20 Best Animation movies like Return to Never Land (2002)

List of the best animation movies like Return to Never Land (2002): An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster, The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow, My Little Pony: The Movie, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, Ronal the Barbarian, Elena and the Secret of Avalor, Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy, Valiant, Castle in the Sky, The Pebble and the Penguin.

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Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, drama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:18

Follow the clues to fun and excitement as the beloved little mouse takes on a big monster in this charming, full-length adventure. When a ferocious, mouse-nabbing creature puts fear into the hearts of New York City's rodents, Fievel and his friends team up with a reporter to chase after the scoop of the century and -- just maybe -- get a close-up look at the bad guy himself!

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA

When 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 right into Gargamel’s trap! Can Brainy and Gutsy, with the help of Smurfette, put aside their rivalry before Gargamel captures them–or worse, they come face-to-face with the legendary ghost, the Headless Horseman?

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:28

A new dark force threatens Ponyville, and the Mane 6 – Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rarity – embark on an unforgettable journey beyond Equestria where they meet new friends and exciting challenges on a quest to use the magic of friendship and save their home.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
CountryUSA
Duration01:26

    The sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retrieve it and save the life of his childhood friend Prince Proteus.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryDenmark, Belgium
    Duration01:26

    Ronal is a young barbarian with low self-esteem, the polar opposite of all the muscular barbarians in his village. He's a real wuss. However, as fate would have it, responsibility for the tribe's survival falls on Ronal's scrawny shoulders, when the evil Lord Volcazar raids the village and abducts every living barbarian with the exception of Ronal, who is forced to go on a perilous quest to save his enslaved clan and thwart Volcazar’s plot to rule the world. Along the way, our unlikely hero is joined by Alibert the buttery bard, Zandra the gorgeous shield-maiden and Elric the metrosexual elfin guide. To ultimately vanquish the enemy, the band must overcome awesome challenges.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, drama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:35

    In the Kingdom of Avalor, Elena takes Naomi up a mountain to show her favorite view of the kingdom. Elena laments to Naomi how she was trapped in the Amulet of Avalor for forty-one years, and then presents to her a broken wand. She tells her that it was Shuriki's wand and how she would still be trapped in the Amulet if it was not for a brave young Princess: Sofia. Elena then proceeds to tell Naomi the whole story ...

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:14

    Scooby-Doo and those "meddling kids" Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and Velma are back in this all-new original movie! Velma discovers she's inherited her great-great-uncle Dr. Von Dinkenstein’s cursed castle in the terrifying town of Transylvania…Pennsylvania, that is. Just when the Gang persuades Velma to go claim her inheritance, the ghost of Dinkenstein Castle blows up the Mystery Machine as a warning! Now the Crew must spring back into action, but this time it's personal! Who's responsible for the Dinkenstein monster? What family secret has Velma been hiding? Will Fred recover from the loss of his beloved Mystery Machine? Can any helpless snack survive Scooby and Shaggy's monster-sized appetites? This Scooby-Doo adventure has enough spooky fun to make the whole family come alive!

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, adventure, family, cartoon, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:16

    Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets out for London. On the way, he meets a smelly but friendly pigeon named Bugsy, who joins him, mainly to get away from clients he cheated in a game of find-the pebble, and helps him sign up for the war.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure, family, cartoon, anime
    CountryJapan
    Duration02:04

    A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, USA
    Duration01:14

    A bashful bachelor penguin named Hubie, who's partial to a pretty female named Marina. Ancient penguin ritual dictates that males present a pebble to their intended, then mate for life. Hubie finds a spiffy stone, but before he can bestow it on Marina, dastardly rival Drake tosses him into the churning sea, and Hubie gets swept away.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    The realm of magic is being threatened by the realm of logic, so Carolinus, the green wizard decides to shield it for all time. Ommadon, the evil red wizard, stands in his way. Carolinus then calls for a quest that is to be led by a man named Peter Dickinson, who is the first man of both the realms of science and magic. It is Peter's job to defeat Ommadon.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:12

    Captain New Eyes travels back in time and feeds dinosaurs his Brain Grain cereal, which makes them intelligent and non-violent. They agree to go to the Middle Future in order to grant the wishes of children in New York city. They are to meet Dr. Bleeb of the Museum of Natural History, but get sidetracked with their new children friends and run into the Captain's evil brother, Professor Screweyes.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrefantasy, comedy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA, China, Canada, Thailand
    Duration01:23

    In the adorably different town of Uglyville, weirdness is celebrated, strangeness is special and beauty is embraced as more than meets the eye. After traveling to the other side of a mountain, Moxy and her UglyDoll friends discover Perfection -- a town where more conventional dolls receive training before entering the real world to find the love of a child.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantasy, drama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon, biography, history
    CountryUSA, France, United Kingdom
    Duration01:15

    In 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.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:23

    A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating – and learns a lesson about family himself.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA, Denmark, Australia, Norway
    Duration01:47

    It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO® invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA

    Milo and Kida reunite with their friends to investigate strange occurances around the world that seem to have links to the secrets of Atlantis.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, fantasy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:20

    Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrefantasy, comedy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster (Eglantine Price). The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:22

    An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    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.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:35

