If you loved Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, try Minutemen
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Minutemen has roughly 7.2× fewer votes than Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie — 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.
What they share
Both films are directed by Lev L. Spiro, and they both carry the cozy, playful mood tags, and they sit in Comedy / Family / TV Movie territory. If that's the register that drew you to Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Minutemen is
Teen time travelers take a crack at fixing past embarrassments. Three friends invent a time machine and use it to alter high school history. They likely just made new mistakes.
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