Every Live Action Disney Remake Ranked!
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- The Little Mermaid is just the latest live action remake of a Disney animated classic. I tackle all 14 to sort out the good (a few), the bad (a few more), and the ehhhhh (even more).
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0:00 - Intro & Eligibility
2:24 - #14 Movie
5:45 - #13 Movie
7:49 - #12 Movie
11:00 - #11 Movie
13:45 - #10 Movie
18:03 - #9 Movie
22:14 - #8 Movie
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27:07 - #7 Movie
29:44 - #6 Movie
31:48 - #5 Movie
35:27 - #4 Movie
38:54 - #3 Movie
40:57 - #2 Movie
43:47 - #1 Movie - Zábava
Folks! Charts is coming tomorrow - final numbers for the four-day weekend don't come in until today. Don't worry, I'll have a full breakdown on The Little Mermaid and everything else in the morning. In the meantime, enjoy this look at lots of mediocre movies!
Oh...ok, ill watch Speed instead
Turns out I'm a charts junkie! Gotta have my weekly dose!! Keep up the great work Dan, thank you!
Finally some unbiased box office numbers
That's fine. It'll give me more time to play Tears of the Kingdom.
I have some a lot higher than some others on my own personal list compared with dan’s . But the top four is the same but it a different order 1) Cinderella 2 jungle book , 3 Aladdin , 4 the little mermaid
My thoughts and prayers go out to Dan Murrell and his soul for it must be dead inside after watching all these Disney LA Remakes.
Same. The remakes are are not good
The remakes exists in their own multiverse universe.
@@chasehedges6775jungle book is. That’s it though.
He moved out of LA for a reason.
They aren’t that bad
Glenn Close was such pitch perfect casting at the time for 101 Dalmatians. She looked like she had a ball.
Yeah, you could tell she was enjoying every second
Most people forget about 101 Dalmatians. I loved it
I cannot remember if it was 101 Dalmatians or 102, but I remember reading somewhere that she made sure her contract let her keep any of her costumes in the film.
As someone who can be more forgiving of a weak film with gorgeous costuming, I always thought that was ingenious of her and her team.
Please watch 101 Dalmatians again. Casting and music are both great. C'mon, Joan Plowright as nanny ...perfect casting. 101 is a 10 out of 10 on the adorable scale.
Absolutely agree
In my personal opinion, Cinderella is the best remake that Disney has made thus far. It managed to create it's own story and style, a film that stood on its own without relying heavily on nostalgia, and gave new depth to familiar characters especially the prince. If Jane Austen was a filmmaker, Cinderella remake is exactly how i'd imagine if she wrote and directed it. Everyone was absolutely brilliant in their roles and it's probably the only Disney remake that i can rewatch over and over again
This, 100%. Cinderella nailed the aesthetic of Mary Blair's art style, while still elevating the material to become its own unique adaptation
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agree i think number one for me has best Disney remake.
Yeah, for me Cinderella's the only great remake, the rest aren't even remotely passable.
Have you ever seen "Ever After" with Drew Barrymore? If you haven't, I recommend you do. It is the better version of what this Cinderella was trying to do.
Fun fact for Mulan's opening credit logo: the castle is actually the Shanghai Disneyland castle instead of the Disney World Cinderella's Castle
Of course, Dan not only ranks the movies, he ranks the Disney logos. That is exactly the type of bonus flare that makes Dan's takes the best!
Christopher Robin is an incredibly heart-warming and charming movie! I know it didn't qualify based on Dan's criteria, but I just had to say it!
Wonderful movie
Christopher Robin is such a loving and sweet movie, I absolutely love it. ❤
Agreed
It's good to see that others share my opinion on this. Although I gotta admit I'm pretty biased since The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was by far my favourite Disney movie growing up.
I didn't know what to expect out of the movie and having seeing it, it's not that bad. It's definitely one of the better and faithful adaptation
"Cinderella" will always be my favorite of the live action adaptations. Not only is it a great tribute to the original movie's concept artist, Mary Blair, and her iconic pastel art style, but it also makes the story feels so much more refreshing and full than its animated predecessor. Plus, Lily James (now next to Halle's Ariel) is easily the best cast of the Disney princess' and I'm glad her beautiful singing voice gets some moments featured as well.
