Movies like The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
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The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964)
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine. However, his experiments land him in deep trouble with the law.
Style:
feel good, humorous, not serious, psychotronic
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
hypnosis, mind reading, animal, college, inventor, boy genius, heist, time travel, heroes, supernatural, youth, friends, prodigy, teachers and students, supernatural ability, student life, high school life, teenage life, high school, imaginary, mischievous children, experiment gone awry, nothing goes right, partner, disorder ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
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Most similar movies to The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, semi serious and not serious films with plots about family, disorder, youth, teenage life, heroes, teenager and family relations mostly in Comedy, Family and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The Misadventures of Merlin Jones: The Strongest Man in the World (1975), The Monkey's Uncle (1965), Son of Flubber (1962), The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), Best Friends Whenever (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Strongest Man in the World is a 1975 film starring Kurt Russell as Dexter Riley, a student in the fictional Medfield College. A school laboratory accident mixes one student's vitamin cereal mix with Dexter Riley's chemical experiment. ...
Style:
humorous, offbeat, feel good, not serious, fast ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
laboratory, fraternity, superhuman powers, bail, weightlifting, cow, balloon, overweight, arrest, dog, experiment, humour ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
College whiz-kid Merlin Jones concocts a method for teaching advanced information to a chimpanzee, then creates a flying machine of his own design, ultimately raising havoc on the campus.
Style:
slapstick, exciting, semi serious, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience:
family outing, preschool
Plot:
student athlete, college, college football, aviation, monkey, animal, chimpanzee, college life, down on your luck, school, sport team, disorder ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Medfield's lovable but hopelessly absent-minded professor -- Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray) -- bounces back in this classic Disney film with hilarious new mishaps when he experiments with the amazing by-products of his startling anti-gravity ...
Style:
intense, melancholic, not serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
mad scientist, american football, inventor, college, experiment gone awry, family life, inventions and discoveries, goofy hero, disorder, fish out of water, child as adult, fall in love ...
Time:
60s, year 1963
Place:
pentagon, new jersey
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Hailed as one of Walt Disney's most hilarious comedies, The Absent-Minded Professor contains two essential elements for laughter - Fred MacMurray and Flubber, his gravity-defying formula for flying rubber!
Style:
black and white, funny, humorous, psychotronic, comedy drama ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
college, basketball, inventor, cheerleading, car, dog, football team, flying car, professor, science and technology, new year, winter ...
Time:
year 1961, 20th century, 60s, 1950s, 50s ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa, pentagon
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
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Story:
The live-action comedy follows best friends Shelby and Cyd who, when their aspiring scientist friend Barry’s invention goes awry, gain the power to leap forward and backward in time whenever they want – and sometimes when they don’t. Now, they ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, corny, teen comedy
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
time travel, friendship, high school life, friends, teenage life, youth, teenager, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, imaginary, disorder, experiment gone awry, best friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, portland oregon
Similarity:
29%
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:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
young heroes, disorder, teenage life, mischievous children, escapades, rivalry, youth, ambition, imaginary, teenager, occupation, master villain ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ducoboo is a very inventive dunce and joker, he is very resourceful at finding new ways to copy from his neighbor, to cheat or to defy the teacher's authority.
Style:
humorous, not serious, feel good, light, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
mischievous children, elementary school, rebellion, friendship, young heroes, lifestyle, disorder, parents and children, teachers and students, misfit, hardcase students, buddies ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A teenager ends up being hounded by a well-groomed and seemingly cute and tiny dog that actually turns out to be a nightmare of a beast.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, detective
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, teens, kids
Plot:
dog, teenage boy, nothing goes right, mischievous children, eccentric family, teenage life, young heroes, family life, rivalry, youth, pets, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.
Style:
melancholic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, funny ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
duck, treasure hunt, stereotypes, multiple storylines, good versus evil, professor, magic, justice, odd couple, fish out of water, experiment gone awry, partner ...
Time:
year 1971
Place:
australia, san francisco, new jersey
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible. Before Dexter and his friends, Debbie and Richard Schuyler, can even enjoy their spectacular discovery, ...
Style:
humorous, exciting, semi serious, psychotronic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
invisibility, invisible man, college, college campus, superhuman powers, science and technology, chase, robbery, invisible, invention, high school, job seeking ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Similarity:
26%
100K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president. He has missed his ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, humorous, slapstick comedy, slapstick ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
mad scientist, inventor, experiment gone awry, robot, father son relationship, technology, university, goofy hero, inventions and discoveries, nothing goes right, fall in love, disorder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Will Browning accidently creates a clone of himself when working on a science project.
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, funny
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, teens, family outing
Plot:
cloning, twins, youth, nothing goes right, teenage life, disorder, school, parents and children, ultimatum, popularity, clone, occupation ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Family, Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Dr. Jonas Carson, a scientist, invents Chip, an android teenager. Dr. Carson sends Chip to school with his daughter Becky to see whether an android could interact with others. But his former employer decides to try and make a profit by stealing the ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
transhumanism, robot, artificial intelligence, love affair, science and technology, new world, androids, family relations, high school, power relations, social relations, disorder ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, arizona
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric shock and his brain turns to a ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, clever, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
computer, hacking, friendship, gangster, computer genius, hacker, police raid, college student, cognitive science, computer hacker, science and technology, cybersecurity ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 80s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Boy genius Michael Dean (Adkins) teams up with a super-talented chimpanzee and his caretaker (Modine) to take down an animal testing lab. In exchange the scientist gives the boy some pointers on the girl of his dreams.
