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Movies that feel likeZootopia (2016)

Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia's police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case - even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery.

If you loved Zootopia, the closest films we have are Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012), Penguins of Madagascar (2014) and Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009). All three share Zootopia's whimsical and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Lego Movie (2014).

🍅 98% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Byron Howardwhimsicalepicwarmcozywittyplayful
10 of 12 streaming nowHBO Max · Disney Plus · Paramount Plus Premium

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Zootopia 2 (2025)

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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
2012 · dir. Eric Darnell
🍅 78%★ 6.8animation · family · comedyMax

Animal ensemble chaos across a gleaming setting

The difference: Caper slapstick, no social fable

Animal pals Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are still trying to make it back to New York's Central Park Zoo. They are forced to take a detour to Europe to find the penguins and chimps who broke the bank at a Monte Carlo casino. When French animal-control officer Capitaine Chantel DuBois picks up their scent, Alex and company are forced to hide out in a traveling circus.

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Penguins of Madagascar
2014 · dir. Simon J. Smith
🍅 74%★ 6.6family · animation · adventure

Animals running elaborate operations under humans' noses

The difference: Spy-spoof momentum, pure gags

Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.

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

Animal society rendered with wit and texture

The difference: Anderson's deadpan heist, adult sensibility

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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Moana
2016 · dir. John Musker
🍅 96%★ 7.6adventure · comedy · familyDisney+

Same-year Disney about proving the doubters wrong

The difference: Ocean myth-quest, songs doing the lifting

In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain's daughter's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the demigod to set things right.

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Encanto
2021 · dir. Byron Howard
★ 7.2animation · comedy · familyDisney+

A meticulous world where everyone's role is assigned at birth

The difference: Family drama indoors; nothing procedural, nothing to solve

The tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family—every child except one, Mirabel. But when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides that she, the only ordinary Madrigal, might just be her exceptional family's last hope.

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Wreck-It Ralph
2012 · dir. Rich Moore
🍅 87%★ 7.7family · animation · comedyDisney+

A meticulously built world where your label isn't your destiny

The difference: Arcade mythology, redemption arc

Wreck-It Ralph is the 9-foot-tall, 643-pound villain of an arcade video game named Fix-It Felix Jr., in which the game's titular hero fixes buildings that Ralph destroys. Wanting to prove he can be a good guy and not just a villain, Ralph escapes his game and lands in Hero's Duty, a first-person shooter where he helps the game's hero battle against alien invaders. He later enters Sugar Rush, a kart racing game set on tracks made of candies, cookies and other sweets. There, Ralph meets Vanellope von Schweetz who has learned that her game is faced with a dire threat that could affect the entire arcade, and one that Ralph may have inadvertently started.

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Toy Story 4
2019 · dir. Josh Cooley
🍅 96%★ 7.6family · comedy · animationDisney+

Knowing your purpose when the world redefines it

The difference: Toy existentialism, road-trip form

Woody has always been confident about his place in the world, devoted to taking care of his kid—whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But after Bonnie creates a reluctant new toy called "Forky", a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends challenges everything Woody believes about loyalty, purpose, and what it truly means to be a toy.

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Storks
2016 · dir. Doug Sweetland
🍅 65%★ 6.8adventure · animation · comedy

One thread runs through both: villain

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for a global internet retail giant. Junior, the company’s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorized baby girl...

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Cars
2006 · dir. John Lasseter
🍅 75%★ 7.3animation · adventure · comedyDisney+

A striver learning the town they dismissed has things to teach

The difference: Slower Americana, message gentler

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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The Lego Movie
2014 · dir. Phil Lord
🍅 96%★ 7.7animation · family · adventureParamount+

Common ground: villain

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than Zootopia does

An ordinary Lego mini-figure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from conquering the universe.

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Ferdinand
2017 · dir. Carlos Saldanha
🍅 71%★ 6.7animation · family · adventureMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: anthropomorphism

Ferdinand, a little bull, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree just smelling the flowers versus jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow. But one day five men come to choose the "biggest, fastest, roughest bull" for the bullfights in Madrid— and Ferdinand is mistakenly chosen.

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

Howard again, pairing mismatched partners with real comic timing

The difference: Romance-shaped; the world outside barely gets examined

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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