Ranking the WORST Disney Films

[@toonishigh]

This is my third watchthrough. It might be a bit early to call this, but this video will probably be my favourite video released this year. This is what film criticism should be like. The scriptwriting is immaculate. There is a complete lack of fluff in any of the sections, which are often present in many film countdowns like this. This is mostly due to some critics not really caring about most of the films they discuss, but your knowledge and appreciation for the medium of film (and music as well, loved your worst to best videos) is super apparent and infectious. As someone currently studying art analysis (specifically in film and music), it’s super refreshing and inspiring to see that there are still people out there taking the field of art criticism and analysis seriously, especially in a time where the overall quality of art criticism is at an all time low. I also absolutely adore the editing in the video. The footage shown on screen is always relevant to what you’re discussing, and the background music is perfectly subtle, but also always complements the movie (they might be taken from the soundtrack of the film at hand, I wouldn't know tho). The video is also just incredibly entertaining in general. I generally like dry delivery and humor and I feel like you’ve perfected that. I genuinely hope this video reaches more people, just for the fact that I think more people should be shown that good art analysis still exists.

[@VerdanaVideos]

I really appreciate comments like this so thank you so much for taking the time to write it.

[@TheNotoriousBabe]

Your writing and editing are so sharp. Can't wait for the next part and your future videos about other subjects. Excellent work!

[@PapaLuge]

Nobody forgot Chicken Little, because nobody forgets Buck Cluck

[@ckm5702]

The view count for the level of quality on this is criminal P.S. has anyone ever told you that you kinda look like Alex Hirsch?

[@realainsmcf]

HELL YES 2HR+ VERDANA VIDEO, I’m doing lit review for my masters thesis and I’m so glad to have something to play in the background so I don’t go insane lmao

[@JesusChristMarie]

I watched Ralph Breaks the Internet when I was 14, and it was the first time I felt legitimately insulted while watching a movie. It was the first time I realized that a giant mega corporation was spitting in my face and charging me $10 for admission.

[@Skylacine]

I don't agree with all of your rankings but this was a very entertaining video. Good job, sub earned.

[@toonishigh]

An hour in, absolutely phenomenal video so far. Endlessy entertaining while still giving interesting perspectives on these (often) pretty underdiscussed movies

[@joshuazerbel2495]

I know Dinosaur isn’t the best movie or anything but at least we can all agree on this, the score was awesome and one of the best James Newton Howard ever composed!

[@miyana7645]

The cinematography at the end was so good👏 I hope we're gonna get part 2 this year

[@johndavies1170]

As British person who has both English and Welsh Heritage, Sword In The Stone and The Black Cauldron are guilty pleasures for me, despite their flaws, and for how weird, unique and dark they are. 🙃

[@brandonspain12345]

What's even worse for Dinosaur is that they sounded SOOO MICH BETTER and more interesting. Aladar was originally a hot-head named Noah who has psychic abilities of the future and is dismissed from the astroid hitting. But after the devastation, he and other surviving dinosaurs, along with his iguanodon grandparents and his lemur friends like Adam, ban together to leave. Kron was named Cain and was actually Noah's childhood friend and outcast Noah for trying to outsource him and the herd. Unlike the actual movie's boring deserts and limited brown dinosaurs, there were way more colorful dinosaurs traveling in more appealing landscapes. Colorful fields, orange and blue deserts, vibrant jungles, mountains full of snow, and an entire sequence of them crossing through a dangerous river. Later on, the grandparents are too weak to continue walking and sacrifice themselves from a carnotaurus, leaving Noah to keep going and become a leader. Noah and Cain would also have a fight on lava (ala Star Wars 3.) Later drafts in 1996 focused more on the relationship with Noah and Cain who were now brothers as a metaphor for Moses. Aladar was a baby and separated by a carnotaurus and is discovered by the lemurs. Their island is destroyed and they're discovered/reunited with his now cold and estranged brother who now guides the herd. His brother is also disgusted by Aladar's good sweet values he's learned from his adopted family. Leaving Aladar going through a moral crisis over who's his real family. Also, the Carnotaurus was originally supposed to have very small bits of dialogue that would come off as unexpected for him as an antagonistic killer. CEO of Disney, Michael Eisner, was the one who demanded the dinosaurs to talk with many animators threatening to leave if they started singing. They originally wanted something like Homeward Bound by having inner voices. And even considered subtitles. But Eisner wasn't convinced since not making them talk would defeat the purpose of the possibilities of CGI. The iguanodons all had beaks and it was tested with them physically talking but everyone felt it lacked emotions and felt the animation looked unintentionally goofy. Resulting in them having lips.

[@artemiykopych]

Verdana is in his movie ranking era? Im all up for that!

