Movies like Mom and Dad Save the World

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Mom and Dad Save the World (1992)
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Mom and Dad Save the World (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Emperor Spengo sees Marge Nelson and using a giant magnet, kidnaps her and her husband Dick, hoping to make Marge his before blowing up the Earth. The Emperor and other inhabitants of his planet are somewhat less than bright, and Dick begins reliving episodes of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in order to rescue Marge, save the Earth, and restore the rightful emperor to the throne.
Style: humorous, funny, grindhouse, sexy, semi serious, parody, light, road movie, clever, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens
Plot: alien, friendly alien, alien abduction, evil alien, kidnapping, space, apocalypse, superhero, distopia, epidemic, abduction, insanity, buddies, save the world, good versus evil, time travel, space and aliens, space travel, misfit, family relations, parents and children, chases and races, escapades, rivalry, suburbs ...
Time: year 1992, 80s
Place: usa, california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, funny and feel good films with plots about escapades, space and aliens, heroes, danger, disorder, imaginary and alien mostly in Sci-Fi, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like Mom and Dad Save the World: Coneheads (1993), Explorers (1985), Super Mario Bros. (1993), Galaxy Quest (1999), Honey I Blew Up the Kid (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Coneheads (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don't exactly blend in with the population of Paramus, N.J. But for some reason, everyone believes them when they say they're from ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, absurd, not serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, adult
Plot: fish out of water, alien, space, humanity, satire, benign alien, space and aliens, parents and children, family life, dysfunctional family, transformation, childhood ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, future, year 1993
Place: new jersey, usa
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 6.4
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Explorers (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The visionary dreams of three curious and adventuresome young boys become an exciting reality in Explorers, the action-fantasy from director Joe Dante, who combines keen humor, warmth and fantasy with unexpected twists. In their makeshift ...
Style: light, cult classic, feel good, mindfuck, epic ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: space travel, friendship, space, childhood, bullying, coming of age, ufo, adolescence, fantasy world, children, outer space, teenager ...
Time: future, 80s, year 1985
Place: maryland, washington d.c.
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Super Mario Bros. (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Japan, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining, exciting ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: monster, dinosaur, save the world, plumber, transformation, brothers, fantasy world, heroes, rescue, good versus evil, computer game, heroic mission ...
Time: 90s, future
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 177K
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The stars of a 1970s sci-fi show - now scraping a living through re-runs and sci-fi conventions - are beamed aboard an alien spacecraft. Believing the cast's heroic on-screen dramas are historical documents of real-life adventures, the band of ...
Style: parody, spoof, funny, laugh out loud, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: alien, mistaken identity, actor, space, time travel, space exploration, space opera, alien invasion, monster, space travel, benign alien, spaceship ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
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Honey I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his ...
Style: funny, light, clever, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, toddlers, family outing ...
Plot: baby, inventor, inventions and discoveries, fish out of water, childhood, giant, family relations, toys, animal, redemption, runaway, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, las vegas, nevada
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100%
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Fugitives of the Federation for their daring rescue of Spock from the doomed Genesis Planet, Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew begin their journey home to face justice for their actions. But as they near Earth, they find it at the mercy of ...
Style: saga, futuristic, action adventure, humorous, clever ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: time travel, space travel, star trek, space opera, spacecraft, environmental, space, marine biologist, falling from height, planet earth, bus, punk music ...
Time: future, year 1986, 80s, 23rd century
Place: san francisco, bay area, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
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Mars Attacks! (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: 'We come in peace' is not what those green men from Mars mean when they invade our planet, armed with irresistible weapons and a cruel sense of humor. This star studded cast must play victim to the alien’s fun and games in this comedy ...
Style: parody, spoof, dark comedy, humorous, absurd ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: mars, ufo, alien invasion, alien, space and aliens, evil alien, disaster, save the world, dark humor, outer space, flying saucer, invasion ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, future, year 1996
Place: washington d.c., usa, las vegas, kentucky, kansas ...
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100%
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The eccentric and childish Pee-wee Herman embarks on a big adventure when his beloved bicycle is stolen. Armed with information from a fortune-teller and a relentless obsession with his prized possession, Pee-wee encounters a host of odd characters ...
