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Movies that feel likeToy Story 2 (1999)

Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, owner of Al's Toy Barn kidnaps Woody. Andy's toys mount a daring rescue mission, Buzz Lightyear meets his match and Woody has to decide where he and his heart truly belong.

If you loved Toy Story 2, the closest films we have are A Bug's Life (1998), Cars (2006) and Chicken Run (2000). All three share Toy Story 2'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).

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. John Lasseterwhimsicalwittyplayfulwarmcozy
7 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Hulu · Disney Plus

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Toy Story (1995) · Toy Story 3 (2010) · Toy Story 4 (2019) · Toy Story 5 (2026)

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

Early Pixar craft: tiny heroes, a big rescue, jokes for every age

The difference: A straightforward underdog fable, no ache about being outgrown

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
🍅 75%★ 7.3animation · adventure · comedyDisney+

A hotshot learning the people around him matter more than winning

The difference: Slower and sleepier, nostalgic for a place rather than a childhood

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

A group of misfits scheming their way out of captivity together

The difference: Clay-built and wry, a wartime escape spoof with harder edges

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

Bright computer-animated comedy about refusing your assigned place

The difference: Snarkier and more adult, satire where this one has real tenderness

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

A zippy sequel where friendship outlasts shiny new temptations

The difference: Food-pun mania — invention runs ahead of feeling

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

Whimsical and witty in the same breath

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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Klaus
2019 · dir. Sergio Pablos
🍅 95%★ 8.2animation · family · comedyNetflix

Toys, kindness and the quiet joy of being genuinely wanted

The difference: A hand-drawn origin fable, sentimental in a wholly different key

A selfish postman and a reclusive toymaker form an unlikely friendship, delivering joy to a cold, dark town that desperately needs it.

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Ice Age
2002 · dir. Chris Wedge
🍅 76%★ 7.5animation · comedy · familyDisney+

Mismatched companions grumbling their way into caring for each other

The difference: Broader gag-driven comedy, keeping the sadness at arm's length

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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Madagascar
2005 · dir. Eric Darnell
🍅 55%★ 6.9adventure · animation · comedy

Best friends separated from home learning what they mean to each other

The difference: Broad zoo-animal slapstick — no identity questions underneath

Four animal friends get a taste of the wild life when they break out of captivity at the Central Park Zoo and wash ashore on the island of Madagascar.

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🍅 95%★ 7.5adventure · animation · comedy

Common ground: villain

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Toy Story 2 does

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

Both land play and warmth at once

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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Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 93%★ 7.9adventure · animation · comedyDisney+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: villain

The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.

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