Films like Shrek 2.
Shrek 2 (2004) reads as Cosy, breathless, measured animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Keeps the stubborn streak of hope and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are Shrek 2’s neighbours — where are yours?
Pick the mood of the night and we pull a film that fits it, on the same twelve axes. Then everyone on the couch gets something to watch for.
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