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.
Prequel to remake of One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
Released simultaneously in theaters and on Disney+ in 2021, this second consecutive PG-13-rated Disney film (following Mulan) stars Emma Stone as 101 Dalmatians villain Cruella de Vil—a character previously portrayed by Glenn Close in two previous live-action remakes—in an origin/prequel story set in 1970s London. The visually impressive (if otherwise lackluster) film comes from director Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya) and also features Emma Thompson, Paul Walter Hauser, and Kirby Howell-Baptiste.
“A love of pure aesthetics will help anyone looking to appreciate the movie, whose sets and costumes are as indulgent as its soundtrack. As an opportunity for Emma Stone to purr and vamp in elaborate gowns, Cruella is plenty enjoyable. But the “too much is just enough” attitude that makes it visually pleasurable also makes it a slog in the storytelling department.” —Katie Rife, A.V. Club
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