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[[File:Mockbuster - RatatouilleRatatoing 9422.jpg|link=Ratatoing|frame| A clever rat knows how to get the freshest ingredients: by stealing from another restaurant -- or [[Pixar|animation studio]], as the case may be...]]

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{{quote|''"Another great knock-off is DVDs. The ones that are slight variations of slightly animated kids' movies. The kind they put right next to the check-out line, so Grandma might accidentally mistake it for the real thing. And they have titles like, ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|The Secret Princess and Her Oppressive Authority Figure]] [[Sequelitis|4]]'', and the always-popular ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|Jungle Animals in Decidedly Non-Jungle Situations]]''."''

|'''Strong Bad''', ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', Strong Bad Email #190, "licensed"}}

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{{quote|''"Another great knock-off is DVDs. The ones that are slight variations of slightly animated kids' movies. The kind they put right next to the check-out line, so Grandma might accidentally mistake it for the real thing. And they have titles like, ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|The Secret Princess and Her Oppressive Authority Figure]] [[Sequelitis|4]]'', and the always-popular ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|Jungle Animals in Decidedly Non-Jungle Situations]]''."''~~|'''Strong Bad''', ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', Strong Bad Email #190, "licensed"}}~~

In principle, the Mockbuster is a bit like a movie with an [[Parallel Porn Titles|Alternative Pornographic Name]], but there's generally no nudity. It's not part of a pair of [[Dueling Movies|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? [[Follow the Leader|Trying To Make Money Off A Popular Idea]], of course.

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{{examples|Examples (Pot holes lead to pages of the films being copied unless the copy itself has an article):}}

== Film - Animation ==

* Everything ever made by [[Dingo Pictures]].

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* A [[Tomorrow AD|modern]] adaptation of ''[[Moby Dick]].'' Ahab ([[The Rocky Horror Picture Show|Barry]] [[Spin City|Bostwick]]) is a Navy captain who repurposes his [[Cool Sub|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]], [[Better Than It Sounds|it's not half bad]] and features [[Shown Their Work|many references to the original story]].

* ''[[Godzilla (film)|Gargantua]]''.

* Somewhat unfairly, the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica ~~Classic]]~~'' 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 mooted - but sensibly quickly dropped when it became clear that a setting in space was really the only obvious link between the two.

* Somewhat unfairly, [[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|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 mooted - but sensibly quickly dropped when it became clear that a setting in space was really the only obvious link between the two.

* [[Distaff Counterpart|Lady]] [[Terminator]]—basically the same as its namesake, but instead of an android, it's an archaeologist possessed by the Queen of the South Sea. Other than that, according to [[The Cinema Snob]], if you haven't seen Terminator, but you've seen Lady Terminator, you've pretty much seen Terminator.

* ''[[Cowboys and Aliens]]'' was ripped off by ''Cowboys And Vampires'' and ''Cowboys And Zombies''.