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.
A very loose adaptation of Daniel P. Mannix's 1967 novel, Disney's 1981 film depicts the relationship between a red fox (voiced by Mickey Rooney) and a hound dog (Kurt Russell)—two animals who grow up as friends only to learn that society dictates they are supposed to be enemies. The film, which probably holds up a bit better than that Metascore suggests (critics like that it has a worthwhile message), marked a (not entirely peaceful) transition within the studio to a new generation of animators, and it is the final Disney film to feature the work of Don Bluth, who left the studio during Hound's production to found his own company and make The Secret of NIMH.
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