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

51. Treasure Planet (2002)

Hands up who could have remembered that Joseph Gordon-Levitt once starred in a Disney film? Not many of you, presumably, because Treasure Planet came out of a period when Disney was suffering a serious identity crisis.

The film was rather cruelly compared directly to what Pixar were doing with computers, and while Disney could have marketed it as a reclamation of hand-drawn animation (as they did later), they failed spectacularly. The result of their efforts is actually a beautifully designed, wonderfully animated film that falls down in the telling.

And by God Martin Short's robot B.E.N. is about the single most annoying character ever animated in Walt's name.

50. Brother Bear (2003)

Brother Bear was reportedly pushed into production because of the success of The Lion King and Disney's desire to make more animal projects to attempt to capture similar success. Unfortunately, their light-weight tale of tolerance and humanity ended up being incredibly dull, and there's little appeal for any but the youngest audience members.

Ironically, Disney had an intriguing idea initially: to adapt King Lear with bears, but they rejected it in favour of a walk-a-mile-in-my-shoes morality tale that is achingly familiar. And while the animation can be beautiful (it should be given the research that went into it), its substance isn't matched in the story at all.