If You Loved The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Watch These 8 Next

You finished the dwarf song and want more road trips with wizards. Here are eight that share the feel, the walking and the magic.

#1 is the lowest-scored film in its own trilogy. It's still the best.

1. 8
   Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)9.5

   The funniest quest ever filmed, and it barely has horses.

   Same knights-on-a-mission bones as Thorin's crew, minus the budget. It made $2.6M domestic and still beats 99% of movies with audiences. Coconuts did that.
2. 7
   Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)8.9

   The only Potter that feels like a real fairy tale.

   Cuarón brings the same storybook dread as Bilbo's riddle cave. movie.guru score 8.9, Guru's Take 9.0. The rare one the Guru likes more than the crowd.
3. 6
   Wildwood (2026)9.5

   Gorgeous, weird, and way too many of you skipped it.

   An animated woodland quest with real forest magic. 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, yet only $27.4M domestic against a reported $100M budget. Fix that tonight.
4. 5
   The Wizard of Oz (1939)9.5

   The original walk-somewhere-far-with-odd-friends movie.

   A homebody yanked into a long road with oddball companions. Sound familiar? 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, and it pulled that off on a reported $2.8M budget in 1939.
5. 4
   Star Wars (1977)9.6

   Farm kid, old wizard, big adventure. The Hobbit in space.

   Swap the dragon for a space station and the bones match. Reported $11M budget, $775.4M worldwide, and the highest movie.guru score on this list at 9.6.
6. 3
   The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)9.4

   The weakest of the trilogy, and still better than most.

   Same Middle-earth, same McKellen, more marching. It ties Return of the King at 9.4 on movie.guru, but the Guru's Take sits at 8.8. Too much hiking.
7. 2
   The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)9.4

   The biggest finale fantasy has ever pulled off.

   Everything The Hobbit builds toward, cranked to max. $1.14B worldwide, a 9.0 on IMDb, an A+ CinemaScore, a 94 Metacritic. Guru's Take: 9.3.
8. 1
   The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)9.0

   The best Lord of the Rings. Yes, the lowest-scored one.

   Closest to The Hobbit's cozy Shire feel before the world gets huge. Its 9.0 movie.guru score trails both sequels at 9.4. The numbers are wrong. Fight me.

$457.29 says you start Fellowship tonight and somehow hit Return of the King by Sunday.

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