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 animation studio had a stellar 1990s after two decades of doldrums following the death of Walt Disney, producing its biggest hits to date. That rebirth proved unsustainable, however, and the studio fell into a second "Dark Age"—despite maintaining its new film-a-year pace—beginning with this expensive 2000 non-musical adventure that blends then-cutting-edge CGI animation with real-world backgrounds. Because Dinosaur was a decent box office hit, some Disney followers cite the next film (The Emperor's New Groove) as the start of Disney's second dark age, but Dinosaur is certainly the beginning of a dip in quality that would come to characterize many of the studio's early 21st century films. Critics found the visuals stunning but the story "sappy", "childish" and "pedestrian." Despite that childish story, Dinosaur is only the second Disney animated film (following The Black Cauldron) to receive a PG rating, though most of the studio's subsequent films would follow suit.
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