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 final film of the 1950s is another one of the studio's all-time classics, though it would be their final fairy tale adaptation until The Little Mermaid 30 years later. It was the first film ever released in the "Super Technirama 70" widescreen format (later adopted by Spartacus, among others, though not used again by Disney until 1985), and an expensive, time-consuming production all around: Preproduction began in 1951 and repeated delays caused the release date to slip to 1959. Like many early Disney films, it then lost money when first released—but, like many of those films, it also became a huge financial success over time thanks to numerous re-releases. Disneyland helped to cement the film's iconic status: A "Sleeping Beauty Castle" attraction was given a prominent place in the theme park four years before the movie even opened, and a representation of the castle has served as the logo on the Walt Disney Pictures title card since 1985.
Disney released a much darker, live-action take on the Sleeping Beauty story in 2014, re-titled Maleficent. Despite mixed reviews, it was enough of a hit that a sequel has been greenlit.
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