DISNEY ANIMATION - All 58 Movies Ranked Worst to Best

It's finally time to rank all 58 films from the Walt Disney Animation Classics canon from Snow White to Frozen II, from worst to best!

The movies are:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Pinocchio
Fantasia
Dumbo
Bambi
Saludos Amigos
The Three Caballeros
Make Mine Music
Fun and Fancy Free
Melody Time
The Adventures of Icabod and Mr. Toad
Cinderella
Alice in Wonderland
Peter Pan
Lady and the Tramp
Sleeping Beauty
One Hundred and One (101) Dalmatians
The Sword in the Stone
The Jungle Book
The Aristocats
Robin Hood
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
The Rescuers
The Fox and the Hound
The Black Cauldron
Basil The Great Mouse Detective
Oliver and Company
The Little Mermaid
The Rescuers Down Under
Beauty and the Beast
Aladdin
The Lion King
Pocahontas
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hercules
Mulan
Tarzan
Fantasia 2000
Dinosaur
The Emperor's New Groove
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Lilo and Stitch
Treasure Planet
Brother Bear
Home on the Range
Chicken Little
Meet the Robinsons
Bolt
The Princess and the Frog
Tangled
Winnie the Pooh
Wreck-It Ralph
Frozen
Big Hero 6
Zootopia / Zootropolis
Moana
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Frozen 2

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[drewby]

Everything’s fun and games until someone suggests that the second Ralph is better than the first.

[ryanratchford]

The first 10 minutes is just all the films that built up my childhood getting insulted 😭😭

[h.burggraff]

Treasure Planet deserved so much better😔

[WolfieboyMachi]

I can not recall having ever disagreed with a tier list THIS badly...

[jmakowsky]

Here is my favorite for every era:
-Golden era: Snow White
-Wartime: Ichabod and Mr. Toad
-Silver era: Peter pan
-Bronze era: The Aristocats
-Renessiance: The Lion King
-Post Renaissance: The Emperor's New Groove
-Revival: Tangled
-No Lasseter era: Frozen 2

[MaxBoltonReviews]

Couldn't Disagree more with Wreck It Ralph. A movie shouldn't be brought down just because it doesn't feel 'Disney' If that were the case, Disney would never be able to take risks and make change.

[tonyilias]

Brother Bear, The Fox and the Hound, Robin Hood, The Aristocats, Bolt, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Lilo & Stitch are all super underrated and need to be talked about more.

[scandicgamer]

To be honest, I love this guy’s content, editing and his work, but he is one of the ranking you tubers I probably agree the least with. I think you put some movies that are actually very good way too low and some movies that are mediocre too high up

[laurenferschweiler]

The DISRESPECT Brother Bear received is unacceptable

[craig]

MOVIE THEORY:


Is Robin Hood An ancestor of Nick Wilde?

[curesaul]

Unpopular opinion:
My entire family loves The Aristocats. It’s the one movie that appeals to all five of us to the five cats.

[zombeevee]

Treasure Planet was painfully low and wreck it Ralph 2 higher than the first :/ I can't agree with this list at all

[ms]

My favorites per era:
Golden Age: Dumbo
Wartime: Three Caballeros
Silver Age: Peter Pan
Dark Age: Oliver and Company
Renaissance: The Little Mermaid
Post-Renaissance: Emperor’s New Groove
Revival: Zootopia

[editflores]

You're on 52 and I disagree with all of them already LOL

[basementdweller]

I respectfully disagree with the spot “Fox and the Hound” got. I feel that just because the animation wasn’t spot on doesn’t mean it is flawed. The story and character development wasn’t awkward or feel like it was forced, unlike many cliche disney movies. It knew when to make the audience cry, or to feel joy. And it taught a very wise lesson.

[Geblawi]

I watched the original “Fantasia” for the first time in 2014 (at 27) and was simply _blown away_ by the pure artistry of 1940 Disney.

The movie is a grandiose experiment in showing the world what animation is capable of, blending all Disney had done before and cranking everything to a new level. It’s beautiful, sweeping, terrifying, hilarious, soothing, ferocious. It’s true cinematic art.

Even though not paleontologically correct anymore, the “Rite of Spring” segment (with the dinosaurs) is still good. It’s an example of how animated realism could be achieved. Walt Disney’s mandate for the segment was not to anthropomorphize the dinosaurs, not to make them cute. Yet, they still manage to be expressive with great subtlety.

This only underscores how a simple cartoon producer managed to do realism far better, with a prehistoric 2D animation, than a world-renowned moviemaker with all the latest and the best of CGI and VR moviemaking (I’m looking at you, Jon Favreau). Since this work, there has never been a better piece of dinosaur media on film.¹

I could go on forever about “Fantasia”; it’s really one of my favorite things made by Disney.² While not perfect, the movie is a masterpiece in my eyes.³

I urge any art fans to buy this incredibly-important, criminally-underseen piece of work, if only for the art.⁴


¹: What I like the most about the dinosaur sequence is that, due to a flub in knowledge, the Tyrannosaurus Rex had three fingers and fought a Stegosaurus (which is more impossible than a T. Rex encountering a human). Retroactively, this makes it an Allosaurus fighting a Stegosaurus, thus correct.

²: I still can’t believe this movie’s animated effects work so well for being 80 years ago. The lava and volcano scenes just really stuck out to me for so long. I think we, as a culture, have taken Disney animation for granted, but Walt Disney was definitely the Medici of the 20th century. At least as visual arts go.

³: I won’t lie, “Fantasia” has its longueurs—I’ve never cared much for the pastoral section—but at its best, it’s one of the impactful movies ever made.

⁴: I can’t imagine, though, how this project was green-lit in 1940. Even specifying (via the introductions to each segment, often cut) that the demon is Satan, and that the “Rite of Spring” segment is based on scientific fact—must have annoyed the ultra-Christian groups?

*Update:* Edited because my “U” key is sticking!

[nickwheeler]

It always annoys me when people say that Alice in Wonderland's narrative is messy. Have any of them ever read the original book? That's exactly how the narrative is. Messy and wacko, which is what makes it so charming!!!

[johnforbes]

Favourite from each era:
Golden - Bambi
Wartime - Icabod and Mr Toad
Silver - Sleeping Beauty
Dark - Fox and the Hound
Renaissance - The Little Mermaid
Second Dark Age - Emperors New Groove
Revival - Tangled

[kevinmaruthananth]

101 Dalmations is super underrated by everyone imo... ❤️

[AlexKamillaKroy]

"Brother Bear" is awesome, don't start