Movies like The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
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The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999)
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Original name: Sesame Street: The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
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 determination and courage and heads off on an action-packed rescue mission that plunges him into Grouchland-a place full of grouchy creatures, stinky garbage and the villainous Huxley. Along the way, Elmo learns an important lesson about sharing, realizing that he was selfish with his friend and responsible for what happened.
Style:
feel good, humorous, scary, funny, light, clever, unusual plot structure, sweet, colourful, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
muppets, friendship, love, catastrophe, gangsters, monster, magic, children, natural disaster, loneliness, writers, talking animals, death, camp, justice, lone hero, kids and family, fantasy world, destiny, brutality, parallel universe, adoption, childhood, mentor, multiple storylines ...
Place:
sesame street
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Most similar movies to The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, light and entertaining films with plots about mentor, destiny, dialogue, storytelling, catastrophe, adaptation and culture clash mostly in Family, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland: Paddington (2014), Barney's Great Adventure (1998), The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996), Little Monsters (1989), Muppets from Space (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, France, USA, China
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After a deadly earthquake destroys his home in Peruvian rainforest, a young bear makes his way to England in search of a new home. The bear, dubbed "Paddington" for the london train station, finds shelter with the family of Henry and Mary ...
Style:
touching, sweet, feel good, funny, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers, pre-teens, adult
Plot:
animals, bear, talking animals, children, kids and family, jungle, childhood, taxidermist, interspecies friendship, secrets, adaptation, rescue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
peru, england, united kingdom, europe, london
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Mom and dad dump son Cody, daughter Abby, her best friend Marcella and a baby on the farm with Grandpa and Grandma. Purple dinosaur Barney soon appears to entertain kids, and when a large colorful egg deposited on a farm by a shooting star is ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, sexy, surreal, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, toddlers
Plot:
dinosaur, youth, chase, talking animals, weapons, writers, farce, death, destiny, greed, stupidity, natural disaster ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Czech Republic, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someday. In order to accomplish this goal he has to learn to act responsibly. This film shows you ...
Style:
fairy tale, touching, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, childhood, disorder, family relations, friends, escapades, innocence lost, youth, heroes, mischievous children, friendship, wish come true ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young boy is scared of the monster under his bed. He asks his 6th grade brother to swap rooms for the night as a bet that the monster really exists. Soon the brother becomes friends with the monster and discovers a whole new world of fun and games ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, entertaining, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, horror for children
Plot:
monster, brother brother relationship, friendship, coming of age, young heroes, halloween, mischievous children, supernatural ability, best friends, wish come true, fish out of water, child as adult ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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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, preschoolers, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
muppets, alien, space, space travel, friendship, unlikely friendships, secrets, mad scientist, heroic mission, benign alien, rescue, fish out of water ...
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Movies similar to Descendants
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker. Unhappy, Big Bird runs away from his foster home, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.
Style:
feel good, melancholic, sweet, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
adoption, friendship, road trip, muppets, unlikely friendships, happy ending, on the road, runaway, puppet, family relations, chase, social worker ...
Place:
illinois, sesame street, usa, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Set in modern times, Alex finds King Arthur's sword Excalibur and must prove himself worthy of it.
Style:
humorous, stylized, sexy, unusual plot structure, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
time travel, magic, good versus evil, child protagonist, heroic mission, battles, wizards and magicians, curses spells and rituals, legends and myths, mischievous children, escapades, youth ...
Time:
middle ages
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young boy must restore order when a group of bullies steal the magical book that acts as a portal between Earth and the imaginary world of Fantasia.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, humorous, unusual plot structure, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
magic, dragon, good versus evil, bullying, imaginary kingdom, youth, childhood, escapades, heroes, parallel world, friendship, heroic mission ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio.
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, humorous, semi serious, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
lie, pinocchio, fish out of water, mischievous children, obsessive quest, friendship, teaching the ways of the world, parents and children, misfit, young heroes, rescue, escapades ...
Place:
italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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:
humorous, touching, unusual plot structure, inspirational, light ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
disney, chase, car chase, car, auto racing, children, betrayal, catastrophe, gangsters, bullying, friendship, culture clash ...
Time:
80s
Place:
latin america, brazil, mexico, rio de janeiro, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Films like Scooby-Doo
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
For Beary Barrington, The Country Bears' young #1 fan, fitting in with his all-too-human family is proving im-paws-ible. When he runs away to find Country Bear Hall and his heroes, he discovers the venue that made them famous is near ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, feel good, not serious, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, preschoolers, girls' night
Plot:
disney, bear, music, musician's life, music band, save the day, rescue, fish out of water, friendship, self discovery, adoption, pirate ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Benji is lost and becomes a stray animal in Athens, Greece, trying to reunite with his family while secret agents pursue him, trying to get a formula which was glued to his paw in order to get it past customs.
Style:
humorous, sweet, light, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
animals, dog, friendship, pets, chase, justice, secrets, race, hitman, farce, stereotypes, runaway ...
Time:
70s
Place:
greece, europe, athens greece, crete
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Mr. Conductor's supply of magic gold dust, which allows him to travel between Shining Time and Thomas's island, is critically low. Unfortunately, he doesn't know how to get more. Meanwhile, Thomas is fending off attacks by the nasty ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, entertaining, splatter, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
train, magic, rescue, friendship, adventurer, escapades, good versus evil, rivalry, youth, young heroes, heroic mission, parents and children ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
london, america, toronto ontario canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, touching, feel good, inspirational ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
imaginary friend, childhood, magic, friendship, youth, bittersweet, imagination, circus, lone hero, life philosophy, vengeance, life & death ...