    After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, which has been tasked to clean the island, and where the best inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. When Flint discovers that his machine still operates and now creates mutant food beasts like living pickles, hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees and apple pie-thons, he and his friends must return to save the world.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrefantasy, adventure, family, cartoon, anime
    CountryJapan
    Duration01:41

    The son of a sailor, 5-year old Sosuke lives a quiet life on an oceanside cliff with his mother Lisa. One fateful day, he finds a beautiful goldfish trapped in a bottle on the beach and upon rescuing her, names her Ponyo. But she is no ordinary goldfish. The daughter of a masterful wizard and a sea goddess, Ponyo uses her father's magic to transform herself into a young girl and quickly falls in love with Sosuke, but the use of such powerful sorcery causes a dangerous imbalance in the world. As the moon steadily draws nearer to the earth and Ponyo's father sends the ocean's mighty waves to find his daughter, the two children embark on an adventure of a lifetime to save the world and fulfill Ponyo's dreams of becoming human.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA, France, Japan
    Duration01:26

    A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUkraine, Andorra
    Duration00:59

    Little Nicky, the son of the Tanner, a famous strongman, has made up his mind, that he can conquer the dragon as his father did long ago. Against prohibition of his father, Nicky has managed to get into trouble and now it depends only on his courage, whether he defeats the resurgent dragon and returns home from the magic world.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:03

    During an ordinary day in Hundred Acre Wood, Winnie the Pooh sets out to find some honey. Misinterpreting a note from Christopher Robin, Pooh convinces Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet, Owl, Kanga, Roo, and Eeyore that their young friend has been captured by a creature named "Backson" and they set out to save him.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:19

    Wart is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a powerful but amnesiac wizard who has plans for him beyond mere squiredom. He starts by trying to give him an education, believing that once one has an education, one can go anywhere. Needless to say, it doesn't quite work out that way.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantasy, drama, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, West Germany, Japan, USA
    Duration01:32

    From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a now middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:30

    In Scotland 1874, Jack is born on the coldest day ever. Because of the extreme cold, his heart stops beating. The responsible midwife in Edinburgh finds a way to save him by replacing his heart with a clock. So he lives and remains under the midwife's protective care. But he must not get angry or excited because that endangers his life by causing his clock to stop working. Worse than that, when he grows up, he has to face the fact he cannot fall in love because that too could stop his delicate heart.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA, France, Japan
    Duration01:35

    E.B., the Easter Bunny's teenage son, heads to Hollywood, determined to become a drummer in a rock 'n' roll band. In LA, he's taken in by Fred after the out-of-work slacker hits E.B. with his car.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrefantasy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryFrance, USA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:41

    Maltazard, the Evil M, is now 7 feet tall and evolving among the humans, causing terror wherever he goes. His goal is simple: forming an army of giant henchmen and ruling over the universe. Meanwhile, Arthur is still a Minimoy, and thus in a state where he's unable to fend him off. With the help of Selenia and Betameche, he hatches a plan to regain his usual size: all they must do is infiltrate Arthur's house through the pipeworks, catch an electric train from his bedroom to his grandfather's study and find an elixir that will make him grow back to his human size. Sounds simple enough, if it weren't for Darkos, Maltazard's own son, hot on their tails.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrefantasy, comedy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:35

    In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain's daughter's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the demigod to set things right.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA

    Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the Princess and Prince of the opposing lands. In this he is alternately aided and hampered by the Lilliputian town crier and general fussbudget, Gabby. A life-threatening situation develops when the bumbling trio of Blefiscu spies, Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch, manage to steal Gulliver's pistol.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryUSA, Japan
    Duration01:30

      A bored and domesticated Shrek pacts with deal-maker Rumpelstiltskin to get back to feeling like a real ogre again, but when he's duped and sent to a twisted version of Far Far Away—where Rumpelstiltskin is king, ogres are hunted, and he and Fiona have never met—he sets out to restore his world and reclaim his true love.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon, music
      CountryUSA, Australia, New Zealand
      Duration01:40

      Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to brings together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrefantasy, adventure, family, cartoon
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:16

      An ancient myth of a massive creature sparks the curiosity of Tinker Bell and her good friend Fawn, an animal fairy who’s not afraid to break the rules to help an animal in need. But this creature is not welcome in Pixie Hollow — and the scout fairies are determined to capture the mysterious beast, who they fear will destroy their home. Fawn must convince her fairy friends to risk everything to rescue the NeverBeast.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrefantasy, comedy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
      CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Germany, China, Canada, USA

      Marla is forced to abandon her carefully structured life to embark on an epic journey to find her younger brother Charlie who has disappeared into the vast and wondrous animated world of Playmobil toys.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      The journey of Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart. Before choosing which path to follow, he embarks on an incredible adventure that spans three fantastical worlds where he must face his greatest fears.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
      CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia, Thailand
      Duration02:28

        A love potion works its devious charms on fairies, elves and the swamp-dwelling Bog King as they all try to possess the potion for themselves.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrefantasy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
        CountryUSA, Japan
        Duration01:38

        Two Hobbits struggle to destroy the Ring in Mount Doom while their friends desperately fight evil Lord Sauron's forces in a final battle.

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