Jungle Book 📚 taking the top spot is my personal validation of this movie’s excellence. Cinderella coming in second gives me an excuse to finally check this one out. Thanx Dan, the remaining all fell in pretty respectable order (to my own).
Have u seen it?
Dan you explaining the Lady & The Tramp scene in live action was HILARIOUS.
I love that you used a Weird Al analogy to compare the Lion Kings.
Mulan is one of those things where Disney tried to appease multiple audiences and ended up pleasing no one. The criticism out of China for the original was that Mulan is supposed to be a larger than life super hero. "Brains over brawn" was not appreciated by those audiences. So Disney tried to return her supernatural aspect in the remake. I'd say they tried to have character growth for her still in having her overcome a mental hurdle to allow herself to use her abilities. This is represented by the contrast with the witch character Xianniang. But I think this didn't end up appreciated as much by western audiences. And in the end, the film still wasn't authentic enough for Chinese audiences so it wasn't received well in China.
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101 Dalmatians was always pretty fun for me. It would be way higher than Lady and the Tramp, Lion King and Beauty and the Beast on my list.
101 Dalmations 1996 was awesome
Glenn Close's performances is better than the entire Lion King remake movie
It is often forgotten when people talk about Disney's live action remakes.
101 Dalmatians is a great adaptation. Loved it then and still love it. I was not prepared for this ranking 😂
Same
Love it till this day
"Puppies" (101 Dalmatians) as my daughter called it, was a mainstay in our house for about 2 years when she was 3-4 years old. Every night near bedtime she'd run into my dad's room and request Puppies and they'd watch it wherever it left off from the last viewing for a good 15-20 min. I actually thought it might rank higher, solely from Glenn Close!
Hugh Laurie and Mark Williams as the bumbling bad guys in the 2nd half of the movie are hilarious.
What I love about the Cinderella remake is its sincerity. This was (and is) very rare in 2015 and a real breath of fresh air. Just letting characters be thoroughly wholesome felt (and feels) subversive in the cultural landscape.
I recently saw The Jungle Book remake and was blown away with its quality. It made me to decide to check out The Lion King remake, thinking that maybe Favreau slipped in some quality in that film too. Yeah, not so much.
Mowgli was so great and well cast as were all the voices!
I couldn't get over how off the lighting was in The Jungle Book. It ruined everything else. It just hit the uncanny valley for me, and I couldn't help looking for what was wrong.
Calling Sleeping Beauty and Little Mermaid draws with their live-action counterparts legitimately hurt my soul. Other than that, great video, Dan.
The 2003 universal pictures Peter Pan was a great adaptation. Kinda sad that other studios are better at adapting 'disney characters' than disney. I think it comes from the fact that P.J Hogan really liked and respected the source material and wanted to adapt that story on the big screen. He didn't make the movie to change the story or "improve" it with modern subplots and influences.
I like the new one better.
They aren’t Disney characters. People just have ridiculous nostalgia for Disney animated projects. So if Disney changes anything or adapts the characters in any way people get crazy, but the same people give tons of leeway for another company adapting the exact same source material.
It was such a pity that PJ Hogan's Peter Pan was scheduled to open at the same time as Lord of The Rings: Return of the King. As a result, it barely got noticed.
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The mulan movie felt like a netflix adaption - missing all the magic and fun from the original including the music and moo shu
Mine:
1. Cinderella
2. The Jungle Book ‘16
3. Aladdin
4. The Little Mermaid
5. Pete’s Dragon
6. Mulan
7. 101 Dalmatians
8. Peter Pan & Wendy
9. Lady & the Tramp
10. Dumbo
11. Maleficent
12. The Lion King
13. Pinocchio ‘22
14. Beauty & the Beast
Nailed it with the Jungle Book ranking. It's still the gold standard that all of the other remakes are judged by to this day for me and still has yet to be topped IMHO.
I rewatched Robin Hood recently and realized Disney hasn't done a remake yet. Since putting that thought out into the universe I've been waiting with apprehension for an announcement
I know Cruella didn’t qualify but its my favorite live action movie based on Disney characters. It was Punk Rock and actually had the directors style in there. Emma Stone was perfect as a young Cruella.
I thoroughly enjoyed this ranking and your commentary throughout, would love for you to do more of these! Maybe once Flash and Aquaman 2 come out you could do a complete ranking of the whole DCEU before James Gunn reboots it.
I'm definitely planning to do that!
