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 Alice in Wonderland (1951)
After going a decade without a live-action remake, Disney made another attempt and struck box office gold—and hasn't stopped remaking its films since. Tim Burton directs (who else) Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, and (as Alice) Mia Wasikowska in this 3D feature loosely adapted from Lewis Carroll's beloved novels, previously animated by Disney nearly 60 years earlier (to slightly better effect). Burton's remake was a massive box office hit—grossing over $1 billion worldwide—despite disappointing reviewers with its emphasis on visuals over coherence and humanity.
“In the end, Alice in Wonderland comes off as manufactured instead of dreamy. Burton delivers all the wonder money can buy; what's missing is the wonder it can't.” —Stephanie Zacharek, Salon
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