Movies Like VeggieTales: Abe and the Amazing Promise
If you liked VeggieTales: Abe and the Amazing Promise (2009), a family and animation movie directed by John Wahba, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation (2024)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and familyWhen thrill-seeker Cricket tricks his family into taking a "road trip" in space, chaos in the cosmos quickly ensues. Despite growing frustrations between Cricket and his dad, Bill, the two must learn to appreciate each…
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Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002)
★ 6.2/10Also animation and familyGet ready as Bob the Tomato, Larry the Cucumber and the rest of the Veggies set sail on a whale of an adventure in Big Idea's first full-length, 3-D animated feature film. This is the story of Jonah and the Whale as…
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Light of the World (2025)
★ 8.9/10Also animation and familyIt's 30 AD and everyone is expectantly awaiting the coming Messiah. While Jesus isn't exactly what they imagined, there is something special about this man. Soon, John, James, Andrew, Peter, and others begin to follow…
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Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also familyTeddy Duncan's middle-class family embarks on a road trip from their home in Denver to visit Mrs. Duncans Parents, the Blankenhoopers, in Palm Springs. When they find themselves stranded between Denver and Utah, they…
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Tarzan & Jane (2002)
★ 6/10Also animation and familyWith the first anniversary of her wedding to Tarzan beckoning, Jane ponders how to make it the perfect English celebration.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
★ 7.3/10Also familyYoung Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American…
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Rio 2 (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and familyIt's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most…
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Barbie: Skipper and the Big Babysitting Adventure (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and familyWhen her babysitting business takes a hit, Skipper takes a summer job at the water park. Here she can quickly put her skills as a nanny to good use.
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Joseph: King of Dreams (2000)
★ 6.9/10Also family and animationIn this animated retelling of the story from the Bible's Book of Genesis, Joseph's gift of dream interpretation and his brilliantly colored coat inspires jealousy in his brothers.
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also familyAlexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister…
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Snoopy Presents: Lucy's School (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also family and animationThe Peanuts gang is anxious about starting at a new school in the fall, inspiring Lucy to start her own school instead. She soon learns that teaching isn't as easy as it sounds and that change can be a good thing.
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Two by Two: Overboard! (2020)
★ 7.6/10Also animation and familyTwo misfit castaways struggle to reunite an unorthodox family, out-run a volcano, and negotiate a peace deal on a creaking Ark.
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Recess: All Growed Down (2003)
★ 6.5/10Also family and animationT.J. and The Recess Gang are kidnapped by the Third Street School's kindergartners, who are in turn being bullied by a new kid in their class.
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Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry (2005)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and familyAfter being evicted from their old house by Tom's owner for causing major damage, cat and mouse Tom and Jerry enter a race entitled the "Fabulous Super Race" to win a mansion.
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Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also family and animationPhineas and Ferb travel across the galaxy to rescue their older sister Candace, who has been abducted by aliens and taken to a utopia in a far-off planet, free of her pesky little brothers.
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Heavy Traffic (1973)
★ 6.5/10Also animationA white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an…
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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also familyThe Great Depression hits home for nine year old Kit Kittredge when her dad loses his business and leaves to find work. Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin stars as Kit, leading a splendid cast in the first ever "American…
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Leroy & Stitch (2006)
★ 6.5/10Also animation and familyLilo, Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley have finally caught all of Jumba's genetic experiments and found the one true place where each of them belongs. Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley are offered positions in the Galactic…
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Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also animationZIM discovers his almighty leaders never had any intention of coming to Earth and he loses confidence in himself for the first time in his life, which is the big break his human nemesis, Dib has been waiting for.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and familyInventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that makes clouds rain food, enabling the down-and-out citizens of Chewandswallow to feed themselves. But when the falling food reaches gargantuan proportions, Flint must…