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Movies that feel likeTeen Beach 2 (2015)

When characters from the movie musical “Wet Side Story” get stuck in the real world, teens Brady and Mack must find a way to return them home.

If you loved Teen Beach 2, the closest films we have are Mary Poppins Returns (2018), Paper Planes (2014) and Nanny McPhee (2005). All three share Teen Beach 2's warm and cozy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is A Letter to Momo (2012).

🍅 80% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jeffrey Hornadaywarmcozywittyplayfuldreamlike
5 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Disney Plus

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Teen Beach Movie (2013)

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Mary Poppins Returns
2018 · dir. Rob Marshall
🍅 80%★ 6.6fantasy · family · comedyDisney+

Both land warmth and comfort at once

Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.

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Paper Planes
2014 · dir. Robert Connolly
🍅 85%★ 6.2comedy · family · dramaStarz

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Trades the dream logic of Teen Beach 2 for an angle of its own

Dylan discovers he has a talent for making paper planes. He has a chance to compete in a world championship, but he'll have to face bullies and self-doubt to do so.

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Nanny McPhee
2005 · dir. Kirk Jones
🍅 74%★ 6.6fantasy · comedy · family

Dreamlike family, and it commits to that

Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the kids, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee.

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A Letter to Momo
2012 · dir. Hiroyuki Okiura
🍅 80%★ 7.2comedy · fantasy · animation

Comedy with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into animation than Teen Beach 2 does

A shy 11-year-old's life takes a strange turn when she discovers three hungry goblins living in the attic of her new house. She misses her old life. She misses her father so very much. Until she makes some new ghoulish friends.

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The Christmas Chronicles
2018 · dir. Clay Kaytis
🍅 67%★ 7comedy · adventure · familyNetflix

Both lean on comfort more than on fantasy

Siblings Kate and Teddy try to prove Santa Claus is real, but when they accidentally cause his sleigh to crash, they have to save Christmas.

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Alibi.com
2017 · dir. Philippe Lacheau
🍅 67%★ 6.5comedy · familyRent or buy

Tv movie built on wit, twice over

The difference: Takes it somewhere less dreamlike than Teen Beach 2 does

Greg founded a company called Alibi.com that creates any type of alibi. With his associate, Augustin, and Medhi his new employee, they devise unstoppable stratagems and stagings to cover their clients. But meeting Flo, a pretty blonde who hates men who lie, will complicate Greg's life, which begins by hiding the true nature of his activity. During the presentation to parents, Greg understands that Gérard, the father of Flo, is also one of their clients.

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Just Another Christmas
2020 · dir. Roberto Santucci
★ 6.7comedy · drama · fantasyNetflix

Playful family in both cases

After taking a very nasty fall on Christmas Eve, grinchy Jorge blacks out and wakes up one year later, with no memory of the year that has passed. He soon realizes that he’s doomed to keep waking up on Christmas Eve after Christmas Eve, having to deal with the aftermath of what his other self has done the other 364 days of the year.

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CJ7
2008 · dir. Stephen Chow
🍅 49%★ 6.4comedy · drama · family

Both lean on dream logic more than on comedy

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A poor construction worker, who struggles to keep his son in private school, mistakes an orb he finds in a junkjard for a toy which proves to be much, much more once the young boy starts to play with it.

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Fala Sério, Mãe!
2017 · dir. Pedro Vasconcelos
★ 6.1comedy · family

Warm tv movie in both cases

Ângela Cristina, mother of teenager Maria de Lourdes, has to deal with the difficulties and delights of guiding her daughter during one of the most complicated stages of life.

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Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
★ 5.4comedy · fantasy · familyRent or buy

Same instincts, 5 years apart

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.

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Evan Almighty
2007 · dir. Tom Shadyac
🍅 24%★ 5.5fantasy · comedy · family

Family built on wit, twice over

God contacts Junior Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.

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Doctor Dolittle
1998 · dir. Betty Thomas
🍅 44%★ 5.5comedy · family · fantasyDisney+

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor's advice, unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turns his world upside down!

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