Imagine if Favreau’s Lion King just stuck closely to Hamlet’s script. Even the other original was loosely based on it, adapting the Shakespeare source material would have been ambitious, made it stand on its own, and potentially been really good
I havent watched most of these but i absolutely adored Cinderella (2015). One thing this movie does so much better than a lot of these remakes is its production design and costuming. Its just so bold and vibrant it really feels like a fairytale
Great ranking. There's maybe a couple I would shift around, but on the whole I agree with your list. I think Aladdin works best when it leans into Will Smith's strengths and basically makes the genie Hitch. I kinda wish they had gone with the rap version of Friend Like Me for the movie, because it's just unfair to compare it to Robin Williams' version otherwise
Just wanted to thank you for taking the time watching all of these! I really enjoyed the video! Can't wait for charts tomorrow.
Yeah, I would’ve ranked Lion King dead last. It’s straight up blasphemy.
Great list. I think one thing that sets "The Jungle Book" apart as an adaptation, which is something I teach a class on (written word to film adaptations) is that it has its own theme. The use of the elephants as mythological beings that carve the rivers of the Earth and the idea of leaving your mark on the world is so well done.
While I do like the "Cinderella" adaptation, I still think "Ever After" is a better Cinderella story. As much as I like Cate Blanchett in this role, she is not as villainous as the original nor as good as Angelica Houston in the role in "Ever After"
For me, I do like "The Little Mermaid" but the original for me is one of my favorite films of all time because of the wonder of the sea in it and I do not think the new film reaches that height just as "The Lion King" does not either.
But again, great list!
I genuinely enjoyed Aladdin. Though I wish they had let the rap version of Friend Like Me in the credits would have been in the movie proper. Smith IS a rapper and it sounds great.
8:04 I think this is the first I've ever heard of there being a Lady and the Tramp remake, or else I had completely forgotten about any reviews of or announcements about it I saw/heard.
It’s just another bad Disney remake
Mulan 1998 is a classic and still awesome to watch
I love your Ranked videos!! Thank you Dan!
Lion King is moving images created by a computer with input from an artist... it's animation. Doesn't matter what they "consider" it to be, it is what it is.
No Way "The Little Manatee" is that high... It's not even in top 10...
If you don’t catch your breath and believe in magic the moment Prince Kit grabs Ella’s waist the moment right before they start dancing! (it’s Mr Darcy hand flex level of 🥹💕😍💫✨) That moment alone makes it top tier live action Disney!
Loved that
I never believed in Love until that moment.
Hi Dan! Sometimes, when I get a song stuck in my head, I listen to the whole song, and that helps it get out of my head.
It might sound strange, but it has worked for me. My brother is the one who recommends this when it happens to me, and I’m happy for the recommendation.
Your note about how the live action version makes lovely scenes look ridiculous remindes me of a similar insight of Lindsay Elis about the (usually failed) adaptations of musicals to the screen
“Dan to Hanks, You’re Not Completely Worthless.”
-Scoops McGee
Chris Pine was the only chuckle in that film. 😊
I agree with your top three. 👍 Junglebook blew me away. I've watched Cinderella like a dozen times. I enjoyed the performances in Little Mermaid 🧜♀️
Your Weird Al reference in regards to 2019's The Lion King is spot-on! (Also, thank you for giving a little bit of love to the 70's Pete's Dragon, one of my favorite childhood films!)
Great list and love the logic behind the choices
I laughed way more than I should have with your woes about the scuttlebutt. I think we pretty much share the same ranking opinion
Editing Paul Winfield into that Awkwafina song was a true masterstroke 😂 40:00
I’ve never seen the re-makes of your #1 and 2 picks. Think I need to change that now, thanks Dan!
OMG the quick cut from Lady & the Tramp to the "I wish you didn't smoke weed" dog ad fucking killed me
I’m so pumped for a Dan ranking video
Solid list. Thanks for the breakdown!
How to shake an earworm: pick any catchy tune **with no lyrics** and hum that instead until that is the tune you default to. Earworms work like that because you don't know the lyrics well, and your brain treats it like an unfinished task.
I use the theme tune to the 1970's Battlestar Galactica. It always works.
When The Lion King was released in 1995, I was selling TVs at Best Buy. It played almost constantly on most of the TVs on display for months. I never got tired of hearing the sounds and songs and seeing the images in the background while I was working.
