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Movies that feel like Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass (2025)

If you loved Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass, the closest films we have are The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales (2017), The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972) and My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999). All three share Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass' warm and cozy feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

During a chase inside a museum, Tom and Jerry find an ancient magical compass and end up being transported through time. Lost in a distant era, they will need to work together to find a way back home.

3.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Zhang Gangwhimsicalwittyplayfulwarmcozydreamlike

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

The same mix in both: whimsy, then wit

The difference: Lighter on dream logic

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 Amazing Mr. Blunden
1972 · dir. Lionel Jeffries
6.8family · fantasy

Both are built on the same subject: time travel

The difference: 53 years apart, and the 1970s show

Mysterious old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in their squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The family become the housekeepers to a derelict country mansion in the charge of the solicitors. One day the children meet the spirits of two other children who died in the mansion nearly a hundred years prior. The children prepare a magic potion that allows them to travel backwards in time to the era of the ghost children. Will the children be able to help their new friends and what will happen to them if they do?

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My Neighbors the Yamadas
1999 · dir. Isao Takahata
🍅 78%7.1animation · comedy · family

Playful and warm in the same breath

The Yamadas are a typical middle class Japanese family in urban Tokyo and this film shows us a variety of episodes of their lives. With tales that range from the humorous to the heartbreaking, we see this family cope with life's little conflicts, problems, and joys in their own way.

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Minions & Monsters
2026 · dir. Pierre Coffin
6.4adventure · animation · comedy

Animation with a pulse of comfort, in both cases

This is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the planet from the mayhem they had just created.

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The Boxtrolls
2014 · dir. Graham Annable
🍅 78%6.8animation · comedy · family

Dreamlike comedy in both cases

An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.

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The Smurfs
2011 · dir. Raja Gosnell
🍅 21%5.4animation · family · adventure

The same preoccupation in both: cat and mouse

When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world and into ours -- in fact, smack dab in the middle of Central Park. Just three apples high and stuck in the Big Apple, the Smurfs must find a way to get back to their village before Gargamel tracks them down.

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

Both lean on wit more than on family

The difference: Played as drama first

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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Pete's Dragon
1977 · dir. Don Chaffey
🍅 56%6.3fantasy · animation · comedy

Fantasy built on whimsy, twice over

Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes invisible dragon named Elliott! When they are taken in by a kind lighthouse keeper, Nora, and her father, Elliott's prank playing lands them in big trouble. Then, when crooked salesmen try to capture Elliott for their own gain, Pete must attempt a daring rescue.

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

Playful adventure, and it commits to that

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 Grinch
2018 · dir. Yarrow Cheney
🍅 60%6.4animation · comedy · family

Warm animation in both cases

The Grinch hatches a scheme to ruin Christmas when the residents of Whoville plan their annual holiday celebration. But a certain little who might change things.

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Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
2018 · dir. Genndy Tartakovsky
🍅 63%6.3animation · comedy · family

Cozy comedy, and it commits to that

Dracula, Mavis, Johnny and the rest of the Drac Pack take a vacation on a luxury Monster Cruise Ship, where Dracula falls in love with the ship’s captain, Ericka, who’s secretly a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, the notorious monster slayer.

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Turning Red
2022 · dir. Domee Shi
🍅 95%6.9animation · family · comedy

Both lean on dream logic more than on family

Thirteen-year-old Mei is experiencing the awkwardness of being a teenager with a twist – when she gets too excited, she transforms into a giant red panda.

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