# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/81 "2009-09-03T21:01:24Z")
Just animated? _Fantasia_ is No.1, although _Pinocchio_ gives it a run for its money. But _Fantasia_ is one of the ten best films of all time, not just Disney. Worst is _Brother Bear_. Blechh. Regards, Shodan ---
**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, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/82 "2009-09-03T21:01:56Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Sorry. They took a tragic masterpiece of mythic depth and scale and turned it into a cliche romance. Blech. A cliche romance…with scales. I think it cheapens the story for it to end happily. Also, MERNIPPLES! This might call for its own thread soon. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/83 "2009-09-03T21:17:41Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#): > > 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. I forgot _Treasure Planet_ was Disney (and it was probably my most recent too, not counting Pixar.) I thought it was alright but a huge wasted opportunity. I mean, come on . . . Treasure Planet in space. Could’ve been great. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/84 "2009-09-03T21:19:57Z")
As far as live-action, wasn’t Something Wicked This Way Comes put out by Disney? If so, it wins as best ever. I can confidently say that the Lindsay Lohan Herbie movie is the worst ever, and I never saw it. It just has to be. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/85 "2009-09-03T21:27:25Z")
Does anyone else, when they hear “Disney movie,” think of the line of animated films starting with _Snow White_ and going through _Cinderella_, _Robin Hood_, _The Sword and the Stone_, _Aladdin_, _Lilo and Stitch_, and maybe-but-very-probably-not the Pixar movies, and not any live action movies, even though Disney has made plenty of those? ---
**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, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/86 "2009-09-03T21:30:23Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Does anyone else, when they hear “Disney movie,” think of the line of animated films starting with _Snow White_ and going through _Cinderella_, _Robin Hood_, _The Sword and the Stone_, _Aladdin_, _Lilo and Stitch_, and maybe-but-very-probably-not the Pixar movies, and not any live action movies, even though Disney has made plenty of those? I automatically think of animated movies like Aladdin or Lion King or Snow White. I don’t think of live action unless I think hard. Though Mary Poppins would probably be my favorite Disney movie of all time. Plus it contained Walt’s fave song ever (Feed the Birds). I guess when someone says Disney, I think animated. ---
**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, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/87 "2009-09-03T21:52:30Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Bolt is very good, and Meet the Robinsons is fantastically zany. OK then, you’ve convinced me. Both of those are going on the kids’ Netflix queue. ---
**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, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/88 "2009-09-03T21:59:45Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Least: _101 Dalmations_. One joke film. Yeah, we get it. Lots o lil doggies. All spotted. > > BO-RING! > > Best: _The Incredibles_ I gotta amend my list– Worst: _Rattatouie_ (sp?). A movie. About food. Tastes are non-visual!!!:smack: And rats don’t belong in kitchens. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/89 "2009-09-03T22:31:48Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#): > > 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. Make Mine Music is actually pretty good. There are some good songs and fun animation there. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/90 "2009-09-03T22:43:58Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > I gotta amend my list– > > Worst: _Rattatouie_ (sp?). > > A movie. About food. Tastes are non-visual!!!:smack: [Yeah,](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101921/) [movies](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092603/) [about](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111797/) [food?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0241303/)[What a](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115678/) [dumb idea!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135503/) What’s next? _Books_ about food? ---
**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, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/91 "2009-09-03T22:51:37Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [Yeah,](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101921/) [movies](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092603/) [about](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111797/) [food?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0241303/)[What a](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115678/) [dumb idea!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135503/) > > What’s next? _Books_ about food? Yeah, I even heard some idiots are trying to start en entire cable TV channel to food. Like that will ever work. ---
**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, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/92 "2009-09-03T23:10:03Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [Yeah,](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101921/) [movies](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092603/) [about](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111797/) [food?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0241303/)[What a](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115678/) [dumb idea!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135503/) You forgot the [greatest food film ever](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078488/). ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/93 "2009-09-03T23:57:19Z")
I find it surprising that nobody has mentioned _Tarzan_ yet. I have a great love for it, it has some wonderful animation, catchy songs, and a couple of scenes that are quite beautiful. It’s the one I have watched most often, and even though it’s not my absolute favourite, it’s in my top five. ---
