Animation and Anime meet Film:
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- Abominable is How to Train Your Dragon meets Smallfoot meets The Amazing Panda Adventure.
- Allegro non Troppo has been described as "a cross between Fantasia and Yellow Submarine with a touch of Fellini."
- Anastasia (1997) is Anastasia (1956) meets Doctor Zhivago and My Fair Lady as a Disney Princess movie.
- A Monster in Paris is The Phantom of the Opera meets Beauty and the Beast. With the visual style of Despicable Me.
- An American Tail is 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother meets The Rescuers.
- A Scanner Darkly is The Wire meets Waking Life meets Dazed and Confused. Appropriately enough, it was directed by the same director of Dazed and Confused and Waking Life.
- Antz is A Bug's Life meets Metropolis with Woody Allen.
- April and the Extraordinary World is Steamboy meets Hugo meets Franco-Belgian Comics.
- Animal Kingdom: Let's Go Ape was described by Saberspark as being "Ice Age meets The Croods meets The Lion King meets Avatar meets Avatar: The Last Airbender meets brain aneurysm".
- The Aristocats is Lady and the Tramp meets 101 Dalmatians with cats instead of dogs.
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire is Pocahontas meets Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water meets Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura meets Aquanox meets Stargate meets Journey to the Center of the Earth.
- Arlo the Alligator Boy is Elf meets The Muppet Movie.
- The Bad Guys is Madagascar meets Megamind meets Carmen Sandiego meets Grand Theft Auto V meets Lupin III meets Pulp Fiction meets Beastars meets The Batman, with the audiovisual aesthetic of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and a side dash of Dragon Ball, The Adventures of Tintin, The Incal, G-Force, Rango and Sherlock Holmes.
- Alternately, it's Zootopia meets Ocean's Eleven.
- Barbie: Video Game Hero is Barbie meets an inverted version of Pixels (instead of Video Game characters appear in the Real World, Barbie ends up inside the Video Game).
- So Barbie meets Captain N: The Game Master, then?
- Batman: Gotham by Gaslight is Batman meets From Hell.
- Bee Movie is Antz with the massively uncomfortable detail of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006).
- Alternatively, it's Seinfeld meets A Bug's Life meets The Client meets The Happening.
- Beowulf (2007) is the original poem meets 300 meets Beowulf (1999) meets God of War with the animation style of The Polar Express.
- Big Hero 6 is The Incredibles meets WALLE meets 6teen.
- Or Robotboy meets Frozen meets Gravity Falls.
- Or The Incredibles meets the world of Jet Set Radio with bit of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius spliced in.
- Bird Boy: The Forgotten Children is Moral Orel meets Edward Scissorhands meets Devilman by way of Night in the Woods.
- The Black Cauldron is The Sword in the Stone meets The Lord of the Rings meets Devilman.
- Bolt is The Truman Show meets Buzz Lightyear of Star Command meets Oliver & Company meets Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey.
- The Book of Life is Corpse Bride meets Labyrinth, with a bit of Moulin Rouge! thrown in.
- Brave is Mulan meets Brother Bear meets How to Train Your Dragon meets The Secret of Kells meets Princess Mononoke meets Spirited Away meets Braveheart meets Freaky Friday meets Whip It meets Game of Thrones.
- The Brave Little Toaster is The Land Before Time meets Toy Story.
- A Bug's Life is a modern take on Aesop's The Grasshopper and the Ants, if it was combined with a mixture of ¡Three Amigos!, The Magnificent Seven (1960), and Seven Samurai.
- Cars series:
- Cars is VeggieTales meets The Love Bug meets Doc Hollywood meets Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch.
- Cars 2 is Cars meets The Man Who Knew Too Little, with a triple helping of Larry the Cable Guy.
- Planes is Cars meets Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.
- Cats Don't Dance is Singin' in the Rain meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit meets Rock-A-Doodle.
- Chicken Little is Unstable Fables meets War of the Worlds.
- A Christmas Carol (2009) is Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas meets Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events meets The Polar Express meets Back to the Future meets The Divine Comedy meets Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets Bruce Almighty meets Yes-Man.
- Or the original book meets The Polar Express with a bit of The Hunchback of Notre Dame thrown in.
- Cinderella III: A Twist in Time is Cinderella meets Back to the Future Part II.
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs:
- The original book meets Meet the Robinsons meets The Day After Tomorrow.
- Meanwhile, the sequel is the first movie meets The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
- Coco is The Book of Life meets Corpse Bride meets Kubo and the Two Strings meets Spirited Away meets Ghost meets Footloose meets The Jazz Singer.
- Cool World is Who Framed Roger Rabbit meets Evil Toons
and the Ralph Bakshi shorts from What A Cartoon! Show called Malcolm and Melvin and Babe, He Calls Me.
- The Congress: Who Framed Roger Rabbit meets Inland Empire, Yellow Submarine and Brave New World.
- Coraline is Beetlejuice meets Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Stephen King's IT, and The Twilight Zone.
- The Croods is Quest for Fire meets The Flintstones meets Madagascar.
- The Croods: A New Age is The Croods meets Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa meets How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World meets Sausage Party meets Parasite (2019) meets Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
- Despicable Me is Spy vs. Spy meets Annie.
- Dinosaur is The Land Before Time meets Tarzan.
- The Emoji Movie is equal parts Wreck-It Ralph, Inside Out, The LEGO Movie and Foodfight!.
