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Muppets from Space (1999)
22K
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. It's hard to believe Gonzo's story at first, but Kermit and friends soon find themselves on an epic journey into outer space filled with plenty of intergalactic misadventures.
Style:
light, humorous, slapstick comedy, entertaining, feel good, not serious, exciting, slapstick, slasher, fantasy adventure ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, adult, preschool
Plot:
muppets, puppet, friendship, rescue, mad scientist, benign alien, space, alien, flying saucer, friendly alien, secrets, unlikely friendships, heroic mission, heroes, space and aliens, chases and races, escapades, nothing goes right, fish out of water, government agency, goofy hero, loneliness, rat, pig, puppetry ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
canada
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Most similar movies to Muppets from Space
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, exciting and light films with plots about family, escapades, disorder, friends, friendship, slug and fantasy world mostly in Family, Comedy and Adventure genres. Some movies like Muppets from Space: Kermit's Swamp Years (2002), The Master of Disguise (2002), The Great Muppet Caper (1981), *batteries not included (1987), Muppets Tonight (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
humorous, feel good, exciting, not serious, fantasy adventure
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
frog, muppets, escapades, puppet, best friend, friendship, heroes, confined, danger, rescue, young heroes, homecoming ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A sweet-natured Italian waiter named Pistachio Disguisey at his father Fabbrizio's restaurant, who happens to be a member of a family with supernatural skills of disguise. But moments later the patriarch of the Disguisey family is kidnapped ...
Style:
humorous, melancholic, not serious, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
stupidity, disguise, kidnapping, voice over narration, father son relationship, investigation, revenge, master of disguise, swimming pool, lone hero, supernatural, heroic mission ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002, year 1979, 21st century
Place:
usa, palermo italy, costa rica, italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The owner of a bank (Miss Bitterman) wants to own the Muppet Theatre so she can build a nightclub over it. After she tricks Pepe into giving her the only copy of the contract between her father and the Muppets, she changes it so the Muppets have ...
Style:
christmas special, humorous, witty, stylized, not serious ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, kids, preschool
Plot:
muppets, christmas, puppetry, holiday, goofy hero, friendship, alternate reality, xmas, christmas season, puppet, god, guardian angel ...
Time:
year 2016, 90s
Place:
usa, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Musical, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, ...
Style:
lighthearted, avant garde, fantasy adventure, exciting, not serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, adult, preschool
Plot:
muppets, puppet, heist, caper, children, gay, puppetry, robbery, hotel, holiday, good versus evil, bicycle ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1981, 70s
Place:
london, england, europe, britain
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his new skyscraper. When tiny mechanical aliens land for a recharge, they decide to stay and help out.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, sweet, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
ufo, eviction, apartment building, alien robot, benign alien, alien invasion, elderly couple, space and aliens, robot, arsonist, friendship, alien encounter ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, hawaii
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: France, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Muppets Tonight is a live-action/puppet television series created by Jim Henson Productions and featuring The Muppets. Much like the "MuppeTelevision" segment of The Jim Henson Hour, Muppets Tonight was a continuation of The Muppet Show, ...
Style:
not serious, exciting, humorous, feel good
Audience:
kids, family outing, adult
Plot:
muppets, sesame street, weirdo, sketch, puppetry, media satire, chaos and mayhem, celebrity culture, showbiz, guest, fame, musician ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
parody, semi serious, humorous, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
dinosaur, monster, plumber, computer game, transformation, brothers, fantasy world, true love, rescue, heroes, good versus evil, heroic mission ...
Time:
90s, future, 80s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and future.
Style:
funny, christmas special, humorous, talky, christmas classics ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, adult, preschool
Plot:
christmas, holiday, ghost, muppets, childhood, redemption, christmas carol, lost love, charles dickens, puppetry, scrooge, greed ...
Time:
19th century, year 1992, 1840s, 90s, 1800s ...
