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.
This 1961 classic, based on the novel of the same name by Dodie Smith, features one of the big screen's most memorable villains, Cruella De Vil (voiced by Betty Lou Gerson, previously the narrator of Cinderella), who, like Mr. Burns, has a fondness for making garments out of puppies. (Simpsons creator Matt Groening was reportedly a big fan of Disney's Dalmatians, with the film's scenes of cartoon dogs watching cartoons on TV inspiring him to have the Simpsons children watch their own cartoon within a cartoon, Itchy and Scratchy). The first Disney animated film set in the real, (then-)present-day world, Dalmatians is also one of the first to get a live-action remake, via a 1996, John Hughes-scripted adaptation starring Glenn Close as De Vil. The original animated film was a hit upon its original release and remains one of the all-time highest-grossing movies, adjusting for inflation.
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