[@TheHaydra]

Fun Fact: According to MatPat (circa 2019), Dinosaur has the single highest kill count in any Disney movie purely because of the scene where all the lemurs die

[@EugenioScamardella]

Frankly I think that Fantasia has it, you know. In that movie we witness the very extinction of the dinosaurs, which I guess are numerically more than all the lemurs (albeit many) on the island.

[@PDocDanny]

1:07:13 I wanna add something here. Mother Gothel is the classic pure evil parent which makes her less relatable. But I think another aspect that makes her inclusion sting far less than Buck Cluck's is that she is never "redeemed." She doesn't just get away with the terrible shit she did. She fuckin dies. I'm not saying Mother Gothel or Buck Cluck are necessarily irredeemable characters, but the way Chicken Little does it makes it so Buck is just forgiven without actually having to face any repercussions.

[@alexrexaros9837]

The only saving grace of Peter Pan is Captain Hook. He is devilishly delicious. And kind of a giveaway that Disney should've done a pirate movie. They were working on Pirates of the Caribbean at the time, after all...

[@GoldenJLR]

Great video! I just want to mention a few things about Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros. José Carioca’s name is pronounced “Joe-se” not “Hose”, it’s a portuguese name, not a hispanic one. The last time Disney pronounced his name correctly was in 1961. The movies weren’t made with an American audience in mind, they were made for the people they are representing. The movies were made in a time where media from the USA wasn’t just as widespread as it is today, in many countries Snow White was the first foreigner movie ever to be dubbed, this was a new thing. During WW2 most countries in the Americas were neutral and many had close relationships with Germany, the US government wanted to get closer to the rest of the continent with the hope the population would press the governments to join the Allies, that’s why the two movies were made. The movies worked, and the relationship between US Latin American and Brazil got closer but not the way the US government expected. The Brazilian government used the US “Good Neighbor” policy and sent a lot of Brazilian artists to the US, including the singer José Oliverica, that became José Carioca’s voice actor, and the singer and actress Carmen Miranda that got so popular that woman with fruits on the head because a stereotype for Brazilians in the US despite just being a bit she did in her movies. While Saludos amigos was made to show the countries by the eyes was the Disney artists, The Three Caballeros was made by Brazilian and Mexican singers, most of the songs in the movie were licenced songs, including the two main themes “Have you been to Bahia” and “The three Caballeros”. Both movies were very well received in the countries it represents (alright a lot of people from Chile didn’t like the short about Pedro the airplane because it has nothing to do with the country) and they represent the culture of the time very well! José Carioca became very popular for a while and he was HUGE in Brazil but that was thanks to newspaper strips. Before Saludos Amigos was released Disney introduced José Carioca in the Silly Symphony comic strips where he was a con artist that tricks tourists to give him money (that way the comics recontext his segment in Saludos Amigos is so funny). He was the main character for 3 years and when this series was localized to Portuguese it exploded in popularity so much that Disney had to make new José stories that got added into Donald’s comic series until he finally got his own comic book that ran from 1961 to 2018 ending on issue 2446. There was also a third movie being made called “Cuban Carnaval”, it got cancelled but a segment was produced and was added into Melody time.

[@GoldenJLR]

Two neat things I forgot to mention: In The three Caballeros Yaya is played by Aurora Miranda, Carmen Miranda's sister. And I believe José Oliveira also cameoed in the Yaya segment. Not only did Clarence Nash and José Oliveria voice Donald Duck and José Carioca in the English version they also voiced the characters in Portuguese, Spanish, French and Italian. Joaquin Garay (Panchito) however, only returned to sing because although he was Mexican he lived most of his life in the US and had developed an American accent. Garay was replaced in the dubs by Felipe Turich

[@VerdanaVideos]

@@GoldenJLR Thank you for taking the time to leave such a thoughtful and well-informed comment. You’re totally right that I mispronounced Jose’s name (didn’t even catch that) and I also didn’t realize just how much influence Mexican and Brazilian singers had on the Three Caballeros until now. That being said, I would disagree with you on the assertion that the film was “made” by these singers. They were involved with production as performers and Disney also employed many as cultural advisors, yes, but all the lead creatives on the film (directors, writers, art designers) were Americans who had final say on what made it in and what didn’t. The vast majority of the animation was done in the states by American animators as well. Regardless, perhaps you’re right that the film did a better job of capturing the Brazilian and Mexican cultures at the time than I gave it credit for. I was mainly focused on the film’s bizarre fixation on Donald’s sexuality when watching it, lol. Cheers.