Place:
england, london, usa, europe
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Kermit the Frog is persuaded by agent Dom DeLuise to pursue a career in Hollywood. Along the way, Kermit picks up Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, and a motley crew of other Muppets with similar aspirations. Meanwhile, Kermit must elude the grasp of ...
Style:
funny, humorous, slasher, fantasy adventure, aesthetic ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, kids, adult, preschool
Plot:
muppets, road trip, mad scientist, puppet, friendship, pig, desert, bear, inventor, children, eternal love, puppetry ...
Time:
70s, year 1979, 20th century, 80s
Place:
california, florida, georgia, usa, los angeles ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
When Gonzo forgets to mail three letters to Santa, he convinces Kermit and the gang to help him deliver the notes to the North Pole. Along the way, they discover that Christmas is the time to be with those you care about most, as they dash home to ...
Style:
christmas special, exciting, humorous, feel good, not serious
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
santa claus, puppetry, christmas, muppets, chaos and mayhem, best friend, disorder, buddies, race against time, friendship, holiday, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig. Of course, Kermit the ...
Style:
humorous, lighthearted, fantasy adventure, slasher, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, adult, preschool
Plot:
muppets, puppet, puppetry, pig, amnesia, broadway, children, sesame street, wedding, rat, dog, theft ...
Time:
20th century, year 1984, 80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, delaware, maine ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Musical, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.
Style:
exciting, humorous, colorful, entertaining, not serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
muppets, puppet, prison, prison escape, master criminal, mistaken identity, interpol, good versus evil, treasure hunt, frog, friendship, gem ...
Time:
18th century, 21st century
Place:
europe, ireland, dublin ireland, spain, england ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Germany, USA
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, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot:
muppets, sesame street, friendship, puppet, fortress, magical, rescue, puppetry, friends, disorder, fish out of water, heroic mission ...
Time:
year 1999
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
The Jim Henson Hour is a short-lived television series that aired on NBC in 1989. It was developed as a showcase for The Jim Henson Company's various puppet creations, including the popular Muppet characters. Only nine of the twelve episodes ...
Style:
anthology, exciting, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience:
kids, family outing, adult
Plot:
puppet, muppets, sesame street, workplace, danger, escapades, buddies, ambition, heroes, friends, disorder, toys ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
B-Dawg, Mudbud, Budderball, and all the rest of the Buddies are back, but this time, they're setting their sights even higher -- as in, the moon! With the help of their new pals Spudnick (voiced by Jason Earles) and Gravity, these pooches are ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, futuristic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, preschool
Plot:
dog, moon, rescue, family life, space travel, space and aliens, survival, partner, friendship, disorder, escapades, danger ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
russia
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After telling the story of Flint's last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack and dies just as Jim and his friends are attacked by pirates. The gang escapes into the town where they hire out a boat and crew to find the ...
Style:
light, cute, lighthearted, exciting, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, family outing, kids, adult ...
Plot:
muppets, island, childhood, swashbuckler, ship, pirate ship, puppetry, youth, hunter, treasure hunter, water, young heroes ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
fictional island
Similarity:
40%
100K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When Kermit the Frog and the Muppets learn that their beloved theater is slated for demolition, a sympathetic human, Gary, and his puppet roommate, Walter, swoop in to help the gang put on a show and raise the $10 million they need to save the day.
Style:
sexy, sweet, exciting, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
muppets, puppetry, childhood, puppet, halloween, save the day, ambition, friendship, escapades, artists and showbiz, disorder, satire ...
Time:
2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, madagascar, usa, europe, france ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The Towani family civilian shuttlecraft crashes on the forest moon of Endor. The four Towani's are separated. Jermitt and Catarine, the mother and father are captured by the giant Gorax, and Mace and Cindel, the son and daughter, are missing ...