- The Emperor's New Groove is Beauty and the Beast (minus the romance and music) meets Looney Tunes.
- The End Of Evangelion is the original series ending up like Be Invoked In the Style of The Wall.
- An Extremely Goofy Movie is A Goofy Movie meets Back to School meets the X Games.
- Encanto is Meet the Robinsons meets JoJo's Bizarre Adventure meets BoJack Horseman meets Coco meets Brave meets Frozen meets The Magnus Archives meets Howl's Moving Castle meets House of Leaves meets Watchmen, all set in Colombia.
- Epic (2013):
- FernGully meets Avatar. A comparison the director isn't fond of.
Chris Wedge: I hate to associate it with other movies. It is adventure on the scale of Star Wars. And it does immerse the audience completely in a world like Avatar. But it has its own personality.
- It could also be seen as The Spiderwick Chronicles meets Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
- FernGully meets Avatar. A comparison the director isn't fond of.
- Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox is Roald Dahl's original book meets The Royal Tenenbaums.
- Felidae is The Aristocats meets the works of David Cronenberg.
- Foodfight! is Casablanca meets Eight Crazy Nights meets Toy Story, but with the same CGI quality one would expect from a Vídeo Brinquedo film and the writing of a production from Dingo Pictures.
- Finding Dory is Finding Nemo meets The Sponge Bob Square Pants Movie meets Frozen.
- Free Birds is Shark Tale meets Click.
- Frozen franchise:
- Frozen is The Snow Queen meets Wicked meets Snow-White and Rose-Red.
- Frozen II is Frozen meets How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World meets Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- The Good Dinosaur is Dinosaur meets Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.
- It was also described by Rob Walker as watching Lawrence of Arabia with Gumby in the lead role.
- Grave of the Fireflies is Barefoot Gen meets Johnny Got His Gun.
- The Great Mouse Detective is An American Tail meets Sherlock Holmes.
- Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is The Adventures of Pinocchio meets Pan's Labyrinth meets Fantastic Mr. Fox meets Over the Garden Wall.
- Happy Feet is The Pebble and the Penguin meets Moulin Rouge! meets Watership Down.
- Hercules is a Disneyfied adaptation of Greek mythology meets Clash of the Titans (1981) meets The Mighty Thor meets Superman meets Rocky.
- Hoodwinked! is Shrek meets Rashomon.
- Hotel Transylvania is Castlevania meets The Munsters meets The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.
- The sequel is the first film meets Mad Monster Party? meets Grown Ups.
- Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation is Hotel Transylvania 2 meets Titanic (1997) meets Going Overboard.
- Hotel Transylvania: Transformania is Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation meets Freaky Friday meets Frozen II.
- The How to Train Your Dragon franchise overall is Vinland Saga meets Shrek meets Pokémon.
- The first movie is Erik the Viking meets Never Cry Wolf
with dragons.
- How to Train Your Dragon 2 is the first film meets Kung Fu Panda 2 meets a reverse version of the story of The Lion King (1994) (Hiccup doesn't want to be chief, and his father's death is indirectly his fault) meets Game of Thrones.
- How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is How to Train Your Dragon 2 meets Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron meets The Prince of Egypt meets The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild meets Mother 3 meets The Last: Naruto the Movie meets DEVILMAN crybaby meets Avatar meets Thor: Ragnarok meets Logan meets Godzilla vs. Destoroyah meets The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies meets Romeo and Juliet meets Dear Evan Hansen meets The Rising of the Shield Hero meets The Saga of Tanya the Evil.
- The first movie is Erik the Viking meets Never Cry Wolf
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame is The Lion King meets Berserk meets Beauty and the Beast, with some hints of Pocahontas (sharing similar themes about the evils of bigotry).
- Ice Age is Three Men and a Baby meets 3 Godfathers meets Shrek meets The Land Before Time.
- Ice Age: The Meltdown is Ice Age meets The Day the Earth Caught Fire.
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is Ice Age meets The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
- Ice Age: Continental Drift is Ice Age: The Meltdown meets Pirates of the Caribbean meets 2012 meets The Odyssey.
- Ice Age: Collision Course is Ice Age: Continental Drift meets Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs meets Armageddon (1998) meets Deep Impact.
- The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild is Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs meets Puss in Boots, with a noticeable downgrade in animation.
- Igor is Elf meets BioShock.
- Inside Out is Poison Berry in My Brain meets Monsters, Inc. meets The Office.
- Alternately, it's Osmosis Jones meets 30 Rock with a hint of Herman's Head.
- The Incredibles series:
- The Incredibles is The Simpsons meets Fantastic Four meets Watchmen meets James Bond.
- Incredibles 2 is The Incredibles meets The Defenders (2017).
- Justice League vs. Teen Titans is Justice League: War meets The Terror of Trigon.
- Justice League Dark: Apokolips War is The New 52: Futures End meets Darkseid War meets Ultimatum meets a R-rated version of Avengers: Endgame.
- The Iron Giant is The BFG meets ET The Extraterrestrial meets Gigantor, set in 1950s America during the early Cold War.
- Klaus (2019) is Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town meets The Emperor's New Groove meets Going Postal.
- Kubo and the Two Strings is Moana meets The Legend of Zelda, with touches of Read or Die and The Book of Life.
- Kung Fu Panda is Robin Hood (1973) meets Mulan meets Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
- Kung Fu Panda 2 is Kung Fu Panda meets Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- Kung Fu Panda 3 is Kung Fu Panda 2 meets Gintama meets Dragon Ball Z.
