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.
Remake of Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Critics certainly didn't love Robert Stromberg's 2014 film, which takes the fairy tale adapted in the 1959 cartoon and reimagines it from the opposite perspective: that of the wicked fairy Maleficent, played here by Angelina Jolie. But grosses exceeding $750 million meant that it was good enough to get a sequel, which followed in 2019.
“The aggressively unpleasant visuals certainly detract from the overall film, but Maleficent makes for a fascinating entry in an ongoing wave of projects that give “bad” women of literature a chance to present their side of the story.” —Alonso Duralde, The Wrap
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