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Movies that feel like The Watch (2012)

If you loved The Watch, the closest films we have are Despicable Me 4 (2024), Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024) and Kopps (2003). All three share The Watch's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice but to save their neighborhood – and the world – from total extermination.

🍅 16% Rotten Tomatoes5.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Akiva Schafferwittyplayfulkineticcerebralwarm

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Despicable Me 4
2024 · dir. Chris Renaud
🍅 56%6.2animation · comedy · action

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Gru and Lucy and their girls—Margo, Edith and Agnes—welcome a new member to the Gru family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad. Gru also faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal and his femme fatale girlfriend Valentina, forcing the family to go on the run.

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Sonic the Hedgehog 3
2024 · dir. Jeff Fowler
🍅 86%6.9action · science fiction · comedy

Both land momentum and ideas at once

The difference: Sits closer to family than The Watch does

Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. With their abilities outmatched in every way, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance in hopes of stopping Shadow and protecting the planet.

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Kopps
2003 · dir. Josef Fares
6.7action · comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: friendship

The difference: Not nearly as cerebral as The Watch

A small Swedish village, Högboträsk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime.

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Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
2002 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 75%5.3family · action · adventure

Both lean on warmth more than on comedy

Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy business as Level 2 OSS agents. Their new mission is to save the world from a mad scientist living on a volcanic island populated by an imaginative menagerie of creatures. On this bizarre island, none of the Cortez's gadgets work and they must rely on their wits--and each other--to survive and save the day.

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🍅 38%5.9action · adventure · comedy

Witty action in both cases

After supervillain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.

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Sonic the Hedgehog
2020 · dir. Jeff Fowler
🍅 64%6.5action · science fiction · comedy

Common ground: friendship

Powered with incredible speed, Sonic The Hedgehog embraces his new home on Earth. That is, until Sonic sparks the attention of super-uncool evil genius Dr. Robotnik. Now it’s super-villain vs. super-sonic in an all-out race across the globe to stop Robotnik from using Sonic’s unique power for world domination.

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Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
2003 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 45%4.4family · action · comedy

Science fiction built on play, twice over

Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.

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Journey to the Center of the Earth
2008 · dir. Eric Brevig
🍅 59%5.8action · science fiction · adventure

Kinetic comedy, and it commits to that

On a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth.

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Spy Kids
2001 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 92%5.6family · action · comedy

Action with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

Carmen and Juni think their parents are boring. Little do they know that in their day, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez were the top secret agents from their respective countries. They gave up that life to raise their children. Now, the disappearances of several of their old colleagues forces the Cortez' return from retirement. What they didn't count on was Carmen and Juni joining the "family business."

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Evolution
2001 · dir. Ivan Reitman
🍅 44%6.1comedy · science fiction · action

Science fiction built on wit, twice over

A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "survival of the fittest." David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, and Julianne Moore are the only people standing between the aliens and world domination... which could be bad news for the Earth.

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Megamind
2010 · dir. Tom McGrath
🍅 73%7.3animation · action · comedy

The same preoccupation in both: alien

After Megamind, a highly intelligent alien supervillain, defeats his long-time nemesis Metro Man, Megamind creates a new hero to fight, but must act to save the city when his "creation" becomes an even worse villain than he was.

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Dumb and Dumber To
2014 · dir. Bobby Farrelly
🍅 31%5.6comedy

Warm comedy, and it commits to that

20 years since their first adventure, Lloyd and Harry go on a road trip to find Harry's newly discovered daughter, who was given up for adoption.

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