Leo vs. Leo: Which of Netflix’s two hit movies with the same name is vital to your life?
The churn of Netflix content makes it almost inevitable that occasionally disparate movies and TV shows will share similar titles. It’s decidedly less typical for two different films bearing the exact same title to arrive on the service at roughly the same time. But that happened in late 2023: One movie called Leo arrived on the service on Nov. 21, followed by another movie called Leo just a week later.
Understandably, this has caused some confusion among viewers who aren’t sure whether they want to watch an animated romp about a talking lizard counseling fifth graders in Florida, or an Indian action blockbuster riffing on the David Cronenberg film A History of Violence. Fortunately, we’ve put together this handy guide for telling these two Leos apart, and figuring out which Leo is right for you.
Both movies feature a lot of computer-generated animals. If you want to see those animals talking, giving advice, and advocating for themselves, the fully animated Leo is your best bet: It stars Adam Sandler as the titular iguana, a fifth grade classroom pet who experiences a crisis of mortality upon learning that he is, in fact, 74 years old, and may be near the end of his lifespan.
Leo plans to escape and see more of the world that’s passed him by, hoping to take advantage of a new classroom initiative where each student must take him home with them for a weekend. Instead, he winds up helping each kid in the classroom through their one-on-one interactions — a neat structure that freshens the movie up whenever it threatens to turn into formula.
It turns out that in spite of Leo’s sheltered existence (he can’t even do basic addition and subtraction, because that’s covered down in second grade, not fifth), a lifetime of classroom
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