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 perhaps too-prolific Disney managed to release six animated features from 2001-05 (not even counting the films it distributed for Pixar or Studio Ghibli). Only one of those six—2002's Lilo & Stitch—received positive reviews from critics. But Stitch was good enough to score an Academy Award nomination for best animated film in addition to those solid reviews. A rare original story in the Disney canon, the film's present-day (but fantastical) story centers on a Hawaiian girl who adopts an extraterrestrial creature as her pet. The comedic, frenetic, and fun result proved so popular with audiences that Disney would go on to make two straight-to-video sequels and a television spinoff. Next up could be a live-action remake, though that just-announced project is still in the early development stages.
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