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Movies that feel like The Flintstones (1994)

If you loved The Flintstones, the closest films we have are Jingle All the Way (1996), Addams Family Values (1993) and Casper (1995). All three share The Flintstones' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

Modern Stone Age family the Flintstones hit the big screen in this live-action version of the classic cartoon. Fred helps Barney adopt a child. Barney sees an opportunity to repay him when Slate Mining tests its employees to find a new executive. But no good deed goes unpunished.

🍅 23% Rotten Tomatoes5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Brian Levantdreamlikewittyplayfulwarmcozy
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If The Flintstones hit the spot, these will too

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Jingle All the Way
1996 · dir. Brian Levant
🍅 20%5.8family · adventure · comedy

Brian Levant directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: None of the dream logic The Flintstones is built on

Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite television hero for Christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man. Now, Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else to find a Turbo Man action figure.

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Addams Family Values
1993 · dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
🍅 76%6.9comedy · family · fantasy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: jealousy

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.

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Casper
1995 · dir. Brad Silberling
🍅 59%6.2fantasy · comedy · family

Common ground: friendship

Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow spirits, he brings along his teenage daughter, Kat. Casper quickly falls in love with Kat, but their budding relationship is complicated not only by his transparent state, but also by his troublemaking apparition uncles and their mischievous antics.

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Doctor Dolittle
1998 · dir. Betty Thomas
🍅 44%5.4comedy · family · fantasy

The same mix in both: dream logic, then wit

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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Hocus Pocus
1993 · dir. Kenny Ortega
🍅 42%6.9fantasy · comedy · family

Both land play and warmth at once

After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.

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The Santa Clause
1994 · dir. John Pasquin
🍅 73%6.6fantasy · drama · comedy

Both lean on comfort more than on fantasy

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Flintstones does

On Christmas Eve, divorced dad Scott Calvin and his son discover Santa Claus has fallen off their roof. When Scott takes the reins of the magical sleigh, he finds he is now the new Santa, and must convince a world of disbelievers, including himself.

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Stuart Little
1999 · dir. Rob Minkoff
🍅 66%6family · fantasy · comedy

Both are built on the same subject: adoption

When the Littles adopt Stuart, the mouse, George is initially unwelcoming to his new brother, and the family cat, Snowbell, is even less enthusiastic. Stuart resolves to face these difficulties with as much pluck and courage as he can muster.

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Babe
1995 · dir. Chris Noonan
🍅 98%6.9fantasy · drama · comedy

Comedy with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hoggett knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.

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Evan Almighty
2007 · dir. Tom Shadyac
🍅 24%5.4fantasy · comedy · family

Witty family in both cases

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

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Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
1999 · dir. Claude Zidi
6family · adventure · comedy

Fantasy built on play, twice over

Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsfolk into mighty soldiers. When Roman troops carve a path through Gaul to reach the English Channel, Caesar and his aide de camp Detritus discover the secret elixir and capture the Druid leader who knows its formula, and Asterix and Obelix are sent off to rescue them.

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Ri¢hie Ri¢h
1994 · dir. Donald Petrie
🍅 27%5.5comedy · family

Warm comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Not nearly as dreamlike as The Flintstones

Billionaire heir Richie Rich has it all, including Reggie Jackson as a batting coach and Claudia Schiffer as a personal trainer -- but no playmates. What's more, scoundrel Laurence Van Dough is scheming to take over the family empire. Uh-oh! Enter faithful butler Cadbury to save the day.

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Herbie Fully Loaded
2005 · dir. Angela Robinson
🍅 40%4.9comedy · family · adventure

Cozy family in both cases

Maggie Peyton, the new owner of Number 53 - the free-wheelin' Volkswagen bug with a mind of its own - puts the car through its paces on the road to becoming a NASCAR competitor.

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