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| ''[[Oliver and Company]]'' || ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'' || Similar to the above, Bluth and Disney faced off again in 1988/1989 with films featuring dogs, little girls, and orphans. Charlie and Dodger look awfully similar, too. || ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'', released second, had to compete at the box office (and with the critics) against ''[[The Little Mermaid]]''. ||Both received lukewarm reviews. ''[[Oliver and Company]]'' vastly outperformed ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'' at the box office, but ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'' became a hit on VHS and spawned a sequel and a TV series, while ''[[Oliver and Company]]'' remains one of Disney's least-remembered films.
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|''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]''|| ''[[Repo Men]]'' || Both sci-fi films about a massive corporation in a [[Crapsack World]] that offers organ transplants to the masses, and who send "repo men" assassins to murder those who can't pay their debts. The former, also called Repo!, is a musical, while the latter is an action film based on the 2009 novel, ''Repossession Mambo''.<br />Despite the names, ''neither'' film is a sequel to the '84 SF cult classic ''[[Repo Man]]'', whose spiritual sequel ''[[Distaff Counterpart|Repo Chick]]'' was released in fall 2009. Confused yet? ||Although it has been reported that the concept for ''[[Repo Men]]'' was conceived in 2003, [https://web.archive.org/web/20150523211406/http://www.terrancezdunich.com/blog/?p=2804 some two years AFTER the stage version of Repo! debuted], the author's essay at the back of the novel reveals that ''Repossession Mambo'' was his first novel, the one he fell in love with but couldn't sell, and had been in parallel development with the screenplay since 2001. ||''Repo!'' did OK business in a very, ''very'' limited release (i.e. 11 screens nationally), and has since become a cult classic. ''[[Repo Men]]'s'' first weekend gross, although easily bigger, did not match its multi-million dollar production and advertising budget. It also has a lower percentage of positive reviews than ''Repo!'' on [[Rotten Tomatoes]].
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|''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]''|| ''The Pirate Movie'' || Both are adaptations of the famous [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] operetta ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'' released around 1982-1983. The former is a filmed rendition of the then-running Broadway revival with much of the same cast; the latter is a very-loose rendition of the story with a few of the same songs (and some [[Movie Bonus Song|extras]]) and a generally 80's feel. || ''The Pirate Movie'' got to theaters first, in the midst of ''Penzance's'' Broadway run, and quickly faded away. Although a box-office bomb itself, the failure of ''Penzance'' was caused by [[Executive Meddling]], not lack of interest. ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'' actually enjoyed a long run in ''one'' of the '''''92''''' theaters that showed it. ||''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'', with a higher [[Rotten Tomatoes]] score and a Golden Globe nom for Best Actress. ''The Pirate Movie'' bombed critically and earned a few Razzie nominations.
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