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.
Disney's 1998 feature, counted today among the "Disney Princess" films mainly because it features a female protagonist, features the voice of ER's Ming-Na Wen as the title character, a warrior from Chinese legend who disguises herself as a man in order to fight in the army. The musical's soundtrack features the song "Reflection," which was then re-recorded by a 17-year-old Christina Aguilera as her debut single. (Spoiler alert: she became famous.) That said, the rest of Mulan's music didn't inspire critics, though they did like much of the story and the animation. The film wasn't a major hit, but it did perform a bit better than its predecessor (Hercules) at the box office, suggesting at the time that there could be life yet in the "Disney Renaissance." (Another spoiler alert: nope.)
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