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.
Featuring cinema's most memorable noodle-eating scene outside of Tampopo, 1955's Lady and the Tramp follows the romantic adventures of two dogs from different socioeconomic classes. It was the first animated feature released by the newly formed Buena Vista, which remains Disney's distribution company to this day (all previous Disney films were distributed by RKO). And despite not coming from widely known source material (it is loosely based on a short story by Ward Greene called "Happy Dan," combined with some earlier original ideas from a Disney artist named Joe Grant, who in real life owned a dog named Lady), it was one of the very few early Disney films to be profitable upon its original release. It has continued to charm audiences in the decades since, which can mean only one thing: A live-action remake is coming, though it will debut on the Disney+ streaming service (which launches in late 2019) rather than in theaters. (The remake is scripted by mumblecore master Andrew Bujalski, which should be ... interesting?)
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