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 Mulan (1998)
Disney's newest remake had its spring 2020 theatrical premiere delayed and then canceled—replaced with a $30 direct-to-streaming release model—following the covid outbreak. Niki Caro (Whale Rider) directs this PG-13, action-filled remake of Disney's 1998 historical epic set in Han dynasty China, where a young woman (played in the new film by Yifei Liu) disguises herself as a man to enlist in the army.
“Mulan is big, sumptuous entertainment. It's good, but not great, transforming the story associated with the 1998 animated musical into a song-free, live-action movie that's more adequate than transcendent -- a perfectly reasonable family-viewing investment that's worth seeing, but not necessarily a must-buy.” —Brian Lowry, CNN
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