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.
Sequel to remake of Sleeping Beauty (1959)
The lackluster 2019 sequel to Disney's hit 2014 reboot of the Sleeping Beauty story told from the perspective of the villain returns star Angelina Jolie (among others) and adds Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michelle Pfeiffer. But critics liked Joachim Rønning's sequel even less than the Robert Stromberg-directed previous film, and it failed to recapture Maleficent's box office magic.
“It gives you plenty to look at, even if you could say it’s been Avatarred and feathered to within an inch of its life. It’s the big, echoing hole in the middle – insert story, any story – that no one has figured out how to plug.” —Tim Robey, The Telegraph
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