Style: road movie, funny, surreal, humorous, hilarious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: bicycle, road trip, man child, cycling, on the road, surrealism, nightmare, great ending, bike, children, childhood, chase ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: austin texas, texas, california, usa, san antonio texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Sky High (2005)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in a world where superheroes are commonly known and accepted, young Will Stronghold, the son of the Commander and Jetstream, tries to find a balance between being a normal teenager and an extraordinary being.
Style: feel good, entertaining, exciting, teen, light ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: superhero, high school, young heroes, friendship, supernatural ability, heroes, superhuman powers, coming of age, good versus evil, best friends in love, teenage life, super powers ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.
Style: funny, intense, light, feel good, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot: youth, childhood, inventor, shrinking, parents and children, neighbor, survival, rescue, mother daughter relationship, genetically altered, kids and family, stop motion ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Spaced Invaders (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A crew of Martians overhears a radio broadcast of Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" coming from Earth, and, thinking the Martian fleet is attacking Earth, they land their broken-down ship in a backwater mid-American town. As luck ...
Style: cult classic, humorous, grindhouse, dark, independent film ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: halloween, alien invasion, space, martian, monster, mars, evil alien, small town, misunderstanding, ufo, visitor, post apocalyptic ...
Time: 20th century
Place: usa, illinois
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30%
Stepsister from Planet Weird (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A teenager's life is disrupted when her mother falls in love with an alien.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, teen
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: alien, parents and children, fish out of water, teenage life, misfit, youth, family relations, remarry, life turned upside down, high school life, female alien, halloween ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Ben 10: Race Against Time (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: "Ben 10: Race Against Time" has Ben back in his hometown of Bellwood. Even though he's back in school and leaving his hero adventures behind him, it seems that Ben will be facing his greatest challenge yet.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting, scenic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: race against time, heroic mission, young heroes, ben 10, rescue, escapades, good versus evil, master villain, superhuman powers, save the world, danger, rivalry ...
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28%
Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Zenon Kar, a 13-year-old girl who lives on a space station in the year 2049, gets into some trouble and is banished to Earth. With help from some Earth friends she must find her way back.
Style: teen, futuristic, not serious, humorous, whimsical
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: friends, disorder, misfit, escapades, teenager, black girl, preteen, occupation, adolescence, computer virus, earth, friendship ...
Time: 2040s, 90s, future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Aliens in the Attic (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A group of kids must protect their vacation home from invading aliens.
Style: entertaining, semi serious, humorous, teen, funny ...
Audience: teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: alien, supernatural, teenager, buddies, space and aliens, friends, young heroes, youth, alien encounter, group of friends, teenage life, mind control ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
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27%
 3.4
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Mac and Me (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A Mysterious Alien Creature (MAC) escaping from nefarious NASA agents, is befriended by a young boy in a wheelchair. Together, they try to find MAC's family from whom he has been separated.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, cult classic, mockbuster ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: nasa, alien, extraterrestrial, youth, coca cola, mcdonald's restaurant, benign alien, alien invasion, friendship, happy ending, family relations, single parent ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
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26%
 5.3
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Star Kid (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Shy seventh-grader Spencer Griffith's life changes when the meteor falls into local junkyard and he finds a Cybersuit - the wise and strong robot from another galaxy. Spencer puts Cybersuit on and becomes a different kind of guy
Style: humorous, entertaining, semi serious, stylized, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: superhero, androids and robots, space and aliens, robot, fantasy world, brutality, alien, escapades, good versus evil, youth, revenge, dysfunctional family ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Evil Alien Conquerors (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Inept beings from the planet Kabijj land on Earth and attempt to behead all of its beings and take over the planet
Style: not serious, humorous, funny, entertaining, slapstick
Audience: teens
Plot: alien, space and aliens, escapades, rivalry, danger, race against time, disorder, evil alien, sword, invasion, satire, space ...
Time: 21st century
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25%
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RocketMan (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fred Z. Randall is geeky and obnoxious spacecraft designer, who gets the chance to make his dream come true and travel to Mars as a member of the first manned flight there.
Style: humorous, entertaining, inspirational, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing
Plot: mars, nasa, farce, space travel, space, adaptation, heroic mission, escapades, danger, comedy of errors, goofy hero, race against time ...
