

Common ground in both: nanny and family relationships

Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the kids, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee.

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Addams Family Values
1993 Β· dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
πŸ… 76%β˜… 6.9comedy Β· family Β· fantasy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: nanny

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.

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A Letter to Momo
2012 Β· dir. Hiroyuki Okiura
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· fantasy Β· animation

One thread runs through both: family relationships

The difference: Leans harder into animation than Mary Poppins Returns does

A shy 11-year-old's life takes a strange turn when she discovers three hungry goblins living in the attic of her new house. She misses her old life. She misses her father so very much. Until she makes some new ghoulish friends.

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Christopher Robin
2018 Β· dir. Marc Forster
πŸ… 73%β˜… 7.2adventure Β· comedy Β· family

Common ground: family

Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something.

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The Little Mermaid
2023 Β· dir. Rob Marshall
πŸ… 67%β˜… 7.2adventure Β· family Β· fantasy

The same hand behind both of them: Rob Marshall

The youngest of King Triton’s daughters, and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea, and while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. With mermaids forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land, but ultimately places her life – and her father’s crown – in jeopardy.

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Just Another Christmas
2020 Β· dir. Roberto Santucci
β˜… 6.7comedy Β· drama Β· fantasy

Both land dream logic and warmth at once

After taking a very nasty fall on Christmas Eve, grinchy Jorge blacks out and wakes up one year later, with no memory of the year that has passed. He soon realizes that he’s doomed to keep waking up on Christmas Eve after Christmas Eve, having to deal with the aftermath of what his other self has done the other 364 days of the year.

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Hocus Pocus
1993 Β· dir. Kenny Ortega
πŸ… 42%β˜… 6.9fantasy Β· comedy Β· family

Both are built on the same subject: magic

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.

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Encanto
2021 Β· dir. Byron Howard
β˜… 7.2animation Β· comedy Β· family

The same preoccupation in both: musical

The tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the familyβ€”every child except one, Mirabel. But when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides that she, the only ordinary Madrigal, might just be her exceptional family's last hope.

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Evan Almighty
2007 Β· dir. Tom Shadyac
πŸ… 24%β˜… 5.4fantasy Β· comedy Β· family

Cozy where it counts, witty underneath

God contacts Junior Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.

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Dolittle
2020 Β· dir. Stephen Gaghan
πŸ… 15%β˜… 5.6family Β· comedy Β· fantasy

Playful fantasy in both cases

After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and discovers wondrous creatures.

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