- The Land Before Time is Bambi meets Fantasia (prehistoric segment).
- The Last: Naruto the Movie is Naruto meets Melancholia meets Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack meets The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King meets Berserk meets The Dark Knight Rises.
- The Legend of the Titanic is the bastard love child of James Cameron's Titanic and An American Tail with a message about whale hunting and a giant octopus with a dog nose thrown in out of nowhere.
- The LEGO Movie series:
- The LEGO Movie:
- The directors described it as "The Wizard of Oz meets The Matrix".
- Or LEGO meets Toy Story, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and 1984; crossed with a kid-friendly version of Imagination Land (or the final episode of St. Elsewhere), as written by Mel Brooks.
- The LEGO Batman Movie is The LEGO Movie meets Batman meets BoJack Horseman.
- The LEGO Ninjago Movie is The LEGO Movie meets Ninjago meets Power Rangers.
- The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part is The LEGO Movie meets The Sponge Bob Movie Sponge Out Of Water and Super Mario Galaxy.
- The LEGO Movie:
- Lilo & Stitch is My Neighbor Totoro meets E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial meets Men in Black meets Invader Zim, all set in Hawaii.
- The Lion King series:
- The Lion King (1994) is Hamlet meets Bambi meets Kimba the White Lion.
- The Lion King II: Simba's Pride is The Lion King meets Romeo and Juliet meets The Manchurian Candidate.
- The Lion King 1 ½ is The Lion King meets Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead meets Mystery Science Theater 3000.
- The Lion King (2019) is The Lion King getting the same treatment as The Jungle Book (2016) (to the point of even having the exact same director).
- The Little Mermaid III: Ariel's Beginning: The Little Mermaid meets Footloose.
- Luca is Pinocchio meets Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea meets The Little Mermaid (1989) meets The Shape of Water meets Call Me by Your Name.
- Alternatively, Splash meets Wolfwalkers as set in Italy.
- Madagascar:
- Madagascar is Shark Tale meets The Tale of Peter Rabbit meets Toy Story meets Doctor Dolittle meets Cast Away meets Planet Of The Apes meets Taxi Driver.
- Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is Madagascar meets The Wild meets The Lion King meets The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
- Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted is Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa meets Les Misérables meets Moulin Rouge! meets Coming to America meets Hugo meets Monty Python's Flying Circus meets Hotline Miami.
- Mad God is The Nightmare Before Christmas meets Slender: The Arrival meets Spec Ops: The Line meets Made in Abyss meets Chernobyl meets Warhammer 40,000 meets The Magnus Archives meets SCP Containment Breach meets Outlast meets In the Mouth of Madness, all done in the style of Ray Harryhausen and Guillermo del Toro.
- The Magic Voyage is 1492: Conquest of Paradise meets the production who did Titanic: The Legend Goes On.
- Mars Needs Moms: The Polar Express meets Battlefield Earth.
- Megamind is Despicable Me meets Monsters vs. Aliens meets The Incredibles meets Superman: The Animated Series.
- Meet the Robinsons is Back to the Future meets You Can't Take It With You.
- The Mitchells vs. the Machines is The Simpsons meets Love, Death & Robots meets I, Robot meets Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs meets Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
- Or A Goofy Movie meets The Incredibles and Futurama.
- Moana is Mulan meets Hercules, with the Polynesian aesthetic of Lilo & Stitch.
- Monsters University is Monsters, Inc. meets An Extremely Goofy Movie meets Animal House meets Revenge of the Nerds.
- Monsters vs. Aliens is The Iron Giant meets TMNT meets Independence Day meets Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, with a comedic side of Galaxy Quest.
- Alternatively, The Incredibles meets Invader Zim or Rise of the Guardians meets Mars Attacks!.
- Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge is Mortal Kombat meets Berserk meets X-Men Origins: Wolverine meets Justice League Dark: Apokolips War meets Asura's Wrath meets Ninja Scroll meets Attack on Titan meets Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- My Little Pony: A New Generation is My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic meets Onward meets Zootopia meets Raya and the Last Dragon.
- My Little Pony: Equestria Girls is My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic meets Monster High.
- 9:
- It can probably be best described as LittleBigPlanet meets Terminator.
- The movie's own page on this wiki also calls it WALLE meets Terminator.
- Next Gen is Big Hero 6 meets Cubix: Robots for Everyone meets I, Robot
- Norm of the North is Bee Movie meets Sam & Max: Freelance Police.
- The Nut Job is Over the Hedge meets Ocean's Eleven meets Open Season.
- Oliver & Company is Oliver Twist meets a mixture of The Aristocats, Lady and the Tramp, and The Rescuers, set in 1980s NYC.
- Onward is Fullmetal Alchemist meets Zootopia meets Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons meets Toy Story 4 meets Dungeons & Dragons meets Brave meets The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance meets Meet the Robinsons with a side dash of Ratatouille, Undertale, Guardians of the Galaxy and Spies in Disguise.
- The Pagemaster is The Neverending Story meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit (first and latter films were starred none other than Christopher Lloyd!).
- ParaNorman is The Sixth Sense meets The Crucible meets Night of the Living Dead (1968), all in the style of Coraline.
- Or Johnny Maxwell meets Neil Gaiman.
- Alternately, John Carpenter meets John Hughes.
- Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank is Blazing Saddles meets Kung Fu Panda
- The Pebble and the Penguin: Beauty and the Beast meets the precursor to Happy Feet.
- The Plague Dogs: Watership Down meets The Fox and the Hound with the bleakness of Grave of the Fireflies.
- Pocahontas is Romeo and Juliet meets Dances with Wolves with a subtle trace of Braveheart.
- Princess Mononoke is Pocahontas meets Berserk.
- The Prince of Egypt is The Ten Commandments meets The Hunchback of Notre Dame meets The Lion King.
- Joseph: King of Dreams is The Prince of Egypt, but much Lighter and Softer.
- Princess: 8mm meets Waltz with Bashir
- The Princess and the Frog is The Frog Prince meets The Emperor's New Groove, Beauty and the Beast, and Anastasia, all set in 1920s New Orleans.
- It can also be seen as Coming to America meets All Dogs Go to Heaven.
- Rango is Fantastic Mr. Fox meets ¡Three Amigos! meets Chinatown meets Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas meets The Good, the Bad and the Ugly meets No Country for Old Men.
- This review of the film
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- Raya and the Last Dragon is Moana meets Mulan meets The Legend of Korra meets Samurai Jack meets Kubo and the Two Strings meets Jade Empire meets How to Train Your Dragon meets Shadow of the Colossus.
- Rio is Happy Feet meets The Three Caballeros.
- Rise of the Guardians is what happens when The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meets Fables.
- The Roach Approach: Don't Miss the Boat is A Bug's Life meets VeggieTales.
- The Road to El Dorado is The Man Who Would be King meets the Road to ... series.
- Robin Hood (1973) is The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men meets The Jungle Book (1967).
- Rock-A-Doodle: The Nostalgia Critic described it as "a bed-time story read by Andy Warhol".
- Chanticler meets The Wizard of Oz meets Cool World and Charlotte's Web.
- Ronal the Barbarian is How to Train Your Dragon (down to the protagonist riding a dragon while attacking the humongous Big Bad) meets Conan the Barbarian (1982) meets The Lord of the Rings meets Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (with Alibert as JB and Ronal as a kind of KG).
- Sausage Party is Toy Story meets Foodfight! meets South Park meets This Is the End meets Conker's Bad Fur Day meets VeggieTales meets Happy Tree Friends meets Fritz the Cat meets The Wolf of Wall Street.
- Rumble is Monsters, Inc. meets Real Steel meets Free Birds.
- SCOOB! is Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! meets Despicable Me.
- The Sea Beast is Pirates of the Caribbean meets How to Train Your Dragon.
- Or Free Willy, In the Style of Treasure Island and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas.
- Or Moby-Dick meets How To Train Your Dragon.
- The Secret Life of Pets is Toy Story meets Free Birds meets I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry meets Fan Boy And Chum Chum.
- Secret Magic Control Agency is Hansel and Gretel meets Zootopia meets Case Closed.
- The Secret of Mulan is Mulan meets A Bug's Life.
- The Secret of NIMH is when Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH meets Redwall.
- Shark Tale is Finding Nemo meets The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air meets The Godfather.
- Or Conker's Bad Fur Day meets Bébé's Kids.
- Or Finding Nemo meets GoodFellas. And Fish Police.
- Or Finding Nemo meets Flushed Away meets The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air with a side of Car Wash.
- Or the opening of Tabula Rasa meets Finding Nemo.
- Or Dear Evan Hansen meets Finding Nemo meets The Godfather.
- SpongeBob SquarePants meets The Brave Little Tailor meets Mickey Blue Eyes.
- Shrek series:
- Shrek is the original book meets Witches Abroad, mixed with an inverted parody of Beauty and the Beast.
- Shrek 2 is, as Jeffrey Katzenberg described it, Shrek meets Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
- Shrek Forever After is Shrek meets It's a Wonderful Life and Back to the Future Part II.
- Puss in Boots is Shrek meets Jack and the Beanstalk meets A Fistful of Dollars.
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is Puss in Boots meets Strange World meets Soul meets Logan meets The Good, the Bad and the Ugly meets It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World meets Kamen Rider BLACK SUN meets Berserk, with the visual aesthetic of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
- Sing is Zootopia meets Glee meets School of Rock with a side dash of Fame.
- Sing 2 is Sing meets Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach meets Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted meets Trolls: World Tour meets Rocketman meets Beastars.
- Song of the Sea:
- Ondine meets The Secret of Kells.
- Or Mother 3 meets Spirited Away.
- The Son Of The Stars was described by its American distributor Deaf Crocodile as the "wild mid-80s mash-up of The Empire Strikes Back, Alien and Tarzan".
- Soul is Coco meets Inside Out meets Ray meets Django Unchained.
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is South Park meets Les Misérables meets End of Days.
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is Spider-Man (or more specifically, Spiderverse) meets Turtles Forever, The LEGO Movie, One Piece, and Adventure Time.
- Spies in Disguise is Men in Black meets The Emperor's New Groove.
- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is Black Beauty meets Dances with Wolves.
- Spirit Untamed is Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron meets Red Dead Redemption II meets How to Train Your Dragon meets The Book of Life meets My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic meets Onward.
- SpongeBob SquarePants film series:
- The Sponge Bob Square Pants Movie is SpongeBob SquarePants meets The Odyssey.
- The Sponge Bob Movie Sponge Out Of Water is SpongeBob meets Pirates of the Caribbean, Mad Max, Bill & Ted, and The Avengers.
