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

45. Dinosaur (2000)

As a "different" Disney film from a particularly fallow period for the studio, Dinosaur has always been something of a whipping boy among Disney fans. It doesn't help, of course, that the plot is painfully generic, but such limited appreciation misses the fact that it is a stunning achievement in technological advancement.

Dinosaur is a visual treat that is never quite matched by the substance beneath the gloss, but it's still enjoyable to watch in the same sort of way you would now watch Fantasia. Without really picking at the story or the meat, which is where it really begins to fall apart.

Still, it was well ahead of the curve.

44. Oliver & Company (1988)

You'd have thought that an adaptation of Oliver Twist with cats and dogs would be Disney's bread and butter, but Oliver & Company smacks of too many cooks and not enough intelligent discourse. The film was originally designed to be darker (though it was also supposed to include the theft of a giant Panda to, for some reason), but it had its claws clipped halfway through production.

And remarkably, though you should know what you're in for with an Oliver Twist story, the script-writers (there were 13 credits for the story alone, unbelievably) conspired to make it predictable to an unwelcome degree. Instead of reinventing the classic tale with a new spin, they ended up pumping in a predictable, cliched storyline that could have been in any two-bit tale.

The animation too is missing something of the classic magic, even with an attention to capturing a dog's eye view of the city carefully managed, and it never quite feels like anything above All Dogs Go To Heaven sort of territory.