# What's your most / least favorite Disney movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 1, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548 "2009-09-01T21:48:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/61 "2009-09-03T04:29:47Z")
Heh, no one’s mentioned my two favorites … _The Absent-Minded Professor_, starring Fred MacMurray, and _Darby O’Gill and the Little People_, starring a very young Sean Connery. For their day, the special effects were fantastic. Funny stories too! ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/62 "2009-09-03T06:08:03Z")
> [@badbadrubberpiggy](#): > > Same for me. I _know_ the Hunchback is a complete bastardization of it’s source material, but that didn’t stop it from having terrific songs, and a really interesting villain with more depth than a lot of other Disney villains. I need to watch this one again. I love Hunchback. But I think the gargoyles are a pretty big flaw. Everything else is gold as far as I’m concerned. > [@MaxTheVool](#): > > _Most underrated:_ **Fantasia 2000**. Gorgeous, funny, thoroughly entertaining. One of the segments is a whiff (Beethoven’s 5th), but the rest are all at least good, and three of them (Carnival of the Animals, Firebird and Rhapsody) are absolute home runs. Seems to have faded entirely out of people’s consciousness. I agree. > [@Sycorax](#): > > Second: Alice in Wonderland. I always thought that “Alice” was under-appreciated and underrated. I tend to think it’s overrated. I’m a big fan of the books, but I don’t think the movie quite captures the feel. I do love the ride at Disneyland though. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/63 "2009-09-03T06:25:38Z")
I notice that most movies here that have been mentioned as most favorite have also been mentioned as least favorite. That’s interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/64 "2009-09-03T09:52:15Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > If you haven’t read the book, I encourage you to do so. Very interesting depiction of postwar England, and truly sweet. We aren’t talking about the _book_, jus a very dull film. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/65 "2009-09-03T12:09:42Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > I love Hunchback. But I think the gargoyles are a pretty big flaw. Everything else is gold as far as I’m concerned. According to the director (or it might have been one of the writers), the gargoyles aren’t actually alive. That’s just Quasimodo talking to _himself_, to alleviate his loneliness and isolation. If you watch it again with that in mind, I think it becomes a much more powerful movie. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/66 "2009-09-03T12:32:03Z")
I just wanted to give some love to the first Goofy movie as well. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/67 "2009-09-03T15:19:14Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > We aren’t talking about the _book_, jus a very dull film. I thought it was adorable. And way more mellow than the other Disney animateds. At least there were no jive talking side kicks and no over the top music numbers. Ooh, Goofy Movie! Yes, that one was awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/68 "2009-09-03T16:17:15Z")
_The Lion King_ is my most favorite. Not sure about my least favorite, but I remember being horrified by the commercials for _Home on the Range_, so I’m going to pick that. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/69 "2009-09-03T17:35:30Z")
I liked Mulan too, and find it doesn’t get mentioned enough… ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8797f3/32.png) [@Brainiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/70 "2009-09-03T17:53:15Z")
Lion King was my least favorite. The little cub was a bratty punk. Why should he become king, because his daddy earned it? Like George W.? Bah. An undeserving “hero” makes a weak story. Dumbo was great, where a deserving kid beat the bullies. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/71 "2009-09-03T17:56:49Z")
> [@Brainiac](#): > > Lion King was my least favorite. The little cub was a bratty punk. Why should he become king, because his daddy earned it? Like George W.? Bah. An undeserving “hero” makes a weak story. Well. That generally is how it goes with kings, yes. ---
**Author:** ![Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speak_to_me_Maddie)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/72 "2009-09-03T18:49:49Z")
> [@Brainiac](#): > > Lion King was my least favorite. The little cub was a bratty punk. Why should he become king, because his daddy earned it? Like George W.? Bah. An undeserving “hero” makes a weak story. > es. He deserves it because he learned to be a man and stopped being selfish. We are rewarded when we change for the better, etc. That part of the plot is just a retelling of Shakespeare’s King Henry IV part II, my favorite of Shakespeare’s histories. Simba is Prince Hal, Timon and Pumba are Falstaff. Though I’m not a big fan of Lion King either to tell the truth. For me it is more the underlying themes supporting ruling aristocracies and slavery. Your place is to be food for lions, and if you try not be dinner then you are breaking the sacred “Circle of Life”. Now get in my belly! Kings, tyrants, dictators, and other varieties of ruling elites have always appealed to similar hierarchical structuring to keep themselves in power and keep their subjects in bondage. Maybe it wasn’t intended by the writers, but that is a potential problem when you anthropomorphize an animal society. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/73 "2009-09-03T18:50:35Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Well. That generally is how it goes with kings, yes. I thought it had something to do with a watery tart hurling swords at people. ---
