Movies like The Little Cars 8: Making a Mess (2011)
The best movies like The Little Cars 8: Making a Mess (2011) are PAW Patrol: Mighty Pups (2018), Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry (2005) and PAW Patrol: Ready, Race, Rescue! (2019). If The Little Cars 8: Making a Mess hooked you with its animation and family, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedToy Story 5 (2026)8.3/10 from 2,871 votes
- NewestToy Story 5 (2026)Released 2026
PAW Patrol: Mighty Pups (2018)
When their latest scheme goes awry, Mayor Humdinger and his nephew Harold accidentally divert a meteor towards Adventure Bay. The meteor's golden energy grants the PAW Patrol superpowers. The heroic Mighty Pups are on a roll to super-save the day.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry (2005)
After being evicted from their old house by Tom's owner for causing major damage, cat and mouse Tom and Jerry enter a race entitled the "Fabulous Super Race" to win a mansion.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPAW Patrol: Ready, Race, Rescue! (2019)
It’s the Adventure Bay 500! The pups have built an awesome race track and are ready to be the pit crew for their race hero, The Whoosh! But when the legendary racer is unable to drive in the championship race, he calls on his biggest fan-pup Marshall to take the wheel and race in his place! Marshall has to overcome his lack of confidence and his dastardly competition, The Cheetah, to fulfill his dream of becoming the fastest race-pup ever!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLino (2017)
Lino works as an entertainer at children's parties, but he can't stand the way children treat him, making fun of him because he works in a cat's costume. Determined to change his life, he visits a wizard, but the magic doesn't work in the right way, and he wakes up as a big cat.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll (2016)
As Po looks for his lost action figures, the story of how the panda inadvertently helped create the Furious Five is told.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCurious George 3: Back to the Jungle (2015)
When Curious George is offered a special space mission, Ted (The Man in the Yellow Hat) can't deny his little friend this exciting journey, especially after Curious George completes the training. But when he crash-lands in Africa, a worried Ted goes searching, expecting the worst, only to have it turn out to be the best.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPets United (2019)
When Roger (a Robin Hood-esque, stray dog) and Belle (an elegant yet spoilt pet cat) are thrown together amidst the chaos of a robot take-over of their home city, they must push all their preconceptions aside in order to survive, as they embark on a high-stakes, action-packed adventure.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisSnoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin (2024)
Franklin is new to town and hoping to make friends, but his usual tactics don't work on the Peanuts gang. When the Soap Box Derby arrives, he's sure it's a chance to impress new pals and teams up with the only other unpartnered kid: Charlie Brown.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisScooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon (2016)
When Scooby and Mystery Inc. visit an off-road racing competition, it's not long before strange events start to occur. A mysterious phantom racer, known only as Inferno, is causing chaos and is determined to sabotage the race. It's up to Scooby-Doo, Shaggy and their new driving partner, The Undertaker, to save the race and solve the mystery.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Tigger Movie (2000)
Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Owl, Kanga, Roo, and Rabbit are preparing a suitable winter home for Eeyore, the perennially dejected donkey, but Tigger's continual bouncing interrupts their efforts. Rabbit suggests that Tigger go find others of his kind to bounce with, but Tigger thinks "the most wonderful thing about tiggers is" he's "the only one!" Just in case though, the joyously jouncy feline sets out to see if he can find relatives.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDuck Duck Goose (2018)
After he’s grounded by an injury, a high-flying bachelor is saddled with two wide-eyed orphans as they come face-to-face with the dangers and beauty of the outside world.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisScooby-Doo's Creepiest Capers (2000)
Join the spook-busting, case-cracking, snack-munching fun as Scooby-Doo and the Mystery, Inc. gang gear up for four of their most frightening adventures ever! Traveling the globe on their ongoing quest to trip up crooks (and chow down on munchies), Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Daphne, Fred and Velma tangle with a supernatural assortment of eerie adversaries. Facing multiple monsters, ghouls galore and gobs of ghosts, our top-dog detective and those "meddling kids" will stop at nothing to get their ghoul as they confront SCOOBY-DOO'S CREEPIEST CAPERS!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisMonster Family 2 (2021)
To free Baba Yaga and Renfield from the clutches of Monster Hunter Mila Starr, the Wishbone Family once more transforms into a Vampire, Frankenstein's Monster, a Mummy and a Werewolf but when aided by their three pet bats, the Monster Family zooms around the world again to save their friends, make new monstrous acquaintances.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisExtinct (2021)
