X Meets Y / Animated Films

Western Animation and Anime meet Film:

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Works:

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• 9:
  • It can probably be best described as LittleBigPlanet meets Terminator.
  • The movie's own page on this wiki also calls it WALL•E meets Terminator.
• Abominable is How to Train Your Dragon meets Smallfoot meets The Amazing Panda Adventure.
• The Adventures of Tintin is Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn meets Tintin: Red Rackham's Treasure done with the visual style of A Christmas Carol (2009).
• All Dogs Go to Heaven is Lady and the Tramp meets Little Miss Marker meets the Tom and Jerry short Heavenly Puss.
  • All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 is All Dogs Go to Heaven meets Oliver & Company.
• Aladdin is The Thief of Bagdad (1940) meets Sleeping Beauty meets Looney Tunes.
  • Aladdin and the King of Thieves is Aladdin meets Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
• Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time is Aladdin meets The Pagemaster meets Bill & Ted.
• Allegro non Troppo has been described as "a cross between Fantasia and Yellow Submarine with a touch of Fellini."
• Alpha and Omega is Romeo and Juliet meets Balto meets Open Season.
• A Monster in Paris is The Phantom of the Opera meets Beauty and the Beast. With the visual style of a Despicable Me.
• An American Tail is 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother meets The Rescuers.
• Anastasia (1997) is Anastasia (1956) meets Doctor Zhivago and My Fair Lady as a Disney Princess movie.
• The Angry Birds Movie is Angry Birds meets Surf's Up meets Free Birds.
  • Or Angry Birds meets Rio (minus the romance) and Gilligan's Island.
  • The Angry Birds Movie 2 is The Angry Birds Movie meets Frozen meets Angry Birds 2 meets Rio 2.
• 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.
• Arlo the Alligator Boy is Elf meets The Muppet Movie.
• Arthur Christmas is Chicken Run meets Elf meets The Santa Clause.
• 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.
• The Bad Guys (2022) is Madagascar meets Megamind meets Carmen Sandiego meets Grand Theft Auto V meets Lupin III meets Beastars, with the audiovisual aesthetic of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and a side dash of both Dragon Ball and The Incal.
  • Alternately, it's Zootopia meets Ocean's Eleven meets Sly Cooper with a bit of G-Force thrown in.
• 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?
• Barnyard is The Lion King (1994) meets Toy Story meets Home on the Range.
• Batman animated films:
  • Batman: Mask of the Phantasm = Batman: Year One + Batman Returns + The Night Gwen Stacy Died + The Phantom of the Opera + Vertigo.
  • Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker is Batman Beyond meets A Death in the Family meets Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack meets Berserk.
  • Batman: Gotham by Gaslight is Batman meets From Hell.
  • Batman: Under the Red Hood = A Death in the Family + Batman: Mask of the Phantasm + Revenge of the Sith + The Dark Knight + Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
  • Merry Little Batman is Batman: The Movie meets Arthur Christmas and Home Alone.
• Beauty and the Beast is Jean Cocteau's 1946 film meets Pride and Prejudice meets The Wizard of Oz meets the "Sleepy Hollow" segment of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.
• 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 WALL•E 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 Tangled 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.
• Brother Bear is The Lion King (1994) meets The Emperor's New Groove meets Ice Age.
  • Brother Bear 2 is Brother Bear meets Ice Age: The Meltdown.
• 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.
    • Or Toy Story meets Days of Thunder meets Wacky Races.
  • Cars 2 is Cars meets Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3 meets The Man Who Knew Too Little, with a triple helping of Larry the Cable Guy.
    • Alternatively, it's Cars meets James Bond.
    • Or Cars meets Austin Powers.
  • Planes is Cars and Cars 2 meets Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.
  • Cars 3 is Cars and Cars 2 meets Gran Turismo meets a G-rated Logan, with a triple helping of Owen Wilson.
• 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.
• Chicken Run is Babe meets The Great Escape, In the Style of Wallace & Gromit.
  • Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget is Chicken Run meets James Bond meets Pleasantville.
• 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 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.
• Coonskin: Song of the South meets Heavy Traffic meets The Black Godfather meets Blazing Saddles.
• 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.
• The Despicable Me franchise:
  • Despicable Me is Spy vs. Spy meets Annie with the art-style of Pat & Stan.
  • Despicable Me 2 is Despicable Me meets Cars 2 meets Gremlins.
  • Despicable Me 3 is Despicable Me 2 meets Bad Boys (1995).
