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 Jungle Book (1967)
Directed by future The Mummy helmer Stephen Sommers, this 1994 film marks the first time that Disney attempted a live-action retelling of material it previously adapted into a cartoon. It was released in honor of the 100th anniversary of Rudyard Kipling's original Mowgli stories and features a cast led by Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill, and John Cleese—but absolutely no talking animals.
“If this version of The Jungle Book makes for a fable that is thinner than it might have been, the film is splendidly picturesque and moves along briskly.” —Stephen Holden, The New York Times
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