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The Mockbuster
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In principle, the Mockbuster is a bit like a movie with an Alternative Pornographic Name, but there's generally no nudity. It's not part of a pair of Battling Films, because it can't even afford the fare to get to the ring where the shows duke it out. A mockbuster is a movie that is suspiciously similar to another more popular, more well-known — and, let's face it, more "real" — movie, to the point of being the copy of an entire film. Why? Trying to Make Money Off a Popular Idea, of course. Because they're generally made by no-name studios to make a quick buck, the biggest difference between mockbusters and the movies they're based on is budget. The mockbuster has serious budget restrictions. Think "three kids with a cellphone" production values. The writing is usually subpar, too—the producers aren't striving for Genuine Artistry; they're trying to rip off a more popular idea in an attempt to con gullible consumers. As many mockbusters start production well before the original film shows up in theaters, they're often not even very good at being ripoffs, with few similarities to their inspirations outside of very similar box art. Of course, depending on what they're copying, the original might not have been such a cinematic masterpiece itself. However, if there's one thing mockbusters can do well, it's Duplicate Titles. Their designs and logos, like the colors of a viceroy butterfly, are designed to resemble the "real" movies they're copying as closely as possible. Remember, Titles Usually Fib. They also pick titles similar to the original, often containing similar words, or made-up words that sound the same. The people mockbusters tend to appeal to seem to fall into four brackets: kids too young to know the difference between the real deal and the fake; people who might get the two confused when looking for something for their kids and grandkids; parental Propriety Police who want to get their children The Upstanding Alternative to a mainstream film that is more in line with their values; and nerds, who aren't fooled at all, but who watch them for their awesome badness. Bad stuff is interesting! As such, they tend to be sold in supermarket magazine racks, pharmacy gift racks, and grab bags in outlet shops. The rare cases of mockbusters that might actually try to do something "artistic" are those adapting Out of Copyright works, though again, generally only if a more "popular" story adapting the same work came out recently. This phenomenon sometimes applies to live theater as well with regards to public domain works (Pixie Stories, The Theater Spirit) that have had a more popular version created that smaller theater companies could never produce on their own. Alternately, sometimes a degree of artistic merit comes in when the cast/crew Ham Up The Cheesy Movie. Mockbusters tend to be made in countries outside of the US, as if in "response" to a coming American blockbuster. Those might change the plot-based unobtanium to something more in touch with their national sensibilities (the Indian Ultraguy mockbuster has him getting his powers from a god, for example) and the genre might skew towards one more popular in that country (the Brazilian series Non-Villains is somewhat like a soap opera). How do all of these copyright-friendly guys get away with it? Oftentimes, it's simply a matter of obscurity. Sure, that "Larry Baxter" guy on the back of the cereal box who has to find the "Gilded Stitch" is pretty similar to some book you read, but how much money is there really to be made from suing some company that designs bargain-basement cereal boxes? They are also helped by the fact that many people assume The Mickey Mouse-House Makes All Cartoons anyway; it's not technically their fault if you just so happen to mistake Leo The Lion: King of the Jungle for a Disney film. As well, they're not actually breaking any copyright laws if, like the original, they're simply adapting Freely Shared Narratives. Somebody else already made popular films based on The Deformed Guy In The Cathedral or The Small Sea-Girl, you say? What a coincidence. See also Similar Erotica Names (when this is applied to porn), Crappy Ripoff Items (when this is applied to commercial products), Product Codes Removed, and Same Name, Completely Different Plot Sequels (when old foreign movies have their titles for the re-release changed in order for them to cash-in from current blockbusters). Compare They Imitated It, So It Isn't Any Good, when fans complain about works for being unoriginal. If the copycat borrows not only the concept but whole elements from the original work, they may be guilty of Plagiarism. Also see Created in Nation Z. Contrast Spiritual Adaptation for when a work resembles another work but doesn't blatantly rip it off. UK Created For Television Film channel Movies 24 ran a Mockbuster marathon, deliberately confusing the derivatives with the originals and calling out the trope by name. It includes The Terminators, Aliens Versus Hunters, Transmorphers Fall of Man and Snakes on a Train. |
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The Terminators (Again, note the plural). | |
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Avengers Grimm (it was released around the same time as Avengers: Age of Ultron and, according to The Other Wiki, it's meant to be a mockbuster of both that and Once Upon a Time). It even spawned a sequel, titled Sinister Squad. | |
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Idea Tek's F-15 City War for Famicom/NES is a piss-poor imitation of Sega's Thunder Blade, with a jet fighter in place of the helicopter. | |
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Bug Bites: An Ant's Life, the first 3D mockbuster and a rip-off of both A Bug's Life and Antz. | |
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British production house Signature Entertainment released their own version of The Three Musketeers (with a small budget, James Cosmo as the Cardinal Richelieu, a black D'Artagnan and an Indian Milady) digitally and on DVD in March 2023, just a couple of days before the theatrical release of the first part of the much higher profile and higher budgeted French production by Pathé. | |
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The Little Mermaid (2018) isn't a true mockbuster, however its marketing made it resemble a live-action remake of the Disney adaptation. | |
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The Chinese MMORPG Roco Kingdom, created by Tencent Games, is a glorified rip-off of Pokémon with very similar Elemental Powers for the mons and capsules called Gulu Balls that are functionally equivalent to Poké Balls. Imagine Pokémon but in a medieval fantasy setting with ancient magic and evil mages and that sort of thing, and you should have a basic idea. The game has nevertheless become popular enough in China to spawn an entire franchise with stuff like an animated film series and television show, also not unlike Pokémon. | |
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Alyas Batman en Robin is a 1991 Filipino musical-comedy film which spoofs the 1960s Batman television series. | |
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The direct-to-video series Peppermint Park is a particularly blatant Mockbuster of Sesame Street. | |
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Road Rage is an atrociously bad ripoff of the Road Rash series. | |
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Bound (2015) is an obvious attempt to cash in on Fifty Shades of Grey | |
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Empire of the Ants is an In Name Only adaptation of the short story by H. G. Wells. Instead of adapting that story, the film instead goes ahead and rips off the premise for Them!. | |
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Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego: Like clockwork, A total ripoff of the game show called Di Mana Joe Jambul was made in Malaysia in the late 90s. Aside from Carmen Sandiego changed to the titular Joe Jambul (who is also a Lupin III wannabe) as well as the rest of her crew changed out, the animated segments were all done in an extremely cheap and low-resolution manner using Adobe Flash, and the lack of a live music band, the game otherwise plays out just like the US counterpart. | |
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The Day The Earth Stopped. Notable for prompting Fox to take legal action, though said case was dismissed — if The Asylum is good at one thing, it's at avoiding true infringement. | |
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The Black Godfather is a Blaxploitation knockoff of The Godfather. | |
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If a popular fairy or folk tale gets adapted into a Disney Animated Canon film, expect a knockoff stage version to tour the children's theater/school group circuit soon after, and perhaps be available to community theaters after that. The Enchantment of Beauty and the Beast is a good example. | |
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Master Raindrop, an Australian blatant ripoff of Avatar: The Last Airbender. It even has a fire user and his comic relief Older Sidekick pursuing the main group. | |
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Paranormal Entity. Its sequel 8213: GACY HOUSE is apparently some kind of Paranormal Activity 2 rip-off. It was actually released in the UK as Paranormal Entity 2 (though it's more likely that it was due to the John Wayne Gacy case not being as well known outside the US). | |
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The Simpsons episode "Mayored to the Mob" opens with the family watching Roger Corman's Titanic on the aptly-named Thousand Dollar Movie. It has Special Effects Failure, gratuitous nudity, and the ship resurfacing as some kind of monster! | |
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It took them less than a week to announce that they would produce a film cashing in on Cocaine Bear titled Attack of the Meth Gator. Crazily enough, that one is also Very Loosely Based on a True Story. | |
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Metal Force (Mega Man (Classic)) | |
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China Film Group's Pets United is a bizarre case. From the title you'd guess a The Secret Life of Pets ripoff, but you'd only be half-right. The other half is Next Gen, of all things. | |
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The Adventures of Panda Warrior, another rip-off of Kung Fu Panda. | |
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An even more interesting example: their clone of the Batman: Arkham Series. Wait for it... it's a The Dark Knight Rises licensed game. So they just copied Batman using a different incarnation of Batman. | |
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"Did You Know Gaming" is a Tumblr blog featuring little-known facts about video games. "Did Yuo Know Gaming" is a Tumblr blog featuring humorous, false facts about video games. | |
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Chihuahua: The Movie is audacious enough to admit that it's a film for those who like Beverly Hills Chihuahua. | |
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The Real King's Speech, notable for injecting irony straight into the veins of the audience. | |
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Mole's World is Club Penguin BUT WITH MOLES INSTEAD OF PENGUINS! Its animated TV show and films have a more original identity, though. One of its spin-off games, Mole Kart, rips off Mario Kart Wii and does very little to change its tracks; its sequel Mole Kart 2 is better in this regard. | |
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Badi is a 1983 Turkish remake of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which for some reason makes ET into a terrifying, shambling garbage pile. | |
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Race America was this for Rad Racer, which itself was a clone of Sega's OutRun. | |
