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 Cinderella (1950)
Kenneth Branagh's 2015 reimagining of one of Disney's most iconic animated classics stars lily James in the title role, while Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden, Helena Bonham Carter, and Stellan Skarsgård also star. The result performed fairly well at the box office after receiving a decent reception from reviewers, who found it perhaps a little too devoted to the original film.
“Though this Cinderella could never replace Disney’s animated classic, it’s no ugly stepsister either, but a deserving companion.” —Peter Debruge, Variety
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