Movies Like The Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters
If you liked The Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters (1972), a animation and comedy movie directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, 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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Mickey's Tale of Two Witches (2021)
★ 7/10Also animation and tv movieOn Halloween, Mickey tells a tale of two witches-in-training, Minnie and Daisy, who must pass four tests to graduate from the With Academy in Happy Haunt Hills.
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A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and comedyFred is cast as Ebenezer Scrooge in a stage adaption of the classic Christmas story, but is acting a bit stingy in real life.
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The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow (2013)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and comedyWhen Brainy Smurf is favored to win the annual Smurfberry Hunt for the ninth year in a row, Gutsy Smurf sets out to discover how Brainy wins every year. Gutsy’s investigation takes him into spooky Smurfy Hollow–and…
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Night of the Living Doo (2001)
★ 8.8/10Also animation and comedyIn a spoof of 1972's The New Scooby-Doo Movies, Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang pick up a hitchiking Gary Coleman. Soon after, the Mystery Machine proceeds to break down (multiple times) leaving them stranded at a…
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Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure (2007)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and animationWhen the Boogey Man causes Grim to lose his powers, rank, and title in the Underworld Court for misusing his powers, he plots to seek out Horror's Hand and take over the world. It's up to Billy, Mandy, Irwin, and Grim…
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Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy (2014)
★ 7.5/10Also animation and comedyVelma discovers she's inherited her great-great-uncle's cursed castle in Transylvania, Pennsylvania. The team decide to go there on a spooky adventure.
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Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also tv movie and animationSusan Murphy (a.k.a. Ginormica) and the Monsters are now working with the US government as special ops. So when an alien presence is detected in Susan's hometown of Modesto, California -- right before Halloween -- the…
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Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (1993)
★ 6.4/10Also tv movie and horrorOn Halloween night, two precocious little girls try to save their parents from their nasty old capitalist aunt's greedy clutches. Magic abounds and they meet mysterious new friends along the way.
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Scared Shrekless (2010)
★ 6.8/10Also animation and comedyShrek challenges Donkey, Puss in Boots and his other fairy tale character friends to spend the night in Lord Farquaad's haunted castle, telling scary stories to see who can resist becoming scared and stay the longest.
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Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! (2020)
★ 7.7/10Also animation and comedyScooby-Doo and the gang team up with their pals, Bill Nye The Science Guy and Elvira Mistress of the Dark, to solve this mystery of gigantic proportions and save Crystal Cove!
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Kreepaway Kamp (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also tv movie and comedyWhile at Kamp Koral for a reunion, SpongeBob and the gang are stalked by a mysterious figure lurking in the shadows as campers start disappearing one by one!
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Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular (2003)
★ 7.2/10Also animation and comedyScary Godmother is the whimsical all-ages story that follows the first trick-or-treating adventure of Hannah Marie, a young girl whose rotten older cousin is babysitting her one dark Halloween. Unhappy to be saddled…
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The Scooby-Doo Project (1999)
★ 8.1/10Also animation and horrorIn the Fall of 1999, four teenage sleuths and their Great Dane got lost in the woods while in search of a mystery. This is their story.
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R.L. Stine's Monsterville: The Cabinet of Souls (2015)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and horrorTeenage friends must resist the spell of an evil showman staging a house of horrors show in their small town.
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The Willoughbys (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and comedyWhen the four Willoughby children are abandoned by their selfish parents, they must learn how to adapt their Old-Fashioned values to the contemporary world in order to create something new: The Modern Family.
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The Canterville Ghost (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also animation and comedyAn American family moves in to the Canterville Chase, a London mansion that has been haunted by ghost Sir Simon De Canterville for 300 years.
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Once Bitten (1985)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and horrorMark wants to lose his virginity, but his girlfriend wants to wait. Unfortunately for both of them, a 400-year-old vampire Countess needs to turn a virgin into a vampire before Halloween in order to preserve her own…
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Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire (2003)
★ 7.1/10Also animation and comedyThe Yowie Yahoo starts kidnapping musicians at a concert attended by Scooby and the gang in Vampire Rock, Australia.
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Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005)
★ 6.9/10Also animation and comedyThe maniacal baby of the Griffin family, Stewie, meets his future self. In doing this he discovers that his future image is not what he has anticipated because of a near death experience.
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Monster Family (2017)
★ 6/10Also animation and comedyThe Wishbone family are far from happy. In an attempt to reconnect as a family, they plan a fun night out. However, the plan backfires when they are cursed and all turned into Monsters.