If You Liked A Bug's Life, Watch These Next
Finished A Bug's Life (1998) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like A Bug's Life, most of them are adventure, animation, comedy.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Ant Bully(2006)
5.8FantasyAdventureAnimationAlso adventure and animation
Fed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustrations on the anthill in his front yard ... until the insects shrink him to the size of a bug with a magic elixir. Convicted of "crimes against the colony," Lucas can only regain his freedom by living with the ants and…
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2.Antz(1998)
6.2AnimationComedyFamilyAlso animation and comedy
A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a parade, he ends up under the command of a bloodthirsty general. But he's actually been enlisted to fight against a termite army.
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3.Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit(2005)
7.1AdventureAnimationComedyAlso adventure and animation
Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal Gromit run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods, which turns their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual…
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4.The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature(2017)
6.2AnimationFamilyAdventureAlso animation and family
When the evil mayor of Oakton decides to bulldoze Liberty Park and build a dangerous amusement park in its place, Surly Squirrel and his ragtag group of animal friends need to band together to save their home, defeat the mayor, and take back the park.
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5.Monster Family 2(2021)
6.6AnimationFamilyComedyAlso animation and family
To free Baba Yaga and Renfield from the clutches of Monster Hunter Mila Starr, the Wishbone Family once more transforms into a Vampire, Frankenstein's Monster, a Mummy and a Werewolf but when aided by their three pet bats, the Monster Family zooms around the world again to save their friends, make new monstrous…
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6.Arctic Dogs(2019)
6.0AnimationAdventureComedyAlso animation and adventure
Animals band together to save the day when the evil Otto Von Walrus hatches a sinister scheme to accelerate global warming and melt the Arctic Circle.
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7.Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2(2013)
6.5AnimationFamilyComedyAlso animation and family
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…
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8.The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild(2022)
6.5AnimationComedyFamilyAlso animation and comedy
The fearless one-eyed weasel Buck teams up with mischievous possum brothers Crash & Eddie as they head off on a new adventure into Buck's home: The Dinosaur World.
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9.Maya the Bee: The Honey Games(2018)
6.6ComedyFamilyAnimationAlso comedy and family
Following an unproductive harvest season, it’s up to Maya and her brave friends to save their hive by competing in a series of games.
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10.Fantastic Mr. Fox(2009)
7.8AdventureAnimationComedyAlso adventure and animation
The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.
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11.Planes(2013)
5.9AnimationFamilyAdventureAlso animation and family
Dusty is a cropdusting plane who dreams of competing in a famous aerial race. The problem? He is hopelessly afraid of heights. With the support of his mentor Skipper and a host of new friends, Dusty sets off to make his dreams come true.
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12.Kung Fu Panda 3(2016)
6.9AnimationActionAdventureAlso animation and adventure
While Po and his father are visiting a secret panda village, an evil spirit threatens all of China, forcing Po to form a ragtag army to fight back.
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13.Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs(2009)
6.8AnimationComedyFamilyAlso animation and comedy
Times are changing for Manny the moody mammoth, Sid the motor mouthed sloth and Diego the crafty saber-toothed tiger. Life heats up for our heroes when they meet some new and none-too-friendly neighbors – the mighty dinosaurs.
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14.Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget(2023)
6.9FamilyAnimationAdventureAlso family and animation
A band of fearless chickens flock together to save poultry-kind from an unsettling new threat: a nearby farm that's cooking up something suspicious.
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16.Hitpig!(2024)
6.7AnimationComedyAdventureAlso animation and comedy
A porcine bounty hunter accepts his next hit: Pickles, a naive, ebullient elephant. Though he initially sets out to capture the perky pachyderm, the unlikely pair find themselves crisscrossing the globe on an adventure that brings out the best in both of them.
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17.Maya the Bee: The Golden Orb(2021)
6.5AdventureAnimationFamilyAlso adventure and animation
When Maya, a headstrong little bee, and her best friend Willy, rescue an ant princess, they find themselves in the middle of an epic bug battle that will take them to strange new worlds and test their friendship to its limits.
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18.Fun and Fancy Free(1947)
6.3AnimationFamilyFantasyAlso animation and family
Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, a take on the famous fairy tale.
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19.Surf's Up(2007)
6.5AnimationComedyFamilyAlso animation and comedy
With a documentary crew in tow, Cody Maverick—a young surfer from Antarctica—travels to the pacific for his first professional competition. Determined to earn respect and live up to his idol, Big Z, Cody pushes himself to the limit. But all that changes when an encounter with a laid-back local forces him to rethink…
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20.Planes: Fire & Rescue(2014)
6.2AnimationComedyAdventureAlso animation and comedy
When world-famous air racer Dusty learns that his engine is damaged and he may never race again, he must shift gears and is launched into the world of aerial firefighting. Dusty joins forces with veteran fire and rescue helicopter Blade Ranger and his team, a bunch of all-terrain vehicles known as The Smokejumpers.…
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