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 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) and other material
Ewan McGregor stars as the titular Pooh pal in this 2018 live-action/CGI hybrid from director Marc Forster that reimagines A.A. Milne's stories, focusing on Robin as an adult who reunites with his childhood friend, Winnie (voiced by Jim Cummings). Critics didn't love it, and the film didn't make a huge impact at the box office, though it is Disney's highest-grossing Winnie the Pooh film to date.
“Very rarely do you get the sense that anyone involved in Christopher Robin had a really strong take on the material or an innate understanding of why these characters have resonated for nearly a century.” —Tim Grierson, Paste
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