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In the same vein, Xuan Dou Zhi Wang is the Chinese interpretation of The King of Fighters (but at least you can say the people making it genuinely like KOF because the gameplay isn't all that bad and they try something different, with very few blatant knockoffs and the characters being digitized polygonal objects instead of hand-drawn sprites). SNK themselves noticed it... and were actually impressed enough to let the game have Terry Bogard and Benimaru Nikaido as Guest Fighters under license. | |
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A modern adaptation of Moby-Dick. Ahab (Barry Bostwick) is a Navy captain who repurposes his high-tech submarine to track down Moby Dick, here a prehistoric whale the size of an aircraft carrier, after it took his leg decades ago. Despite being made by The Asylum, it's not half-bad and features many references to the original story. | |
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The Mockbuster / int_3e4fcdd3 | featureConfidence |
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Moby-Dick | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_3e4fcdd3 | |
The Mockbuster / int_3e8c09b9 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_3e8c09b9 | comment |
The Mega Shark franchise got in on the action with an Attack on Titan mockbuster entitled Mega Shark vs. Kolossus, in which Mega Shark fights a Humongous Mecha version of the Colossal Titan. The Japanese release is even called Mega Shark vs. the Titan. The company eventually produced a movie outright titled Attack On Titan... which was a completely unrelated sci-fi film about a war on one of Saturn's moons. | |
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The Mockbuster / int_3e8c09b9 | featureConfidence |
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Attack on Titan (Manga) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_3e8c09b9 | |
The Mockbuster / int_400cbba4 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_400cbba4 | comment |
Doby & Disy is a knockoff of Dora the Explorer, borrowing much of the same Fake Interactivity and starring such characters as the Magic Pen in place of the Map and the Backpack and Casesar the cat as the Captain Ersatz of Swiper (he has a Swiper, No Swiping! catchphrase that's used against him, too - "Bad Caesar, go away!"). This mellowed out in the later seasons, where it became its own thing. | |
The Mockbuster / int_400cbba4 | featureApplicability |
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The Mockbuster / int_400cbba4 | featureConfidence |
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Doby & Disy (Animation) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_400cbba4 | |
The Mockbuster / int_4198bf7a | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_4198bf7a | comment |
The Amazing Colossal Man and Attack of the Puppet People are this to The Incredible Shrinking Man the former having an inverted plot. | |
The Mockbuster / int_4198bf7a | featureApplicability |
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The Mockbuster / int_4198bf7a | featureConfidence |
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The Amazing Colossal Man | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_4198bf7a | |
The Mockbuster / int_42961fbf | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_42961fbf | comment |
Ratatoing for Ratatouille | |
The Mockbuster / int_42961fbf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_42961fbf | featureConfidence |
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Ratatoing | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_42961fbf | |
The Mockbuster / int_42cc8840 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_42cc8840 | comment |
High School Musical: Sunday School, which is also a blatant rip-off of Sunday School Musical. A mockbuster of a mockbuster? | |
The Mockbuster / int_42cc8840 | featureApplicability |
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High School Musical | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_42cc8840 | |
The Mockbuster / int_44c759ee | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_44c759ee | comment |
Universal successfully sued The Asylum for their movie American Battleship for being too obvious of an attempt to fool viewers into thinking it's Battleship. The Asylum had to change the name of their movie to American Warships, though this is less than the result Universal were hoping for. It's still rented and sold in many countries as American Battleship, though (and damned if you can find out who made the film from its cover; it's nowhere to be found). | |
The Mockbuster / int_44c759ee | featureApplicability |
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Battleship | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_44c759ee | |
The Mockbuster / int_46518682 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_46518682 | comment |
A Special Sesame Street Christmas, despite not actually being made by the (then) Children's Television Workshop, was licensed by them, and the producers got to use the set and some of the cast. This doesn't entirely justify giving the DVD a mock-up of actual Sesame Street DVD trade dress. (It also uses Michael Jackson's brief appearance for Wolverine Publicity.) | |
The Mockbuster / int_46518682 | featureApplicability |
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Sesame Street | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_46518682 | |
The Mockbuster / int_467c89f7 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_467c89f7 | comment |
Space Gundam V (Super Dimension Fortress Macross) | |
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1.0 | |
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Super Dimension Fortress Macross | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_467c89f7 | |
The Mockbuster / int_46a4e08f | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_46a4e08f | comment |
The Syfy Channel Original Movie Dragon Fighter is essentially Jurassic Park but with a dragon. | |
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Syfy Channel Original Movie | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_46a4e08f | |
The Mockbuster / int_48dabaf8 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_48dabaf8 | comment |
Life's a Jungle: Africa's Most Wanted from Phase 4 Films is a clear mockbuster of Madagascar, down to sharing a near-identical name with Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. | |
The Mockbuster / int_48dabaf8 | featureApplicability |
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The Mockbuster / int_48dabaf8 | featureConfidence |
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Life's a Jungle: Africa's Most Wanted | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_48dabaf8 | |
The Mockbuster / int_4957ba36 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_4957ba36 | comment |
No one actually owns the Tycoon trademark, so for every good tycoon game like RollerCoaster Tycoon or Zoo Tycoon, there are dozens if not hundreds of no-budget knockoffs pumped out to capitalize on the name. For example, School Tycoon is unrelated to Rollercoaster Tycoon but has a similar format, albeit revolving around school. | |
The Mockbuster / int_4957ba36 | featureApplicability |
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RollerCoaster Tycoon (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_4957ba36 | |
The Mockbuster / int_49ac8afd | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_49ac8afd | comment |
The Legend of Lucky Pie is a stylistic knockoff of Adventure Time produced by a handful of young Chinese animators. It stars a humanoid boy named Lucky Pie and a shape-shifting horse named Lucky Ge who go on adventures in a strange fantasy land. | |
The Mockbuster / int_49ac8afd | featureApplicability |
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The Mockbuster / int_49ac8afd | featureConfidence |
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The Legend of Lucky Pie (Animation) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_49ac8afd | |
The Mockbuster / int_4b9e2831 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_4b9e2831 | comment |
Universal Soldiers (note the plural) | |
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The Mockbuster / int_4b9e2831 | featureConfidence |
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Universal Soldier | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_4b9e2831 | |
The Mockbuster / int_4c119570 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_4c119570 | comment |
German game publisher RTL Playtainment made a knockoff of the JoWooD Productions title Neighbours From Hell. This knockoff is just a licensed game based on the RTL TV show Höllische Nachbarn. In a funny way, JoWooD Productions would also make their own takes on RTL's skiing games with the Ski Racing series. It gets even funnier, as the last Ski Racing title (Alpine Ski Racing 2007) from JoWooD was co-published with RTL Playtainment! |
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The Mockbuster / int_4c119570 | featureApplicability |
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The Mockbuster / int_4c119570 | featureConfidence |
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Neighbours From Hell (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_4c119570 | |
The Mockbuster / int_4cc85667 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_4cc85667 | comment |
Miracle Star is perhaps the most well-known foreign knockoff cartoon out there. It is infamous for being a blatant bootleg of The Amazing World of Gumball, going so far as to steal several character designs and scenes from that show. The creators of Gumball responded by making an episode where the Wattersons meet the knock-off characters, who make money by copying everything they do and posting videos on the internet. | |
The Mockbuster / int_4cc85667 | featureApplicability |
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The Mockbuster / int_4cc85667 | featureConfidence |
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Miracle Star (Animation) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_4cc85667 | |
The Mockbuster / int_4dce107c | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_4dce107c | comment |
The Man Who Saves the World and many other Turkish ripoffs of then-popular movies. The Man Who Saves the World is often called "Turkish Star Wars" because it steals footage directly from Star Wars. | |
The Mockbuster / int_4dce107c | featureApplicability |
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The Mockbuster / int_4dce107c | featureConfidence |
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The Man Who Saves the World | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_4dce107c | |
The Mockbuster / int_4e45b093 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_4e45b093 | comment |
Belarus' state-owned television station briefly produced and ran a sitcom called The Theorists which was about a group of nerdy physicists who befriend their attractive female neighbor. Yes, it was an unauthorized copy of The Big Bang Theory. CBS and Warner Bros. had actually begun legal proceedings when the cast and producers of The Theorists discovered their show was a ripoff note the higher-ups at the station had told them that it was a legitimately licensed remake, which was not true. and quit en masse, forcing its cancellation. | |
The Mockbuster / int_4e45b093 | featureApplicability |
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The Mockbuster / int_4e45b093 | featureConfidence |
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The Big Bang Theory | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_4e45b093 | |
The Mockbuster / int_4ee8a86 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_4ee8a86 | comment |
Squirrel King for the Mega Drive is a knockoff of the NES Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers game. | |
The Mockbuster / int_4ee8a86 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_4ee8a86 | featureConfidence |
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Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_4ee8a86 | |
The Mockbuster / int_50b9a0e2 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_50b9a0e2 | comment |
