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

21. Wreck-It-Ralph (2012)

Given how comparatively poorly Disney's attempts to be modern and edgy had fared previously, the decision to follow Winnie The Pooh with a digital animation about self-aware video game characters might have looked like a pretty big gamble. But with John Lasseter well into his tenure as Disney's new head honcho, and an established audience of gamers who were fed baiting references and cameos, it wasn't quite the gamble it could have seemed.

As sentient, neurotic bad guy Ralph, John C Riley is brilliant (he's easily one of the best ever Disney vocal performances) and while Sarah Silverman's Venelope is bone-crunchingly cringey, his star shines enough to ease the pain.

Like Pixar's finest works, Wreck-It Ralph takes a fairly simple, compelling What If question, inverts what we expect of reality and soars with imagination and beautifully imagined worlds. The sequel cannot come soon enough.

20. Big Hero 6 (2014)

Having conquered the video game world two years earlier, Disney tied together their animation and Marvel arms to release one of the best superhero movies of the 21st Century. Even without the MCU brand, Big Hero 6 (adapted from a comparatively obscure comic book) observed the same conventions, playing up to some and spoofing others to create a delightfully referential comedy with a massive heart.

Baymax is the obvious star, but there's something almost Speilbergian about the rag-tag group of inventor teens who band together to make up the rest of the central team. Their film is edgy, fun and funny and definitely offers Disney a roadmap for more superhero animations that they should definitely follow.