[@GoldenJLR]

@@VerdanaVideos I 100% agree with you that at the end of the day it is an American movie and it was the directors and artists that had the final say and were the leaders of the project. Although the movies were very respectful to the cultures they were portraying, a few errors were made, like misspelling the word Bahia (one of the 26 states of Brazil) as Baía (it means Bay in Portuguese). However there are a few details in both movies that I can only explain as influences of the singers and voice actors, like how Saludos Amigos ends with Donald and José dancing inside a building that has the word “URCA” blinking on top. That was Cassino da Urca, where José Oliveira previously worked (the casino closed in 1946 but the building is still there). ( I actually made a video talking about the brazilian aspect of both movies and the one sequel short from 1960)

[@RedEyesBlackKnight]

I was super into dinosaurs as a kid, so naturally when Disney's dinosaur came out i ate it up like candy. Toys, coloring books, stickers, etc. There was no way i could ever forget it.

[@WiloPolis03]

*>complains about videos taking too long to make* *>starts the video explaining the history of film as an artistic medium* Joking aside this is great as always, even the unscripted portion was concise, thoughtful and hilarious. I could be working on a mixtape right now but this is more entertaining

[@Stellafera]

Ok describing "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" as 2000s butt rock brings me pain as an REM fan but Stipe does have that kind of voice 😅

[@VerdanaVideos]

I already know I’m going to get endless comments about this so I’m just gonna pin your comment and hope that helps weather the storm a bit 💀

[@Stellafera]

@VerdanaVideos yeah I was unsure of whether to say it bc it's the kind of thing you kick yourself for as a creator even though it didn't detract from my enjoyment as a viewer at all but I also didn't want you to live in ignorance 😭🙏

[@pickledgarf]

Kron walked so Thanos could run

[@ShadowShine57]

This is such a great video, you can tell how high effort it all is

[@shinydiglett]

Hell yeah, I love long breakdowns of movies I'm never going to watch! Can't wait for part 2

[@xiodraco]

This is the moment where Walt becomes Disney

[@finland4ever55]

Sleeping Beauty was my favorite Disney movie growing up and honestly is still one of my faves. I do love that Aurora (and Rapunzel) is basically the Hermit Princess. Sleeping Hermit.

[@joshslater2426]

I’m one of those people who grew up really liking Chicken Little growing up, especially because I didn’t use the internet much back then. I just watched a recording my gran had of the film several times, and I still think it’s fine and not worth getting fussed about. Buck Cluck surely isn’t the worst father in fiction? There has to be someone worse.

[@prorambler8605]

Wait they made a movie about that KH2 summon?

[@RmsOceanic]

There is - unsure of the right word to use - an AU of Sword in the Stone where after all the drama surrounding Lancelot and Mordred and Morgan LeFay, King Arthur's mind is cast back from Camelot's fall to young Wart in an attempt to fix things, and with his heart so wounded by all the betrayal, seeks companionship from the one being who truly loved him unconditionally, so Merlin turns the squirrel human and she takes the name Hazel and then it becomes an excuse for cute art of them.

[@mlgodzilla4206]

Nothing could make hate Dinosaur and Fantasia 2000 Also The iguanodon don’t have human teeth, its instead skin over the beak

[@imarobobot8795]

Oh lordy what a return. Welcome back fam

[@DriverHenryWho3245]

Can't wait to watch this! Love movie rankings, and your channel! 😁

[@MtnSmithy]

One good thing I can say about The Sword in the Stone is that it distracted my toddler for the 45 minutes I needed it to.

[@scalpingsnake]

I a fully aware this is 99% because of my rose tinted nostalgia glasses but I think Dinosaur is a bit better than you give it credit for. In a way the 'reject' dinosaurs do help because of the weight of the Brontosaurus Aladar is then able to figure out there is water. Not perfect but closer than you made it out. Also the Meteor scene if fucking epic.

[@jjkeyboards]

Your points about Peter Pan shooketh me good - I do think everyone has a collective pair about rose tinted glasses, thinking about just how inappropriate a lot of the characters and dynamics are

[@DisneyGirl2004]

Brother bear dinosaur and black cauldron are good

[@kieranstark7213]

Honestly, just because it’s Disney (I am yet to find a Disney movie that almost nobody talks about; perhaps I watched some, like take for instance, the Encino Man duology, mainly Encino Woman in particular, the Witch Mountain trilogy, One Day at Disney, one of the earliest Disney+ originals even if it’s an episodic series, Avalon High and a few other DCOMs excluding the High School Musical franchise which is or was iconic in the mid-late 2000s, Seal Island which is very ahead of its time because of how accurately it represented Inuit culture in the early 20th century, Bedknobs and Broomsticks despite being made by the same director with live-action/animation like in Marry Poppins with David Tomlinson, The Parent Trap and I’m talking about both versions and thinking about whether or not around the late 2030s of making a re-imagining of it complete with Rankin-Bass style stop-motion animation like in the opening credits of the otherwise dated original) and thanks to the age of the Internet, I don’t think any of these are forgotten any longer!

