Ranking the Disney Animated Features

[GOAT]

So I got thinking about the best Disney films earlier and I remember a few years ago I was trying to watch everyone of them... I almost finished only needing two more... here is the list divided into my 6 standard ranking categories (the films are then ordered by year)... LMK your thoughts and opinions

Loved It
1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
2. Pinocchio (1940)
3. Sleeping Beauty (1959)
4. The Jungle Book (1967)
5. Robin Hood (1973)
6. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
7. The Fox and the Hound (1981)
8. Aladdin (1992)
9. The Lion King (1994)
10. Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Really Liked It
1. Alice in Wonderland (1951)
2. Lady and the Tramp (1955)
3. One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
4. The Aristocats (1970)
5. The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
6. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
7. Pocahontas (1995)
8. Dinosaur (2000)
9. Meet the Robinsons (2007)
Liked It
1. Dumbo (1941)
2. Cinderella (1950)
3. The Sword in the Stone (1963)
4. The Rescuers (1977)
5. The Black Cauldron (1985)
6. The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
7. Hercules (1997)
8. Tarzan (1999)
9. The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)
10. Treasure Planet (2002)
11. Home on the Range (2004)
12. Bolt (2008)
13. The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Mediocre
1. The Little Mermaid (1990)
2. Brother Bear (2003)
Didn’t Like It
1. Peter Pan (1953)
2. Mulan (1998)
3. Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
Hated It
1. Fantasia (1940)
2. The Three Cabelleros (1944)
3. Make Mine Music (1946)
4. Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
5. Melody Time (1948)
6. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
7. Fantasia 2000 (1999)
Have Not Seen
1. Saludos Amigos (1942)
2. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)

[Grand Bob]

That is an impressive list- another Disney afficiando! I have a weakness for most things Disney, because I have fond memories of growing up watching Disney's Wonderful World of Color on Sunday nights as a kid. Of course the animated features are the best, but I will watch even the cornier shows like "The Love Bug", "The Cat from Outer Space", and (one of my guilty pleasures) "Gus the Field Goal Kicking Mule" if they are on a cable channel. Some shows, like "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh" have a high degree of quality. They are a nice escape from the daily dose of bad national and world news.

[GOAT]

Originally Posted by Grand Bob

That is an impressive list- another Disney afficiando! I have a weakness for most things Disney, because I have fond memories of growing up watching Disney's Wonderful World of Color on Sunday nights as a kid. Of course the animated features are the best, but I will watch even the cornier shows like "The Love Bug", "The Cat from Outer Space", and (one of my guilty pleasures) "Gus the Field Goal Kicking Mule" if they are on a cable channel. Some shows, like "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh" have a high degree of quality. They are a nice escape from the daily dose of bad national and world news.

Yeah man I have seen A LOT of the old classic live acions as well and always felt they were really hit (The Love Bug, Pollyanna) or MISS (Summer Magic).... I was a big disney addict though and still really enjoy having a nice Disney collection.

[dvd_mazter]

I can't be as in-depth as the OP was but what I am finding is that as Disney is releasing these on Blu, I'm gaining a new appreciate for them considering most of them I haven't since my childhood such as Pinocchio and Snow White.

Being said, my top 5 fav animated features (excluding Pixar / 3D stuff)

1. The Lion King
2. Pinocchio
3. Aladdin
4. The Emperor's New Groove
5. Dumbo

[GOAT]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

*sigh*

I'd bother to respond in detail, but as I have learned over the years, spending more than 30 seconds responding to someone who hates Fantasia but loves Robin Hood is a complete waste of my time.

Robin Hood had fun action and great comedy for the whole family... Im not surprised someone is jumping on me for disliking Fantasia but the hate for the Hood is unjust IMO... and BTW when Fantasia hits BD I will be giving it another try as im sure it will look AMAZING

[GOAT]

Originally Posted by dvd_mazter

I can't be as in-depth as the OP was but what I am finding is that as Disney is releasing these on Blu, I'm gaining a new appreciate for them considering most of them I haven't since my childhood such as Pinocchio and Snow White.

Being said, my top 5 fav animated features (excluding Pixar / 3D stuff)

1. The Lion King
2. Pinocchio
3. Aladdin
4. The Emperor's New Groove
5. Dumbo

The Lion King would top my list Im pretty sure as well... probably would look like this:

1. The Lion King (1994)
2. The Jungle Book (1967)
3. The Fox and the Hound (1981)
4 Pinocchio (1940)
5 Snow White (1937)
6 Robin Hood (1973)
7 Sleep Beauty (1959)
8. Lilo & Stitch (2002)
9. Aladdin (1992)
10. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)

4-7 are in a pretty dead heat

[jebhdb]

Originally Posted by Grand Bob

That is an impressive list- another Disney afficiando! I have a weakness for most things Disney, because I have fond memories of growing up watching Disney's Wonderful World of Color on Sunday nights as a kid. Of course the animated features are the best, but I will watch even the cornier shows like "The Love Bug", "The Cat from Outer Space", and (one of my guilty pleasures) "Gus the Field Goal Kicking Mule" if they are on a cable channel. Some shows, like "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh" have a high degree of quality. They are a nice escape from the daily dose of bad national and world news.

I have fond memories of Sunday nights and Disney's Wonderful World as well. It was the final pleasure of the weekend before returning to school on Monday. I remember sitting in front of the television and hoping that the episode would feature a cartoon. I also have fond memories of the early days of the Disney Channel. I loved watching the old Mickey Mouse cartoons and the old Disney movies like Darby O'Gill and the Little People, Blackbeard's Ghost, The Absent Minded Professor and others. If they would introduce a classic Disney channel that aired these types of programs I would be willing to pay a premium for it.