Place:
new jersey, las vegas, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A talking pig named Gordy becomes involved in a quest to save his family from the slaughterhouse.
Style:
humorous, touching, light, feel good, sad ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
pig, on the road, talking animals, disney, kids and family, farm, rescue, animals, heroic mission, youth, death, justice ...
Place:
boston, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Movies like Hook
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:
feel good, humorous, touching, funny, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
disney, magic, chase, youth, good versus evil, car, talking animals, stereotypes, culture clash, wilderness, school, farce ...
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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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:
light, humorous, entertaining, feel good, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens, family outing, preschoolers ...
Plot:
cat, mouse, adoption, childhood, kids and family, orphanage, chase, anthropomorphic mouse, redemption, creativity, talking animals, kidnapping ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Santa Claus decides to retire and pass on his magic bag of Christmas surprises to a new Saint Nick, he enlists the aid of a hilarious assortment of characters. A perky teen runaway and hapless taxi driver Ernest P. Worrell must convince a ...
Style:
light, humorous, surreal, melancholic, intense ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
christmas, holiday, magic, violence, unlikely friendships, family relations, prank, save the day, mischievous children, nothing goes right, partners, goofy hero ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1988
Place:
orlando florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer ...
Style:
humorous, light, entertaining, not serious, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
little people, mischievous children, friendship, child's point of view, childhood, greed, good versus evil, disorder, youth, rescue, nude, magical creature ...
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A Thanksgiving dinner brings a host of family together in a Harlem apartment, where a 24-year-old schoolteacher named Dorothy Gale (Diana Ross) lives with her Aunt Em (Theresa Merritt) and Uncle Henry (Stanley Greene). Extremely introverted, she ...
Style:
stylized, humorous, sexy, road movie, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
wizard of oz, witch, magic, dancing, fantasy world, music, african american, disco, dog, thanksgiving, black history, lion ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, harlem, new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy duo gets involved in an army supply theft case -- and, of course, gets in lots of comic trouble along ...
Style:
funny, feel good, humorous, unusual plot structure, intense ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
disney, farce, gang, bank robbery, dysfunctional family, transformation, island, stereotypes, creativity, nude, humour, disaster ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Benji is a stray who has nonetheless worked his way into the hearts of a number of the townspeople, who give him food and attention whenever he stops by. His particular favorites are a pair of children who feed and play with him against the wishes ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, sentimental, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
dog, animal actor, animals, kidnapping, friendship, rescue, greed, betrayal, runaway, obsession, life philosophy, family relations ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Candleshoe is a 1977 Walt Disney Productions live action movie based on the Michael Innes novel Christmas at Candleshoe and starring Jodie Foster, Helen Hayes in her last screen appearance, David Niven and Leo McKern.
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, sweet, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
hidden treasure, country estate, orphan, disney, treasure hunt, friendship, butler, children, old mansion, heiress, unlikely friendships, happy ending ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
england, los angeles, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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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, kids, toddlers
Plot:
friends, escapades, young heroes, friendship, disorder, youth, balloon, birthday, adventure hero, twists and turns, obsessive quest, target ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
The Fraggles are a fun-loving community of creatures who live in a subterranean fantasy land where they love to play, sing and dance their cares away, sharing their world with the tiny Doozers and the giant Gorgs. The series teaches empathy and ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, retro
Audience:
kids, preschoolers, family outing
Plot:
muppets, friendship, puppetry, pop culture, friends, disorder, escapades, underground, construction worker, surrealism, exploration, dog ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like The Cat in the Hat
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Shaquille O'Neal as a rapping genie protects a little boy.
Style:
humorous, feel good, intense, inspirational, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
genie, mischievous children, wizards, bully, youth, friendship, justice, wish come true, culture clash, unlikely friendships, young heroes, father son relationship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Benji has become stranded on a remote island after a boating accident. He finds himself struggling to survive in the wilderness, avoiding close encounters with a wolf, a bear, and a territorial female cougar with her cub.
Style:
humorous, sexy, light, tear jerker, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
kids, preschoolers, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
animals, dog, disney, camp, wilderness, forest, survival, lion, unlikely friendships, adaptation, vengeance, violence ...
Time:
80s
Place:
oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When a professor develops a vaccine that eliminates human allergies to dogs, he unwittingly upsets the fragile balance of power between cats and dogs and touches off an epic battle for pet supremacy. The fur flies as the feline faction, led by Mr. ...
Style:
light, humorous, entertaining, not serious, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, preschoolers, pre-teens
Plot:
dog, talking animals, pets, chase, cat, animals, secret agents, rescue, kids and family, good versus evil, goofy hero, rivalry ...
Place:
egypt, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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:
humorous, touching, unusual plot structure, sweet, light ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
dog, disney, animals, lawyer, animal life, farce, transformation, district attorney, vengeance, talking animals, stereotypes, childhood ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
Style:
fairy tale, humorous, touching, feel good, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, preschoolers, pre-teens ...
Plot:
animals, pig, friendship, spider, rescue, unlikely friendships, adaptation, child, friends, heroes, talking animals, love ...
Time:
1930s, 21st century
Place:
usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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