The Worst Mockbuster Ripoffs of Beloved Animated Movies According to Screencrush

"It's a truth universally acknowledged that with great artistic and financial success comes lots and lots of ripoffs. The entertainment world is full of these There is an industry within these industries, however, that experiences the largest volume of copycat culture of all, and that's animated children's movies. The term for a movie that is all but a carbon copy of another, more popular movie is 'mockbuster,' often seen as a desperate attempt to look and feel like something everyone already likes, if not an outright 1:1 parody. Mockbuster trends are nothing new, and started well before the apps were infiltrated by anonymous streaming slop, but their closeness to their source material, and the way their thumbnails and DVD covers are fashioned to look just enough like something people recognize means that more and more of us are becoming exposed to their ubiquity." - screencrush.com