Time: 90s
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50%
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G.O.R.A. (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Turkey
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A slick young Turk kidnapped by extraterrestrials shows his great « humanitarian spirit » by outwitting the evil commander-in-chief of the planet of G.O.R.A.
Style: parody, not serious, humorous, stylized, cult classic ...
Plot: space travel, fish out of water, abduction, distant planet, alien encounter, disorder, princess, danger, save the world, escapades, rivalry, imaginary ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Muppets from Space (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Gonzo's breakfast cereal tells him that he's the descendant of aliens from another planet, his attempts at extraterrestrial communication get him kidnapped by a secret government agency, prompting the Muppets to spring into action. ...
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, feel good, not serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, adult, preschool
Plot: muppets, space travel, benign alien, space, friendship, unlikely friendships, secrets, mad scientist, puppet, heroic mission, rescue, fish out of water ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Cybermutt (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Rex, a good-natured Golden Retriever, is given bionic super powers by an eccentric scientist, he becomes the target of an evil genius determined to possess the new technology at any cost.
Style: semi serious, humorous
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: disorder, family life, heroic mission, rivalry, escapades, pets, superhuman powers, experiment gone awry, mistaken identity, single parent, imaginary, save the day ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, travelling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with pretty ...
Style: arthurian, semi serious, feel good, humorous, psychotronic
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: time travel, king arthur, astronaut, nasa, medieval, fish out of water, arthurian legend, jousting, camelot, yankee, astronomy, space adventure ...
Time: middle ages, year 1979, 6th century, medieval times
Place: england, cornwall, usa, europe, connecticut
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24%
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Zenon: The Zequel (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Zenon Kar is 15 and lives on a space station which the military has taken over and is dismantling. She receives a mysterious signal and must convince everyone that it's from aliens who have come to help them.
Style: feel good, humorous, not serious, teen
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens
Plot: benign alien, space and aliens, escapades, mischievous children, alien encounter, fish out of water, disorder, female protagonist, feminist, occupation, teenager, alien ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: The joke's on absent-minded scientist Wayne Szalinski when his troublesome invention shrinks him, his brother and their wives so effectively that their children think they've completely disappeared. Of course, this gives the kids free rein ...
Style: not serious, feel good, humorous, light, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens, teens ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, inventor, mother daughter relationship, experiment gone awry, fish out of water, nothing goes right, rescue, misfit, odd couple, mischievous children, disorder, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Meet Dave (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. While trying to save their planet, the aliens encounter a new problem, as their ship becomes smitten with an Earth woman.
Style: humorous, funny, semi serious, slapstick, parody ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family friendly, teens
Plot: alien, space, friendship, benign alien, alien invasion, captain, humanity, stupidity, robot, alien encounter, disorder, crew ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
A Wrinkle in Time (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 251 min.
Story: Based on a children's series by the same name. Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared during a government experiment. Their travels take them around the universe to ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, spiritual, psychotronic
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: guardian angel, youth, good versus evil, time travel, space and aliens, supernatural, parallel world, heroic mission, daring rescue, young heroes, escapades, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy business as Level 2 OSS agents. Their new mission is to save the world from a mad scientist living on a volcanic island populated by an imaginative ...
Style: humorous, surreal, entertaining, futuristic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: children, espionage, child spy, mad scientist, fantasy world, heroes, rivalry, monster, spy, villain, animal, scientist ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Flight of the Navigator (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This 1986 Disney adventure tells the story of 12-year-old David who lives with his family in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. When he awakens from being accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, he finds that eight years have passed. His family is ...
Style: feel good, futuristic, entertaining, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen drama, preschool
Plot: time travel, ufo, nasa, benign alien, space and aliens, space travel, outer space, flying saucer, robot, alien, getting home, young heroes ...
Time: year 1978, year 1986, 80s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: florida, miami, miami beach, japan, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.8
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Can of Worms (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teen is visited by aliens after he broadcasts a message into space.
Style: semi serious, exciting, offbeat, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: space and aliens, youth, friendly alien, space opera, benign alien, cooking and food, halloween, alien, haunted, buddies, preteen, extraterrestrial ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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