Since the source novel is in the public domain, musical versions of The Phantom of the Opera ran rampant in the 1990s (regional tours, community theaters, etc.) to cash in on Andrew Lloyd Webber's adaptation — enough so that Time magazine did a whole article on the phenomenon. But not all of them qualify as this trope: Ken Hill's version is the one that inspired Lloyd Webber to take his own stab at the story in the first place, and Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit's Phantom was actually written around the same time as Lloyd Webber's but couldn't get produced until afterwards due to the competition. One of the mockbusters was videotaped and later released on DVD, and the Phantom Reviewer took it on. | |
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The Mockbuster / int_50b9a0e2 | featureConfidence |
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The Phantom of the Opera | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_50b9a0e2 | |
The Mockbuster / int_50ce8f3a | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_50ce8f3a | comment |
Mac and Me, a 1988 ripoff of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial best remembered for its aggressive Product Placement for McDonald's, Coke, and some other stuff. Ironically, unlike most of these examples, Mac was released by a (semi-)major studio: Orion Pictures. It was a rare misstep for them, coming as it did in the middle of a string of highly successful films, including four Best Picture Oscar winnersnote Amadeus, Platoon, Dances with Wolves and The Silence of the Lambs. | |
The Mockbuster / int_50ce8f3a | featureApplicability |
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The Mockbuster / int_50ce8f3a | featureConfidence |
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Mac and Me | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_50ce8f3a | |
The Mockbuster / int_527a5949 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_527a5949 | comment |
Iron Man 007 (Science Ninja Team Gatchaman) | |
The Mockbuster / int_527a5949 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_527a5949 | featureConfidence |
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Science Ninja Team Gatchaman | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_527a5949 | |
The Mockbuster / int_53117200 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_53117200 | comment |
Arctic Adventure: Penguin & Seal (Antarctic Adventure, though it plays more like Pengo) | |
The Mockbuster / int_53117200 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_53117200 | featureConfidence |
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Antarctic Adventure (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_53117200 | |
The Mockbuster / int_5425ce75 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_5425ce75 | comment |
The company applies a similar concept to video games, where they release shameless copies of well-known franchises (usually on cellphones); the difference here is that their games are usually quite well-made (although some of them, most notably the Mac OS X and 3DS ports of Gangstar: Miami and Asphalt, respectively, were met with negative reception, being that they were lazily ported—especially Gangstar, having outdated graphics compared to the ones they were imitating). One of their more interesting examples is Shrek Kart, which copies Mario Kart but replaces the cast of well-known characters with a different cast of well-known characters rather than a bunch of Captain Ersatz's (unlike with most of their games). | |
The Mockbuster / int_5425ce75 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_5425ce75 | featureConfidence |
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Grand Theft Auto (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_5425ce75 | |
The Mockbuster / int_54377c0c | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_54377c0c | comment |
The Great Giana Sisters is this to the original Super Mario Bros., to the point where Nintendo actually sent in lawyers. Behold. | |
The Mockbuster / int_54377c0c | featureApplicability |
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The Mockbuster / int_54377c0c | featureConfidence |
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The Great Giana Sisters (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_54377c0c | |
The Mockbuster / int_551817f6 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_551817f6 | comment |
Hercules (Pure Magic), a cheap animated movie that was made in 1997, around the time of another high-profile Hercules animated movie. | |
The Mockbuster / int_551817f6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_551817f6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hercules (Pure Magic) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_551817f6 | |
The Mockbuster / int_55c5a085 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_55c5a085 | comment |
Raiders of Galaxy (Mazinger Z again) | |
The Mockbuster / int_55c5a085 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_55c5a085 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mazinger Z | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_55c5a085 | |
The Mockbuster / int_56cb92c3 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_56cb92c3 | comment |
Guardian of the Universe is a weird time-travel direct-to-DVD movie that just happens to have a cover showing the main characters pointing blasters with a backdrop of planets, and a logo exactly like that of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). | |
The Mockbuster / int_56cb92c3 | featureApplicability |
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The Mockbuster / int_56cb92c3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_56cb92c3 | |
The Mockbuster / int_56cc2789 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_56cc2789 | comment |
Subverted with Boy Eats Girl; it was never intended to be a Scary Movie mockbuster, but its Scandinavian title, Scary Video 5, gives the impression of this (four Scary Movie movies had been made at the time when Boy Eats Girl went on video). | |
The Mockbuster / int_56cc2789 | featureApplicability |
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The Mockbuster / int_56cc2789 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Boy Eats Girl | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_56cc2789 | |
The Mockbuster / int_56edb129 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_56edb129 | comment |
The popularity of A Nightmare on Elm Street led to it getting a number of foreign knock-offs, among them Night Killer from Italy, Satan's Bed from Indonesia, Mahakaal and Khooni Murda from India and Don't Panic from Mexico. | |
The Mockbuster / int_56edb129 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_56edb129 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_56edb129 | |
The Mockbuster / int_58364272 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_58364272 | comment |
The Fruitties had aired for a full run once in the early 90s in Malaysia, but were popular enough that in 1998, a local ripoff called Frootees premiered. | |
The Mockbuster / int_58364272 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_58364272 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Fruitties | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_58364272 | |
The Mockbuster / int_58f9d4ac | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_58f9d4ac | comment |
Death Racers (the cover art of which also bears a strong Death Proof influence). Note that Violent J of the Insane Clown Posse, who stars in this movie, said that it is "the bootleg ripoff fake version" of Death Racers at the 2008 Gathering of the Juggalos. Interestingly, it is a ripoff of a remake but is closer to the original than said remake. | |
The Mockbuster / int_58f9d4ac | featureApplicability |
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The Mockbuster / int_58f9d4ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Death Racers | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_58f9d4ac | |
The Mockbuster / int_59b4789f | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_59b4789f | comment |
Jailbait (2014) is a mockbuster of Orange Is the New Black. They even have on the front of the DVD box, "In the vein of Orange is the New Black". | |
The Mockbuster / int_59b4789f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_59b4789f | featureConfidence |
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Jailbait (2014) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_59b4789f | |
The Mockbuster / int_5a3533fe | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_5a3533fe | comment |
An episode of My Name Is Earl reveals the Camden County Library is so underfunded that it can only afford knock-offs of literary classics. Not-Tarzan apparently features a tiger named Monkey. | |
The Mockbuster / int_5a3533fe | featureApplicability |
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The Mockbuster / int_5a3533fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
My Name Is Earl | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_5a3533fe | |
The Mockbuster / int_5c4f8aab | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_5c4f8aab | comment |
Cowboys & Aliens was ripped off by Cowboys and Vampires and Cowboys and Zombies. | |
The Mockbuster / int_5c4f8aab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_5c4f8aab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Cowboys & Aliens | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_5c4f8aab | |
The Mockbuster / int_5c7c67c7 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_5c7c67c7 | comment |
The Pokémon Squad: One episode was about a Barney & Friends knockoff called Bernie and Pals that, much to Barney’s chagrin, was actually good (being hailed by the characters as Barney done right). The same company that made the ripoff was also said to have previously made bad knockoffs of Kim Possible and Adventure Time. | |
The Mockbuster / int_5c7c67c7 | featureApplicability |
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The Mockbuster / int_5c7c67c7 | featureConfidence |
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The Pokémon Squad (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_5c7c67c7 | |
The Mockbuster / int_5debfe0f | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_5debfe0f | comment |
Princess of Mars made it out while the legitimate John Carter adaptation was still stuck in Development Hell. Was originally a mockbuster of Avatar, but was re-titled and released after the actual John Carter film came out. Starring Traci Lords in the title role. | |
The Mockbuster / int_5debfe0f | featureApplicability |
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Princess of Mars | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_5debfe0f | |
The Mockbuster / int_5f89ecf | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_5f89ecf | comment |
Supersonic Man is a Spanish clone of Superman: The Movie. | |
The Mockbuster / int_5f89ecf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_5f89ecf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Supersonic Man | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_5f89ecf | |
The Mockbuster / int_6274efe4 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_6274efe4 | comment |
MAD has been known to make parodies of these, such as Home School Musical. | |
The Mockbuster / int_6274efe4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_6274efe4 | featureConfidence |
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MAD | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_6274efe4 | |
The Mockbuster / int_65cd4288 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_65cd4288 | comment |
There's an animated film called The Secret of the Hunchback that came out after Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame and even features talking, singing gargoyles. | |
The Mockbuster / int_65cd4288 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_65cd4288 | featureConfidence |
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The Secret of the Hunchback | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_65cd4288 | |
The Mockbuster / int_679fba8c | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_679fba8c | comment |
Be Kind Rewind is about a pair of video store owners who make their own mockbusters after all their tapes are destroyed, and become a massive success after their remakes grow wildly popular. Accusations of copyright infringement cause the store to be closed down. | |
