IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like Short Circuit 2 (1988)
Short Circuit 2 runs on joyful exuberance, crowd-pleaser, and kinetic urgency. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.
Blue Streak
1999
Bigger Fatter Liar
2017
The Invisible Boy
1957
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
1972
Ride Along 2
2016
Ernest Goes to Africa
1997
Police Academy 3: Back in Training
1986
Despicable Me 3
2017
You're Never Too Young
1955
Lazer Team 2
2017
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
2016
Cop & ½
1993
The Nut Job
2014
Bill & Ted Face the Music
2020
Herbie Goes Bananas
1980
Inspector Gadget
1999
Saps at Sea
1940
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
1977
Son of Flubber
1963
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
1989
Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
2011
Suck Me Shakespeer 3
2017
The Angry Birds Movie 2
2019
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
2009