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.
The third sequel in Disney's animated canon—if you can call a film without a story a "sequel"—this 2000 release repeats the format of the studio's 1940 classic Fantasia. Like that film, Fantasia 2000 is an anthology of cartoon shorts set to pieces of classical music, though it adds some celebrity narrators (Steve Martin, Quincy Jones, James Earl Jones, Penn & Teller—well, mostly Penn). One of those shorts, the Mickey Mouse vehicle "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," is a repeat from the original film. The subject matter and an IMAX-heavy rollout (which limits the number of screens the film can reach) meant that Fantasia 2000, like the original film, was never going to be a box office hit, and it grossed just $90 million. Unlike the first film, it wasn't universally loved; critics found the sequel's segments a mixed bag.
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