Movies like Herbie Goes Bananas

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Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)
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Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.
Style: rom com, feel good, humorous, not serious, light, inspirational, clever, touching, unusual plot structure, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: racing, auto racing, chase, car chase, herbie, driving, youth, private detective, love affair, criminal syndicate, gold, bus, car, cruise ship, friends, adventurer, chases and races, escapades, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, nothing goes right, partner, disorder, underdog ...
Time: year 1980, 80s
Place: latin america, brazil, mexico, spain, rio de janeiro
Keyword: mexican, partners, gangsters

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Most similar movies to Herbie Goes Bananas

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, semi serious and not serious films with plots about friends, disorder, escapades, heroes, danger, live action and friendship mostly in Family, Comedy and Adventure genres. Some movies like Herbie Goes Bananas: Herbie Fully Loaded (2005), Herbie Rides Again (1974), The Love Bug (1997), Mr. Magoo (1997), Weekend at Bernie's II (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Maggie Peyton, the new owner of Number 53 - the free-wheelin' Volkswagen bug with a mind of its own - puts the car through its paces on the road to becoming a NASCAR competitor.
Style: teen, feel good, humorous, not serious, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: car, car race, auto racing, father daughter relationship, college, racing, underdog, teenage girl, friendship, rivalry, family relations, chases and races ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get them back.
Style: entertaining, melancholic, light, semi serious, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens
Plot: auto racing, car chase, racing, happy ending, justice, heist, buddies, contests and competitions, frame up, escapades, danger, undercover ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: monte carlo, paris france, france, europe, riviera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Herbie Rides Again (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.
Style: rom com, hilarious, family comedy, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: racing, auto racing, chase, herbie, car, greed, car chase, name calling, driving, motor racing, suburbs, colosseum ...
Place: san francisco, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Love Bug (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Story: The film opens with narration by Jim Douglas and "memory" clips from the first film. The narration ends saying Herbie is now owned by an arrogant Scotsman named Simon Moore III (John Hannah), who abuses and insults Herbie until Herbie ...
Style: rom com, humorous, not serious, exciting
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: auto racing, racing, twins, herbie, car, occupation, partner, journalism, escapades, heroes, contests and competitions, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mr. Magoo (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada, Brazil
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Mr. Magoo, a man with terrible eyesight, gets caught up in a museum robbery.
Style: humorous, feel good, slapstick comedy, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: chase, millionaire, mistaken identity, uncle nephew relationship, race against time, goofy hero, odd couple, adventurer, woman fights a man, home invasion, female martial artist, cons and scams ...
Time: 90s
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Weekend at Bernie's II (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Everybody's favorite stiff is back! Working fools Larry Wilson and Richard Parker have uncovered a dirty, little secret: Their former boss, Bernie Lomax, embezzled $2 million and placed it in a safe deposit box in the Caribbean. Now, the boys ...
Style: humorous, realistic, not serious, witty, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: zombie, chase, beach, female nudity, living dead, love, witch, sex, embezzlement, corpse, dishonesty, nothing goes right ...
Time: 90s
Place: caribbean, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 17K
The Love Bug (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Herbie is a car - but no ordinary car. The story follows the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own from the showroom to the race track, with various close escapes in between. Three further Herbie movies were to follow.
Style: humorous, sweet, entertaining, light, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: car, auto racing, racing, car race, hippie, race, auto mechanic, chase, happy ending, rivalry, car trouble, adaptation ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Rocky and Bullwinkle have been living off the finances made from the reruns of their cartoon show. Boris and Natasha somehow manage to crossover into reality and team up with Fearless Leader, an evil criminal turned media mogul with some evil plans ...
Style: parody, humorous, melancholic, surreal, not serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: death, vengeance, justice, leadership, buddies, partner, disorder, danger, on the road, satire, fictional country, road trip ...
Place: usa, minnesota, new york, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Jack and the Beanstalk (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A fairy tale character who is about to flunk out of fairy tale school, Jack must perform a heroic deed by Monday or fail miserably, just like his father before him. Anxious to make good, Jack sells his C.O.W. (Computer of Wonder) for a handful of ...
Style: fairy tale, semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: youth, adventurer, young heroes, danger, escapades, legends and myths, friends, disorder, curses spells and rituals, imaginary kingdom, adventure hero, magic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Double, Double Toil and Trouble (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The Farmer family is in big debts; they might lose their house soon. The seven year old Farmer twins, Kelly and Lynn, decide not to let this happen. They discover that somebody really mean and shrewd is responsible for all the problems of their ...
Style: spooky, humorous, feel good, offbeat, semi serious
Audience: kids, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: twins, halloween, witch, magic, youth, mischievous children, supernatural, witchcraft, child, impostor, haunted, wizard ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Kermit's Swamp Years (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: At 12 years old, Kermit the Frog and best friends Goggles and Croaker travel outside their homes in the swamps of the Deep South to do something extraordinary with their lives.
Style: feel good, humorous, not serious, exciting, fantasy adventure
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: frog, muppets, escapades, puppet, best friend, confined, rescue, danger, young heroes, friendship, heroes, homecoming ...
Time: 2020s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An eccentric millionaire and his grandchildren are embroiled in the plights of some forest gnomes who are searching for the rest of their tribe. While helping them, the millionaire is suspected of being crazy because he's seeing gnomes! ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: magic, good versus evil, youth, chase, st. patrick's day, holiday, magical creature, kidnapping, car chase, mental institution, gnome, raccoon ...
Time: year 1967
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The story of how Mystery Inc. was formed.
