Disney Animated Movies from Worst to Best – Chicken Little (#55)

“THIS TIME THE SKY REALLY IS FALLING”

55. Chicken Little (November 4, 2005)

Chicken Little was the next Disney animated feature to be released after our #56 movie, Home on the Range. Some critics claimed Disney was trying too hard to imitate what Pixar was doing with its first all computer animated feature film Chicken Little. Studios like Pixar and Dreamworks were setting the bar high with their releases and Disney seemed to be playing catch up. Although, on its opening weekend Chicken Little debuted at #1, taking in $40 million dollars. At the time that tied it with The Lion King as the biggest opening weekend for a Disney animated movie. It remained #1 in its second week of release. When the movie project was started in 2001, it was about a female chicken who went to summer camp to build her confidence. After David Stainton became president of Walt Disney Feature Animation in 2003, he suggested the story needed a new direction.

Disney Animated Movies from Worst to Best – Home on the Range (#56)

It can be a very tough task ranking all the Disney animated movies. First, there are quite a few of them, 56 to be exact. The very first one being Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 and the most recent being Moana in 2016. If you asked 10 people what the greatest Disney animated movie is you could possibly get 10 different answers. Everybody has their own reasons for liking a movie and opinions on how they all stack up against each other, maybe their favorite is the first Disney movie they remember seeing or a special movie they watched with a significant person in their life. To compile this list I researched a few recent rankings, added in my own rankings and based off all the rankings compiled an average to determine the Walking Down Main Street Greatest Disney Animated Movies list. This list only contains the films under the Walt Disney Animation Studios banner (formerly Walt Disney Feature Animation and Walt Disney Productions), so no Disney/Pixar movies here. I am sure there will be some, probably many who will disagree with my final rankings and will think certain movies deserve to be higher on the list or should be lower. As the list is released I would love to hear comments and feedback. So let’s begin with #56, Home on the Range.