Style:
saga, humorous, semi serious, exciting, cute ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
rescue, star wars, space and aliens, magic, friendship, battles, bravery, good versus evil, space exploration, save the world, parent child relationship, young heroes ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
39%
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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, sweet, entertaining, sentimental, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
mouse, friendship, bird, talking animal, disorder, rescue, friends, escapades, danger, heroic mission, cat, furry ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, san francisco
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In this sequal to "Escape From Witch Mountain," Tia and Tony leave their safe refuge on witch mountain for a trip to Los Angeles. Tony is kidnapped by the evil Dr. Gannon and his spinster partner Letha and brainwashed into helping Gannon ...
Style:
saga, humorous, epic, gothic, cult classic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
kidnapping, boy, gang, mad scientist, spaceship, child abuse, brother sister relationship, greed, witch, supernatural, alien, psionic power ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The Muppets' Wizard of Oz follows a young woman named Dorothy Gale who dreams of becoming a singer but is unable to pursue her dreams. After being swept up by a tornado with her pet prawn Toto, Dorothy embarks on a journey to meet the Wizard of ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, feel good, crying, fantasy adventure ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
puppet, muppets, friendship, young heroes, escapades, danger, rescue, wizard of oz, puppetry, lion, halloween, witchcraft ...
Place:
kansas, usa
Similarity:
39%
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, space adventure, jousting, camelot, yankee, astronomy ...
Time:
middle ages, year 1979, 6th century, medieval times
Place:
england, cornwall, connecticut, usa, europe
Similarity:
39%
25K
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:
cult classic, light, feel good, retro, epic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, ufo, space travel, friendship, space, bullying, coming of age, children, fantasy world, adolescence, teenager, youth ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1985
Place:
maryland, washington d.c., canada
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Six years ago, the space alien, ALF, was on his way back to his new home...When the Alien Task Force finally caught him. Now, the story continues to where the series ended. ALF is now protected by the Alien Task Force, but the leader wants to ...
Style:
humorous, exciting, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
benign alien, on the run, chases and races, rescue, space and aliens, chase, misfit, alien encounter, alien life-form, alien, alien invasion, friendly alien ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
38%
159K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The adventures of a heroic and debonair stalwart mouse named Stuart Little with human qualities, who faces some comic misadventures while searching for his lost bird friend and living with a human family as their child.
Style:
entertaining, feel good, humorous, funny, light ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot:
mouse, cat, adoption, childhood, kids and family, anthropomorphic mouse, chase, orphanage, talking animal, creativity, redemption, storytelling ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
38%
24K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A lab accident gives a hound named Shoeshine some serious superpowers -- a secret that the dog eventually shares with the young boy who becomes his owner and friend.
Style:
entertaining, feel good, not serious, humorous, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
dog, superhero, good versus evil, teenager, single father, talking dog, animal, genetics, justice, experiment, rescue, superhuman powers ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
rhode island, iowa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court." Here, a computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her laptop, which she uses to amaze the court.
Style:
humorous, feel good, entertaining, captivating, slapstick ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
time travel, heroic mission, arthurian legend, good versus evil, imaginary, friendship, escapades, rivalry, fish out of water, heroes, disorder, king arthur ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages, 20th century
Place:
england, usa, connecticut, europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
The Christmas Toy is a 1986 Emmy Award nominated television film produced by The Jim Henson Company, featuring Jim Henson's Muppets. Rugby the Tiger who remembers how he was the Christmas Toy last year, and thinks he's going to be ...
Style:
mysterious, feel good, stylized, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
christmas, muppets, toy comes to life, puppet, objects come to life, magical, xmas, best friend, paralysis, holiday, puppetry, toys ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
38%
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:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
dog, animal, youth, saint bernard dog, family relations, friendship, family life, partner, best friend, friends, escapades, odd couple ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
Story:
In this one-hour Christmas special, Fozzie Bear surprises his mother Emily on Christmas Eve by bringing the entire Muppet gang to her farm to celebrate the holidays. Doc and his dog Sprocket, who had planned a quiet Christmas, end up joining the ...
Style:
christmas special, not serious, humorous, feel good
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
christmas, puppet, muppets, holiday, xmas, new year, weirdo, christmas time, christmas season, blizzard, puppetry, sesame street ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
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