- The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run is SpongeBob meets SCOOB!, Finding Nemo, and Toy Story 4.
- Strange Magic:
- A Midsummer Night's Dream meets Epic (2013) meets Jukebox Musicals.
- Moulin Rouge! meets Delgo
- It has also been compared to Epic (2013), FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Shrek, and Beauty and the Beast.
- Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans: Teen Titans Go! meets Turtles Forever.
- The Thief and the Cobbler is Aladdin meets Yellow Submarine, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Lawrence of Arabia and Cleopatra.
- Titan A.E. is Blade Runner meets Cowboy Bebop meets Star Wars.
- Titanic: The Legend Goes On is best described as the bastard love child of James Cameron's Titanic, and An American Tail, along with about 12 other animated movies. With a rapping dog thrown in from out of nowhere.
- Titanic meets Dingo Pictures.
- Tom and Jerry: The Movie is The Rescuers meets Tom and Jerry, but as a musical.
- Toy Story series:
- Toy Story is Winnie the Pooh meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
- Toy Story 2 is Toy Story meets Asterix and the Great Rescue.
- Toy Story 3 is Toy Story 2 meets The Brave Little Toaster meets The Great Escape meets Mother 3.
- Toy Story 4 is Toy Story 3 meets Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show meets Monty Python's The Meaning of Life meets Get Out meets Dear Evan Hansen.
- Lightyear is Warhammer 40,000 meets Buzz Lightyear of Star Command meets Captain America: The First Avenger meets Interstellar meets Looper meets The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part.
- The Transformers: The Movie is The Transformers meets A New Hope meets The Coming of Galactus.
- Or A New Hope with the nature of Be Invoked, albeit very toned down.
- Treasure Planet is Treasure Island meets Titan A.E. meets Aladdin and the King of Thieves.
- Trolls is Trollz meets The Smurfs.
- The Trumpet of the Swan is The Pebble and the Penguin meets Tom Sawyer (2000).
- Turning Red is Luca meets Encanto meets ParaNorman meets Aggretsuko meets Tokyo Ghoul meets Sailor Moon meets Ranma ½ meets Fruits Basket meets Inuyasha meets Chainsaw Man meets Tokyo Revengers meets Teen Wolf meets Ginger Snaps meets The Incredible Hulk meets A Goofy Movie meets Over the Moon meets Centaurworld meets Jem and the Holograms meets The Joy Luck Club meets My Neighbor Totoro meets Animorphs meets Deltarune meets Earthbound meets The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild meets Pokémon Legends: Arceus meets Super Mario 3D World meets Bully meets Friday Night Funkin' meets American Dragon: Jake Long meets Invincible meets Happy Feet meets Lilo & Stitch meets Kung Fu Panda meets Raya and the Last Dragon meets Baoh meets Kakegurui meets DEVILMAN crybaby meets Sakura Quest meets Re:Zero meets A Certain Magical Index meets The Luck of the Irish meets The Thirteenth Year meets PEN15 meets Derry Girls meets Lady Bird meets No Time to Die.
- Unicorn Wars is described by its author as being inspired by Apocalypse Now , The Bible and Bambi
- Alternatively its Care Bears meets The Last Unicorn meets The fall of Delta Green.
- Up is About Schmidt meets Around the World in Eighty Days.
- Waking Life: My Dinner with Andre meets Slacker and The Science of Sleep.
- WALLE is 2001: A Space Odyssey meets The Lorax meets Short Circuit meets Idiocracy.
- We Are the Strange:
- David Lynch meets Dragon Ball Z meets The Nightmare Before Christmas with a bit of Power Rangers thrown in.
- Alternatively, The Nightmare Before Christmas meets Scott Pilgrim with a dash of Adventure Time.
- Wendell & Wild is Beetlejuice meets Frankenweenie, with the social commentary of Attack the Block and Vampires vs. the Bronx.
- We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story is Dinosaurs meets Santa Claus: The Movie meets Something Wicked This Way Comes.
- Where the Dead Go to Die: Stonewall and Riot meets Hellraiser meets Ken Park.
- The Wild is Madagascar meets Finding Nemo meets The Lion King.
- Wizards is Lord of the Rings meets Zardoz with the moral aesthetic of Ferngully.
- Wolfwalkers is Brother Bear meets Brave meets The Secret of Kells meets Wolf Children.
- Or The Secret of Kells meets Princess Mononoke.
- Wonder Park is Inside Out meets The Jungle Bunch meets Alan Wake.
- Wreck-It Ralph is TRON meets Toy Story meets Monsters, Inc. meets The Nightmare Before Christmas meets The Muppets (2011) meets Taxi Driver meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
- Ralph Breaks the Internet is Wreck-It Ralph meets The Emoji Movie meets Ready Player One (2018) meets TRON: Legacy.
- Yellow Submarine is A Hard Day's Night meets Fantasia.
- Zombillenium is Wonder Park meets Hotel Transylvania meets Hellboy (2004). With Edward Cullen as the villain.
- Zootopia is 48 Hrs. meets Robin Hood (1973), Cats Don't Dance, Sabrina Online, and Kevin & Kell.
Characters
- Aladdin:
- Aladdin is Jean Valjean meets Evan Hansen.
- Jonathan Freeman described Jafar's voice as a mixture of Boris Karloff and Vincent Price.
- Arlo the Alligator Boy:
- Arlo is Phineas Flynn meets Spongebob.
