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.
It took at least seven writers (including Joss Whedon) to come up with the original story and script for this Jules Verne-inspired, non-musical, sci-fi adventure about a mission to the lost city of Atlantis in 1914. Atlantis features distinctive visuals provided by comic book artist Mike Mignola (Hellboy), one of the many ways in which the film is unique in the Disney canon. (Another way: it isn't aimed at a younger audience, though it's also not quite sophisticated enough to attract adults.) One way that Atlantis isn't unique, at least among Disney's 2000s entries: that mediocre Metascore. Many critics couldn't get past the muddled, uninspiring story. And Atlantis was such a box office disappointment that Disney was forced to cancel plans for both a theme park attraction and a television series based on the film.
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