# Worst Disney animated movies. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 10, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316 "2017-05-10T21:34:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/21 "2017-05-11T19:51:28Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > _The Good DInosaur_ > > This was one of the first ones Disney put out that was after their Pixar acquisition, but not a Pixar film. Not only was the film boring, but the characters made no sense and the human that acted like a dog was just stupid. > . Beautiful, beautiful film, with super realistic water etc. But the plot? meh. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/22 "2017-05-11T21:04:15Z")
_The Black Cauldron_, but there’s a reason why it was crap. It was originally made for an older audience…but the idiots showed it to a theater filled with smalls beforehand, and [del]hilarity[/del]chaos ensued-kiddies crying and families walking out. After some crude editing, it was finally released as the choppy mess it is to this day. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/23 "2017-05-12T00:29:59Z")
Probably agree on _The Black Cauldron_—and I can’t even chalk that _all_ up to editing, considering the extended production history, and the stuff we did get onscreen. A damn pity, too, considering it has one of my favorite Disney villains of all time. Princess Eilonwy’s pretty sharp, too. Certainly a _technically_ proficient production, of course, including using some sumptuous and even groundbreaking animation techniques…but, on the other hand, Rankin-Bass _The Hobbit_ accomplished a _lot_ more, artistically, using much more basic techniques, eight years earlier, for about $40 million less. And it didn’t shy away from utilizing more “adult” themes—violence, blood, death, scary looking monsters, threatened anthropophagy—yet in a way still palatable for younger audiences. Plus, it had catchy songs. _And_ it was still acceptable enough for Disney standards that they ran it on the Disney Channel for years. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/24 "2017-05-12T00:33:51Z")
How many were stinkers if asked of the targeted age group though? I am sure not too many 3 to 9 year old children work at rotten tomato etc. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/25 "2017-05-12T02:22:02Z")
> [@Weisshund](#): > > How many were stinkers if asked of the targeted age group though? > > I am sure not too many 3 to 9 year old children work at rotten tomato etc. Yeah, I was obsessed with Disney when I was little, and some of our collection included movies mentioned in this thread. I didn’t care. It’s not like I could follow plots that well, anyway. (_Pocahontas_ was my favorite simply because she was the prettiest Disney Princess). ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/26 "2017-05-12T06:11:26Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Pretty much every Disney sequel is terrible. The Little Mermaid II? Terrible. The Hunchback of Notre Dame II? Awful. Mulan II? Atrocious. Beauty and The Beast- The Enchanted Christmas? Lazy and actively aggravates you. The Fox and the Hound II? Boring and depressing. (It’s actually a mid-quel so the entire time you’re watching it, you know that no matter what happens in the movie, they’re still doomed to suffer the ending of the first movie.) _The Rescuers Down Under_? I have not seen either this movie, or _The Rescuers_. They seem to be almost forgotten among Disney animation fans, so that doesn’t really recommend them. On the other hand, Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor, how could it not be great? ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/27 "2017-05-12T11:14:40Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > _The Rescuers Down Under_? > > I have not seen either this movie, or _The Rescuers_. They seem to be almost forgotten among Disney animation fans, so that doesn’t really recommend them. On the other hand, Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor, how could it not be great? The Rescuers was itself intended to be a sequel, being the return of Cruella DeVille as the villian, but that was scrapped. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/28 "2017-05-12T11:28:09Z")
_Home on the Range_ is a special film in our house as it was the first movie we took our daughter to. She _loved_ the movie-going experience and I will always remember our 3yo sitting there, popcorn in her lap, grinning for 90+ minutes as this silly cartoon played on the big-screen. But, yeah, it wasn’t very good. But it was no \*Oliver & Co. \* ---
**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:** [May 12, 2017, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/29 "2017-05-12T11:44:02Z")
There are a few very popular Disney movies that I do not like at all, and alternatively a lot of derided movies that I enjoy just fine, but I won’t count any of them. I agree that _Black Cauldron_ is a complete misfire and is probably their worst effort. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/30 "2017-05-12T17:06:33Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > _The Rescuers Down Under_? > > I have not seen either this movie, or _The Rescuers_. They seem to be almost forgotten among Disney animation fans, so that doesn’t really recommend them. On the other hand, Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor, how could it not be great? I remember those! I used to watch them all the time. ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/31 "2017-05-12T17:16:18Z")
