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Films like Cats & Dogs.

Cats & Dogs (2001) reads as Cosy, breathless, gentle family / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) poster
1. Journey to the Center of the Earth2008

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991) poster
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze1991

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) poster
3. Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over2003

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) poster
4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles1990

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Spy Kids (2001) poster
5. Spy Kids2001

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

G-Force (2009) poster
6. G-Force2009

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016) poster
7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows2016

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Osmosis Jones (2001) poster
8. Osmosis Jones2001

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Inspector Gadget (1999) poster
9. Inspector Gadget1999

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) poster
10. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian2009

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) poster
11. Ice Age: The Meltdown2006

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a airy, open telling.

The Wild (2006) poster
12. The Wild2006

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a airy, open telling.

These are Cats & Dogs’s neighbours — where are yours?

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