The remake was a big disappointment for me. The realistic animal faces were much less expressive than the cartoon faces that are so clear in my memory.
Great video as usual! Your hard work really shows. ❤
I know it's technically a sequel and not a live-action remake but Hook will always be my favorite.
Also not Disney. But a childhood favourite of mine
I can't stand it on watch as an adult, despite having Robin Williams
I personally enjoyed this but I cannot for the life of me understand howDan Murrell is able to make 45+ minute videos and still get an enthusiastic audience. I just started using CZcams and am cutting down to 20 minutes or less even though I have more to say.
Very excited for this one. I checked back for it like a dozen times over the weekend.
Here's my recommendation for how to get the Scuttlebutt song out of your head. Listen to Iago's songs from the Aladdin sequel, The Return of Jafar. Those songs are “I’m Looking out for Me” and “Forget About Love”.
Loved this ranking! Will definitely have to check out The Jungle Book and Aladdin and possible re-watch Cinderella.
I also loved that you discussed the logos for each film as that's something I always notice and enjoy when they do a variation of it. Thank you!
People really overrate that Jungle Book film. NONE of these films are anywhere near as good as the originals - all the charm and soul sucked out. The Lion King remake is the most creatively bankrupt movie ever made. The only film mentioned in this video that is worth watching is Cruella - that was surprisingly good, and no coincidence the one that was actually a new film instead of these lifeless copies.
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One thing that the original Jungle Book has over the remake is Louis Prima's vocals as King Louie for the song "I Wanna Be Like You." As much as I like Christopher Walken, his rendition could never compare.
Right on with Jungle Book. Of all the remakes/re-imaginings , this is the one that makes the most sense because it does justice to Kipling's stories. Story goes that Disney wanted the Beatles to voice the vultures in the first one,, but they had their pwn plans for an animated movie. Yellow Submarine, as it turned out.
This was great! So much to enjoy, but I think the highlight for me was being jettisoned back to my younger days with the always-welcomed surprise terrible Van Der Beek southern accent delivery of “Ah don't wunt yore lahf!” I remember seeing Varsity Blues in the theater and repeating that line ad nauseum for so long!
Excellent ✍️ video. I appreciated the brief review on Cinderella. It doesn't jump straight to mind when thinking of the Disney remakes, but you made a solid argument for why I should give it another, more attentive watch.
I always forget that Cinderella 2015 is a Disney live action remake just because I haven't seen Jungle Book yet and it is so much better than the other movies on this list.
Been waiting for a video from you today.. never clicked on a notification faster
So glad that Cinderella ranked so high on your list as I really fell in love with it. I keep getting worried that it may rank low for you. I have yet the see The Jungle Book, but atm Cinderella is my favorite live action remake and part of why I have so much hope for the Snow White remake with Zegler. Everything from the casting to the romance to the freaking DRESS is flawless. The reveal of the dress seriously gave me goosebumps and it's also part of why the Beauty and the Beast remake fell flatter for me. Great ranking, Dan! I think I agree overall, at least with the ones I've seen.
It's not Disney. But the Best Live Action Version Of A Fairy Tale is "Hook".
The ranking is pretty spot on. Well done!
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Excellent content Dan! Thanks.
I agree with you, Dan, that song is still stuck in my head, listen to "happy" or any love ballad usually helps.
Thank you ever so much for doing this ranking!! ❤ I feel inspired to watch many an animated classic, as well as the Maugli and Cinderella remakes, with my 8yrold - gonna be a first time for him!!!!!
ahh mannnn, 101 dalmation is ONE of my favourite live action. "Understand, not a word" "ahhhh, look at the size of that scarrrr". its hilarous!!
Look. Scuttle butt. My mom who saw this move as a kid LOVED this song. She was giggling the whole time.
She loved all of scuttles scenes actually.
And we have to remember it’s a movie for kids. Lol. A song with the word “butt”isn’t for the critics.
But I also think that the internet hive mind influences opinions greatly.
One popular person could have just as easily said the song was cool.
I like that you also review the Disney logo changes.
I regret I haven’tbseen the Jungle Book yet. It’s first in my watch list now. Great vid Dan. Thanks for all the work it took to give us this great summary
Looking back the only films I have actually liked were Cinderella and Petes Dragon. Petes Dragon effected me deeply when I watched it thinking it would be a throwaway nothing of a film. Such a great underrated film.