- Or Wander meets Cricket Green
- Bertie is Meena meets Eva.
- Arlo is Phineas Flynn meets Spongebob.
- The Bad Guys:
- Mr. Wolf = Jimmy Crystal + Professor Padraic Ratigan + Arséne Lupin III + Sly Cooper + Michael De Santa + Megamind + Vincent Vega + Darwin + Vegeta + Robin Hood
- Mr. Snake = Rattlesnake Jake + Felonious Gru + Daisuke Jigen + Trevor Philips + Dr. Raoul Duke + Jules Winnfield
- Mrs. Tarantula = Black Widow + Sombra + Fujiko Mine + Nami + Bentley
- Mr. Shark = Pippin + Lenny + Franklin Clinton + Usopp + Murray
- Mr. Piranha = Oscar + Goemon Ishikawa III + Mustard + Nathan Drake
- Professor Rupert Marmalade IV = Speckles + Devin Weston + Darla Dimple + Dawn Bellweather + The Brain
- Governor Diane Foxington = Inspector Carmelita Montoya Fox + Carmen Sandiego
- Chief Luggins = Ranger Tabes + Inspector Koichi Zenigata
- Tiffany Fluffit = Lois Lane + Roxanne Ritchi
- Beauty and the Beast:
- Belle is Dorothy Gale meets Veronica Quaife.
- Lumiere, Mrs. Potts, and Cogsworth are the animate objects of the 1946 version of the fairy tale crossed with the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion respectively (both films have been cited as inspiration by the filmmakers).
- Big Hero 6:
- Yokai is The Woodsman meets Nathan Wallace
- Baymax is The Iron Giant and Groot meets Mr. Pump.
- Or Heroman meets the Michelin Man meets WebMD. With the Powered Armor on, Buzz Lightyear is also added.
- Hiro is Akira Fudo meets Tommy Turnbull meets Dipper Pines.
- Honey Lemon is Pinkie Pie meets Lindsay.
- Gogo is Gwen meets Nikki Wong.
- Wasabi is DJ meets Chris Turk.
- Fred is Jude meets Geoff.
- Brave: Merida and King Fergus are Mulan and Stoick respectively meets Scotland.
- Alternatively, King Fergus is Captain Ahab meets King Triton.
- In A Bug's Life, Flik is Rikichi meets Carmen.
- Cars:
- Lightning McQueen is Bob the Tomato meets Herbie meets Doc Hollywood.
- Tow Mater is Larry the Cucumber meets Larry the Cable Guy as a tow truck meets Hank Gordon.
- Cats Don't Dance: Darla Dimple is Baby Doll meets Rhoda.
- Or Shirley Temple meets Princess Morbucks.
- Chicken Little:
- Chicken Little is Flik meets Miles "Tails" Prower.
- Buck Cluck is Homer Simpson meets Winnie the Pooh.
- Coco:
- Hector is Baloo meets Rodrigo de Sousa meets Bing Bong.
- Ernesto is Charles Muntz meets Carl Bruner meets Marty Wolf meets Tony Shepard.
- Despicable Me's Minions are a cross between X-Nauts and Rabbids.
- Lucy Wilde is a spy version of Lola Bunny.
- The director described Steve Carell's voice for Gru to sound like a cross between Bela Lugosi and Ricardo Montalbán.
- Appearance-wise, Gru is Dr. Eggman meets Dr. Evil.
- The Emperor's New Groove:
- Yzma is Maleficent meets Daffy Duck meets Cruella De Vil.
- Kronk is Launchpad McQuack meets Pinky meets Joe Swanson.
- Encanto:
- Mirabel Madrigal = Moana + Barbara Gordon + Miguel Rivera + Izuku Midoriya
- Alma Madrigal = Elena Rivera + Shosanna Dreyfuss + Helen Parr + Sariatu + Carl Fredricksen + Mufasa + Batman + Charles Xavier
- Bruno Madrigal = Hector Rivera + Doctor Strange + Rasputin + Magneto
- Luisa Madrigal = Captain Carter + She-Hulk + Maya + Maui + Pippin + Colossus
- Isabela Madrigal = Elsa + Rapunzel + Poison Ivy
- Julieta Madrigal = Tiana + Sumire Nono
- Agustin Madrigal = Goofy + Ibuki Haruno
- Free Birds: Reggie is Mr. Mufflin meets Zor but with personality of Davy Stone.
- Frozen:
- Anna is Rapunzel meets Merida.
- Elsa is Elphaba meets Jack Frost.
- Olaf is Frosty the Snowman meets Elder Cunningham meets Louis.
- Kristoff is Robert meets Sokka.
- Hans is Prince Eric meets Gaston.
- Hercules: Hercules himself is the original character from Classical Mythology meets Perseus, Superman, Rocky Balboa, The Mighty Thor, and Valkyrie.
- Home (2015):
- Oh is Sheldon meets Starfire.
- Tip is Sailor Mars meets Cure White.
