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To celebrate this access to all the best Disney movies, we went ahead and compiled a list of every Disney animated film and ranked them the best way we know how, by Certified Fresh...
- Chicken Little
- The Fox and The Hound
- Home on The Range
- Dinosaur
- Bolt
- Oliver & Company
- The Black Cauldron
- Saludos Amigos
- Three Caballeros
- Meet The Robinsons
The mid-2000's were an interesting time for Walt Disney Animation Studios; they had all but completely abandoned the traditional hand-drawn animation, with the satellite studios in Paris and Orlando quietly closing their doors as well (in 2002 and 2004 respectively). There was even an attempt to produce sequels to Pixar films without their involvem...
Dear lord this movie is boring. It's somewhat historically important because it was the last movie to be worked on by some of Walt's legendary Nine Old Men, who then handed the animation duties off to a new generation of talented artists, many of whom would be responsible for shaping the next few generations of Disney animated features (among them:...
For a while it looked like Home on the Range would be the last traditionally animated movie Disney would ever release. And if that had been true it would have been a truly inglorious demise. Home on the Range, originally envisioned as an ambitious supernatural western called Sweating Bullets (it went into production shortly after Hercules), soon mu...
If it turns out Jon Favreau's The Lion King remake uses live action plates that the animators will then superimpose hyper-realistic characters upon (and I can't get confirmation that this has been completely ruled out), just know that there's a precedent for this kind of thing. And that it's awful. That was the conceit behind Dinosaur, a bold, ambi...
Walt Disney Animation at its most inoffensive, Bolt features a talented team behind the camera, including future Big Hero 6 director Chris Williams, the Tangled creative team of Byron Howard and Nathan Greno, and a script co-written by This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman, but lacks anything remotely interesting, either technically or storytelling-wise....
If you've ever wondered where the painfully "hip" DreamWorks Animation movies began, well, here's a good place to start. Originally pitched by animator Pete Young in one of Jeffrey Katzenberg's infamous "Gong Show" pitch meetings where animators would throw out ideas and bad ideas would be "gonged" out of the room (the pitch was simply "Oliver Twis...
This movie is terrible but the stories that came out of it are beyond delicious. More than ten years in the making (the rights were first optioned in 1971 and Disney reacquired the rights last year), The Black Cauldron was the first Walt Disney animated film to feature computer-generated imagery, the first to have a Dolby Digital soundtrack, the fi...
The first in a series of more economically manageable "package films" that could be produced utilizing the diminished resources of the studio during World War II (when the Burbank studio was occupied by military personnel and produced a number of educational films) and the first film inspired by Walt's government-sponsored goodwill tour of South Am...
The follow-up to Saludos Amigos and the second of Disney's World War II-era "package films" to be inspired by Walt's ambassadorship to South America. (Briefly: the State Department, desperate to drum up support in South America, sent Walt on a goodwill tour of the region. Walt, who brought along a small team of artists, saw it as a way to creativel...
This is an odd transitional feature in the company's history. During production, Disney had announced that it was acquiring Pixar and that John Lasseter, visionary filmmaker and Pixar bigwig, would be leading the charge on all animated features. When he saw Meet the Robinsons, he cornered director Stephen Anderson and told him how the movie could b...
- Barry Levitt
- ‘Home on the Range’ (2004) Disney’s nadir came at a time when its multi-decade animation reign ended thanks to DreamWorks and Pixar’s rise. Home on the Range follows a group of dairy cows who try to save their farm, but they get lost in this desperately unfunny entry, with Disney’s worst villain ever to boot.
- ‘Dinosaur’ (2000) You’d be forgiven for forgetting that Dinosaur is a Disney film at all. It’s the studio’s first big foray into computer-generated animation, and while all the characters are CGI, the backgrounds are live-action.
- ‘Fun and Fancy Free’ (1947) The weakest of Disney’s wartime package films, Fun and Fancy Free combines Bongo, the story of a circus bear, and the classic Mickey and the Beanstalk.
- ‘Chicken Little’ (2005) Disney is well known for breathtaking animation — none of which can be found in Chicken Little, their ugliest movie. This is the studio losing everything that makes them what people love in favor of a pale DreamWorks imitation.
- Ella Kemp
- Cinderella (1950) There are so many different ways to tell the story of Cinderella, which is why everyone keeps retelling it. Dreams of a better life, faith in one true love to change the world, a stubborn belief in magic.
- Dumbo (1941) A young boy is shunned by the world because he doesn’t look like them. This is the story of Dumbo, a small elephant with very big ears who just wants to make his mother proud, and – just maybe – learn to fly as well.
- Mulan (1998) Before the internet ruined the credibility of the strong female character and Hollywood broke it further by reducing it to a handful of tropes, Mulan set the gold standard.
- The Aristocats (1970) Oh, what a chic little film this is. Where Lady and the Tramp gave focus to the love story between an upper-class dog and a stray mutt, The Aristocats lets Thomas O’Malley the alley cat help aristocratic mother cat Duchess and her three kittens – Berlioz, Marie, and Toulouse – understand the finer things in life.
- Amanda Bruce
- Dinosaur (2000) Directed by Eric Leighton and Ralph Zondag. Dinosaur is an interesting mix of CG dinosaurs and live-action backgrounds that were filmed on location.
- Chicken Little (2005) Directed by Mark Dindal. Chicken Little. G. Release Date. November 4, 2005. Cast. Zach Braff , Garry Marshall , Don Knotts , Patrick Stewart , Amy Sedaris , Steve Zahn.
- The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh (1977) Directed by John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, and Ben Sharpsteen. Winnie The Pooh is one of Disney's biggest successes.
- Meet the Robinsons (2007) Directed by Stephen J. Anderson. Meet the Robinsons is a 2007 CGI animated movie, which was the first film released by Disney after John Lasseter became Chief Creative Officer.
Jun 9, 2024 · The best films chosen on this list were co-produced directly by The Walt Disney Studios, showcasing their storytelling excellence. From classics like Pinocchio to modern hits like Tangled, Disney continues to innovate and captivate audiences with their varied storytelling techniques.
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A list of 62 films compiled on Letterboxd, including The Lion King (1994), Fantasia (1940), Pinocchio (1940), Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Aladdin (1992). About this list: Seen ‘em all. I marathoned the studio’s entire filmography in the first half of 2021.
