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.
The period from 1989's The Little Mermaid to 1994's The Lion King ranks as the most impressive stretch in Disney history by any measure. It had to end sometime, and it did, in 1995, with the release of Pocahontas, though the studio wouldn't fully head into another dark period until 2000. The first Disney animated film to feature a woman of color as its lead character and the first to be based on actual events (though it is a deeply fictionalized account of the life of the titular Native American and her relationship with colonial Jamestown settler John Smith, voiced by Mel Gibson), Pocahontas was able to overcome its mixed reviews to gross nearly $350 million, though that figure was considered a disappointment after the record-setting success of The Lion King. It did pick up another two Oscar trophies, however, with wins for score and song going to Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz (the latter a theater veteran working on his first, but not his last, Disney film).
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