Teen Wolf Too (1987)
Apr 19, 2004Teenage Werewolf Comedy
Feeble sequel to the unexpected Michael J. Fox comedy hit where Jason Bateman plays his cousin who discovers his inner wolf as he heads to university
Jason Bateman
Bates Motel (1987)
May 12, 2013Psycho TV Pilot Spinoff
Not the tv series, this is an unsold earlier tv pilot that attempted to spin a series off from Psycho, An ill-conceived disaster, the film's clumsy
direction could not be further away from Alfred Hitchcock if it tried
Arthur and the Invisibles (2006)
Feb 11, 2007Miniature Magical World
Lightweight Luc Besson directed children's fantasy with a young boy shrunken down to miniature size to engage in a series of CGI animated adventures among a race of fairy-like people. Several sequels followed
Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (2007)
Dec 15, 2007Magical Toyshop
Family film with Dustin Hoffman as the eccentric owner of a magical toyshop
Hancock (2008)
Jul 27, 2008Burned-Out Superhero
This offers the appealing idea of Will Smith as a cynical burned out superhero. The film tells a comic tale of his redemption before suddenly losing the plot altogether in its second half
The Invention of Lying (2009)
Nov 2, 2009World Where Nobody Lies
Ricky Gervais co-directs and stars in a comedy set in an alternate world where everybody tells the truth and he discovers he is the one person who can lie and how this proceeds to change the world
The Change-Up (2011)
Sep 10, 2011Bodyswap Comedy
A raucous and eminently predictable variant on the bodyswap comedy that also manages to be expertly played by leads Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds and pulls off some genuine laugh-out-loud moments
Paul (2011)
Mar 27, 2011Science-Fiction Fans Encounter an Alien Comedy
Hilarious Simon Pegg-written homage to science-fiction fandom and alien visitor cinema. imagine Starman recast with two science-fiction fans and tv's sarcastically wisecracking ALF (voiced by Seth Rogen)
The Gift (2015)
Aug 22, 2015Old Schoolfriend Stalker
Blumhouse thriller about an old school friend who inserts himself into the lives of a successful couple and proceeds to stalk them. This produces several effective twists but ultimately feels too mannered
Zootopia (2016)
Mar 12, 2016Disney Animation/World of Talking Animals
A really good Disney animated film set in a world that imagines what might happen if animals lived in cities, this is an ingenious reworking of the talking animals premise that overflows with visual ingenuity and warm humour
Thunder Force (2021)
Apr 17, 2021Superhero Comedy
Melissa McCarthy, along with Octavia Spencer as her best friend, is a comic screw-up who obtain superpowers
Zootopia 2 (2025)
Feb 7, 2026Disney Animation/World of Talking Animals
Zootopia was one of Disney’s freshest animated works in a decade largely marked only by mediocrity. This is a sequel where the fantastically original world of the first film slips into being just another Disney IP