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| ''Orange County'' || ''Stealing Harvard'' || 2002 films about two guys finagling their way into the good graces of a prestigious university. || || Neither did well at the box office, but Orange County is considered better and has a better following today. The public was introduced [[The Good Guys|Colin Hanks]] (''OC''), but was already sick of [[Tom Green]] (''Harvard'').
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| ''[[The Green Hornet (film)|The Green Hornet]]'' || ''[[Green Lantern (film)|Green Lantern]]''<br /><br />''[[Green Arrow]]'' (on hold) || Green-themed superheroes.<br /><br />It isn't easy being green for [[Development Hell|would-be]] third contender, ''Green Arrow: Escape From Super Max''. ||One is based on a long-running second-tier ''[[Internet Backdraft|(perhaps)]]'' DC icon, one is based on a [[The Green Hornet|cult TV show]]. Both had to correct for [[Weaksauce Weakness|silly weaknesses]] (yellow and [[Sidekick Ex Machina|reliance on]] [[Bruce Lee]], respectively). ||''[[Cracked.com]]'' made [http://www.cracked.com/article_19015_green-lantern-vs.-green-hornet-telling-them-apart-5Bchart5D.html a chart] pointing out how similar the two movies were. In the end, ''Lantern'' got thrashed by critics and is proving to be a total disaster at the box office for [[Warner Bros]]., who were marketing it as their big movie for the summer of 2011. By contrast, ''Hornet'' got mixed reviews but made back its budget nearly twice over, so it looks to be the winner.
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| ''[[Antz]]'' || ''[[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]]'' ||The first example of Pixar and Dreamworks really dueling. Featuring ants as their main protagonists, the ant worker hero, who wants to stand out among the millions of other ants, falls for the ant princess, who seems an almost unattainable love interest. The ant hero goes on a long journey to a bug city, which is actually a pile of human garbage. And then he returns and gets the girl. ||Apart from the ants being protagonists, almost nothing else about the films was the same. [[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]] had a very cartoonish design, while [[Antz]] had a more realistic design of the insects. Antz had dark humor, dialogue and themes all around, while [[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]] was aimed at children. Just the same, thanks to the ants, they were ''both'' considered to be ripping ''each other'' off. (Fact is, Jeffery Katzenberg, though responsible for getting ''[[Toy Story]]'' greenlit, had just been booted from Disney, was furious at them, and knew about the next Pixar project; the competition was intentional.)|| Both films were a success with both audiences and critics, as well as financially, but ''[[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]]'' won by bringing in $200,000,000 more than ''Antz'' thanks to appealing more to kids and better promotion.
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