Style: not serious, feel good, humorous, detective, exciting ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot: talking dog, scooby doo, dog, ghost, goofy hero, investigation, partner, disorder, friends, youth, amateur detective, prank ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Beethoven's 5th (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. When Sara takes Beethoven to spend summer vacation with wacky Uncle Freddie in an old mining town, the mischievous canine "digs up" the missing clue to a legendary hidden fortune of Rita and Moe ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: dog, animal, youth, saint bernard dog, family relations, friendship, family life, partner, best friend, friends, chase, escapades ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: It's Schluufy's birthday, and the Oogieloves (Goobie, Zoozie and Toofie), along with their friends J. Edgar, Windy Window and Ruffy, are organizing a party. (Shh! It's a secret.) Everything is going along just perfectly until J. Edgar ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, entertaining, light
Audience: family outing, manly, toddlers, kids
Plot: friends, escapades, young heroes, disorder, friendship, youth, birthday, balloon, adventure hero, twists and turns, target, journey ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Fred 3: Camp Fred (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Schools out and Fred Figglehorn's dream of water slides, horseback riding and monkey butlers during the summer turns into a nightmare of gruel and poisonous berries when his mom signs him up to an unsanitary camp.
Style: humorous, not serious, feel good, entertaining, freeze frame ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: summer camp, friendship, teenage life, misfit, goofy hero, rivalry, disorder, contests and competitions, society, escapades, underdog, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Zenon: Z3 (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Zenon Kar a teenager living on a space station in the year 2054 competes in the first ever Galactic Teen Supreme contest.
Style: humorous, not serious, feel good, futuristic, teen
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: young heroes, disorder, teenage life, mischievous children, ambition, escapades, imaginary, rivalry, youth, occupation, teenager, master villain ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Sherlock: Undercover Dog (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Billy, 10, a dreamer, wants to be taken seriously so he can live with his toy-designer father on Catalina Island. Billy's plans get seriously spoilt when Sherlock, a talking police dog, demands his help to rescue his police detective handler ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, humorous, feel good, offbeat ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: dog, sherlock holmes, youth, partner, friends, disorder, friendship, investigation, good versus evil, mischievous children, heroes, rescue ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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A Dog's Tale (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Anything is possible when the Professor tells Tim about a supernova that grants wishes. Unfortunately, when Tim's wish doesn't go as planned, he finds himself in a dog's body!
Style: feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, exciting
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: youth, child as adult, mischievous children, wish come true, heroes, escapades, treasure hunt, daring rescue, hopes, danger, family life, disorder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Stuart Little 2 (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Stuart, an adorable white mouse, still lives happily with his adoptive family, the Littles, on the east side of Manhattan's Central Park. More crazy mouse adventures are in store as Stuart, his human brother, George, and their mischievous cat, ...
Style: light, entertaining, sentimental, stylized, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: mouse, friendship, bird, talking animal, disorder, rescue, friends, heroic mission, escapades, danger, furry, cat ...
Time: year 2002
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
23%
Garfield: The Movie (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Garfield, the fat, lazy, lasagna lover, has everything a cat could want. But when Jon, in an effort to impress the Liz - the vet and an old high-school crush - adopts a dog named Odie and brings him home, Garfield gets the one thing he doesn't ...
Style: feel good, not serious, entertaining, light, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: cat, pets, talking animal, comic book, rescue, animal life, disorder, happy ending, animal shelter, comic hero, runaway, animal protagonist ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Charley and the Angel (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, sentimental, offbeat ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: afterlife, redemption, youth, family relations, guardian angel, couples, hopes, going straight, unfulfillment, supernatural, human spirit, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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iCarly: iGo to Japan (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: The crew of the popular tv show iCarly go to Japan.
Style: realistic, feel good, semi serious, humorous
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: rivalry, contests and competitions, best friend, siblings relations, family life, save the day, artists and showbiz, confined, occupation, kidnapping, computers and web, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, usa, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Astérix and Obélix have to win the Olympic Games in order to help their friend Alafolix marry Princess Irina (portrayed by supermodel Vanessa Hessler). Brutus (Benoît Poelvoorde) uses every trick in the book to have his own team win the game, and ...
Style: humorous, feel good, witty, semi serious, funny ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: against the odds, heroes, goofy hero, rivalry, magical potion, competition, disorder, greek, buddies, contests and competitions, emperor, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 1st century, year 2008, 1st century b.c.
Place: ancient greece, greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
George of the Jungle 2 (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: George and Ursula now have a son, George Junior, so Ursula's mother arrives to try and take them back to "civilization".
Style: humorous, feel good, not serious, spoof
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: jungle, treasure hunt, fish out of water, friendship, gambling, escapades, buddies, nothing goes right, mischievous children, disorder, imaginary kingdom, goofy hero ...
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Elmo loves his fuzzy, blue blanket, and would never let anything happen to it. However, a tug-of-war with his friend Zoe sends his blanket to a faraway land, and Elmo in hot pursuit. Facing life without his cherished blanket, Elmo musters all of his ...
Style: feel good, funny, mysterious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: muppets, sesame street, friendship, puppet, magical, rescue, puppetry, disorder, friends, imaginary kingdom, heroic mission, fish out of water ...
Time: year 1999
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Prehysteria! (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A young boy and his family embark on a series of adventures when the boy finds some mysterious eggs which hatch to reveal a brood of baby dinosaurs.
Style: independent film, humorous, feel good, offbeat, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dinosaur, single parent, kaiju, stop motion, prehistoric animal, giant monster, kids and family, monster, family relations, museum, youth, heroes ...
Time: prehistoric times, year 1993, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Metro Chase (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Adventure
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: This family comedy is about, Zack, an 8-year old American boy who is separated from his 18-year old sister, as they arrive in Paris for a family vacation. Seth, and friends track Zack down.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, captivating, family comedy ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: chase, young heroes, mischievous children, disorder, danger, kids in trouble, youth, child in peril, silly humor, family relations, friends, amateur detective ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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