The Mockbuster / int_679fba8c | featureApplicability |
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The Mockbuster / int_679fba8c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Be Kind Rewind | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_679fba8c | |
The Mockbuster / int_67b68f0b | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_67b68f0b | comment |
The failure of Battlefield 2042 allowed Battlebit Remastered and Clownfield 2042, two retraux, low poly clones of Battlefield to become a success on Steam (the former of which $27 million in two weeks). | |
The Mockbuster / int_67b68f0b | featureApplicability |
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The Mockbuster / int_67b68f0b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Battlefield 2042 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_67b68f0b | |
The Mockbuster / int_682f1431 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_682f1431 | comment |
Evil Night, an arcade Rail Shooter released by Konami in 1998, is very much a ripoff of Sega's House of the Dead, which came out the same year. The premise and several of the characters are quite similar (with two of the three protagonists being obvious copies of Thomas Rogan and G). The game is clearly meant to piggyback off of the popularity of the franchise that inspired it, but it eventually spiraled into obscurity when House of the Dead fans christened it a "knockoff" and its problematic arcade hardware helped it disappear from arcades. The game later generated a cult following of sorts. | |
The Mockbuster / int_682f1431 | featureApplicability |
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Evil Night (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_682f1431 | |
The Mockbuster / int_68efe20d | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_68efe20d | comment |
Adventures in Zambezia by the South African Triggerfish Animation Studios was marketed in the United States as this to Rio. Both films feature blue birds in exotic locations and obscure bird species. Birds of Paradise: Meet the Flockers was released on DVD around the same time as Rio 2. |
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The Mockbuster / int_68efe20d | featureApplicability |
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The Mockbuster / int_68efe20d | featureConfidence |
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Adventures in Zambezia (Animation) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_68efe20d | |
The Mockbuster / int_69392c59 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_69392c59 | comment |
The obscure, forgettable late '80s movie Hells' Heroes was changed to Inglorious Bastards 2: Hells' Heroes. The Cinema Snob reviewed it. | |
The Mockbuster / int_69392c59 | featureApplicability |
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The Mockbuster / int_69392c59 | featureConfidence |
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The Cinema Snob (Web Video) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_69392c59 | |
The Mockbuster / int_6b1cbace | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_6b1cbace | comment |
Alien Predator | |
The Mockbuster / int_6b1cbace | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_6b1cbace | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Predator | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_6b1cbace | |
The Mockbuster / int_6bbde1c8 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_6bbde1c8 | comment |
Legend of Titans, a Chinese knockoff of Overwatch, which features nothing original and compensates with shameless Fanservice compared to the more tasteful kind found in the original. | |
The Mockbuster / int_6bbde1c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_6bbde1c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Overwatch (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_6bbde1c8 | |
The Mockbuster / int_6c25a6b0 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_6c25a6b0 | comment |
Hell of the Living Dead. Not content with trying to shoehorn the movie into Romero lore, Bruno Mattei lifted much of the soundtrack from Dawn of the Dead (1978), as well as Contamination (which is a ripoff of Alien). Even the uniforms are similar to those in Dawn. | |
The Mockbuster / int_6c25a6b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_6c25a6b0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hell of the Living Dead | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_6c25a6b0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_6c531429 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_6c531429 | comment |
Filly Funtasia is this towards the My Little Pony TV shows, specifically Friendship Is Magic. The Filly name itself predates Friendship Is Magic (being around since G3) but remains this to the My Little Pony franchise as a whole. | |
The Mockbuster / int_6c531429 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_6c531429 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Filly Funtasia | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_6c531429 | |
The Mockbuster / int_6dffd573 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_6dffd573 | comment |
Block 13, a Kuwaiti knock-off of South Park. It used the same paper cutout art style as South Park, and also stole that show's main characters and gave them Arab clothes to hide the fact that they originally weren't Kuwaiti characters. It is Lighter and Softer compared to South Park, though. | |
The Mockbuster / int_6dffd573 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_6dffd573 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Block 13 (Animation) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_6dffd573 | |
The Mockbuster / int_705bb59a | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_705bb59a | comment |
A planned mockbuster of Vampire: The Masquerade entitled Vampire: Undeath did the rounds in November 2012, giving rise to an enormous RPGnet thread and threats of a Frivolous Lawsuit (and rumours of a not-so-frivolous lawsuit on the part of White Wolf). Highlights included an iconic character (apparently Undeath's answer to Samuel Haight) who resembles the illegitimate spawn of Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way and the '90s Kid. How bad is it? Here's a review. | |
The Mockbuster / int_705bb59a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_705bb59a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Vampire: The Masquerade (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_705bb59a | |
The Mockbuster / int_747f1742 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_747f1742 | comment |
Cinderella 3D, despite the name, is a Mockbuster of Rango. Both feature animals in a Western setting that ride birds. It only came out a year after Rango was made, and it shows. | |
The Mockbuster / int_747f1742 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_747f1742 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Cinderella 3D | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_747f1742 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7485e16e | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_7485e16e | comment |
In the tenth episode of the Animaniacs reboot, the Warners discover that Russia has created a knockoff version of not only their own show, but Pinky and the Brain, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and MasterChef. | |
The Mockbuster / int_7485e16e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7485e16e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Animaniacs (2020) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_7485e16e | |
The Mockbuster / int_74d492c0 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_74d492c0 | comment |
Our Friend Power 5 uses aliens dressed as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, fighting inside of a Go-Bot, as the protagonists. The toys, similarly, are Ninja Turtles-figures remolded and down-scaled packaged with a Go-Bot bootleg figure. Hilariously, the characters based on Master Splinter are the villains. | |
The Mockbuster / int_74d492c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_74d492c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Our Friend Power 5 | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_74d492c0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_74f7210c | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_74f7210c | comment |
Zenda: The Linked Swords, an extremely short knock-off of The Legend of Zelda series, down to the nameable hero who looks suspiciously like Link with orange clothes. | |
The Mockbuster / int_74f7210c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_74f7210c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Legend of Zelda (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_74f7210c | |
The Mockbuster / int_7529056 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_7529056 | comment |
Koko's Adventure/Buzz & Waldog (Super Mario World) | |
The Mockbuster / int_7529056 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7529056 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Super Mario World (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_7529056 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7558ef22 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_7558ef22 | comment |
Little Cars in the Big Race. It did well enough for Video Brinquedo to make a few sequels and a live stage musical adaptation. | |
The Mockbuster / int_7558ef22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7558ef22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Cars (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_7558ef22 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7579423f | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_7579423f | comment |
Fur Fun, originally known as Kewpie-Jazzy, is a blatant ripoff of Banjo-Kazooie and its Spiritual Successor Yooka-Laylee. It has even been found with the former's assets in the game files, and the failed Kickstarter plagiarized the latter's own Kickstarter. | |
The Mockbuster / int_7579423f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7579423f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Banjo-Kazooie (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_7579423f | |
The Mockbuster / int_7777a79c | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_7777a79c | comment |
After Impact. | |
The Mockbuster / int_7777a79c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7777a79c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Day After Tomorrow | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_7777a79c | |
The Mockbuster / int_7a5f881a | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_7a5f881a | comment |
The Da Vinci Treasure | |
The Mockbuster / int_7a5f881a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7a5f881a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
TheDaVinciCode | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_7a5f881a | |
The Mockbuster / int_7b039953 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_7b039953 | comment |
Jungle Master, a CG-animated ripoff of Avatar with Victoria Justice in the lead. | |
The Mockbuster / int_7b039953 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7b039953 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Avatar | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_7b039953 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7b2d4f7d | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_7b2d4f7d | comment |
The Black Cobra is a Blaxploitation ripoff of Cobra. | |
The Mockbuster / int_7b2d4f7d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7b2d4f7d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Black Cobra | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_7b2d4f7d | |
The Mockbuster / int_7cea4fb2 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_7cea4fb2 | comment |
Monster Island cashes in on Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) and Ape vs. Monster does the same for Godzilla vs. Kong. Although both of the blockbusters here take place in same universe, their respective Asylum counterparts have nothing to do with each other, to the extent that they each star Eric Roberts as a completely different character. | |