- How to Train Your Dragon:
- Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III = Naruto Uzumaki + Thorfinn + Guts + Baki Hanma + Ash Ketchum + Lelouch Lamperouge + Jon Snow + Simba + Nathan Drake + Luke Skywalker + Link + Will Turner + Jake Sully + X + Sonic the Hedgehog + Sanji + Archaon the Everchosen + Leman Russ + Robin + Jon Talbain + Jago
- Astrid Hofferson = Valkia the Bloody + Hinata Hyuga + Casca + Neytiri + Sansa Stark + Nala + Seong Mi-na + Chloe Frazer + Samus Aran + Princess Zelda + Elizabeth Swann + Misty + Hild + Erza Scarlett + Nazz + Leia Organa + Nami + Amy Rose + Kozue Matsumoto + Nikaido + Yuffie Kisaragi + Felicia + Black Orchid + Jade + Makoto + Ling Xiaoyu + Starfire + Katara + Rukia Kuchiki + Bulma
- Snotlout Jorgenson = Canute + Sasuke Uchiha + Natsu Dragneel + Kovu + Sokka + Shadow the Hedgehog + Zero + Okuyasu Nijimura + Serpico
- Fishlegs Ingerman = Han Solo + Luigi + Brock + Pippin + Portgas D. Ace + Jean-Pierre Polnareff + Double D + Shinji Ikari
- Tuffnut Thorston = Jim Hawkins + Shaggy Rogers + Corkus + Rock Lee + Suzaku Kururugi
- Ruffnut Thorston = Farnese de Vandimion + Sakura Haruno + Lee Kanker + Regina George
- Stoick the Vast = Mufasa + Thors + Leonidas + Might Guy + Yujiro Hanma + Sandor Clegane + Qui-Gon Jinn + Obi-Wan Kenobi + Anakin Skywalker + Connor MacLeod
- Valka Haddock = Tomoko Higashikata + Brienne of Tarth + Padmé Amidala + Arnheid + Heather MacLeod
- Gobber the Belch = Godo + Hellboy + Lando Calrissian + Barrett Wallace + Doppo Orochi
- Drago Bludvist = Kaido + Sosuke Aizen + Sigma + Seth + Blackbeard + Joseph Stalin
- Eret = Prince Zuko + Eren Yeager + Near + Char Aznable + Ferrus Manus + Luke Skywalker
- Grimmel the Grisly = Kars + Sephiroth
- Horton Hears a Who! (2008): The kangaroo is Sheila Broflovski meets Gaston meets Amos Slade.
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame:
- Quasimodo is Guts meets Beast meets Simba.
- Esmeralda is Pocahontas meets Casca meets Belle.
- Judge Claude Frollo is Judge Doom meets Amon Goeth meets Mozgus.
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs:
- Buck Wild is I. M. Weasel meets Captain Jack Sparrow meets Dr. Ian Malcolm.
- Rudy the Baryonyx is Moby-Dick mixed with the Spinosaurus from Jurassic Park 3.
- The Incredibles:
- Edna Mode is Q meets Edith Head
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- Buddy Pines/Syndrome in appearance is Kent Mansley meets Doctor Doom meets Freakazoid!.
- Dash is The Human Torch meets The Flash.
- Violet Parr is Invisible Woman meets Hinata Hyuga.
- Edna Mode is Q meets Edith Head
- Inside Out:
- Bing Bong is Koosalagoopagoop meets Olaf.
- Klaus: Jesper is Gwizdo meets Kuzco.
- Kung Fu Panda 2: Lord Shen is Judge Claude Frollo meets Firelord Sozin meets Norman "Stan" Stansfield meets Frieza.
- The LEGO Movie:
- Wyldstyle/Lucy is Trinity meets Sawyer.
- Vitruvius is Obi-Wan Kenobi meets Morpheus with a bit of Gandalf.
- President/Lord Business is Phineas T. Ratchet (minus the Momma's Boy tendencies) meets Megamind.
- The LEGO Batman Movie:
- Two-Face is the 1989 Batman movie's interpretation of Harvey Dent meets his Batman Forever interpretation.
- Clayface is the original character with the design of The Great Mighty Poo.
- The LEGO Ninjago Movie:
- The movie's interpretation of Lloyd Garmadon is the original Lloyd (with a little extra Luke Skywalker) meets Danny Fenton.
- Koko is the original Misako meets the Marvel Cinematic Universe's interpretation of Aunt May.
- The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part:
- Sweet Mayhem is Samus Aran meets Gabby Gabby.
- Queen Watevra Wa-Nabi is Ditto meets a less evil Queen.
- Rex Dangervest is Snake Plissken meets Tyler Durden with Owen Grady's Velociraptor crew and Lotso's philosophies.
- Lightyear:
- Sox is Baymax meets Oliver.
- Zurg is his Toy Story 2 interpretation meets Rex Dangervest.
- The Lion King (1994):
- Simba is Kimba meets Hamlet meets Bambi.
- Mufasa is King Hamlet meets King Richard meets Bambi's Mom.
- Scar is Claudius meets Prince John meets Claw meets Honest Iago.
- Luca:
- The title character is Ariel meets Elio Perlman meets Pinocchio.
- Alberto is Scuttle meets Oliver.
- Giulia is Vanellope von Schweetz meets Phineas Flynn.
- Luck (2022): Sam Greenfield is Milo Murphy meets Mirabel Madrigal.
- Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: Makunga is Scar meets Gaston.
- Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted: Inspector DuBois is a cross between The Queen of Hearts and the stationmaster (who incidentally play a nefarious couple in Les Misérables (2012), where her relentless personality came from).
- Meet the Robinsons: Schaffrillas describes Bowler Hat Guy as a mix of Waluigi and Heinz Doofenshmirtz and even showed a Venn diagram someone made to back up his point.
- Megamind:
- Megamind is Brainiac meets Lex Luthor meets Gru meets Dr Horrible meets Shrek.
