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Movies that feel likeTed 2 (2015)

Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.

If you loved Ted 2, the closest films we have are Into the Woods (2014), The Brand New Testament (2015) and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024). All three share Ted 2's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014).

🍅 45% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Seth MacFarlanewittyplayfuldreamlike
10 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Ted (2012)

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Into the Woods
2014 · dir. Rob Marshall
🍅 71%★ 5.9fantasy · comedyDisney+

Fairy-tale logic bent for grown-up laughs

The difference: A full Sondheim musical — wordplay, not raunch

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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The Brand New Testament
2015 · dir. Jaco Van Dormael
🍅 82%★ 7.1comedy · fantasy

A blasphemous high concept ridden hard for comedy

The difference: Belgian arthouse whimsy — droll rather than crude

God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad...

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 76%★ 6.6comedy · fantasyMax

A crude supernatural troublemaker back for another round

The difference: Burton's gothic clutter — nostalgia does the driving

After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.

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Liar Liar
1997 · dir. Tom Shadyac
🍅 83%★ 6.9comedy · fantasyNetflix

A magic premise weaponized in a courtroom

The difference: Carrey's rubber-faced clean fun — no bong jokes

Forced by his son's birthday wish, fast-talking attorney and habitual liar Fletcher Reede must tell the truth for the next 24 hours.

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🍅 90%★ 6.9drama · comedy · fantasy

Deadpan absurdity pushed to philosophical extremes

The difference: Swedish art-film tableaux — glacial and defiantly odd

An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.

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The Visitors
1993 · dir. Jean-Marie Poiré
🍅 31%★ 7fantasy · comedyPrime Video

Absurd fish-out-of-water chaos played at full tilt

The difference: Medieval French farce — broad slapstick, subtitled

After a wizard's spell goes awry, 12th-century Gallic knight Godefroy de Papincourt, Count of Montmirail finds himself transported to 1993, along with his dimwitted servant, Jacquouille la Fripouille. Startled and perplexed by modern technology, the duo run amok, destroying cars and causing chaos until they meet Beatrice de Montmirail, an aristocratic descendant of the nobleman, who may be able to help them get back to 1123.

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17 Again
2009 · dir. Burr Steers
🍅 57%★ 6.4comedy · fantasyNetflix

A magical do-over premise mined for buddy laughs

The difference: PG-13 sweetness — the edges are fully sanded

On the brink of a midlife crisis, 30-something Mike O'Donnell wishes he could have a "do-over." And that's exactly what he gets when he wakes up one morning to find he's 17 years old again. With his adult mind stuck inside the body of a teenager, Mike actually has the chance to reverse some decisions he wishes he'd never made. But maybe they weren't so bad after all.

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If I Were You
2006 · dir. Daniel Filho
🍅 13%★ 6.1comedy · fantasy

A body-swap forcing a couple to live each other's lives

The difference: Brazilian marital comedy — gentle, local, unraunchy

The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as an insensitive and rough man. On the night before the fiftieth anniversary of Claudio, they changed places with each other.

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Ghostbusters II
1989 · dir. Ivan Reitman
🍅 57%★ 6.6comedy · fantasyHulu

A beloved comedy team's supernatural second lap

The difference: Tamer 80s effects romp — edge traded for nostalgia

The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.

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Thor: Love and Thunder
2022 · dir. Taika Waititi
🍅 64%★ 6.1fantasy · action · comedyDisney+

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Sits closer to action than Ted 2 does

After his retirement is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, a galactic killer who seeks the extinction of the gods, Thor Odinson enlists the help of King Valkyrie, Korg, and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, who now wields Mjolnir as the Mighty Thor. Together they embark upon a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher’s vengeance and stop him before it’s too late.

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Monster Hunt
2015 · dir. Raman Hui Shing-Ngai
🍅 68%★ 6.1comedy · fantasy · adventure

Comedy with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Ted 2 does

Young monster kids try to make peace between the world of humans and the world of the monsters.

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Shazam!
2019 · dir. David F. Sandberg
🍅 90%★ 7action · comedy · fantasyMax

Both lean on wit more than on fantasy

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A boy is given the ability to become an adult superhero in times of need with a single magic word.

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