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 first traditionally animated film in five years, 2009's The Princess and the Frog (based on both the Brothers Grimm fairy tale The Frog Prince and E.D. Baker's The Frog Princess and set in 1920s New Orleans) returns Disney to its musical roots, featuring original songs by Randy Newman. More importantly, it is the first Disney film with an African-American woman as its protagonist: Tiana, voiced by Anika Noni Rose. Coming after nearly a decade of commercial and/or critical duds that found Disney veering away from what it does best, Frog is often considered to mark the beginning of a new revival period for the animation studio that continues to the present day.
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