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.
Considered the final release in Disney's original "golden age" of animation, 1967's The Jungle Book is also the first film released following the death of founder Walt Disney in late 1966 (though many of the studio's late 1960s and '70s releases contained at least some work that he supervised). Based on Rudyard Kipling's book of the same name, the oft-praised animated musical boasts one of Disney's better soundtracks (with classic songs such as "The Bare Necessities"), and it was a major hit upon its original release. The film is so popular that Disney has produced not one but two live-action adaptations: first in 1994 (the studio's very first live-action remake of one of its cartoons) from director Stephen Sommers, and again in 2016 with director Jon Favreau. (The upcoming live-action feature Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle is also based on Kipling's book but has no connection to Disney or the previous adaptations.)
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