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/74 "2009-09-03T18:57:15Z")
My tops would be Hunchback at #1 and Mulan at #2, probably with Aladdin at #3. Always had a soft spot for Emperor’s New Groove as well, highly underrated. Worst… impossible to say. There are a lot of clunkers, and a lot of ones that I think have to be seen as products of their times and just don’t cut it today. But out of the most recent ones, I’d say that Beauty and the Beast and the Lion King are both overrated (in that they’re good, just not THAT good). ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/75 "2009-09-03T19:03:05Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Most hated? Little Mermaid. They took a gorgeous story and made it pablum! Nonsense. They took a classic story with sadly one-dimensional characters and improved on the source material. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/76 "2009-09-03T19:44:12Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Is there a list somewhere? For animated movies: [Walt Disney Animation Studios - Official list of animated films](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_animated_features#Official_list) From the official list, I would have Pinocchio at the top (best artwork) and The Fox and The Hound near the bottom. The one that makes me laugh the most is The Emperor’s New Groove. I have seen most of them on the list (having a Netflix subscription and two young children, 6 and 3). I still haven’t seen the World War II package films (except for Ichabod and Mr. Toad) but I imagine that those would be near the bottom of the list also. Also I haven’t seen any of them after Treasure Planet: namely the recent ones, Brother Bear, Home on the Range , Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons, Bolt. Word of mouth from my friends is that Bolt is actually in the top third as far as quality. I haven’t seen Snow White since I was a kid, it’s not on Netflix, so I can’t really comment on the quality of the artwork for Snow White vs. Pinocchio. P.S. I didn’t understand all the negative criticism I read for Treasure Planet. I thought it was average, not the bottom of the barrel. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/77 "2009-09-03T20:39:49Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > Least Favorite: **Home on the Range** – It’s an utter stinking pile of crap. I can’t think of a single good thing to say about it. [How about, “Disney was punished for it by losing money?”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_on_the_Range_(film)#Reception) There are so many Disney films I’ve seen that the task of singling out a best and worst is very daunting. I’ll break down some categories and go with “deserving of [dis]honorable mention”: Golden Age Animated: Honorable: _Fantasia_ (I lo-o-o-ves me some classical music) Dishonorable: _The Fox and the Hound_ (Sandy Duncan’s fault, primarily, and Paul Winchell didn’t do us any favors, either) Live-action/Animated mash-up: Honorable: _Bed-Knobs and Broomsticks_ (Superior to _Mary Poppins_) Dishonorable: _Pete’s Dragon_ (more because of Mickey Rooney’s and Jim Backus’s hamminess than Helen Reddy’s not being an actual actress. Basically, it’s a very small field, and someone has to come in last) Katzenberg-era Animated: Honorable: _The Emperor’s New Groove_ (David Spade and John Goodman made a great buddy team, and anything with Eartha Kitt and Patrick Warburton is guaranteed to be awesome) Dishonorable: _Pocahontas_ (I saw this at a discount theatre on a double bill with _The Indian in the Cupboard_. It had to suffer by comparison, and combined with the cavalier attitude toward history, it was doomed) Pixar: Honorable: _The Incredibles_ (Because Holly Hunter was _soooo_ hot in that role :D) Dishonorable: _Cars_ ('Cos I just don’t care that much about racing) Live Action (not musical): Honorable: Make that FAVORITE: _Sky High_ (There just wasn’t a dang thing about that movie I didn’t love) Dishonorable: _The Cat From Outer Space_ (the worst of the Dean Jones outings) ---
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Arnold Winklereid: > [@](#): > > I still haven’t seen the World War II package films (except for Ichabod and Mr. Toad) but I imagine that those would be near the bottom of the list also. Also I haven’t seen any of them after Treasure Planet: namely the recent ones, Brother Bear, Home on the Range , Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons, Bolt. Word of mouth from my friends is that Bolt is actually in the top third as far as quality. Bolt is very good, and Meet the Robinsons is fantastically zany. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s certainly up there for me. Chicken Little gets a “meh” from me, and I haven’t seen Home on the Range or Brother Bear. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/79 "2009-09-03T20:44:39Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Nonsense. They took a classic story with sadly one-dimensional characters and improved on the source material. More singing, ridiculous accents, and merman nipples do not make for improvements! ---
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> [@JThunder](#): > > Nonsense. They took a classic story with sadly one-dimensional characters and improved on the source material. Sorry. They took a tragic masterpiece of mythic depth and scale and turned it into a cliche romance. Blech. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548.md?page=5)