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 best-reviewed and highest-grossing film since The Lion King, this 1999 retelling of Edgar Rice Burroughs's classic story (which, shockingly, was never before animated) is typically considered the final film in Disney's decade-long "Renaissance" period, and it would be followed by a series of uninspired films that connected with neither critics nor moviegoers. But both groups liked Tarzan. The film grossed nearly $450 million (though it also was hugely expensive to make, setting a record at the time for an animated film), and reviewers mostly found the film "thrilling" and "inspired," though a few dinged the storytelling. Tarzan is one of the few Disney animated films that doesn't utilize a musical format. While it does have original songs (written and performed by Phil Collins), they are part of the backing music and not sung by the characters on screen.
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