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 Beauty and the Beast (1991)
One of the few Disney remakes to remain a musical in its live-action form, Bill Condon's 2017 version of Beauty and the Beast even added a handful of new songs by the first film's composer Alan Menken (along with lyricist Tim Rice, filling in for the late Howard Ashman). Though it could not match the critical acclaim of the original film, the new Beast became Disney's highest-grossing live-action remake (as well as the top-grossing live-action musical in history), and the studio is currently developing a spinoff TV series (centering on the characters of Gaston and LeFou, voiced by Luke Evans and Josh Gad) called Little Town for its Disney+ streaming service.
“It looks the same, moves the same and sounds the same (those Alan Menken songs!) as the original. But some of the magic has gone M.I.A.” —Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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