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Movies that feel like The Muppet Movie (1979)

If you loved The Muppet Movie, the closest films we have are Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Paddington (2014) and Coyote vs. Acme (2026). All three share The Muppet Movie's warm and cozy feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Disney Plus, Britbox Apple TV channel and Angel Studios and others, checked against today's data.

The Muppets gather to watch their newly-finished big-budget rich-and-famous feature film: a talent agent persuades Kermit the Frog to leave the swamp to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there, he meets a bear, a pig, a whatever (his future muppet crew), and some special celebrity guest stars, while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. James Frawleywarmcozywittyplayfulepic
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If The Muppet Movie hit the spot, these will too

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York poster
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
1992 · dir. Chris Columbus
🍅 35%6.9comedy · family · adventure

Warm where it counts, cozy underneath

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he's determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas Eve.

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Paddington
2014 · dir. Paul King
7.3comedy · adventure · family

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: 35 years apart, and the 2010s show

A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.

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Coyote vs. Acme
2026 · dir. Dave Green
7.6comedy · adventure · family

Both trade on scale more than on being family

After Acme products fail him one too many times in his dogged pursuit of the Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote decides to hire a billboard lawyer to sue the Acme Corporation.

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The Goonies
1985 · dir. Richard Donner
🍅 77%7.7adventure · comedy · family

Warm comedy, and it commits to that

Young teen Mikey Walsh and his friends set off on a quest to find Pirate One-Eyed Willie's treasure in hopes of saving their homes from demolition. However, on their quest to find the treasure, they run into a family of recently escaped criminals, determined to capture the kids and reach the treasure first.

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🍅 72%6.8adventure · comedy · family

Cozy adventure in both cases

Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.

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The Aristocats
1970 · dir. Wolfgang Reitherman
🍅 64%7.1animation · comedy · family

Family built on wit, twice over

The difference: Leans animation where The Muppet Movie does not

When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.

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Toy Story
1995 · dir. John Lasseter
🍅 100%8.3family · comedy · animation

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's heart, Woody plots against Buzz. But when circumstances separate Buzz and Woody from their owner, the duo eventually learns to put aside their differences.

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Hook
1991 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 37%6.8adventure · fantasy · comedy

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—does just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. During his trip to see Granny Wendy in London, the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps Peter's kids and forces Peter to return to Neverland.

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Ice Age
2002 · dir. Chris Wedge
🍅 76%7.5animation · comedy · family

Warm family, and it commits to that

Manny the mammoth, Sid the loquacious sloth, and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger go on a comical quest to return a human baby back to his father, across a world on the brink of an ice age.

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One Hundred and One Dalmatians
1961 · dir. Hamilton Luske
🍅 98%7.3adventure · animation · comedy

Cozy comedy in both cases

When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement.

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A Bug's Life
1998 · dir. John Lasseter
🍅 92%7.2adventure · animation · comedy

Both trade on wit more than on being adventure

On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.

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Cars
2006 · dir. John Lasseter
🍅 74%7.3animation · adventure · comedy

The same preoccupation in both: road trip

Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. On route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in California to compete against two seasoned pros, McQueen gets to know the town's offbeat characters.

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