Smaller heroes. Just as super.

Everyone always knew that Max had a wild imagination, but no one believed that his wildest creations -- a boy raised by watchful great white sharks and a girl with the force of a volcano -- were real. Now, these two pint-sized action masters will show Max that even an ordinary kid has what it takes to be extraordinary.
In The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “dreamscape adventure”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing imagination, identity, family, bullying, redemption.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Olaf's Frozen Adventure (2017)E8/E9 · family, identity
The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two (2020)E8/E9 · family, redemption
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (2010)E8/E9 · family, imagination
Eli (2019)E8/E9 · family, identity
Abominable (2019)E8/E9 · family, identity
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000)E8/E9 · family, identityThe same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Freaky Friday (2003)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
The Boss Baby (2017)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
A Dog's Purpose (2017)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Doctor Dolittle (1998)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
IF (2024)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Seed of Chucky (2004)alters at E8 · same rung · looseOther films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Onward (2020)consciousness in monsters · elfic suburbia
A Monster Calls (2016)consciousness in monsters · tree-guardian
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)consciousness in monsters · monster cruise
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)consciousness in monsters · monster society
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)consciousness in monsters · monster hotel
The Grinch (2018)consciousness in monsters · holiday townThe same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)consciousness in aliens · family, identity
Dog Man (2025)consciousness carried elsewhere · family, identity
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)consciousness in aliens · family, identity
Finding Nemo (2003)consciousness in animals · family, identity
Finding Dory (2016)consciousness in animals · family, identity
Shazam! (2019)consciousness in abstractions · family, identity