If you loved Where the Wild Things Are, try Happily N'Ever After

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Happily N'Ever After has roughly 4.5× fewer votes than Where the Wild Things Are — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Where the Wild Things Are

2009 · dir. Spike Jonze

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Happily N'Ever After

2007 · dir. Paul Bolger

What they share

Theysit in Adventure / Family / Fantasy territory. If that's the register that drew you to Where the Wild Things Are, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Happily N'Ever After is

So this is what happens when fairy tales unionize. Ella, long accustomed to singing with forest creatures, finds her stepmother leading a coup against happily-ever-afters. Turns out scrubbing floors was training for revolution.

If you loved Where the Wild Things Are, try Happily N'Ever After

Where the Wild Things Are

Happily N'Ever After

What they share

What Happily N'Ever After is

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