Every Disney Animated Film, Ranked Worst to Best
Updated November 2022 to add Strange World
The king of all animation houses, Walt Disney Animation Studios has been releasing feature films for over 80 years. Many of those films are all-time classics of the genre, though some have failed to impress reviewers. In the gallery above, we rank every one of Disney's animated features by Metascore from worst-reviewed to best.
To keep things manageable, films from subsidiaries/related studios are excluded—these are only Walt Disney Animation productions—though you can find films from Disney's Pixar label in a separate gallery. We are also excluding mostly live-action films that also include some animation (Song of the South, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, etc.) as well as Disney's many direct-to-video sequels produced by its Disneytoon subsidiary.
Note that one official Disney animated film (1977 anthology The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh) does not have enough reviews available to calculate a Metascore.
Oddly, some of Disney's most forgettable releases aren't all that distant. But even if the average movie fan may be hard-pressed to pull up any details about this 2003 feature, it holds one distinction: Of the 57 films in the Disney animated feature canon, there has never been one worse than Brother Bear, at least in the eyes of critics. Kicking off a streak of four straight films scoring 60 or below—the worst stretch in Disney's history—Bear follows an Inuit boy who hunts and kills a bear, only to be magically changed into a bear himself (where he, inevitably, picks up some important life lessons). But while critics found it unbearably "generic" and "predictable," it actually performed decently at the box office, grossing $250 million.
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