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Movies that feel likeUp (2009)

Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a new lease on life.

If you loved Up, the closest films we have are Toy Story 3 (2010), Monsters, Inc. (2001) and Tangled (2010). All three share Up's warm and whimsical feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Boy & the World (2014).

🍅 98% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Pete Docterwarmtenderwistfulwhimsicalplayful
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Toy Story 3
2010 · dir. Lee Unkrich
🍅 98%★ 8.3animation · family · comedyDisney+

Whimsy and real mourning holding hands in the same film

The difference: Its ache is about being outgrown, not about being left

Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to college, the gang find themselves accidentally left at a nefarious day care center. The toys must band together to escape and return home to Andy.

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Monsters, Inc.
2001 · dir. Pete Docter
🍅 96%★ 8.1animation · comedy · familyDisney+

A closed-off grown-up thawed by a small unwanted companion

The difference: Pure comfort — none of the mourning that opens Up

Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. When a little girl named Boo wanders into their world, it's the monsters who are scared silly, and it's up to Sulley and Mike to keep her out of sight and get her back home.

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Tangled
2010 · dir. Byron Howard
🍅 89%★ 7.7animation · family · adventureDisney+

One thread runs through both: villain

The difference: Easier on the tenderness than Up

Feisty teenager Rapunzel, who has long and magical hair, wants to go and see sky lanterns on her eighteenth birthday, but she's bound to a tower by her overprotective mother. She strikes a deal with Flynn Rider, a charming wanted thief, and the duo set off on an action-packed escapade.

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Arrietty
2010 · dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi
🍅 94%★ 7.6fantasy · animation · familyMax

Warm where it counts, wistful underneath

The difference: Trades the tenderness of Up for an angle of its own

14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.

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Boy & the World
2014 · dir. Alê Abreu
🍅 93%★ 7.5animation · fantasy · adventure

Both are built on the same subject: travel

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than Up does

Suffering because of his father's departure to the big city, a boy leaves his village and discovers a fantastic world dominated by bug-engines and strange beings. An unusual animation with various artistic techniques that portrays the issues of the modern world through the eyes of a child.

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Soul
2020 · dir. Pete Docter
🍅 95%★ 8animation · family · dramaHuluDisney+

Pete Docter working the same nerve twice

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

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Chicken Little
2005 · dir. Mark Dindal
🍅 36%★ 5.7animation · family · comedyDisney+

Whimsical and playful in the same breath

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day? Together with his hysterical band of misfit friends, Chicken Little must hatch a plan to save the planet from alien invasion and prove that the world's biggest hero is a little chicken.

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Rio
2011 · dir. Carlos Saldanha
🍅 72%★ 6.9animation · adventure · comedyDisney+

A sheltered homebody dragged into a colorful adventure abroad

The difference: Carnival brightness, feelings kept simple

Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel, a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kidnap Blu and Jewel, but the pair soon escape and begin a perilous adventure back to freedom -- and Linda.

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Y Tu Mamá También
2001 · dir. Alfonso Cuarón
🍅 90%★ 7.7drama · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: travel

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.

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The Little Mermaid
1989 · dir. John Musker
🍅 92%★ 7.6animation · family · fantasyDisney+

The same preoccupation in both: villain

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 1980s show

This colorful adventure tells the story of an impetuous mermaid princess named Ariel who falls in love with the very human Prince Eric and puts everything on the line for the chance to be with him. Memorable songs and characters -- including the villainous sea witch Ursula.

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Marley & Me
2008 · dir. David Frankel
🍅 64%★ 7comedy · family

Both are working the same pair: dog, pets

A newly married couple, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of marriage, maturity and confronting one's own mortality, as seen through the lens of family life with a dog.

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

Warm animation in both cases

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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