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Movies like Despicable Me (2010)
7 films to watch after Despicable Me, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.
Determined to prove he's the world's greatest supervillain, Gru hatches an audacious plan to steal the Moon. To pull it off, he adopts three orphaned girls—Margo, Edith, and Agnes—intending to use them as pawns in his scheme. But the unexpected bond they form forces him to question the criminal life he's always known.
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1The Boxtrolls (2014)
Fit 57%Shares Animation, Comedy and Family with Despicable Me.
An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.
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2Monsters vs Aliens (2009)
Fit 53%Shares Animation, Family and Science Fiction with Despicable Me.
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 captures Susan, secreting her away to a covert government compound. She is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of Monsters...
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3Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)
Fit 44%Shares Family, Animation and Comedy with Despicable Me.
When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it's up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.
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4The Boss Baby (2017)
Fit 43%Shares Animation, Comedy and Family with Despicable Me.
A story about how a new baby's arrival impacts a family, told from the point of view of a delightfully unreliable narrator, a wildly imaginative 7 year old named Tim.
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5The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Fit 42%Shares Animation, Comedy and Family with Despicable Me.
After Homer accidentally pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpsons are declared fugitives.
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6Elio (2025)
Fit 37%Shares Animation, Science Fiction, Family and Comedy with Despicable Me.
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 intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be.
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7Night of the Zoopocalypse (2025)
Fit 35%Shares Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction and Family with Despicable Me.
A wolf and mountain lion team up when a meteor unleashes a virus turning zoo animals into zombies. They join forces with other survivors to rescue the zoo and stop the deranged mutant leader from spreading the virus.
