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10 Best Movies Like Planet 51

If you loved Planet 51, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Monsters vs Aliens

Monsters vs Aliens

2009★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Planet 51 for fans of Animation & Family & Adventure. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

When Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches. The military jumps into action and ...

#2
Home

Home

2015★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Planet 51 for fans of Animation & Family & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When Earth is taken over by the overly-confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated, while all Boov get busy reorganizing ...

#3
Lightyear

Lightyear

2022★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Planet 51 for fans of Animation & Family & Adventure. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Legendary Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear embarks on an intergalactic adventure alongside a group of ambitious recruits and his robot companion Sox....

#4
Elio

Elio

2025★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Planet 51 for fans of Animation & Family & Comedy & Adventure. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergala...

#5
WALL·E

WALL·E

2008★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Planet 51 for fans of Animation & Family. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E— a robot designed to clean up the earth—discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EV...

#6
Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs

Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs

2008★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Planet 51 for fans of Animation & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Fresh off ripping space-time a new one at the end of "Bender's Big Score," the Planet Express crew is back to mend the tear in reality, or (hopefully) at least not make it worse. ...

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