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 One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
Featuring a screenplay by John Hughes (and directed by Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure veteran Stephen Herek), this 1996 comedy features a scenery-chewing Glenn Close as villain Cruella de Vil and plenty of adorable puppies. That wasn't enough to win over critics, but the film was a big hit at the box office—so much so that Disney put a sequel into production. A new live-action prequel, starring Emma Stone as a young de Vil, is due in 2021.
“Fluffy and mild to the point of somnolence, it can't even get the full benefit of its strongest asset, Glenn Close's performance as the grasping virago Cruella DeVil.” —Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
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