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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
Astro Boy

Astro Boy

2009★ 6.3

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

Set in the futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy (Atom) is a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he had lost. Unable to fulfill h...

#2
Tooth Fairy

Tooth Fairy

2010★ 5.5

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

When minor-league hockey player Derek Thompson -- who has a penchant for knocking out his opponents' teeth every time he plays -- disillusions a fan, he is sentenced to a stint for...

#3
Escape from Planet Earth

Escape from Planet Earth

2013★ 5.7

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

Astronaut Scorch Supernova finds himself caught in a trap when he responds to an SOS from a notoriously dangerous alien planet....

#4
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures

A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures

2010★ 6.0

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

Born on a Baja, California beach in 1959, new hatchling Sammy races across the beach to the ocean while avoiding being caught by seagulls and crabs. Thus begins Sammy's incredible ...

#5
A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

2009★ 6.9

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

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and ...

#6
Pocahontas

Pocahontas

1995★ 6.9

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

Pocahontas, daughter of a Native American tribe chief, falls in love with an English soldier as colonists invade 17th century Virginia....