Style:
not serious, feel good, humorous, melancholic, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
friendship, rescue, soldier, buddies, young heroes, escapades, danger, daring rescue, animal life, disorder, laboratory, silly humor ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
24%
100K
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, teen, exciting, light ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
high school, superhero, friendship, supernatural ability, young heroes, superhuman powers, heroes, coming of age, best friends in love, good versus evil, teenage life, super powers ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A group of misfit teens evade a corrupt scientist when they steal and attempt to return a suit that delivers supernatural strength to its wearer.
Style:
semi serious, exciting, humorous, stylized, independent film
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
superpower, prodigy, escapades, mad scientist, school, teenage life, imaginary, disorder, youth, teenager, imaginary friend, superhero ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
While trying to avoid an obsessed girl, rocker Drake Parker meets a young girl, who makes him promise to give her family the best Christmas ever. Later, at the Premiere's first ever Christmas party, a group of teens start to make trouble. ...
Style:
christmas special, semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing
Plot:
christmas, youth, nothing goes right, comedy of errors, mischievous children, family relations, lifestyle, disorder, step siblings, friends, siblings relations, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Maya Dolittle (Kyla Pratt) is back in a heartwarming adventure of presidential proportions! Maya's dream of going to vet school is put on hold when she gets a call from the president of the United States. It seems the First Dog is out of ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, offbeat
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
veterinarian, silly humor, kids and family, heroic mission, race against time, danger, pets, escapades, save the day, imaginary, disorder, catastrophe ...
Time:
year 2008
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Wilby Daniels, a successful lawyer running for District Attorney, suddenly finds himself being transformed into an English sheepdog. Somehow he has to keep his change a secret and find just what is causing it, all the while eluding the local dog ...
Style:
slapstick, humorous, semi serious, feel good, psychotronic ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot:
dog, animal, lawyer, animal life, transformation, curse, district attorney, law, conspiracy, body swapping, danger, youth ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Family, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The Zack Files is a science fiction television program that revolves around a young boy, played by Robert Clark, who is a magnet for paranormal activity and attends Horace White High School for Boys along with his three friends Cam, Gwen, and ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting, offbeat ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
youth, supernatural, supernatural power, young heroes, teenage life, buddies, supernatural ability, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, childhood love, friends, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
This puber-comedy is a kind of mixture between 'Animal House' and 'Police Academy'. Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a the Sheldon R. Wienberg military academy. The life of dicipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of ...
Style:
humorous, spoof, raunchy comedy, sex comedy, anime ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
high school, school, looking for sex, gay, teenager, stoner, partner, teachers and students, high school life, boarding school life, college life, teenage life ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 70s
Similarity:
21%
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, pre-teens, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, inventor, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, nothing goes right, young lovers, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, cockroach, father daughter relationship, cousin cousin relationship, sister in law sister in law relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Jack Parker has always skated by on his lies, especially the one about Mikey, an underprivileged (and made-up) teen who Jack "tutors"... until one day "Mikey" shows up for real, and all Jack's lies start coming true.
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
supernatural ability, family relations, youth, dishonesty, mischievous children, nothing goes right, parents and children, lie, society, boy, imaginary, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Scientist hold talking, super-intelligent babies captive, but things take a turn for the worse when a mix-up occurs between a baby genius and its twin.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, intense, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, toddlers, teens
Plot:
baby, twins, telepathy, mistaken identity, genius, mad scientist, babies and infants, mischievous children, children, scientist, hypnosis, imaginary ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Disney's irresistible talking puppies are back in an all-new movie that takes them halfway across the world to the ruins of ancient Egypt. With the help of some exotic new friends, this epic adventure is a treasure trove of pure Buddy fun. In a ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, semi serious, feel good
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly
Plot:
dog, pets, youth, young heroes, friendship, escapades, danger, heroes, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, friends, imaginary ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
egypt
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young man working at a cinema on a special premiere night, finds that the films being shown are full of strange and eerie occurrences.
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, horror comedy, spooky ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot:
ghost, youth, nothing goes right, young heroes, siblings relations, teenage life, family relations, disorder, danger, halloween, sabotage, friend ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Charlie Boyle finds that even his high IQ can't solve all of his problems when he takes on a double life in order to make friends his own age.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, teens, family outing
Plot:
hidden identity, youth, campus, ice hockey, adolescence, preteen, social relations, disorder, family relations, prodigy, dishonesty, coming of age ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Chip, the android boy is back. This time, he is off to college, suffering from a computer virus and in love with Roberta, another android. Will there be a happy ending?
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, sentimental
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
campus, transhumanism, robot, love affair, new world, computer virus, college, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, youth, imaginary, misfit ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, arizona
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
When 13-year-old Henry Hart lands a job as Danger, the sidekick-in-training to superhero Captain Man, he must learn to navigate a double life balancing the challenges of 8th grade with the crazy adventures of a real-life crime fighter!
Style:
funny, sitcom, inspirational, not serious, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
superhero, young heroes, teenage life, heroes, teenager, friends, imaginary, youth, best friend, teen superhero, sarcasm, partner ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
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