Does song of the South count? It’s half animated and wholey boring. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/32 "2017-05-12T17:16:40Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > _The Rescuers Down Under_? > > I have not seen either this movie, or _The Rescuers_. They seem to be almost forgotten among Disney animation fans, so that doesn’t really recommend them. On the other hand, Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor, how could it not be great? Really, not bad at all. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/33 "2017-05-12T17:52:28Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > _The Rescuers Down Under_? > > I have not seen either this movie, or _The Rescuers_. They seem to be almost forgotten among Disney animation fans, so that doesn’t really recommend them. On the other hand, Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor, how could it not be great? Both movies, if not great, are a lot of fun and not mind-numbingly stupid like say, Atlantis: Milo’s Return or Tarzan II. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/34 "2017-05-12T18:03:47Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Both movies, if not great, are a lot of fun and not mind-numbingly stupid like say, Atlantis: Milo’s Return or Tarzan II. Well, yeah, some of those direct to DVD sequels were made on the cheap. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/35 "2017-05-12T23:51:55Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > On the other hand, Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor, how could it not be great? You know, I’m old enough to remember when the Rescuers was first released, and I’ve been certain ever since that Bernard was voiced by Mickey Rooney. Enough so that I had to check IMDB to actually believe YOU hadn’t been mistaken! Which also told me Geraldine Page was Madame Medusa! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/36 "2017-05-13T01:04:15Z")
Only speaking to the Great Disney Feature Revival of the 1990s. (We had a girl baby in 1990 and a boy baby in 1995, so I won’t go past the period during which they went to the movies attended by parents) After Mermaid, Beauty, Aladdin, and Lion King, I thought there was a terrible drop off in quality with Pocohontas, Hunchback, and Hercules. But we all did love Mulan. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/37 "2017-05-13T07:32:22Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Both movies, if not great, are a lot of fun and not mind-numbingly stupid like say, Atlantis: Milo’s Return or Tarzan II. Interesting note about Milo’s Return: it was actually partially cobbled together from a TV series spinoff they were working on, but canned after the movie bombed. They had high hopes for it—plans for attractions in the parks, some of the characters actually making [appearances as park characters](http://www.charactercentral.net/PR48_DisneyCharacters_Movie_AtlantisTheLostEmpire.aspx) when the film was released… Sad, really. I feel for 'em—there was potential there, they had ambition, and a lot of thought and effort went into the project. But in the end, their reach exceeded their grasp. There were flaws and baggage they just couldn’t overcome. But, in it’s defense, it had at least [one character](http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/33500000/Atlantis-Milo-and-Helga-atlantis-the-lost-empire-33515754-500-250.gif)who both wasn’t completely obnoxious _and_ didn’t have an ugly character design. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/38 "2017-05-13T14:44:51Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > _The Black Cauldron_, but there’s a reason why it was crap. It was originally made for an older audience…but the idiots showed it to a theater filled with smalls beforehand, and [del]hilarity[/del]chaos ensued-kiddies crying and families walking out. After some crude editing, it was finally released as the choppy mess it is to this day. I was gonna say _The Black Cauldron_ but it had been covered pretty well already; your post gives a little insight on what happened. Even though I don’t have kids, I actually buy Disney animation (live-action not so much) if I find them good enough to bear repeating. When _Tangled_ came out it was touted as the 50th Disney theatrical animated feature so, curious, I printed out the list and ticked off the ones in my collection. We had exactly half. Now, a few of them were because they hadn’t been acquired yet, but mostly it was because I just didn’t wanna and the ones mentioned in this thread are prominent among them. Last year I rented _The Black Cauldron_ through Netflix to check whether it was as ghastly as I remembered from thirty years ago. It sure was. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2017, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/40 "2017-05-14T19:13:39Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Interesting note about Milo’s Return: it was actually partially cobbled together from a TV series spinoff they were working on, but canned after the movie bombed. I don’t know about “canned after the movie bombed.” _Cinderella II: Dreams Come True_, like _Atlantis: Milo’s Return_, was made by putting together three episodes of an aborted TV series. ---
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> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > _The Rescuers Down Under_? > > I have not seen either this movie, or _The Rescuers_. They seem to be almost forgotten among Disney animation fans, so that doesn’t really recommend them. On the other hand, Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor, how could it not be great? I loved _The Rescuers_ (don’t think I saw the sequel). Saw it when it first came out. I was already a fan of the book series it was adapted from, which might have helped. Eva Gabor made a wonderful Miss Bianca. Love _The Aristocats_, too–that one had a huge impact on my young childhood, along with _Willy Wonka_. I was 6. My parents bought me the soundtrack album from \*Aristocats \*and I played that thing till I wore it out (literally–they had to buy me a second copy because my cheap kiddie record player’s needle eventually wore out the first one). I can still sing most of the songs now, over 40 years later. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316.md?page=3)