The Mockbuster / int_7cea4fb2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7cea4fb2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_7cea4fb2 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7cf17151 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_7cf17151 | comment |
Battle of Los Angeles | |
The Mockbuster / int_7cf17151 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7cf17151 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Battle: Los Angeles | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_7cf17151 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7d3b246c | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_7d3b246c | comment |
Jungle Run | |
The Mockbuster / int_7d3b246c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7d3b246c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Jungle Cruise | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_7d3b246c | |
The Mockbuster / int_7e3117d8 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_7e3117d8 | comment |
The Amazing Bulk, notable for having mundane settings such as alleyways and house interiors represented as cheap green screen/CGI. It memorably features a "climactic" chase scene that primarily consists of The Bulk running through badly rendered stock CG settings past random CG figures, ranging from koalas, Robin Hood and kids playing soccer to geckos working on laptops. (Trailer can seen here.) | |
The Mockbuster / int_7e3117d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7e3117d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Amazing Bulk | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_7e3117d8 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7e9d1a6c | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_7e9d1a6c | comment |
The same thing happened with Frozen; even before the actual musical adaptation officially reached Broadway, there were at least a few unlicensed musical adaptations making the tour circuit across North America for a few years. Frozen in Time is one such example, though it's more of a revue than a straight adaptation. | |
The Mockbuster / int_7e9d1a6c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7e9d1a6c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Frozen (2013) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_7e9d1a6c | |
The Mockbuster / int_7f4128d3 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_7f4128d3 | comment |
Tele Chobis is a rip-off of Teletubbies. This show's network, TV Azteca, was sued by the BBC for copyright infringement, causing the show to be cancelled. | |
The Mockbuster / int_7f4128d3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_7f4128d3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Tele Chobis | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_7f4128d3 | |
The Mockbuster / int_8176b3a8 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_8176b3a8 | comment |
The same thing also happened to Help! I'm a Fish, which, while not a mockbuster itself, was re-branded as A Fish Tale for its English-language video release (complete with terrible cover art◊), to piggyback on the popularity of Finding Nemo and Shark Tale. | |
The Mockbuster / int_8176b3a8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_8176b3a8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Help! I'm a Fish | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_8176b3a8 | |
The Mockbuster / int_82e4196a | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_82e4196a | comment |
Sidewinder/Mission Cobra (Twin Cobra with elements of 1943: The Battle of Midway, not to be confused with the later Sidewinder flight combat series or Cobra Mission) | |
The Mockbuster / int_82e4196a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_82e4196a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Twin Cobra (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_82e4196a | |
The Mockbuster / int_841dfd9b | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_841dfd9b | comment |
Gamera is a unique case of a mockbuster becoming its own series. | |
The Mockbuster / int_841dfd9b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_841dfd9b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Gamera | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_841dfd9b | |
The Mockbuster / int_864c2666 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_864c2666 | comment |
Power Blade, AKA Power Blazer, was originally a Mega Man (Classic) knockoff prior to the US localization, which refined the gameplay and replaced the Blue Bomber expy with an Arnold Schwarzenegger lookalike. | |
The Mockbuster / int_864c2666 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_864c2666 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Power Blade (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_864c2666 | |
The Mockbuster / int_86904ab8 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_86904ab8 | comment |
Metal Man, aka Iron Hero, which is a mockbuster of the first Iron Man film but features bad characterization, dodgy special effects and suits, and even Reggie Bannister of Phantasm fame—not only the creator of the Metal Man suit but a complete asshole and the dickish mentor of the movie's hero. | |
The Mockbuster / int_86904ab8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_86904ab8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
IronMan | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_86904ab8 | |
The Mockbuster / int_8799b5fe | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_8799b5fe | comment |
The Russian/Eastern Bloc books series Tales of the Magic Land is a downplayed example: the first book was heavily based on Land of Oz series by L. Frank Baum. However, the later installations differ more from Baum's works. In some editions, in the afterword the author, Volkov, acknowledges the 'inspiration', but more often than not this was omitted when printing. As the series was published in 1939, this makes it Older Than Television - though barely so. | |
The Mockbuster / int_8799b5fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_8799b5fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Tales of the Magic Land | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_8799b5fe | |
The Mockbuster / int_87c6ac8e | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_87c6ac8e | comment |
Little and Big Monsters | |
The Mockbuster / int_87c6ac8e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_87c6ac8e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Monsters vs. Aliens | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_87c6ac8e | |
The Mockbuster / int_8892477a | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_8892477a | comment |
Spy Games: Elevator Mission for the Wii is a low-budget FPS take on Elevator Action 1, with a touch of GoldenEye (1997). | |
The Mockbuster / int_8892477a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_8892477a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Elevator Action 1 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_8892477a | |
The Mockbuster / int_88be979a | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_88be979a | comment |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes came out a month after Sherlock Holmes (2009). Featuring Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto in Torchwood) as Dr. Watson, Holmes investigates a case with tentacle monsters, androids, dinosaurs, and robot dragons setting fire to Parliament. Attempts Rule of Cool to the twenty-third power. Asylum can use the name since he's a Public Domain Character. Also of note; despite using a character whose entire works are available for free online, they apparently couldn't even be bothered to spend five minutes skimming the Wikipedia article; in this film, Sherlock's name isn't actually Sherlock, his brother's name is not Mycroft; the brother worked as a detective alongside Lestrade instead of founding the Diogenes Club... | |
The Mockbuster / int_88be979a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_88be979a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_88be979a | |
The Mockbuster / int_89703d00 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_89703d00 | comment |
Wonder Princess (the Wonder Woman series, down to the Transformation Sequence) | |
The Mockbuster / int_89703d00 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_89703d00 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
WonderWoman | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_89703d00 | |
The Mockbuster / int_8a339030 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_8a339030 | comment |
Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls, which re-purposes the classic character as an Indiana Jones Captain Ersatz. | |
The Mockbuster / int_8a339030 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_8a339030 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Indiana Jones (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_8a339030 | |
The Mockbuster / int_8a7b5210 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_8a7b5210 | comment |
Back in 1989, there was Terminator II. Which was actually released before the official sequel. Humorously enough, Terminator II is actually a ripoff of Aliens. | |
The Mockbuster / int_8a7b5210 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_8a7b5210 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Shocking Dark | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_8a7b5210 | |
The Mockbuster / int_8b6eb3c0 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_8b6eb3c0 | comment |
Hsu and Chan: Tanaka Bros Game Development does this with all their releases, including Bad Mileage and Pocket Morons. | |
The Mockbuster / int_8b6eb3c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_8b6eb3c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Hsu and Chan (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_8b6eb3c0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_8ced083a | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_8ced083a | comment |
3 Dev Adam (Three Big Men) is an In Name Only 1973 Turkish film featuring three famous (and extremely unauthorized) superhero characters: Captain America, Spider-Man, and El Santo. Spidey, of all people, is actually the sadistic ''villain'' of the piece. | |
The Mockbuster / int_8ced083a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_8ced083a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Three Big Men | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_8ced083a | |
The Mockbuster / int_8e969da6 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_8e969da6 | comment |
Meteor didn't seek to rip off a specific film, but rather it was one of many disaster movies that were made to cash in on Irwin Allen's blockbuster disaster movies. It even has an All-Star Cast consisting the likes of Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, and Henry Fonda. | |
The Mockbuster / int_8e969da6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_8e969da6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Meteor | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_8e969da6 | |
The Mockbuster / int_8ee68c85 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_8ee68c85 | comment |
A film titled Nazi Overlord was released four days after (and appears to be quite similar to) J. J. Abrams' supernatural WWII horror flick Overlord (2018). | |
The Mockbuster / int_8ee68c85 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_8ee68c85 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Nazi Overlord | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_8ee68c85 | |
The Mockbuster / int_91ca9f7e | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_91ca9f7e | comment |
The Little Panda Fighter for Kung Fu Panda | |
The Mockbuster / int_91ca9f7e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_91ca9f7e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Little Panda Fighter | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_91ca9f7e | |
The Mockbuster / int_93cf813b | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_93cf813b | comment |
Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies, presently buried in the fun part of Netflix. | |
The Mockbuster / int_93cf813b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_93cf813b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_93cf813b | |