- Hal Stewart is Jimmy Olsen meets Snotty Boy but as Titan/Tighten, he's also Syndrome meets Clone Superman.
- Missing Link
- Sir Lionel Frost is Indiana Jones meets Sherlock Holmes
- Mr. Link is Fiskerton meets Del Griffith.
- Willard Stenk is Percival C. McLeach meets Cletus Spuckler.
- Lord Pigott-Dunceby is General Melchett meets Reaver meets Mr. Burns.
- The Mitchells vs. the Machines
- Katie Mitchell is Midori Asakusa meets Meg Griffin (if she had a much more loving family) meets Miles Morales.
- Monsters vs. Aliens:
- Miss Ronson is Annie Hughes meets Dana Scully.
- Rango:
- Rango is Captain Jack Sparrow meets Django meets Blu meets Jonah Hex meets Ichigo Kurosaki.
- Beans is Jewel meets Adora Belle Dearheart.
- Tortoise John is Noah Cross meets Lotso.
- Rattlesnake Jake is Guts meets Angel Eyes meets Davy Jones meets Anton Chigurh meets Boba Fett meets Ryuk meets T-1000 meets Apep.
- SCOOB!: Dick Dastardly is his original counterpart meets Gru meets Doctor Doom.
- The Secret Life of Pets: Snowball is Reggie meets Chief.
- Sing:
- Buster Moon = Nigel Koala + Lin-Manuel Miranda + Jon Talbain + Ron Woodroof
- Rosita = Beth Smith-Sanchez + Judy Garland
- Mike = Jerry Mouse + Brian Griffin + Frank Sinatra
- Ash = Jem + Adam Lambert
- Clay Calloway = Mufasa + Glamrock Freddy + Carl Fredricksen + Kingdom Come Superman + Cab Calloway + Bono + Syd Barrett + Elvis Presley
- Jimmy Crystal = Classified + Gru + Bad Future Biff + Patrick Bateman
- Porsha Crystal = Juno + Casca + Taylor Swift + Halsey + Felicia
- Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas: Eris is if Hades and Megara from Hercules ever had a lovechild.
- Song of the Sea: Ben is Lucas meets Dipper Pines.
- Soul:
- Joe Gardner is Django Freeman meets Dante Alighieri meets Buster Moon meets Ray Charles.
- 22 is Sadness meets Nadya meets Rick Sanchez meets Virgil.
- The Transformers: The Movie: Unicron is Galactus meets the Death Star.
- Hot Rod is Bumblebee meets Human Torch with a bit of Luke Skywalker.
- A Troll in Central Park: The Nostalgia Critic described Stanley the Troll as if Bilbo Baggins just ate the Lucky Charms leprechaun and got shit out through Dopey's anus. And that's the nice version.
- Tom and Jerry: The Movie: Puggsy's voice was described by The Nostalgia Critic as sounding like the lovechild of George Carlin and Peter Falk, but as a dog.
- Trolls: World Tour: Queen Barb, in appearance, is an exact blend of Vexy and Spinel.Personality-wise, she's Luna Loud meets Erik Killmonger.
- Turning Red:
- Meilin Lee = Mirabel Madrigal + Fa Mulan + Denji + Inuyasha + Po + Evan Hansen + Noelle Holiday + Retsuko
- Ming Lee = Debbie Grayson + Mamá Imelda + Queen Elinor + Master Shifu + Godzilla + Wolverine
- Miriam Mendelsohn = Giulia Marcovaldo + Tsuyu Asui + Mitsuri Kanroji + Casca + Nagisa Misumi
- Priya Mangal = Pocahontas + Rem + Ellie Williams + Raven
- Abby Park = Nene + Power + Himiko Toga + Kanao Tsuyuri + Undyne + Susie + Tigress + Ruffnut Thorston
- Tyler Nguyen-Baker = Ercole Visconti + Katsuki Bakugo + Rock Lee + Isidro + Ness + Berdly
- 4*Town = Backstreet Boys + BTS + Boys Who Cry
- Robaire = Michael Jackson + Mark Wahlberg + Jimin
- Jesse = Robbie Williams + Jin
- Aaron Z. = Justin Timberlake + Jungkook
- Aaron T. = Howie Dorough + V
- Tae Young = The Weeknd + AJ McLean + J-Hope
- Wu Lee = Alma Madrigal + Makima + Kratos + Li Shan
- Jin Lee = James Rolfe + Mr. Ping
- Devon = Franklin Clinton + Silent Bob
- Mr. Gao = Bruno Madrigal + Satoru Gojo
- Up: Carl's appearance and personality were designed as a mash-up of Spencer Tracy and Walter Matthau.
- WALLE: Wall-E is E.T. meets Johnny Five.
- The Willoughbys: Tim is is Dipper Pines meets Klaus Baudelaire.
- Jane is Audrey meets Violet Baudelaire.
- Wreck-It Ralph:
- Wreck-It Ralph is James P. Sullivan meets Donkey Kong meets Gru meets Pippin meets Travis Bickle meets Thomas F. Wilson.
- Vanellope Von Schweetz is Princess Peach meets Midna meets Punky Brewster.
- Fix-It Felix, Jr. is Mario meets Woody.
- Sergeant Calhoun is Ivy Valentine meets Kat meets Sue Sylvester.
- King Candy/Turbo is The Mad Hatter meets The Mayor of Townsville meets Megabyte.