[P@t_Mtl]

While I love almost every Disney movies, some I won't get on BD just because I won't watch them often enough to make it worth while for me. Please note I said for me before you jump on my throath

I would love to have these on BD

Sleeping Beauty (1959) have it
Robin Hood (1973)
Aladdin (1992)
The Great Mouse Detective (1986
Beauty and the Beast (1991) coming in 2010
Meet the Robinsons (2007) have it
Cinderella (1950)
The Rescuers (1977)
The Black Cauldron (1985) my most anticipated
The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
Hercules (1997)
The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)
Bolt (2008) have it
Peter Pan (1953) truly want this
Mulan (1998)
Fantasia (1940)
The Princess and the Frog (2009) need to see it first

[jebhdb]

Top 10 Disney Animated
1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
2. Beauty and the Beast
3. Lady and the Tramp
4. Peter Pan
5. Alice in Wonderland
6. 101 Dalmations
7. Pinocchio
8. Sleeping Beauty
9. Dumbo
10. Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

[bseivxx]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

The Black Cauldron (1985) my most anticipated

The Black Cauldron is due out on DVD spring 2010 with no blu-ray version in sight so it'll probably be a while

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by bseivxx

The Black Cauldron is due out on DVD spring 2010 with no blu-ray version in sight so it'll probably be a while

Yeah I know. I already have the DVD so I won't be buying that again, I will wait.

[Decado]

I dunno. I need to see them all recently again, like the OP. Some of the ones I have seen recently I can't say have stood up that well. Not the animation or the music (the music is particularly impressive compared to current animation fair), but at the end of the day these are kids films and I don't really care for most of them any more.

That said, I saw Beauty and the Beast, Mulan and The Lion King within the last few years and thought they were still increadible (particularly the former).

[Hi-Def Steve]

1. Alice in Wonderland
2. Lion King
3. Pinocchio
4. Snow White
5. Aladdin

[ScarredLungs]

Originally Posted by dvd_mazter

I can't be as in-depth as the OP was but what I am finding is that as Disney is releasing these on Blu, I'm gaining a new appreciate for them considering most of them I haven't since my childhood such as Pinocchio and Snow White.

Being said, my top 5 fav animated features (excluding Pixar / 3D stuff)

1. The Lion King
2. Pinocchio
3. Aladdin
4. The Emperor's New Groove
5. Dumbo

Pretty impressive list there GOAT

My top 10 animated features (excluding Pixar / 3D stuff) when I was growing up! The Bold one's would be my first choice to have on blu!

1. Lion King
2. Robin Hood
3. The Sword and the Stone
4. Fox and the Hound
5. Aladdin
6. The Jungle Book
7. Dumbo
8. Lady and the Tramp
9. The Rescuers Down Under
10. 101 Dalmatians

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by GOAT

So I got thinking about the best Disney films earlier and I remember a few years ago I was trying to watch everyone of them...

Oh, thought you meant the ranking RottenTomatoes.com had already done:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides...imated_movies/

[zombie63]

Disneys animated features have always been an important part of my cinmeatic life , from sitting in front of the big screen when i was 5 seeing The Jungle Book to the jaw dropping The Lion King.
Like the OP ill break mine down into favourites and the ones IMO are there best work.

Favs.
1. The Jungle Book
2. One Hundred and one Dalmations
3. Snow White
4. Beauty and the Beast
5. Fantasia
6. Peter Pan

The Best
1. Snow White
2. Pinnochio
3. Fantasia
4. Bambi
5. Peter Pan
6. Beauty and the Beast

The only one I have never seen is Lilo and Stitch , they did go through a period where the art did seem to suffer from the early 70s up until the release of Beauty and the Beast.

[RBBrittain]

The OP left out three films in the official Disney canon (per Wikipedia, UltimateDisney.com, and the official Disney Animation site):

• Bambi (1942)
• Oliver & Company (1988)
• Chicken Little (2005)

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

Many shots in Robin Hood are in fact traced from previous moments in Disney animation. The fact that you elevate the "fun for the whole family" aspect is not a surprise. But you must realize that for many Disney animation historians, and even Disney historian Leonard Maltin, Robin Hood is the bottom of the barrell. No way around it. Great songs. Terrible, almost pointless, episodic script. You slap on some recycled animation, you've got the laziest, cheapest, most embarassing, cost-cutting Disney animated feature of all time. It's a miracle the film is even watchable.

To be fair, the movie was more last-minute patched-together out of failed projects than "Home on the Range" (and I apologize to HotR for saying that, as that one's actually pretty good):
The project was originally going to be a Southern bayou Robin Hood--which explains why we have Pat Buttram, Andy Devine and Roger Miller in Sherwood Forest--with most of the swamp-critters eventually recycled for "The Rescuers"...Then, when the setting went back to England, they wanted Tommy Steele as Robin, but the voice just didn't work out.

But today, all most people remember is how sticking Phil Harris in the movie as a hip, goofy bear one more time was the final nail in the coffin for realizing that the Ron Miller era really had spent the last ten years just remaking "Jungle Book" critters over and over, because they didn't know what else Walt Would Do.

[KentDog]

For me:
The Lion King
Beauty and the Beast
Aladdin

[un4gvn94538]

isnt dinosaur disney?

anyway, there are too many that i really like but only 1 has a special place and has been my all time fav growing up:

jungle book!!