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Movies that feel likeShrek the Third (2007)

After the King of Far Far Away dies, Shrek and Fiona are to succede. However, Shrek wants to return to his cozy swamp and live in peace and quiet, so when he finds out there is another heir to the throne, he and Donkey set off to bring him back to rule the kingdom.

If you loved Shrek the Third, the closest films we have are Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022), Sausage Party (2016) and Checkered Ninja (2018). All three share Shrek the Third's dreamlike and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Horton Hears a Who! (2008).

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Shrek (2001) · Shrek 2 (2004) · Shrek Forever After (2010)

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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
2022 · dir. Joel Crawford
★ 7.8animation · adventure · fantasyNetflix

The franchise at its late-era best — gorgeous, funny and surprisingly deep

The difference: Genuinely darker stakes — mortality stalks the comedy

Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one life left. Puss sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore his nine lives.

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Sausage Party
2016 · dir. Greg Tiernan
🍅 82%★ 6.1adventure · animation · comedyRent or buy

An animated world merrily desecrating its own genre's wholesomeness

The difference: Aggressively R-rated — crude where Shrek only winks

Hot dog Frank leads a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they're chosen to leave the grocery store.

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Checkered Ninja
2018 · dir. Thorbjørn Christoffersen
★ 7.1animation · comedy · adventurePrime Video

A cheeky animated comedy happy to get ruder than the kids expect

The difference: A Danish oddity with a mean streak — smaller and stranger

A possessed Ninja doll teams up with a teenage boy to avenge the murder of a poor child factory worker.

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

Rapid-fire gags stuffed into every corner of a scrappy adventure

The difference: Aardman's sewer London — British and niche where Shrek is broad

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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Horton Hears a Who!
2008 · dir. Jimmy Hayward
🍅 79%★ 6.8animation · comedy · familyNetflixMax

Epic where it counts, whimsical underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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Madagascar
2005 · dir. Eric Darnell
🍅 55%★ 6.9adventure · animation · comedy

A mismatched animal crew bantering their way through the wild

The difference: No fairy-tale satire — the comedy is pure zoo-crew slapstick

Four animal friends get a taste of the wild life when they break out of captivity at the Central Park Zoo and wash ashore on the island of Madagascar.

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Alvin and the Chipmunks
2007 · dir. Tim Hill
🍅 28%★ 5.3comedy · family · fantasyDisney+

The same mix in both: dream logic, then wit

The difference: Takes it somewhere less epic than Shrek the Third does

A struggling songwriter named Dave Seville finds success when he comes across a trio of singing chipmunks: mischievous leader Alvin, brainy Simon, and chubby, impressionable Theodore.

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Bee Movie
2007 · dir. Simon J. Smith
🍅 49%★ 6.1family · animation · adventure

Wall-to-wall wisecracks in a bright, high-concept cartoon world

The difference: One absurd premise stretched thin — meme-famous for a reason

Barry B. Benson, a recent college graduate who wants more out of his life than making honey, decides to sue the human race after learning about the exploitation of bees at the hands of mankind. What will happen next?

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Open Season
2006 · dir. Roger Allers
🍅 48%★ 6.1animation · family · adventure

Playful and warm in the same breath

The difference: Trades the dream logic of Shrek the Third for an angle of its own

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.

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Hotel Transylvania: Transformania
2022 · dir. Derek Drymon
🍅 47%★ 6animation · comedy · familyPrime Video

Fantasy creatures bickering through a transformation gone wrong

The difference: Straight-to-streaming energy — the weakest entry of its own series

When Van Helsing's mysterious invention, the "Monsterfication Ray," goes haywire, Drac and his monster pals are all transformed into humans, and Johnny becomes a monster. In their new mismatched bodies, Drac and Johnny must team up and race across the globe to find a cure before it's too late, and before they drive each other crazy.

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

A grumpy outsider proving the annoying neighbors actually need him

The difference: Built from a phone game — the gags are broader and dumber

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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The Smurfs 2
2013 · dir. Raja Gosnell
🍅 14%★ 5.3fantasy · family · comedyNetflixParamount+

Fantasy with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

The evil wizard Gargamel creates a couple of mischievous Smurf-like creatures called the Naughties that he hopes will let him harness the all-powerful, magical Smurf-essence. But when he discovers that only a real Smurf can give him what he wants, and only a secret spell that Smurfette knows can turn the Naughties into real Smurfs, Gargamel kidnaps Smurfette and brings her to Paris, where he has been winning the adoration of millions as the world¹s greatest sorcerer. It's up to Papa, Clumsy, Grouchy, and Vanity to return to our world, reunite with their human friends Patrick and Grace Winslow, and rescue her! Will Smurfette, who has always felt different from the other Smurfs, find a new connection with the Naughties Vexy and Hackus or will the Smurfs convince her that their love for her is True Blue?

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