DAN: "Do you know where the waiters are? They're outside, singing to a couple of freakin' dogs." 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Now, THAT would be something I'd pay to see.
Interesting that Dumbo features Batman and 2 Penguins in the cast!
One could say it's the elephant in the room ;)
I had the same feelings about Scuttlebutt but ended up loving it instead - maybe it's because of how creative the memes about the song have been
"It was almost always Aladdin." 😂 Too true, Dan, too true!
14:27-15:04 Hit the nail right on the head for me and my problem with a lot of how Disney likes to do much of their work these days. They are more concerned with appearances and patting themselves on the back for feeling like they are speaking to the wider world for their choices that they take away the charm of just letting it happen organically. Might be damning to say so, but I think of a great point Doug Walker made in his old Disneycember review of "Enchanted" and how the ending dragon fight just had her rambling off how this was so different and not how these stories usually go, and argued more effective change is just letting it happen rather than bringing attention to it to an obnoxious degree.
Cinderella is definitely my favorite on this list, for all of the reasons you listed. There were a handful of movies I haven't watched because, well, I've learned at this point that there's not much love or creativity going into the live action remakes. Cinderella feels like a rare exception. To me it felt sincere.
I love your list. Love this type of video. Great job on the editing as always. Your a very professional and likable voice on YT. Keep it up. I agree with most of your list. My wife hates Cinderella remake and so it was great to see it so high on yours.
It is wild in my brain whenever I try to reconcile that the director of "A Ghost Story" and "The Green Knight" also directed 2 medicore Disney movies. But hey if he can get that paycheck and make more excellent A24 movies I'm all for it.
Wow, I didn't realise at the moment that the "Love Tonight" song was performed during the day. Wow, pure blinders 🥸😳😱
Here’s a list of characters from live action, remakes to have their own spin off show
1. Iago (Alan Tudyk)
2. Pain and panic (Nick Kroll and John Mulaney)
3. Timon and Pumbaa (Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen)
I was shocked Cinderella didn't win, it's such a solid movie. It refreshingly bypasses the cynicism of many modern movies to bring a sweet, genuine story. But I haven't seen the Jungle Book, so I'll have to check it out
Have you heard the Scuttlebutt, Dan? 😂😂 I totally love(d) it!
I’m cheering and clapping at The Little Mermaid being so high!!!!! HELL YEAH.
TLM is my favorite Disney movie, and the remake satisfies. PERIOD. Halle was fantastic as was Jonah. And the added scenes/changes built upon the existing characters. I loved it.
Brilliant video Dan. Thanks for suffering through the bad and meh movies.
Love ranking videos! Keep ‘em coming.
Same, love this content
I love Dan's criteria. I appreciate it as a neurospicy person.
"Weird Al did the cover versions better than this movie does" PREACH!
I personally just rank these films for myself on overall enjoyment and not whether or not they are better than the original. My favorite by a pretty sizable margin is the Live Action Aladdin. I personally loved how they gave Jasmine a fully fleshed out arc, I loved Aladdin and the Genie's chemistry, the Prince Ali segment stands toe-to-toe with the original, and I genuinely teared up at the acting during the scene where Aladdin frees Genie. Mena Massoud doesn't make a spectacle of the moment, Will Smith's disbelief and near speechlessness feel earned, and I genuinely believed in that moment that these two are best friends. Nothing is going to top the original Aladdin in my book, but darn it if Aladdin (2019) isn't one of my favorite Live Action films Disney has released in the last decade.
Maleficent and Petes Dragon are really borderline like you said as far as " remakes" but hey I can see the debate
Gotta love Dan. Knew he wouldn't do Jungle Book dirty. That movie made me actually excited for live action disney remakes because it was so surprisingly great. I don't think they've come close to reaching those heights since.
While it's not the best remake, for me, Beauty and the Beast gets the distinction of having the best new songs. "How Can a Moment Last Forever" is a tender, subtle bit of emotion with Belle and Maurice. And although I don't like it as much as the Broadway production's "If I Can't Love Her," "Evermore" is a heart-rending powerhouse performed beautifully by Dan Stevens
Both these pieces stand proudly alongside the classic songs in the film, which is not something I can say for any of the original music in the other remakes
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Peter Pan from 2003 is my personal favorite Peter Pan movie. Jason Issacs as Hook is great.