Films like LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out.

LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out (2012) reads as Cosy, breathless, gentle family / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, 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.

Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse (2012) poster
1. Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse2012

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Shrek the Musical (2013) poster
2. Shrek the Musical2013

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

The Jungle Bunch (2017) poster
3. The Jungle Bunch2017

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness (2015) poster
4. Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness2015

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz (2011) poster
5. Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz2011

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace (2011) poster
6. LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace2011

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword (2009) poster
7. Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword2009

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs and a Baby (2008) poster
8. Unstable Fables: 3 Pigs and a Baby2008

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Tad, the Lost Explorer, and the Secret of King Midas (2017) poster
9. Tad, the Lost Explorer, and the Secret of King Midas2017

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Garfield Gets Real (2007) poster
10. Garfield Gets Real2007

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur (2011) poster
11. Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur2011

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon (2012) poster
12. Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon2012

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the gentle temperature; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

These are LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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