All 56 Walt Disney Animated Classics: Ranked From Worst To Best

31. Winnie The Pooh (2011)

The 2011 adaptation is actually the fifth theatrical Winnie The Pooh release, and while it's hardly a mould-breaker or particularly innovative, it's one of those nostalgia-infused delights that makes the endless call for freshness seem a little unnecessary.

Taking the same iconic characters and familiar stories, this take from Meet The Robinsons' director Stephen J Anderson and Big Hero 6's Don Hall is curiously alien compared to its creators' other directorial work. It is just as charming, just as based on the original, delightful illustrations and just as touching as you'd want from Winnie The Pooh and it as gently comforting as it is beautiful.

The addition of music by Henry Jackman and Zooey Deschanel was very much the icing on a very charming, if a little lightweight cake.

30. The Emperor's New Groove (2000)

There's probably a good case for The Emperor's New Goorve being the most under-rated of all of Disney's Classics. It came out after two relative box office flops, when it was widely felt that traditional animation wasn't long for this world.

Initially designed to be a cross between The Prince & The Pauper and Bowfinger, the film went through massive rewrites and survived wasting $30m in production and coming within a whisker of being cancelled altogether. Somehow, the result is a hilarious, irreverent romp that misses the Disney gloss but delivers on entertainment.

It's not more highly cherished because it's a little derivative: the Yzma element is very much a Jafar homage, the transformation punishment is pure Beauty & The Beast... But in every case of that, Disney seem to be poking fun at themselves. This is, after all, one of the more self-referential and ironic additions to the Classics vault, and it's easily one of the most pure comedy films.