# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/42 "2017-05-15T00:18:01Z")
I actually thought _Brother Bear_ was OK. Not a great Disney film, but a respectable one. _The Rescuers_ was also quite good. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/43 "2017-05-15T02:23:34Z")
The post-Walt period from the late 60s to the mid 80s was a pretty weak period for Disney. I’m going to say Robin Hood was the worst movie from this era. It was just a big blob of nothing, a totally paint-by-numbers movie where they used the same voices and character types seen in earlier movies and even recycled animation sequences from earlier movie. ---
**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 15, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/44 "2017-05-15T03:23:43Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > 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. Well, most of the sources I’m seeing specifically _say_ it was cancelled during production when the movie underperformed. But I can’t speak for whatever went on with a Cinderella series. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/45 "2017-05-15T04:11:26Z")
> [@bmoak](#): > > The post-Walt period from the late 60s to the mid 80s was a pretty weak period for Disney. I’m going to say Robin Hood was the worst movie from this era. It was just a big blob of nothing, a totally paint-by-numbers movie where they used the same voices and character types seen in earlier movies and even recycled animation sequences from earlier movie. I thought the Roger Miller music was pretty good. I heard someone [whistling that opening bit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKYEKhxWy6o) just last week, in fact. ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/46 "2017-05-15T20:52:14Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Pretty much every Disney sequel is terrible. I agree 100% with this statement, but you missed one of the biggest piles of turd in the punchbowl: Aladdin: The Return of Jafar. Clearly, this was something that Disney threw together by having the janitorial staff carefully preserve all the discarded footage and clips from the making of Aladdin. They hoarded the precious scraps until someone could come up with a script that could make use of all the disjointed snippets. My youngest daughter was about 8 years old when this stinking mess was released. My wife bought the video and gave it to her as a gift. My daughter took one look at the [cover](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/movieposters/15627/p15627_p_v8_ad.jpg&imgrefurl=http://google.com/search%3Ftbm%3Disch%26q%3DThe%2520Return%2520of%2520Jafar&h=1440&w=960&tbnid=0h1WLrkRNNgI-M:&tbnh=186&tbnw=124&usg=__xVBMphAZD_uoAJMTdx3A0XCnnRo=&vet=10ahUKEwjqzJTH4fLTAhUC72MKHWbXA_8Q_B0IfDAK..i&docid=w1-0ufuBT9LCtM&itg=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjqzJTH4fLTAhUC72MKHWbXA_8Q_B0IfDAK&ei=xBIaWeraN4LejwPmro_4Dw) and said, “This is wrong!” Then she pointed to the bracelets around the Genie’s wrists and wailed, “In the movie, Aladdin frees the Genie with his last wish, and his bracelets fall off!” I had to admit that my little daughter was, indeed, smarter than the writers. Of course, Disney made a metric crapton of money from “The Return of Jafar”, so, perhaps, they might actually be on to something. ---
**Author:** ![Reddy\_Mercury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@Reddy\_Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reddy_Mercury)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/47 "2017-05-15T21:24:23Z")
> [@igor\_frankensteen](#): > > Oh, my, so many bad ones to choose from. And no, I’m not a Disney Hater. I like most of the early stuff, but some time in the seventies, I think, they got on a very bad jag, and pumped out crap after crap after crap. Intensely formulaic, with extremely limited range of ideas. Robin Hood was from that awful run, Fox and Hound, Aristocats. Sword in the Stone was pretty weak. > > I don’t see near as many as I used to, since my kids are grown. I haven’t seen any of the direct-to-disk sequels. Since I haven’t heard any talk about them, I assume they are formulaic dreck as well. It’s because Walt died and they had no idea really what to do. Walt died in '66, then his brother Roy died in '71…And if you look, that’s around when the decline started. The Jungle Book was the last film Walt had any part in creating, and The Aristocats was the last he approved for production before he died. Also, the roots of the decline began before Walt’s death. Films like Sword in the Stone in '63 suffered for two reasons: One, because their last “big” animated feature, Sleeping Beauty, was a huge flop and almost bankrupted Disney and so they cut budgets at the animation department; and in the '60s, Walt became more interested in live action film, television, EPCOT, and new parks than he was in animation. Also one must too around the 70s the Nine Old Men were now truly old, and either dying or retiring, so you had a crop of new animators and artists who didn’t really have the same level of mastery as the old had. ---
**Author:** ![Reddy\_Mercury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@Reddy\_Mercury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reddy_Mercury)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/48 "2017-05-15T21:26:53Z")
> [@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.) Aladdin and the King of Thieves was great, and about on par with the original film I’d say. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/49 "2017-05-15T21:55:53Z")
> [@Reddy\_Mercury](#): > > Aladdin and the King of Thieves was great, and about on par with the original film I’d say. I was trying to remember the title of this movie. As I recall, it was a direct-to-video release, and so I expected it to be bad … but it was surprisingly good. The fact that they got Robin Williams back to voice Genie was a huge bonus. I wouldn’t say it was on a par with the original, but it was better than it had any right to be, based on Disney’s track record of direct-to-video sequels. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316/50 "2017-05-15T22:22:44Z")
> [@BobArrgh](#): > > I agree 100% with this statement, but you missed one of the biggest piles of turd in the punchbowl: Aladdin: The Return of Jafar. > > Clearly, this was something that Disney threw together by having the janitorial staff carefully preserve all the discarded footage and clips from the making of Aladdin. They hoarded the precious scraps until someone could come up with a script that could make use of all the disjointed snippets. > > My youngest daughter was about 8 years old when this stinking mess was released. My wife bought the video and gave it to her as a gift. My daughter took one look at the [ and said, “This is wrong!” > > Then she pointed to the bracelets around the Genie’s wrists and wailed, “In the movie, Aladdin frees the Genie with his last wish, and his bracelets fall off!” > > I had to admit that my little daughter was, indeed, smarter than the writers. > > Of course, Disney made a metric crapton of money from “The Return of Jafar”, so, perhaps, they might actually be on to something. The song, _You’re Only Second Rate_ is actually quite good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-disney-animated-movies/786316.md?page=2)