Top 20 Worst Changes In Disney Live Action Remakes

These Disney changes left fans shaking their heads. For this list, we’ll be looking at the most questionable alterations in Disney’s live-action (and “photorealistic”) remakes of their animated classics. Our countdown includes Not Being Musicals, Sucking Out the Color, Botching “Be Prepared”, Changing Mulan’s Entire Character Arc, and more! Which change left you saying, “Oh my Disney?!” Let us know in the comments!

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[WatchMojo]

Which change left you saying, “Oh my Disney?!” Let us know in the comments!

[TheWarmachine]

Disney: *makes another live action remake*

Everyone: "HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON, OLD MAN?!"

[trinaq]

Mulan 1998: An ordinary, Determined young woman who rises against the odds placed against her.
Mulan 2020: A Mary Sue who is perfect and inexplicably has superpowers.

[trinaq]

I can't believe that they didn't let Scar sing "Be Prepared", AKA one of the best villain songs of all time. They kept most of the dialogue the same, so what's even the point?

[susanaustgen]

Alice in Wonderland was NOT a remake, it's technically a sequel.

[RayMcElroy]

"Evil cannot create anything new. It can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made."

- JRR Tolkien

[francescogiovannizollo]

Everyone: "What inspired you to make a live action movie after releasing the original one?"
Disney: *"MONEY"*

[elithesia]

I agree with most of these, but let me explain why Cinderella doesn’t try to escape in the 2015 version, because I feel a lot of people don’t realize the slight change that explains why she wouldn’t:

In the animated version, Lady Tremaine announces loud and clear that the royal party is coming to every house to find girls. So Cinderella knows that she can’t miss her chance, hence why she tries to escape due to knowing who’s coming and what it means for her.

In the 2015 version, the glass slipper announcement doesn’t happen until after Cinderella is already locked up, so she has no reason to believe anyone coming to their house out in the country would be royal or looking for her, especially with her stepmother making other plans behind the scenes. Her making the best of her situation is supposed to be her subtlety telling her stepmother that her spirit can’t be broken, which is then heard by everyone when the mice open the window.

Could they maybe have shown it a little more to get that point across? Admittedly, probably. But it makes sense for the story being told, and it’s not as awful as people think.

[jamesheatherly]

Be prepared in Lion King 2019 left me like, “Really? This is how we’re commemorating this all time classic’s 25th anniversary?”

[Chrizio]

The removal of the "it's in the past" interaction with Rafiki in The Lion King is CRIMINAL and should've been on this list

[jonkeiser]

The only problem I had with the new Aladdin was Iago didn’t get angry and frustrated and The Sultan wasn’t jolly and perky and childlike, despite being strict and bossy at times, since his character was inspired by The Wizard of oz.

[LeeHardingakaFirmament]

The whole point of the muted colour in Burton’s “Alice” was deliberate - because Wonderland is diseased and falling apart, with the need for Alice to return and turn things back (all of the characters mention that Alice had been to Wonderland in the past - essentially the animated classic version).

[epp]

"Technology fades overtime, the orginal's raw emotion and hand drawn artistry won't." Well said.

[AWriterWandering]

The worst thing Disney did was start making live-action remakes.

[chasehedges]

The Disney classics will always be iconic but the Disney Remakes will be dust in the wind

[amandamakin]

The worst things Disney changed:
- Sheer Khan killing Akaela (doesn't happen in the original, doesn't happen in the original book)
- Changing so much from Mulan: they rewrote the ENTIRE story & also took out Mushu for "not being realistic" yet replace him with a pheonix
Also, this list will eventually get a remake or sequel...

[joyunicycle]

I'd put "Botching Prepared" higher on the list; that was unforgivable

[LeonardoKlotz]

You know, a mean-spirited story is the result of lazy writing

[TheatreJG]

I have to disagree with Gaston leaving Belle's Dad to die that actually fits Gaston to a tee. All he cares about his himself and marrying Belle for her looks. Everyone else he really doesn't care for besides if they praise him.

[ElvisRose_]

My eight year old niece has a lot to say about how the realism of these remakes kills the cartoon charm of the original. She told me that even if she likes the real people on occasion, like Ariel & Belle from the remakes, their interactions with their realistic environment ruins everything. Their target audience is not looking for realism and none of the remakes make adults nostalgic when they could just stay at home with their kids, watching Disney+, and have everyone enjoy the movie.