Op and Ed, two adorable donut-shaped animals - flummels - accidentally time-travel from 1835 to modern-day Shanghai. There they discover traffic, trans fats, and worst of all, that flummels are now extinct. It's up to this bumbling pair to save themselves and their species...and, just maybe, change the course of history.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981)
Bugs Bunny hosts an award show featuring several classic Looney Tunes shorts and characters.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAround the World With Timon & Pumbaa (1996)
Join Timon and Pumbaa, your favorite friends from The Lion King, for outrageous laughs and high-spirited, globe-trotting adventures! First stop Boara Boara. Pumbaa gets the royal treatment when island natives think hes their long-lost king! Its a lesson in true friendship when Pumbaa strikes it rich and the evil criminal Quint steals his gold in Yukon Con. Then, Timon & Pumbaa play matchmaker for a couple of lovesick flying squirrels in Saskatchewan Catch. In Brazil Nuts, theres a rumble in the Amazon jungle when Timon & Pumbaa have to outsmart a couple of snakes that want to serve them up for dinner.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOnce Upon a Forest (1993)
A young mouse, mole and hedgehog risk their lives to find a cure for their badger friend, who's been poisoned by men.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisToy Story 5 (2026)
When Bonnie receives a Lilypad tablet as a gift and becomes obsessed, Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs become exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to playtime.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisTiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (1992)
Term-time ends at Acme Looniversity and the Tiny Toon characters look forward to a summer filled with fun. Buster and Babs Bunny turn a water fight into a white-water rafting trip through the dangerous Deep South; Plucky Duck and Hamton Pig share the most impossibly awful car journey imaginable on the way to HappyWorldLand; Fifi's blind date becomes a "skunknophobic" nightmare; and a safari park is turned upside-down by Elmyra's search for "cute little kitties to hug and squeeze".
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Brave Little Toaster (1987)
A group of dated appliances, finding themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to seek out their eight year old 'master'.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOktapodi (2008)
Two Octopi fight for their lives with a stubborn restaurant cook in a comical escape through the streets of a small Greek village.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOs Carrinhos: Edição de Colecionador (2011)
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation & family
The Little Cars 4: New Genie Adventures (2008)
Join the Little Cars as they take you on another exciting, speed-racing experience. This is the 4th movie in the series.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both family & animation
The Little Cars 5: Big Adventures (2009)
Join the Little Cars as they take you on another exciting, speed-racing experience. This is the 5th movie in the series.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation & family
The Little Cars 6: Fast Lane Fury (2011)
Join the Little Cars as they take you on another exciting, speed-racing experience. This is the 6th movie in the series.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation & family
The Little Cars 7: Revved Up and Ready to Go (2012)
Join the Little Cars as they take you on another exciting, speed-racing experience. This is the 7th movie in the series.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation & family
The Little Cars 2: Rodopolis Adventures (2007)
The Little Cars pals are back for more racetrack action in this collection of three animated adventures for kids. Combo tries to save his delivery company by proving he's the fastest truck on the road in the Rodopolis Race; Chris hopes that a makeover will help her join the in-crowd; and a newspaper article claims Cruise has been cheating … and that the accusation has come from Combo. Can Cruise repair his reputation and fix their friendship?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both family & animation
The Wind in the Willows (1983)
The Irresponsible Toad is in a mess and needs help from his friends try and save Toad Hall.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation & family
Barquinhos (2011)
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation & family
Gladiformers - Robôs Gladiadores 2: A Arena de Mexlus (2009)
Enemies Julius Drive and Magnum Tutor must work together to save Princess Mana Eloos from the clutches of the evil Supremobots.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both animation & action
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Little Cars 8: Making a Mess?
The closest matches to The Little Cars 8: Making a Mess are PAW Patrol: Mighty Pups (2018), Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry (2005) and PAW Patrol: Ready, Race, Rescue! (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Little Cars 8: Making a Mess?
Start with PAW Patrol: Mighty Pups (2018), the closest match to The Little Cars 8: Making a Mess.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Little Cars 8: Making a Mess?
Toy Story 5 (2026), rated 8.3/10 by 2,871 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Little Cars 8: Making a Mess?
Toy Story 5 (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to The Little Cars 8: Making a Mess chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Little Cars 8: Making a Mess, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.