The Mockbuster / int_9459b387 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_9459b387 | comment |
Snakes on a Train. Incidentally, that one did provoke a lawsuit. | |
The Mockbuster / int_9459b387 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_9459b387 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Snakes on a Plane | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_9459b387 | |
The Mockbuster / int_961eeacc | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_961eeacc | comment |
One of the oldest examples in video games is Crazy Kong, a knockoff of Donkey Kong with original programming. Surprisingly, this seems to have been the authorized arcade version of Donkey Kong in some parts of the world. | |
The Mockbuster / int_961eeacc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_961eeacc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Donkey Kong (Video Game) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_961eeacc | |
The Mockbuster / int_976efc02 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_976efc02 | comment |
Certain Mystery Science Theater 3000-featured films such as the Conan-inspired Ator series, Escape 2000 (in which people try to Leave the Bronx instead of Escape from New York), Mad Max-alikes Warrior of the Lost World and City Limits, Japanese Planet of the Apes clone Time of the Apes, Hobgoblins (not Gremlins), Pod People (whose name invokes Invasion of the Body Snatchers, while the aliens look like ALF and the plot is ripped right out of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial) and Operation Double 007 a.k.a. Operation Kid Brother (featuring an all-star cast of James Bond veterans and starring Neil Connery, Sean Connery's brother). Escape 2000 is a sequel to a The Warriors knock-off named Bronx Warriors. | |
The Mockbuster / int_976efc02 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_976efc02 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mystery Science Theater 3000 | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_976efc02 | |
The Mockbuster / int_97ce01ba | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_97ce01ba | comment |
Plan Bee is a blatant Shoddy Knock Off Product of the Bee Movie. Like most Spark Plug Entertainment mockbusters, the plot is only loosely based on the original. | |
The Mockbuster / int_97ce01ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_97ce01ba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bee Movie | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_97ce01ba | |
The Mockbuster / int_98705246 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_98705246 | comment |
Bikes is a fairly blatant ripoff of Cars. | |
The Mockbuster / int_98705246 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_98705246 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bikes | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_98705246 | |
The Mockbuster / int_98744614 | type |
The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_98744614 | comment |
There's another attempt to rip off Brave called Kiara the Brave, which was originally a completely unrelated Indian animation called Super K. The title character, Kiara, barely appears, and only gets pushed because she's a red-headed princess. | |
The Mockbuster / int_98744614 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Mockbuster / int_98744614 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Brave | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_98744614 | |
The Mockbuster / int_98be588d | type |
The Mockbuster | |
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The first game in the Renegade series was a spiritual precursor to Double Dragon, but the Ocean-developed home computer sequels, Target: Renegade and Renegade III: The Final Chapter, were terrible knockoffs of it. | |
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The Mockbuster / int_98be588d | |
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The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_994143a6 | comment |
The Italian-produced Alien 2: On Earth. Incidentally, this is the originally conceived plot for the third movie. | |
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The Mockbuster / int_994143a6 | |
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The Mockbuster | |
The Mockbuster / int_9994a14f | comment |
Tiny Robots | |
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WALL•E | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_9994a14f | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Mazinger X (UFO Robo Grendizer, surprisingly enough) | |
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The Mockbuster / int_9afa4e32 | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Gold Wings, a knockoff of Top Gun. | |
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Top Gun | hasFeature |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Similarly, a few stage musical versions of The Hunchback of Notre Dame appeared around 1996, perhaps hoping to compete with a Screen-to-Stage Adaptation of the Disney movie, which was considered likely in the wake of Beauty and the Beast. Disney's version had a successful theatrical adaptation in Germany in 1999 but had not been staged elsewhere until 2014. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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The Devil Within Her's plot is very similar to Rosemary's Baby, and one of its alternate titles is Sharon's Baby. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Local hustler Cheddar Man from Class of 3000 was once shown peddling mock-busters in "The Hunt for Red Blobtober". With him starring in every role. He was last seen working on The Wizard of Oz in that episode. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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They released an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land that Time Forgot released just in time to counter the Land of the Lost movie. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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I Am Omega, which even also bills itself as an adaptation of the book I Am Legend. Their choice of "Omega" is interesting because The Ωmega Man was the title of a previous film adaptation of I Am Legend. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Twin Mouse (Tiny Toon Adventures) | |
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The Mockbuster / int_9fb68910 | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Titanic: The Legend Goes On and The Legend of the Titanic, both animated and based off some sinking boat movie. The former has some Mexican mice and a rapping dog, the latter a giant talking octopus that saves everybody, magical moon-tears that allow people to talk to dolphins, and a sequel. | |
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Titanic: The Legend Goes On | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_a0fdee79 | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas, a Finnish action-adventure video game which borrows heavily from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, is more of a loving homage than anything else. Its sequel, Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm, however, is a blatant knock-off of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, down to the UI and texturing. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Smartphone app 3D Cartoon Land: Safari, a transparent and horrendous imitation of Super Mario 3D Land. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Willy's Chocolate Experience was intended as a completely unauthorized replication of the Willy Wonka universe, being held only two months after the release of Wonka. Even its logo uses the font based on the 1971 adaptation's logo. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Spider's Web: A Pig's Tale (Charlotte's Web, only a billion times Mind Screw-ier). | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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The unlicensed Mega Drive game Barver Battle Saga: Tai Kong Zhan Shi knocks off the Final Fantasy franchise, and the Chinese subtitle even translates to "The Space Warrior", which is what Final Fantasy is known as in Taiwan. | |
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Final Fantasy (Franchise) | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_a81325d3 | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Deadly Weapon, a knockoff of Lethal Weapon. | |
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The Mockbuster / int_a94fc74e | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Chinese Kung Fu/Challenge of the Dragon (Double Dragon) | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Capcom's Codename Viper was a blatant ripoff of Namco's Rolling Thunder, ironically developed by an uncredited Arc System Works, who produced the NES port of the latter game. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Referenced in The Amazing World of Gumball, as Gumball complains they can only afford movies like "How to Ratatwang Your Panda". It's a parody of Brinquedo in particular; the mice even resemble those of Ratatoing. This became Hilarious in Hindsight when it came to light that a Chinese food company had produced a knockoff of the show itself, swapping the Wattersons for goats (goat's milk is what's being advertised) and Darwin for a frog. This comes full circle with the episode "The Copycats" where the showrunners decide to deal with this little debacle in-universe. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Faerie Tale Theatre, one of the first TV shows to release all of its regular episodes on VHS to expand its reach beyond pay cable, saw a knockoff in 1984: The direct-to-video series Enchanted Musical Playhouse, which also retold fairy tale and picture book stories in live-action with name performers; even the cover art and series logo were similar. The main differences were that the stars were B-list at best (Marie Osmond, Paul Williams, etc.), the four episodes produced were only 30 minutes apiece as opposed to Faerie Tale Theatre's 40-to-55 minute runtimes, and as the title suggests all of them were The Musical. Later in the decade, and crossing mediums, The Cannon Group's "Cannon MovieTales" series (which was intended for theaters but saw most of its exposure on video and cable) was another blatant imitation; it not only hired high-profile performers and had similar cover art for most of the VHS releases, but all nine of the produced films adapted stories that Faerie Tale Theatre already covered, making it even easier to confuse the two series! | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Some game shows have their name changed or undergo slight localizations when exported, making them look like they fall into this trope. For example, Wheel of Fortune was exported into Malaysia officially as Roda Impian, and had considerable differences in the set design, but the rules otherwise remains unchanged. | |
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The Mockbuster / int_b0b22636 | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Jack the Giant Killer | |
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Jack the Giant Slayer | hasFeature |
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The Mockbuster | |
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The Asylum were given a court order preventing them from releasing The Age of Hobbits three days before The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. How did they think they'd get away with that, when "Hobbit" is a trademark of the Tolkien estate? Because "Hobbits" in their title refers to Homo floresiensis, obviously. | |
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | hasFeature |
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The Mockbuster | |
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This was a big problem in Italy during the Spaghetti Western craze of the Sixties. The relaxed copyright law in Italy at the time meant as soon as a character got popular, knockoff movies would appear claiming to star that character. Django, Sabata, and Sartana were famous for having their names recycled in knockoffs. (They couldn't do this to the most popular Spaghetti Western character ever, for reasons which are quite obvious if you think about it a little, but it didn't stop one film claiming to be "The Return of Clint the Stranger".) | |
