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.
While Disney's first two animated features adapted classic children's stories, the studio's third (debuting with a road show release in late 1940) remains one of the most sui generis and groundbreaking animated films in cinema history: It's an anthology of proto-music videos for eight pieces of classical music, which were recorded and screened in a first-of-its-kind stereo surround sound called "Fantasound." One of the segments, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," features Disney's (literally) iconic Mickey Mouse character, marking his first appearance in a full-length release from the studio. The film has returned to theaters at least nine times following its original run, with some of those screenings (unofficially, but definitely) seeking to capitalize on Fantasia's increasing popularity with fans of psychedelic drugs. (Is there a scene with dancing mushrooms? Why yes, there is.)
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