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.
Arguably not even a feature—it clocks in at just 42 minutes, though is nevertheless considered to be part of Disney's official animated feature canon—1942's mostly forgotten "Hello Friends" consists of four segments (two featuring Donald Duck, one Goofy, and one with a new character named Pedro), all set in Latin America, and all featuring short live action clips in addition to animation. It was the first of a series of six "package films" (i.e., anthologies) that would constitute almost all of Disney's remaining 1940s film lineup, with shorter runtimes necessitated by WWII and a labor dispute, which combined to deplete the studio's staff. The production of Amigos followed a State Department-funded goodwill tour of South America by Disney employees, and the film served as a much-needed introduction to the region for many American moviegoers.
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