Films like Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom.

Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom (2007) reads as Cosy, breathless, gentle fantasy / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, 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.

Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior (2008) poster
1. Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior2008

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

Doraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure Into the Underworld - The Seven Magic Users (2007) poster
2. Doraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure Into the Underworld - The Seven Magic Users2007

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

Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops: Winged Angels (2011) poster
3. Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops: Winged Angels2011

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

Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai (2007) poster
4. Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai2007

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Fairy Tail: Phoenix Priestess (2012) poster
5. Fairy Tail: Phoenix Priestess2012

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

Return to Never Land (2002) poster
6. Return to Never Land2002

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

Secret of the Wings (2012) poster
7. Secret of the Wings2012

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

Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (2005) poster
8. Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew2005

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

Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard (2009) poster
9. Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard2009

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

Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea (2006) poster
10. Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea2006

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the stubborn streak of hope; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

Tinker Bell (2008) poster
11. Tinker Bell2008

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

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) poster
12. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole2010

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

These are Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom’s neighbours — where are yours?

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