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Movies that feel likeThe Simpsons Movie (2007)

After Homer accidentally pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpsons are declared fugitives.

If you loved The Simpsons Movie, the closest films we have are Happy Feet (2006), Chicken Run (2000) and Elemental (2023). All three share The Simpsons Movie's whimsical and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales (2017).

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Silvermanwhimsicalwittyplayfulwarmcozyromantic
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Happy Feet
2006 · dir. George Miller
🍅 76%★ 6.4animation · comedy · family

Same warm, playful charm wrapped around a misfit finding their place

The difference: A tap-dancing penguin musical, no environmental disaster or fugitives

Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!

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Chicken Run
2000 · dir. Peter Lord
🍅 97%★ 7.1animation · comedy · familyRent or buy

A community banding together to escape a trap of their own making

The difference: A stop-motion prison-escape caper, not a suburban environmental satire

The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens determined to fly the coop–even if they can’t fly! It’s hardly poultry in motion when Rocky attempts to teach Ginger and her feathered friends to fly…but, with teamwork, determination and a little bit o’ cluck, the fearless flock plots one last attempt in a spectacular bid for freedom.

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Elemental
2023 · dir. Peter Sohn
🍅 73%★ 7animation · comedy · familyDisney+

Same warm, whimsical charm carrying real heart under the silliness

The difference: A city-of-elements romance, not a dysfunctional family on the run

In a city where fire, water, land and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy will discover something elemental: how much they have in common.

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Surf's Up
2007 · dir. Ash Brannon
🍅 78%★ 6.7animation · comedy · familyHulu

Same easygoing, community-driven comedy with real warmth underneath

The difference: A surfing mockumentary, no environmental catastrophe or dysfunction

With a documentary crew in tow, Cody Maverick—a young surfer from Antarctica—travels to the pacific for his first professional competition. Determined to earn respect and live up to his idol, Big Z, Cody pushes himself to the limit. But all that changes when an encounter with a laid-back local forces him to rethink his values.

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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
2013 · dir. Cody Cameron
🍅 71%★ 6.3animation · family · comedy

A well-meaning mistake spiraling into a townwide disaster to fix

The difference: A mutant-food-monster sequel, not a family fleeing their hometown

After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, which has been tasked to clean the island, and where the best inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. When Flint discovers that his machine still operates and now creates mutant food beasts like living pickles, hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees and apple pie-thons, he and his friends must return to save the world.

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Over the Hedge
2006 · dir. Karey Kirkpatrick
🍅 75%★ 6.7adventure · animation · comedyRent or buy

Suburban chaos erupting from a mess one character carelessly created

The difference: Forest critters raiding suburbia, not a family fleeing their own town

A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating – and learns a lesson about family himself.

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Antz
1998 · dir. Eric Darnell
🍅 92%★ 6.5animation · comedy · familyNetflix

An ordinary nobody thrust into a crisis bigger than they bargained for

The difference: An ant-colony workplace satire, not a suburban family sitcom

A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a parade, he ends up under the command of a bloodthirsty general. But he's actually been enlisted to fight against a termite army.

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The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales
2017 · dir. Benjamin Renner
🍅 97%★ 7.4family · animation · comedy

Whimsical where it counts, witty underneath

The difference: Trades the romance of The Simpsons Movie for an angle of its own

The countryside isn't always as calm and peaceful as it's made out to be, and the animals on this farm are particularly agitated: a fox who mothers a family of chicks, a rabbit who plays the stork, and a duck who wants to be Santa Claus.

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The Boss Baby
2017 · dir. Tom McGrath
🍅 53%★ 6.3animation · comedy · familyNetflix

Family dysfunction played for laughs from an unreliable point of view

The difference: A sibling-rivalry baby comedy, no town-wide environmental disaster

A story about how a new baby's arrival impacts a family, told from the point of view of a delightfully unreliable narrator, a wildly imaginative 7 year old named Tim.

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🍅 95%★ 7.5adventure · animation · comedy

A cozy small-town setting upended by one absurd, escalating crisis

The difference: A stop-motion monster-hunt mystery, not a family-led environmental mess

Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal Gromit run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods, which turns their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.

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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
2009 · dir. Carlos Saldanha
🍅 46%★ 6.9animation · comedy · familyHuluDisney+

A found family bickering their way through one calamity after another

The difference: A prehistoric herd's dinosaur adventure, not a suburban satire

Times are changing for Manny the moody mammoth, Sid the motor mouthed sloth and Diego the crafty saber-toothed tiger. Life heats up for our heroes when they meet some new and none-too-friendly neighbors – the mighty dinosaurs.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: villain

The difference: Easier on the romance than The Simpsons Movie

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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