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Movies that feel like Save the Green Planet! (2003)

If you loved Save the Green Planet!, the closest films we have are Key of Life (2012), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) and Men in Black II (2002). All three share Save the Green Planet!'s witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Hulu, YouTube TV and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

A young man believes that his country's leaders are actually toxic reptilian aliens sent down to launch a takeover of his beloved Earth. So he decides to abduct them and force the truth out on camera in his basement that doubles as a film studio and torture chamber.

πŸ… 89% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Jang Joon-hwanwittyplayfulcerebralgrittyawerelentless
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Key of Life
2012 Β· dir. Kenji Uchida
β˜… 7.3comedy Β· crime

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Missing the awe of Save the Green Planet!

A failed actor switches identities with a stranger at a bath house thinking it is his way out of his life of misery but only to find himself filling the shoes of an elite assassin.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 Β· dir. Garth Jennings
πŸ… 60%β˜… 6.7adventure Β· comedy Β· science fiction

Both keep circling back to alien

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

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Men in Black II
2002 Β· dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
πŸ… 38%β˜… 6.2action Β· comedy Β· science fiction

Saving the world sits at the heart of each

The difference: Not nearly as gritty as Save the Green Planet!

Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIB's untarnished mission statement – protecting Earth from the scum of the universe. It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. Now it's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay – who not only has absolutely no memory of his time spent with the MIB, but is also the only living person left with the expertise to save the galaxy – to reunite with the MIB before the earth submits to ultimate destruction.

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Dark Star
1974 Β· dir. John Carpenter
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.1comedy Β· science fiction

Both land ideas and awe at once

The difference: 29 years apart, and the 1970s show

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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Paul
2011 Β· dir. Greg Mottola
πŸ… 70%β˜… 6.9adventure Β· comedy Β· science fiction

Alien is the engine of both

The difference: Plays it as adventure more than Save the Green Planet! does

For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing uncomfortably close, Paul escapes on the first RV that passes by his compound in Area 51. Fortunately, it contains the two earthlings who are most likely to rescue and harbor an alien on the run.

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Seven Psychopaths
2012 Β· dir. Martin McDonagh
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· crime

The same preoccupation in both: kidnapping

A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

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The Big Lebowski
1998 Β· dir. Joel Coen
πŸ… 79%β˜… 8.1comedy Β· crime

Both built around kidnapping

Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.

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White Chicks
2004 Β· dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans
πŸ… 15%β˜… 5.9comedy Β· crime

Comedy built on grit, twice over

Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. To avoid being fired they accept a mission escorting a pair of socialites to the Hamptons--but when the girls are disfigured in a car accident, they refuse to go. Left without options, Marcus and Kevin decide to pose as the sisters, transforming themselves from black men into rich European-American women.

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πŸ… 72%β˜… 7comedy Β· crime

Both trade on wit more than on being crime

As a swinging fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy. But can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil after the bald villain freezes himself and unthaws in the '90s? With the help of sexy sidekick Vanessa Kensington, he just might.

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We're the Millers
2013 Β· dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber
πŸ… 48%β˜… 7comedy Β· crime

Playful science fiction, and it commits to that

A veteran pot dealer creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico.

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Snatch
2000 Β· dir. Guy Ritchie
πŸ… 74%β˜… 8.2crime Β· comedy

Gritty comedy in both cases

Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookies, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewellers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.

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Despicable Me
2010 Β· dir. Pierre Coffin
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.6animation Β· comedy Β· crime

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: Leans animation where Save the Green Planet! does not

Determined to prove he's the world's greatest supervillain, Gru hatches an audacious plan to steal the Moon. To pull it off, he adopts three orphaned girlsβ€”Margo, Edith, and Agnesβ€”intending to use them as pawns in his scheme. But the unexpected bond they form forces him to question the criminal life he's always known.

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