Every Disney Live Action Remake, Ranked
Updated May 2023 to add The Little Mermaid and Peter Pan & Wendy
For over 25 years, Disney has been looking inward for inspiration for its live-action films, using its vast and beloved catalog of animated features as source material for remakes. Buoyed by mostly strong box office numbers, those remakes have been increasing in frequency in recent years, with six arriving just since the start of 2019 and many more expected to arrive in the next few years.
In the gallery above, we rank each of Disney's live-action remakes (from 1994's The Jungle Book to the just-released The Little Mermaid) from best to worst by Metascore, which reflects the critical consensus for each film.
Sequel to remake of Alice in Wonderland (1951)
After Tim Burton's so-so live-action Alice in Wonderland remake racked up massive box office grosses in 2010, a sequel was inevitable. Much of the cast (including Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska) returns, but James Bobin (The Muppets) replaces Burton in the director's chair, and the result is the only absolute dud of his directorial career so far. The film grossed less than a third than its predecessor, hampered by terrible reviews.
“Hugely expensive and extravagantly stupid, Alice Through the Looking Glass is just one more silly Hollywood mashup, an innocent fantasy morphed into a noisy would-be blockbuster.” —Stephen Whitty, Daily News
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