• Dinosaur is The Land Before Time meets Tarzan meets Walking with Dinosaurs meets Prehistoric Planet.
• Dinosaur Island is Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1912) meets Dino Squad meets Total Drama meets Survivor.
• Elemental (2023) is Inside Out meets Turning Red meets Avatar: The Last Airbender meets romantic movies such as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Moonstruck, When Harry Met Sally..., You've Got Mail, Amélie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Last Song (2010) and The Big Sick, with a side dash of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
• 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.
• 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.
• Entergalactic is described as "...like a love child between When Harry Met Sally... and Spider-Verse" by Paste magazine.
• 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.
• Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox is Roald Dahl's original book meets The Royal Tenenbaums.
  • Alternatively, it's a mix between Over the Hedge with Chicken Run and Rango.
• The Fearless Four is The Bremen Town Musicians meets The Aristocats meets Soylent Green meets Terminator
• Felidae is The Aristocats meets the works of David Cronenberg.
• Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is The Fifth Element meets Ghosts of Mars. Notice how none of those were Final Fantasy.
• Finding Nemo is Toy Story meets One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish meets Jaws.
  • Finding Dory is Finding Nemo meets Toy Story 2 meets The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie meets Frozen.
• Fire & Ice: Conan the Barbarian (1982) meets The Lord of the Rings.
• The Flight of Dragons is The Dragon and the George meets The Hobbit meets The Last Unicorn.
• Flushed Away is Stuart Little meets The African Queen meets Toy Story meets Shark Tale meets Grand Theft Auto, by way of Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run.
• 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.
• Free Birds is Shark Tale meets Click.
  • Or Chicken Run meets Back to the Future and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
• Frozen franchise:
  • Frozen is The Snow Queen meets Wicked meets Tangled meets Brave 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.
• The Great Mouse Detective is An American Tail meets Sherlock Holmes.
• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is Pinocchio meets Highlander meets Pan's Labyrinth meets Fantastic Mr. Fox meets Over the Garden Wall meets Nightmare Alley meets Threads meets Schindler's List, as done in the style of Don Bluth.
• Happy Feet is The Pebble and the Penguin meets Chicken Little meets Moulin Rouge! meets Watership Down meets Rango meets Bambi.
  • Happy Feet Two is Happy Feet meets Ice Age 4: Continental Drift meets Rio 2.
• The Haunted Pumpkin of Sleepy Hollow is The Story of Ichabod Crane meets The Funky Phantom.
• Heavy Metal is Fantasia meets EC Comics and Gor.
  • Heavy Metal 2000 is Taarna meets Barbarella and Barb Wire.
• Hercules is a Disneyfied adaptation of Greek mythology meets Clash of the Titans (1981) meets The Mighty Thor meets Superman meets Rocky meets Aladdin.
• Hey Good Lookin': Happy Days meets Heavy Traffic.
• Home on the Range is Cow and Chicken meets Babe meets The Fox and the Hound meets Toy Story meets An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.
• 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 = Vinland Saga + Dragon Quest + Pokémon
  • The first movie = The original book + Erik the Viking + Never Cry Wolf + Dragon Quest
  • How to Train Your Dragon 2 = How to Train Your Dragon + The Lion King + The Empire Strikes Back + My Neighbor Totoro + Devilman + Game of Thrones
  • How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World = How to Train Your Dragon 2 + Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron + The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild + The Last: Naruto the Movie + DEVILMAN crybaby + Berserk + Dune + The Last Unicorn + Avatar + Thor: Ragnarok + Logan + The Matrix Revolutions
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame is the original book meets The Lion King 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 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 meets Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1912) meets Jules Verne Journey to the Center of the Earth.
  • 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.
• 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).
• Inside Out is Poison Berry in My Brain meets Monsters, Inc. meets The Office.
  • Alternatively, it's Osmosis Jones meets 30 Rock with a hint of Herman's Head.
  • Or Ozzy & Drix meets Toy Story and Wreck-It Ralph.
• The Iron Giant is The BFG meets ET The Extraterrestrial meets Gigantor, set in 1950s America during the early Cold War.
• Joshua and the Promised Land is The Lion King (1994) meets All Dogs Go to Heaven and Back to the Future with the animation-style you'd expect from a Vídeo Brinquedo film and Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning.
• 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.
• Klaus (2019) is Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town meets The Emperor's New Groove meets Going Postal, with the visual aesthetic of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
• 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.
• Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie is Miraculous Ladybug meets A Monster in Paris and Mune: Guardian of the Moon.
• The Land Before Time is Bambi meets Fantasia's "Rite of Spring" segment.
• 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".
    • Alternatively, it's LEGO meets Wreck-It Ralph meets Adventure Time with the Saving the World plot of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
    • Or LEGO meets Toy Story, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Nineteen Eighty-Four; 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 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 meets Ralph Breaks the Internet meets The Sponge Bob Movie Sponge Out Of Water meets Super Mario Galaxy.
• 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 with a bit of Macbeth thrown in.
  • The Lion King 1 ½ is The Lion King meets Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead meets Mystery Science Theater 3000 meets the Timon & Pumbaa episode "Once Upon a Timon".
  • 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: Ariel's Beginning: The Little Mermaid meets Footloose.
• The Lorax (2012) is the original book the same name, In the Style of Despicable Me meets Horton Hears a Who! (2008) meets WALL•E meets Meet the Robinsons meets Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs meets a kid-friendly Oddworld meets Soylent Green meets Gravity Falls meets Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends meets Animaniacs.
• 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 Shrek meets 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 Shrek 2 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.
• Mad God is Chernobyl meets Slender: The Arrival meets Outlast meets Saya no Uta, all done in the style of Ray Harryhausen.
• 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.
• Mavka: The Forest Song is FernGully: The Last Rainforest meets Tangled, set in Ukraine.
• 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.
• Migration is DuckTales (2017) meets Rio meets The Croods meets Duck Duck Goose meets a kid-friendly Little Miss Sunshine.
• The Miracle Maker is King of Kings meets Testament: The Bible in Animation.
• 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.
  • Alternatively, it's Family Guy meets Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines meets Gravity Falls.
  • Or A Goofy Movie meets The Incredibles and Futurama.
• Moana is Mulan meets Hercules, with the Polynesian aesthetic of Lilo & Stitch.
• Monster House is The Polar Express meets The Goonies meets Twin Peaks meets Pac-Man.
• Monsters, Inc. is Toy Story and Toy Story 2 meets Dilbert meets Sesame Street meets The Munsters.
  • 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 animated films:
  • Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins is Mortal Kombat: The Movie meets The Legend of Zelda CD-i Games.
  • Mortal Kombat Legends:
    • 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.
    • Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms is Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge meets Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.
    • Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind is Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms meets Mortal Kombat 11 meets Mad Max: Fury Road meets Violence Jack.
• Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show is Freaks meets The 120 Days of Sodom, in the style of Belladonna of Sadness.
• Mr. Peabody & Sherman is the original segments from Rocky and Bullwinkle meets Meet the Robinsons meets Free Birds.
• Mulan is The Ballad of Mulan meets Pocahontas meets Tootsie, by way of The Little Mermaid (1989) and The Lion King (1994).
• My Little Pony movie series:
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls is My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic meets Monster High meets Ever After High.
  • My Little Pony: A New Generation is My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic meets Onward meets Zootopia meets Raya and the Last Dragon meets Trolls World Tour.

N-Z

• Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) meets Bambi meets Dumbo meets The Little Drummer Boy.
• Next Gen is Big Hero 6 meets Cubix: Robots for Everyone meets I, Robot
• Nimona is the original webcomic by way of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Arcane (in terms of it's art-style) meeting Shrek, as well as She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Beauty and the Beast, and a bit of Frozen.
• 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.
• Once Upon a Forest is The Wind in the Willows meets Watership Down meets An American Tail meets FernGully: The Last Rainforest.
• 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.
• Open Season is Ice Age meets Madagascar meets Over the Hedge meets Brother Bear meets Looney Tunes.
• Orion and the Dark is Inside Out meets Wreck-It Ralph and The Little Prince (2015).
  • Alternatively, it's Trolls meets Twice Upon a Time and NiGHTS into Dreams….
• Over the Hedge is the comic strips of the same name meets Toy Story meets Madagascar meets Ed, Edd n Eddy meets Looney Tunes meets Yogi Bear.
• 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.
  • Or The Monster Squad meets The Graveyard Book meets Gravity Falls with the animation-style of Coraline.
• PAW Patrol: The Movie is PAW Patrol meets The LEGO Movie meets Zootopia.
  • PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie is PAW Patrol: The Movie meets The LEGO Batman Movie meets The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part meets DC League of Super-Pets meets The Sponge Bob Movie Sponge Out Of Water meets Shazam! meets Guardians of the Galaxy meets SCOOB!.
• Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank is Blazing Saddles meets Kung Fu Panda meets Norm of the North.
• 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, all done in the style of a Disney Princess movie.
• The Polar Express is the original book of the same name meets a kid-friendly Forrest Gump and A Charlie Brown Christmas.
• The Prince of Egypt is The Ten Commandments meets The Hunchback of Notre Dame meets The Lion King (1994).
  • 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 describes it as "The Coen Brothers meets Zootopia"^note never mind that Zootopia came after Rango''.
• Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa is A Charlie Brown Christmas meets Parappa The Rapper if it took place in the world of Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning.
• Ratatouille is Stuart Little and/or MouseHunt, In the Style of The Incredibles (also sharing the same director) meets Toy Story meets Flushed Away meets Big Night meets Hell's Kitchen, all set in France.
• 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 meets Ice Age.
  • Rio 2 is Rio meets National Lampoon's Vacation meets Ice Age: The Meltdown meets Hoot meets Happy Feet Two.
• Rise of the Guardians is what happens when you make The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meets Fables.
  • Or Monsters vs. Aliens meets How to Train Your Dragon.
  • Or The Avengers meets Avatar: The Last Airbender.
• 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 meets The Emperor's New Groove.
• Robin Hood (1973) is The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men meets The Jungle Book (1967).
• Rock Dog is Zootopia meets Kung Fu Panda meets Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny.
• 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.
• Ron's Gone Wrong is The Mitchells vs. the Machines meets Hey Arnold!.
• 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).
• Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea meets Turning Red meets Luca, as done in the style of DreamWorks.
• Rumble is Monsters, Inc. meets Real Steel meets Free Birds.
• Sausage Party is Toy Story meets Foodfight! meets Attack on Titan 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• SCOOB! is Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! meets Dynomutt, Dog Wonder meets The Flinstones meets Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels meets Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! meets Despicable Me meets Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines.
• Scrooge: A Christmas Carol is Scrooge1970 meets A Christmas Carol (1997) with the visual style of Rise of the Guardians.
• 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 if both were done by Phoenix Games.
• 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 with the pop culture humor of Shrek 2.
  • 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 Shrek Forever After meets Logan meets The Good, the Bad and the Ugly meets AKIRA meets It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World meets Paprika meets Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, 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 Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted meets Trolls World Tour meets Rocketman meets Beastars.
• Smallfoot is Yeti Tracks meets The LEGO Movie meets Storks meets The Lorax (2012) meets Avatar: The Last Airbender meets Looney Tunes.
• 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 Spirited Away meets Django Unchained.
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is South Park meets Les Misérables meets The Omen.
• Spider-Man: Spider-Verse:
  • The series as a whole = Spider-Man (more especifically Spider-Verse) + Doctor Who + Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse = The Spectacular Spider-Man + Black Panther + The Matrix + Turtles Forever + The LEGO Movie + The Incredibles + Big Hero 6 + Rise of the Guardians + The Peanuts Movie + Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie + Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba + One Piece + Adventure Time + Gravity Falls + Rick and Morty + TRON: Uprising + Kamen Rider Ryuki + Kamen Rider Decade + AKIRA
  • Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham = Duck Amuck + Animator vs. Animation
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse = Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse + Spider-Man: No Way Home + Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions + Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness + Loki + What If…? (2021) + Inception + Tenet + Cyberpunk: Edgerunners + Neon Genesis Evangelion + Serial Experiments Lain + Ergo Proxy + K + Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds + Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V + The LEGO Batman Movie + The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part + Incredibles 2 + Final Fantasy VII Remake + Everything Everywhere All at Once + Final Space + Arcane + Primal + Attack on Titan + Berserk
• Spies in Disguise is Men in Black meets The Emperor's New Groove.
  • Or Pigeon: Impossible meets Penguins of Madagascar and Rio, by way of James Bond and the Mission: Impossible Film Series.
• Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is Black Beauty meets Dances with Wolves.
  • Spirit Untamed is Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron meets Red Dead Redemption 2 meets How to Train Your Dragon meets The Book of Life meets My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic meets Onward.
  • Alternatively, it's The Wizard of Oz meets My Neighbor Totoro.
• SpongeBob SquarePants film series:
  • The SpongeBob SquarePants 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, with the visual aesthetic of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
• Storks is The LEGO Movie meets Partly Cloudy meets The Angry Birds Movie meets 9 to 5.
• 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.
