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.
Lloyd Alexander's five-book, award-winning Chronicles of Prydain fantasy series about a young assistant pig-keeper named Taran has delighted young readers since the 1960s. But Alexander's world didn't make its way to the big screen until this 1985 Disney film, which is named after the second book and contains elements from the first two novels, though it makes numerous changes to the story.
To call it a wasted opportunity is an understatement. The result—Disney's first PG-rated animated feature and its first to feature some computer animation and lack a single musical number—easily ranks among the studio's worst films, and it was a complete financial disaster thanks to a then-record $44 million production budget and minuscule box office grosses. The fallout was so bad that for a time Disney appeared headed to bankruptcy. Needless to say, the remainder of the book series never made it to film, and the film's princess heroine, Ellonwy, has been excluded from the Disney Princesses franchise.
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