It's hard to rank the Disney animated films, and not just because there are so many of them. These are films that mean so much to so many people, that are inherently linked to powerful memories of childhood and have informed what we so many adults consider magical. Ranking their respective strengths and weaknesses becomes as much an investigation of why you loved something as it is to their relative worth as a creative endeavor.
59. Home on the Range 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 , soon mutated into a dinky musical comedy featuring three female cows who attempt to stop a cattle rustler .
55. The Black Cauldron This movie is terrible but the stories that came out of it are beyond delicious. More than ten years in the making , The Black Cauldron was the first Walt Disney animated film to feature computer-generated imagery, the first to have a Dolby Digital soundtrack, the first to be rated PG and the first to extensively use 70mm since Sleeping Beauty in 1979. It was the nadir of the post-Walt period; the production was wasteful, exorbitant, and creatively unfocused.
51. Make Mine Music The third of the World War II-era "package films" designed to keep the studio afloat while the actual physical studio was being occupied by the US military and forced to churn out artful propaganda films, Make Mine Music has slightly more prestige and a handful of memorable pieces, but like the other films in this series feels like what it is – a collection of unrefined ideas shoved next to one another and released theatrically.
47. The Aristocats This, of all things, was the last film approved by Walt Disney himself before his untimely death in 1966. Originally conceived as twin episodes of his prime-time television series, Walt liked the story so much that he suggested it might work better as an animated feature. Even with more than two years of work put into refining the storyline, the movie often feels worn and like a lesser version of better Disney films .
44. Raya and the Last Dragon In many ways, Raya and the Last Dragon is a film about resurrecting the past and going back to what worked before, and this certainly feels like Disney sticking with tried and true formulas. For example, Raya’s story of a princess who must go out on her own to save her family and her home thematically feels a bit like Moana, while Awkwafina’s performance as Sisu the dragon can’t help but remind of the Genie from Aladdin.
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