Recycled In Space / Animated Films

aka: Animated Film

• Allegro non Troppo is Fantasia in ITALIAN!!!
• The Angry Birds Movie is Rio WITH ANGRY BIRDS CHARACTERS!
• Arlo the Alligator Boy is Elf... WITH AN ALLIGATOR BOY!
• Barbie In Rock N Royals is Camp Rock 2 The Final Jam ANIMATED AND WITH PRINCESSES!
• The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars is The Brave Little Toaster... ON MARS!
• A Bug's Life is Seven Samurai WITH BUGS!!
• Bye Bye Bunny is The Muppets Take Manhattan WITH LOONEY TUNES CHARACTERS!
• Cars is Doc Hollywood WITH CARS!
• Cats Don't Dance is The Muppet Movie WITH CATS!
• Chicken Run is The Great Escape WITH CHICKENS!
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) is The Muppets (2011) WITH DISNEY CHARACTERS!
• Chop Kick Panda is Kung Fu Panda IN CHEAP FLASH ANIMATION!
• Coco is Spirited Away AS A MUSICAL IN MEXICO!
• The Emoji Movie is Wreck-It Ralph and Inside Out IN A SMARTPHONE!
• Foodfight! is Who Framed Roger Rabbit WITH PRODUCT MASCOTS! Or it's Casablanca IN A SUPERMARKET!
  • It's also Toy Story as a garish, low-budget mockbuster of a popular work.
• Gnomeo & Juliet is Romeo and Juliet WITH GNOMES!
  • Sherlock Gnomes is Sherlock Holmes WITH GNOMES!
• The Great Mouse Detective is Sherlock Holmes WITH MICE!
• Hercules is Superman: The Movie and Rocky IN ANCIENT GREECE!
• The first movie in the Ice Age series is essentially built on Willow, most visibly shown in the bobsleigh sequence. A sword and sorcery tale is thus recycled in the Ice Age, with animals bringing home a human kid.
  • Or The Land Before Time and Dinosaur IN CENOZOIC!
• Inside Out is Toy Story WITH HUMAN EMOTIONS!
• Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie is A Monster in Paris AS A SUPERHERO MOVIE!
• The Land Before Time is Bambi WITH DINOSAURS!
• The Lion King trilogy is Shakespeare WITH TALKING AFRICAN ANIMALS! (and a happy ending)
  • The Lion King (1994) is Hamlet
  • The Lion King II: Simba's Pride is Romeo and Juliet.
  • The Lion King 1 ½ is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
• Migration is Rio BUT WITH DUCKS!
• My Little Pony: Equestria Girls is My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic WITH HUMANS!
  • Or Mean Girls AS AN ANIMATED MOVIE!
• Planes is Cars 2 IN THE SKY!
• Pinocchio 3000 is Pinocchio IN THE FUTURE!
• Pinocchio in Outer Space is Pinocchio IN OUTER SPACE!
• Pocahontas is Romeoand Juliet IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA!
• The Prince of Egypt is The Ten Commandments AS AN ANIMATED MUSICAL! This "sounds" like an awful idea, but...
• Rango is Fantastic Mr. Fox IN THE DESERT!
• Ratatoing is Ratatouille IN RIO DE JANEIRO!
• Recess: School's Out is The Country Bears RECESS-STYLE! (despite the fact that School's Out came first)
• The Rescuers Down Under is The Rescuers IN THE LAND DOWN UNDER with a A MALE VILLAIN AND CHILD IN PERIL
• The Road to El Dorado is The Man Who Would be King IN CENTRAL AMERICA!
  • Or the Road to ... series - but ANIMATED!
• Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is Turning Red and/or Luca WITH KRAKENS!
• Sausage Party is Toy Story WITH FOOD! AND FOR ADULTS!
  • Alternatively, Attack on Titan WITH FOOD! AND IN AMERICA!
• The Secret Life of Pets is Toy Story WITH PETS!
  • It's also basically Here Comes Garfield AS A THEATRICAL MOVIE!
• Shark Tale is The Godfather IN THE OCEAN! MADE FOR KIDS!
• Sing is Zootopia WITH A SINGING CONTEST!
• Soul is Spirited Away IN NEW YORK CITY WITH RIDICULOUSLY CUTE CRITTERS!
• Space Thunder Kids is (conceptually) the Godfrey Ho Ninja Movies, only WITH ANIME! IN SPACE! The title is also possibly a reference to Ho and Lai's Thunder Ninja Kids movies, also invoking this trope.
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie is The LEGO Movie WITH NINTENDO CHARACTERS!
• Surf's Up is Cars WITH PENGUINS AND SURFING!
• Team America: World Police are the Thunderbirds FROM EAGLELAND! Word of God says that it was specifically inspired by their disappointment that the actual film adaption didn't use puppets like the show; for what it's worth, the Thunderbirds creator says they got the feel of the show better, except for the vulgarity.
• Teen Titans Go! To the Movies is Deadpool AS AN ANIMATED MUSICAL FOR CHILDREN!
• The Transformers: The Movie is Star Wars WITH TRANSFORMERS!
• Disney's Treasure Planet is Treasure Island IN SPACE!... AND WITH FURRIES!
  • There is also a mini-series lazily titled Treasure Island in Outer Space.
  • Apparently, the working title for the movie was even "Treasure Island in Space".
• Turbo is Cars WITH SNAILS!
• Turning Red is The Incredible Hulk WITH A PUBERTAL GIRL!
  • Or GENDER-FLIPPED FLCL!
• Ugly Dolls is Trolls IN A SCHOOL!
• Wreck-It Ralph is Toy Story WITH VIDEO GAME CHARACTERS!
• Zootopia is 48 Hrs. WITH FURRIES!

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