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Movies that feel like Open Season (2006)

If you loved Open Season, the closest films we have are Over the Hedge (2006), The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005). All three share Open Season's whimsical and warm feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Boog, a domesticated 900lb. Grizzly bear finds himself stranded in the woods 3 days before Open Season. Forced to rely on Elliot, a fast-talking mule deer, the two form an unlikely friendship and must quickly rally other forest animals if they are to form a rag-tag army against the hunters.

🍅 48% Rotten Tomatoes6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Roger Allerswhimsicalwarmcozyepicwittyplayful

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Open Season 2 (2008) · Open Season 3 (2010)

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Over the Hedge
2006 · dir. Karey Kirkpatrick
🍅 75%6.7adventure · animation · comedy

Common ground in both: grizzly bear and villain

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating – and learns a lesson about family himself.

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

The same preoccupation in both: talking animal

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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🍅 95%7.5adventure · animation · comedy

Both are built on the same subject: hunter

Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal Gromit run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods, which turns their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.

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The Angry Birds Movie
2016 · dir. Clay Kaytis
🍅 44%6.3animation · adventure · comedy

One thread runs through both: villain

An island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red, a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck, and the volatile Bomb have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.

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Flushed Away
2006 · dir. David Bowers
🍅 72%6.6adventure · animation · comedy

Whimsical and warm in the same breath

London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the sewer bowels of Ratropolis, where Roddy meets the resourceful Rita, the rodent-hating Toad and his faithful thugs, Spike and Whitey.

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Rio 2
2014 · dir. Carlos Saldanha
🍅 50%6.3animation · adventure · comedy

Both land comfort and scale at once

It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary of all: his father-in-law.

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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
2004 · dir. Stephen Hillenburg
🍅 68%7.2adventure · animation · comedy

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than Open Season does

There's trouble brewing in Bikini Bottom. Someone has stolen King Neptune's crown, and it looks like Mr. Krab, SpongeBob's boss, is the culprit. Though he's just been passed over for the promotion of his dreams, SpongeBob stands by his boss, and along with his best pal Patrick, sets out on a treacherous mission to Shell City to reclaim the crown and save Mr. Krab's life.

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The Lion King 1½
2004 · dir. Bradley Raymond
🍅 76%6.5adventure · animation · comedy

Animation built on whimsy, twice over

Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog are best pals and the unsung heroes of the African savanna. This prequel to the smash Disney animated adventure takes you back -- way back -- before Simba's adventure began. You'll find out all about Timon and Pumbaa and tag along as they search for the perfect home and attempt to raise a rambunctious lion cub.

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Brother Bear
2003 · dir. Aaron Blaise
🍅 38%6.9adventure · animation · family

Both keep coming back to the same thing: bear

The difference: Not nearly as witty as Open Season

When an impulsive boy named Kenai is magically transformed into a bear, he must literally walk in another's footsteps until he learns some valuable life lessons. His courageous and often zany journey introduces him to a forest full of wildlife, including the lovable bear cub Koda, hilarious moose Rutt and Tuke, woolly mammoths and rambunctious rams.

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

Both lean on warmth more than on family

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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Penguins of Madagascar
2014 · dir. Simon J. Smith
🍅 74%6.6family · animation · adventure

Cozy adventure, and it commits to that

Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.

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Horton Hears a Who!
2008 · dir. Steve Martino
🍅 79%6.8animation · comedy · family

Epic comedy in both cases

An imaginative elephant named Horton hears a faint cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Horton suspects there may be life on that speck and despite a surrounding community, who thinks he has lost his mind, he is determined to save the tiny particle.

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