• Strange World is Journey to the Center of the Earth meets Fantastic Voyage meets Encanto meets Onward.
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie is The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! meets Super Mario Odyssey meets Super Mario 3D World meets The LEGO Movie meets Despicable Me meets The Wizard of Oz.
  • Or Super Mario Bros. (1993) meets Shrek and Mario & Luigi.
  • Or GoodFellas meets Flash Gordon meets He Man and the Masters of the Universe.
• Surf's Up is Happy Feet meets The Endless Summer and a kid-friendly Napoleon Dynamite.
  • Or Happy Feet meets Cars and Riding Giants.
• Tangled is Rapunzel meets Sleeping Beauty meets The Hunchback of Notre Dame meets Aladdin with dashes of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast and The Princess and the Frog.
• Teen Titans animated films:
  • Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo combines the 2003 series with Megatokyo and Rugrats in Paris.
  • Teen Titans Go! To the Movies combines the original spinoff with The LEGO Batman Movie and Cats Don't Dance.
  • Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans: Teen Titans Go! meets Turtles Forever.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated films:
  • TMNT is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) meets The Incredibles meets The Powerpuff Girls Movie by way of John Woo.
  • Turtles Forever is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) meets Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) meets TMNT meets Doctor Who.
  • Batman vs. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles combines Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) and Batman with Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The LEGO Batman Movie and Turtles Forever.
  • Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie combines the original show with TMNT and Independence Day.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is TMNT meets Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) meets Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) meets Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) meets Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) meets Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) meets Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles meets The LEGO Ninjago Movie meets The Incredibles meets Monsters vs. Aliens meets Sausage Party meets Superbad meets Guardians of the Galaxy meets Shazam! meets Power Rangers (2017) meets Shin Kamen Rider meets Gravity Falls meets AKIRA meets Stand by Me meets Lady Bird meets Chungking Express meets Taxi Driver, with the visual aesthetics of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Mitchells vs. the Machines (also sharing the same director) and Arcane.
• The Thief and the Cobbler is Aladdin meets Yellow Submarine, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Lawrence of Arabia and Cleopatra.
• The Tiger's Apprentice is Kung Fu Panda meets Turning Red and Shazam!.
• 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 The Empire Strikes Back meets a (relatively) toned down Be Invoked.
• Treasure Planet is Treasure Island meets Titan A.E. meets Aladdin and the King of Thieves.
• Trolls series:
  • Trolls is Trollz meets The Smurfs.
    • Or the Troll Dolls toyline meets Inside Out and The Boxtrolls, by way of Frozen and a Lighter and Softer and kid-friendly Attack on Titan.
  • Trolls World Tour is Trolls meets Sing meets Pitch Perfect 3 meets Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny.
  • Trolls Band Together is Trolls World Tour meets Sing 2 meets Finding Nemo meets The Voice.
• The Trumpet of the Swan is The Pebble and the Penguin meets Tom Sawyer (2000).
• Turbo is Cars meets Ratatouille WITH SNAILS!
  • Or Cars meets Bee Movie.
• Turning Red is Luca meets Encanto meets A Goofy Movie meets Aggretsuko meets Ranma ½ meets Chainsaw Man meets Teen Wolf meets My Neighbor Totoro meets Earthbound, with a side dash of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
• UglyDolls is the toys of the same name meets Trolls.
• Unicorn Wars is described by its author as being inspired by Apocalypse Now, The Bible and Bambi.
  • Alternatively its Happy Tree Friends meets The Last Unicorn meets The fall of Delta Green.
  • Or Cat Shit One meets Dr. Strangelove meets Blood Meridian, with a bit of Beautiful Darkness.
• Up is About Schmidt meets Around the World in Eighty Days.
• Valiant is Chicken Run meets Chicken Little meets Saving Private Ryan.
• Waking Life: My Dinner with Andre meets Slacker and The Science of Sleep.
• WALL•E 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.
  • Xavier: Renegade Angel meets Mr. Pickles.
• The Wild is Madagascar meets Finding Nemo meets The Lion King.
• Wish (2023) is Sleeping Beauty meets Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs meets Big Hero 6 meets Tangled meets Frozen meets Encanto, with the visual-aesthetic of Spider-Man: Spider-Verse.
• Wish Dragon is Aladdin meets A Silent Voice meets Little Door Gods.
• 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.
• Zombillénium 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.
  • Or Bolt meets T.U.F.F. Puppy meets Rush Hour meets Gravity Falls.
  • Or Chicken Little meets Lethal Weapon (1987).

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