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 definite (and important) step in the right direction after the utter disaster of The Black Cauldron the previous year, 1986's Great Mouse Detective nevertheless failed to lift Disney completely out of its dark period of critical and commercial mediocrity. (There would be another dud yet to come.) Set in Victorian London and based on Eve Titus's Basil of Baker Street children's novels (which in turn are modeled on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, but focusing on the previously ignored mice and rats living beneath Holmes' home), the well-reviewed film may have single-handedly saved Disney's animation studio by making a (modest) profit, encouraging Disney executives to greenlight additional products. In a few years, beginning with the arrival of The Little Mermaid, they would be rewarded handsomely for that decision.
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