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.
Underappreciated by critics and audiences at the time of its original release, this trippy 1951 musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's two Alice fantasy novels ultimately attained all-time classic status and today is considered one of the studio's most-loved films. It was a struggle to get the film to the screen—Walt Disney once wanted to make it his first feature in the early 1930s in a half animated, half live-action format, but instead opted for Snow White—and it was a huge money loser for Disney once it finally got there, reaching profitability only in the 1970s thanks to a series of theatrical re-releases capitalizing on a growing cultural fondness for psychedelica.
Disney also released a 2010 live-action Alice in Wonderland from director Tim Burton (and a dreadful 2016 sequel from James Bobin), though those films are better characterized as fresh adaptations of the Carroll books rather than as live-action remakes of the animated film.
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