**Author:** ![ProudlyDefiant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@ProudlyDefiant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProudlyDefiant)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/94 "2009-09-04T00:12:05Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Actually, **Brother Bear** was surprisingly good. Not a classic, but about in the middle of the pack or above. The moose in Brother Bear are awesome. Atlantis and Treasure Planet have their charms, too. Atlantis has a great steampunk visual aesthetic, and Treasure Planet is gorgeously cyberpunk. Yeah, they have their low points, but they were trying for something different and just missed the mark. They are both absolutely visually stunning. (Especially Treasure Planet). That’s the saving grace of any Disney movie that falls short on story. (That and music). My all time fave is Beauty and the Beast (I was six, I had long brown hair and loved to read- I wanted to be Belle in the worst way). The Beast is my fave Disney romantic hero, bar none - but only in Beast form. The prince version of the character is a wimpy girly-man. The one that had the biggest emotional impact on my was Lilo and Stitch - Lilo is a lot like my little sister, and I bawled in the theater watching that one. I’m such a Disney animation fangirl that it’s hard to pinpoint a worst- but Home on the Range comes closest, especially since it closed out the 2D animation era of Disney on a low point. But even it had a great little ditty called “Little Patch of Heaven” sung by kd lang. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/95 "2009-09-04T01:30:06Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > Confining myself to animated features… I’m going to have to weigh in here and say that I, personally, really hate “The Jungle Book”. The reason is that I love the books, and for me, the main theme of the books is the dignity of the animals… and I felt like Disney _completely inverted_ that theme with stereotypical goofy characters. I was trying to think of the best way to describe why I hate this movie but you nailed it. I read the Kipling stories as a child and the major animals were these wise and impressive forces of nature. I think of the awesome and majestic depictions Bagheera, Baloo, Kaa and Shere Khan in the book versus the bumbling retarded creations in the film and it just completely turns me off to it. I know it’s not intended to be a faithful telling of the Kipling stories but that doesn’t stop me from hating it. Best movie, I’ll have to go with Emperor’s New Groove or Lion King. I think the Lion King was the first Disney flick where I actually told people afterwards that they should go see it. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/96 "2009-09-04T03:34:09Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Bolt is very good, and Meet the Robinsons is fantastically zany. Bolt was far better than I feared. 😃 And when I saw it at the theater with my 7-year old he stayed pretty much fixed on the screen throughout. He also nearly fell off his chair laughing at an early throwaway gag which I won’t spoil for **Arnold Winkelried** , but which I can reference by: :smack: hehe. Meet the Robinsons is good and funny. “_I’m just not sure how well this plan was thought through_”. ROFL. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TheFatKid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@TheFatKid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFatKid)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/97 "2009-09-04T03:49:37Z")
> [@TheMadHun](#): > > Having just viewed it, I have to say Pinocchio is least. Same here, but because the entire point of the Collodi story is to banish “when you wish upon a star” nonsense from kids’ heads! ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/98 "2009-09-04T04:11:13Z")
I’m not going to include Pixar films in this, because that’s not Disney in my mind, and also Pixar films are light-years ahead of pure Disney films. Favorites, kinda in order: Mulan, Lilo and Stitch, Dumbo, The Lion King, Robin Hood. Mulan wins because it’s one of very few Disney stories with A) a woman with goals beyond ‘get the prince’, not to mention opinions and goals and such and B) a non-broken family. There’s grandma, mom, dad, and Mulan. I can’t think of a single other Disney movie where we ‘meet’ the heroine’s parents. Dumbo was number one up until I wore out our VHS cassette of it when I was maybe seven years old or so. I _loved_ that movie as a kid, then went twenty some years without seeing it. Then, on a whim, I grabbed it from the library, and was blown away. For one, it’s _incredibly_ sad - that sequence where Mrs. Jumbo is rocking Dumbo through the bars of her cage, and there’s that sad song, and we see every other animal parent with their babies? Heartbreaking. And also - “Jim Crow”? Really? I know it’s old, but in a kid’s movie? It was kind of jaw-dropping, because that went straight over my head as a kid. Least liked: All the ‘princess’ movies other than Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid. They take interesting, creepy, dark stories and turn them into vapid, stupid piles of crap with no redeeming qualities, uninteresting characters, and even less interesting plots. Princess, evil stepwhoever, magic, songs, handsome prince, happy ever after. Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid get passes for the utterly shamelessly cheesy music, Beast’s library, Flounder, and they both come vaguely close to implying that sometimes there might be sacrifice involved in getting your happy ever after. ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/99 "2009-09-04T04:55:56Z")
Mary Poppins is in my all time top ten movies. Aladdin is my favorite animated Disney movie. My least favorite is probably something I forgot right after watching it. ---
**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 4, 2009, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548/100 "2009-09-04T06:21:32Z")
> [@NinjaChick](#): > > Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid get passes for the utterly shamelessly cheesy music, Cheesy music? Seriously? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-most-least-favorite-disney-movie/508548.md?page=6)