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 Pinocchio (1940)
Despite plenty of big-name talent including director Robert Zemeckis, screenwriter Chris Weitz, and stars like Tom Hanks, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Cynthia Erivo, and Keegan-Michael Key, this 2022 reimagining of one of Disney's all-time great films left critics wildly disappointed by yet another "soulless knockoff" when the film premiered on Disney+.
“One of the best things I can say about the movie is that it likely won't be one that your child will want to watch over and over, which means you won't have to, either.” —Vanessa Armstrong, Slashfilm
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