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

17. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)

It would be easy to dismiss the hyperbolic love of Snow White as no more than the rose-tinted nostalgia of fans who rightly recognise it as Disney's single most important film. But to reduce it only to a founding stone to the Classics franchise is to do it a disservice.

Snow White changed the animated feature world, becoming the first cell-animated film every released, but the fledgling techniques and lack of specific experience simply do not show. The world painted is beautiful and rich, characters range from hauntingly realistic to delightfully other-worldly and more than any other Disney, it looks like a genuine work of art.

Add to that the immediately iconic dwarfs, the bar-setting music and a chilling villainess, and you can see exactly how Snow White managed to kick of an entire decades-long movie collection.

16. Bambi (1942)

As proof that you can never fully trust cinema audiences, Bambi lost money on its initial run. Admittedly, that was largely thanks to the small matter of the Second World War and the lack of European market access, but it's still a travesty.

Critics too weren't entirely delighted: the lack of a fantasy element was largely seen as a mistake, and there was supposedly limited appeal in a dramatic tale about animals. How wrong they've subsequently been proven.

There is universal appeal in the coming of age story, drama and emotion in its heart-breaking twists and lashings of adorableness that bulks up what is a comparatively insubstantial story. But then simplicity in story is often an underrated virtue and Bambi is the ultimate answer both to the criticisms levelled at its lack of fantasy and the supposed need to push the envelope further.