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Movies that feel likeRobots (2005)

Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Bigweld Industries. Now, Rodney's dreams – and those of his friends – are in danger of becoming obsolete.

If you loved Robots, the closest films we have are Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009), Lilo & Stitch (2002) and Meet the Robinsons (2007). All three share Robots' witty and playful 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).

🍅 64% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Chris Wedgewittyplayfulwarmcozycerebralhopeful
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
2009 · dir. Christopher Miller
🍅 85%★ 6.9animation · comedy · family

Both are working the same pair: inventor, hopeful

The difference: Takes it somewhere less cerebral than Robots does

Inventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that makes clouds rain food, enabling the down-and-out citizens of Chewandswallow to feed themselves. But when the falling food reaches gargantuan proportions, Flint must scramble to avert disaster. Can he regain control of the machine and put an end to the wild weather before the town is destroyed?

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Lilo & Stitch
2002 · dir. Chris Sanders
🍅 86%★ 7.4animation · family · comedyDisney+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: villain

The difference: Trades the hope of Robots for an angle of its own

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.

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

The same preoccupation in both: villain

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Robots does

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

One thread runs through both: whimsical

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

Common ground: inventor

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

The same mix in both: wit, then play

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

Warm where it counts, cozy underneath

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

Cerebral animation, and it commits to that

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

Witty comedy in both cases

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

Family with a pulse of play, in both cases

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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Kung Fu Panda 2
2011 · dir. Jennifer Yuh Nelson
🍅 82%★ 7.3animation · family · comedyPrime Video

Science fiction built on hope, twice over

Po is finally living the dream as the Dragon Warrior—until a shadow from his past comes roaring back. When the ruthless peacock Lord Shen unleashes a devastating new weapon used to wipe out kung fu masters across the land, Po and the Furious Five race across China to put an end to his plans. But if Po is to have any hope of stopping him, he must first confront the truth of his origins—and find inner peace before his past tears him apart.

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

Both are built on the same subject: steampunk

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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