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The Mockbuster / int_b26caa8e | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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In the Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers movie, this is the primary racket of Sweet Pete's Valley Gang, turning ktoons that cannot pay their debts to the mob (and thus are kidnapped) into legally distinct copies or mash-ups and shipping them overseas, though they actually just keep them in the bay where the Valley Gang runs their operations to star in knockoff movies. | |
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The Mockbuster / int_b2a5352b | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Jaws 5 (Fourteen More to Go), ripping it off almost word for word. | |
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Jaws | hasFeature |
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The Mockbuster | |
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After the Ju-on franchise had two Direct to Video features, two theatrical movies, and an American remake on the way, Ju-Rei came along to copy it as an even cheaper DTV version than the first two were. | |
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Ju-on | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_b36c82e4 | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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The Almighty Thor, featuring a Thor with an Uzi. Asylum, you've done it again! | |
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Thor | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_b370ddd1 | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Savior of the Earth (TRON) | |
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TRON | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_b3710357 | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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The Amanda Show parodies this in a recurring sketch. People return movies they got from a movie store that are knockoffs of whatever they really want, created by a family of foreigners (which they always contend is "MUCH BETTER!"). The icing on the cake is that the store itself is a knock-off of Blockbuster, "Blockblister". And though almost never featured in the skits, on the boards behind the proprietors, there's almost always a Mockbustered-up title of a Nick movie: Rag Rats, Harriet the Guy, Good Booger and Snowy Day (one skit actually has this featured). | |
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The Amanda Show | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_b445a53d | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Five Nights at Freddy's: The Dark Fate is infamous for being a blatant bootleg of Five Nights at Freddy's: The Stories and to some extent Five Nights at Freddy's: Forgotten Events, going so far as to steal several characters and scenes from those series. | |
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The Mockbuster / int_b6381cae | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Alien 3000 for Alien | |
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Alien | hasFeature |
The Mockbuster / int_b9a0d78d | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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The first season of Flower Angel is a fairly straightforward knockoff of Cardcaptor Sakura, having the first episode start with An'an looking out the window and noticing magic much like Sakura, the fairy cards in Flower Angel bearing quite a resemblance to the Clow Cards in Sakura, and some character personalities, among other things. It starts to become more of its own thing in Season 2, shedding the Cardcaptor Sakura shtick and telling a more original story with more unique elements. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Atlantic Rim. The monsters attack New York. When it was released on disc in June 2013, its page on Amazon.co.uk had a note saying (approximately) "Were you looking for Pacific Rim? Click here to be notified when the real thing comes out." It's also notable for being (as of this writing) the most recently-released film to be featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000. | |
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The Mockbuster / int_bae69f4 | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Pirates of Treasure Island. "We're not stealing from Disney; they're stealing from Stevenson!" | |
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The Mockbuster / int_bc1dc95a | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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On In Living Color!, this is the stock-in-trade of Funky Finger Productions, which is always looking for investors for their Blaxploitation knock-offs/unauthorized sequels to recent hits. Stank Ho is their answer to Pretty Woman, and they have test footage for a fourth Penitentiary movie on hand in another skit. Many have an X Meets Y twist: "The Wiz meets Flatliners", for instance. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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They also did The Secret of Mulan, a version of Mulan where all the characters are insects (thereby also ripping off the same year's A Bug's Life in the process). | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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A significant portion of the indie games one can find on the Xbox Live Marketplace and the Nintendo eShop turn out to be rip-offs of popular games, past and present, including a particularly cheap Minecraft clone titled CastleMiner that even got a zombie-oriented sequel less than four months after its release. Before the Wii U received its own port of Minecraft, the eShop was absolutely flooded with third-rate knockoffs. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Twin Eagle/Double Strike (Area 88/UN Squadron, not to be confused with Taito's Twin Eagle: Revenge Joe's Brother) | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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A 2003 low-budget, direct-to-video science-fiction feature called Absolon (starring Christopher Lambert, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Ron Perlman) bears several stark similarities to the bigger-budget 1995 Johnny Mnemonic (with Keanu Reeves). Both movies similarly take place in an early-21st century "near future" where the majority of the planet is either infected or killed by a lethal plague (known as "Nerve Attenuation Syndrome (NAS)" in Johnny Mnemonic; "Neurological Degeneration Syndrome (NDS)" in Absolon). Both movies revolve around a giant, all-powerful pharmaceutical MegaCorp selling expensive treatments to combat the plague, and each movie's protagonist is unwittingly tasked with carrying material for a permanent cure within their bodies and must be delivered in a short period of time before it kills them. | |
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Absolon | hasFeature |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Almost everything released by Video Asia, the masters of In Name Only Sequels. One of the worst offenders, they don't even make their own mockbusters: they just rerelease old foreign movies with different titles. The obscure, forgettable late '80s movie Hells' Heroes was changed to Inglorious Bastards 2: Hells' Heroes. The Cinema Snob reviewed it. |
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The Mockbuster | |
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The Chinese PC game Duludubi Star is a bizarre knockoff of Super Mario Galaxy with Mario replaced with a baby dragon, voice clips stolen from Klonoa, and Jeopardy! Thinking Music, of all things. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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What's Up? Balloon to the Rescue | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus made fun of Mockbusters well before they were even a phenomenon, with the Mr. Dibley sketch, about a filmmaker who makes hideously bad, silent, one-reel versions of famous movies starring random people from shops. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Huge Insect (Galaga) | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Mega Powers, a Power Rangers knockoff. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Super Kid (Dragon Ball) | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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There were at least two Indian Superman films produced, complete with musical numbers: B. Gupta's version, which is simply called "Superman" and is pretty much a straight-up remake of the original 1970s movie with Christopher Reeve (except for the fact that Superman has telekinesis in addition to his other superpowers); and Telugu Superman, in which a young boy watches as his parents are murdered in front of him and seeks guidance from Hanuman, who grants the boy great powers. | |
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Simba: è nato un re is an Italian series heavily inspired by three different Disney films: Bambi, The Jungle Book and The Lion King. It rips off its plot and character designs from all three. The same creators also made a series starring Pocahontas that shares many of the same elements, such as Family-Unfriendly Violence, gratuitous lasers, and one hell of a Gainax Ending that makes the inspiration look like a primary source, mixed with surprisingly well-researched attempts at Edutainment about the lifestyles and cultures of various Native American tribes. Saberspark also covered this one. | |
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Fit of Fighting and History of Martial Arts are ripoffs of Art of Fighting and Fighter's History with plagiarized graphics but a completely different engine. | |
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Codename Wild Geese - cunningly disguised as a sequel to The Wild Geese, complete with Lewis Collins—who was apparently fired off Wild Geese II for his role in the rip-off, having had a contract with Wild Geese producer Euan Lloyd. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Jurassic City is a vague Jurassic Park knockoff set in a prison. | |
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Pakdam Pakdai is a popular Indian cartoon that rips off Oggy and the Cockroaches, which is popular in India itself. Every single character in Pakdam Pakdai is an Expy of the characters in Oggy, and both rely heavily on the use of Slapstick. | |
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters for some some reason had several copycat films like Hansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft, Witchslayer Gretl, Hansel and Gretel (which got a sequel) and Hansel & Gretel Get Baked. | |
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SNK's Burning Fight shamelessly plagiarizes Final Fight, down to the three player characters being expies of Guy, Cody, and Haggar. | |
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Somewhat unfairly, the original Battlestar Galactica movie was accused early on of being a rip off of Star Wars, presumably on the basis that after Star Wars debuted, any movie set in space was ripping off Star Wars. Legal action was even threatened - but sensibly quickly dropped when it became clear that a setting in space was really the only obvious link between the two. | |
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Tornado! | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Katakis for the Commodore Amiga is their rip-off of the video game R-Type. Funnily enough, Irem found out about this, but since most Japanese publishers had trouble with programming for the Amiga, they hired Rainbow Arts to help port R-Type to the Amiga. | |
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Gwisal-ui Geom was a Korean knockoff of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, which was so poorly received it was pulled 5 days after opening. | |
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Super Fighter: This was a mockbuster of Capcom's Street Fighter II made by the Taiwanese company C&E in 1993. The developers even traced some character animations, lifted the sound effects and some music (though with some modifications) from the Street Fighter games and some of the characters are even borderline plagiarism of characters from those games with the most blatant being the Japanese Karateka Jaan (based on Ryu), the Russian wrestler Sarkov (based on Zangief), and the Anime Chinese Girl Phoenix (based on Chun-Li). It even has a spin-off called Super Fighter Block Battle, which is a rip-off of Super Puzzle Fighter II X. | |
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After Only Up! was delisted from Steam, a game with the exact same title developed by MoreMoto Games appeared on Steam on October 3d, 2023. It's an online multiplayer parcour game that seems to take inspiration from classic Roblox obbies. Needless to say, it only received 113 reviews, 8% of which were positive. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Dead Effect which can be guessed which franchise the developers rip-off. Surprisingly, it was a couple of a pretty enjoyable First-Person Shooter. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Leo the Lion, another Lion King ripoff.note Neither of these films have anything to do with the anime series of the same name. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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True Bloodthirst, seen on (where else?) Syfy. | |
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True Blood | hasFeature |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Bone Alone (Home Alone if Kevin McCallister was a dog) | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Gargantua, a 1998 TV-movie cashing on the then-recent Godzilla. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Poseidon Rex, a monster film featuring an amphibious dinosaur that threatens the human race. It had been on DVD since October 2013, but it was given a special theatrical release in April 2014 to get some more publicity in the wake of the hype surrounding Godzilla (2014). | |
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There is a web game called Chick'n Bash. It's especially odd because there are plenty of other web games in the "smash the tower" genre that have vastly different aesthetics from Angry Birds. There's a similar one called Chicks'n'Vixens. On the non-avian side, there's Angry Bunnies. |
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They've also done The Amazing Feats of Young Hercules, Moses: Egypt's Great Prince, Young Pocahontas, and ripped off Cinderella, Pinocchio, and others. They even made a Christmas special called Christmas in Cartoontown (re-released as The Night Before Christmas in Cartoontown), which, while not knocking off a specific film, puts some of their fairy tale characters in a Christmas setting. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Dune got one in the form of Dune Drifter, which amusingly is also an unofficial Delayed Release Tie-In given it released the same month as Dune's intended December 2020 release date (before being delayed by the COVID-19 Pandemic). From Colin director Marc Price (and featuring a similar No Budget aesthetic), it actually received some rather positive reviews from critics, though audiences were less pleased. A second unrelated mockbuster, Dune World (which just so happens to be the title the Dune novel used in its original serialized form), was released in 2021. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Herculesand Xena The Animated Movie The Battlefor Mount Olympus, while based on the shows Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, is obviously this to Disney's Hercules, complete with the Titans as major villains. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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The War of the Worlds (the title is public domain now) actually got two mockbusters to go with the Spielberg film. One of them actually follows the original story by HG Wells by setting the invasion in Victorian Britain. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Homestar Runner parodies this in the Strong Bad Email "unlicensed". One of the "licensed unlicensed" products Strong Bad appears in is movie knock-offs with titles like "The Secret Princess and Her Oppressive Authority Figure 4" or "Jungle Animals in Decidedly Non-Jungle Situations" (the latter of which is advertised as "So Straight to DVD It Hurts"). | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Pyramid (Tetris) | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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The Godfrey Ho Ninja Movies are this for the ninja movie craze that existed at the time. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Arcanoid Breakout for the Nintendo Switch barely conceals that it's a poorly programmed clone of Arkanoid, with the first half of its title being just one letter away from copyright infringement. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Earth vs. the Spider is this to both Tarantula! and The Fly (1958), with the film's title being changed to The Spider in order to cash in with the latter film. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Halloween Night was a cash-in on Halloween (2007), down to a Suspiciously Similar Song of the franchise's iconic theme tune. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Transmorphers and Transmorphers: Fall of Man. Although the funny thing about this is that the Transmorphers movies are Terminator ripoffs with a Transformers-sounding name. In fact, it blatantly steals elements from the Transformers films (the robots do transform, albeit badly and slowly, and they are extraterrestrial in origin), The Matrix trilogy (insofar as fashion) and the Terminator films (particularly Rise of The Machines and Salvation). Trifecta! For the toys, there is Beast Tech Fighter, Quick Change, etc. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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The album of Jesus Christ Superstar was released before the theatre show or movie were, resulting in multiple adaptations touring the stages before the official release. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Captain of Cosmos, AKA Johnny Destiny: Space Ninja, AKA Space Black Knight (Mobile Suit Gundam) | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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The Nana Moon virtual pet series is one of Tamagotchi, with them being basically the same apart from the Nana Moon toys having an added plot of finding seven special treasures on top of raising your pet. They also both have animated television shows, though the one for Tamagotchi had a longer episode span (271 compared to Nana Moon's 52). The Nana Moon toys' production company, M&D, flat-out started producing proper knock-off Tamagotchi toys that combine Tamagotchi branding with the "QPet" branding also used for Nana Moon. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Metamorphosis, Italian knockoff cinema's 1990 answer to The Fly (1986), oddly has a much more complicated plot and a larger number of significant characters than the movie it's cashing in on, perhaps to compensate for the low budget (and thus poor makeup/visual effects work) and how generic said characters are. The most obvious is that the lead is not an eccentric, dorky, lonely physicist who slowly becomes a Tragic Villain due to a drunken lapse in judgment, but a blandly handsome Mad Scientist determined to prove to the world that his de-aging serum works and ends up slowly becoming a reptile-man who kills near-randomly in the meantime. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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A Car's Life: Sparky's Big Adventure, a ripoff of Cars (with the title being an obvious swipe from A Bug's Life). Car's Life 2 came out just in time to rip off Cars 2. And then there's A Car's Life 3, which has Sean Schemmel on the cast list. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Jang Pung II (Street Fighter II) | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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Crazy Candies is meant to be China's answer to SpongeBob SquarePants, with the characters having similar personalities and the series having a similar hyperactive feel to it. The knockoff aspect is more pronounced in Season 1, which outright tries to copy some episode plots and plot points from SpongeBob SquarePants - for example, Season 1 episode 28, "I Want Big Muscles", is literally just "MuscleBob BuffPants" in terms of its basic plot and in some of the scenes. | |
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The Mockbuster | |
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The Jungle King, yet another Lion King ripoff. | |
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Mega Man actually managed to do this to itself, with the DOS version of Mega Man 3, which is a completely different - and inferior - game to the NES Mega Man 3, made by a different company. Not only was the game titled such to cash in on the original (to the point that there is no DOS Mega Man 2; they completely skipped over it,) but they invented a robot master that looks like the robot on the original cover (who is Spark Man in the NES game) to justify using the exact same cover. | |
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There was a glut "Krampusploitation" films that followed in the wake of Krampus, with examples including Krampus: The Christmas Devil and its sequel, Krampus: The Reckoning, Krampus Unleashed, Krampus Origins, Mother Krampus (which is actually about a similar entity called Frau Perchta) and its unrelated sequel, Mother Krampus 2: Slay Ride. | |
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Mobile Legends: Bang Bang starts as this to both League of Legends and Arena of Valor until lawsuits made Moonton, the developer, revamp some of the character designs and art styles, but it's still largely look-alike, especially the interface which is almost the exact same as the latter. | |
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10 Million B.C. | |
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Sunday School Musical to High School Musical. Also The Moral Substitute! | |
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Alien Origin | |
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Prometheus | hasFeature |
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Android Cop is a Buddy Cop Show ripoff of RoboCop (2014) starring Michael Jai White. | |
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Wolfschanze by Calaris Studios and its sequel Wolfschanze II by City Interactive is a pair of WWII FPS game that named suspiciously like Wolfenstein series. | |
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The same company also made The Secret of Anastasia just as Don Bluth's Anastasia was released in theaters. Especially odd in that they weren't satisfied ripping off just one movie, but they also ripped off Beauty and the Beast by having the rest of the royal family transformed into talking musical instruments! | |
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The She-Creature was this for Creature from the Black Lagoon, both revolving around an aquatic humanoid monster. | |
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Stellar Stone's Taxi Racer, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and Midnight Race Club: Supercharged! are mockbusters of Crazy Taxi, Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel, and Midnight Club, respectively. | |
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The Hamas-made kid's show Tomorrow's Pioneers features characters who are blatant ripoffs of American cartoons, though said characters are given radical Islamist twists by the writers. | |
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Veli, a Russian cartoon similar to Gravity Falls. Protagonist Veli is sent to live with his grandmother to learn the native language of Tatar. In the village, he makes friends and foes, and also has adventures that include mythical creatures. | |
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Left Alive (no relation to Left 4 Dead) is a critically-panned Metal Gear knockoff, with characters ironically designed by Metal Gear Solid artist Yoji Shinkawa. | |
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