[@jasiekgosciniak126]

I just realized something - Brother Bear 2 proves that there is a possibility to grant a human being with the ability to understand bears... SO WHY DIDN'T THEY DO JUST THAT FOR KENAI

[@АринаСадовская-р8н]

Man, you have a very biased attitude towards Brother Bear. The fact that you didn't get it, it's your problem, not the movie. And you misunderstood the moral, which is perfectly revealed. The moral is not that bears are cool, but to avoid revenge and a cycle of cruelty. You're just judging the movie by the little things and quibbles, not objectively. I've never had any problems or discomfort watching a movie. Brother Bear is great, and it doesn't deserve a place next to other Disney failures.

[@KaminoKatie]

The Three Good Fairies are the main protagonists actually. Aurora is literally nothing more than a pawn in their game against Maleficent

[@All4Tanuki]

"Forgot" and the two front-and-centre in the thumbnail were some of my faves as a kid. All it's missing is Emperor's New Groove...

[@All4Tanuki]

Also welcome back!!

[@peromechus9806]

Chicken Little gave me nightmares where the aliens were scarier. I can still hear the screams.

[@RandomPerson-rt8zt]

Hey quick question (which is vaguely related to Disney). Based on what we’ve seen on season 14 of Doctor who where would you place Ncuti Gatwa on your ranking of Doctors?

[@VerdanaVideos]

As of now, probably between Peter Davison and Sylvester McCoy, but he’s only had 9 episodes so far which isn’t very much so things might change as his era goes on.

[@Creek932]

@@VerdanaVideos I've got another related question. If you had to rank all the Doctors again after the 60th, would you put 10 and 14 in 2 different spots or just have one spot for Tennant in general?

[@VerdanaVideos]

Both RTD and Tennant have stated that 14 and 10 are essentially meant to be the same character so I would rank them together. I personally think it was a missed opportunity to not make 14 a markedly different take on the character from 10, but hey.

[@Creek932]

@ I think there are a few surface level differences, like 14 being more emotionally open and more comfortable displaying affection, but there wasn't enough of a difference for me to think of them as two separate incarnations.

[@PercyTheWolf]

2 Verdana videos releasing on the same day.. BEST BIRTHDAY GIFT EVER!!!

[@VerdanaVideos]

Happy birthday!

[@Stellafera]

Algorithm gave me this and im already on board with the top bottom rant

[@rustin9938]

Who doesnt like Chicken lil? CLASSIC bro CLASSIC

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

2:17:43 For reference, 0.166666etc. is one-sixth, so a more accurate answer would be 8 hours and 10 minutes.

[@topkarat]

I was shocked when I watched Peter Pan for the first time a couple months ago. I’m glad you’re brave enough to Put Peter Pan in his place!

[@uriahrootsva]

Love these kinds of videos, but my lord ya gotta change the thumbnail !!

[@VerdanaVideos]

Well you clicked on it didn't you ;)

[@uriahrootsva]

​@@VerdanaVideosThat's cuz I already like your videos :P If I didn't, I don't know if I'd had click

[@jackcharlotte25]

1:07:45 calling 80's era REM "00'S butt-rock" is a wild-ass take 😂

[@LiminalFeelin-mq9gw]

2:18:39 bro thinks he's walter white

[@hannahb1298]

You did brother bear so dirty 😭

[@smelly1060]

35:26 naaaaah, pensioners can never come for this generation again, THIS WAS BRAINROT, BEFORE THE 2ND MILLENIUM. Everything has been done before positive and negative including fucking BRAINROT🤣 we better not continue this cycle in the next decades

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

2:15:22 Yeah, it's pretty sad when even my MC saying "boys are people too" is a bigger risk than whatever this movie did.

[@ChristopherGrisolia-k7n]

Ok why does everyone hate Dinosaur

[@superfunkyjam]

cant wait for 8 more hours :)

[@hoxilicious]

Sword in the Stone is 80 minutes of total nonsense but it's fantastic nonsense. ... minus the, uh... squirrel bit.

[@TheDWithin]

My biggest problem with this video is that there are thirteen movies lower than Wish. If Wish has a million haters, I'm one of them. If Wish has one hater, I'm that one. If WIsh has zero haters, then I've sadly passed away from watching Wish more than once.

[@topkarat]

I have been waiting for this

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

2:14:12 Yeah, that's pretty bad when even my crummy test run I made for an upcoming audio project of mine - which sounds like a *middle school band* at this stage, I might add (though I'ma work on improving it) - sounds better than this. And I friggin' used Audacity and a triple-digit setup!

[@PDocDanny]

1:53:37 I think this is supposed to be a Bee Movie reference. Fucking bizarre.

[@Drunkencrono]

This video like all of your videos is annoyingly good. I love the little cut ins and gags, but that means if I put my headphones on to listen to it while doing the dishes or something I have to stop and go back every 30 seconds to rewind and see the joke I missed. Rude, honestly. Also seeing you say you want to do shorter videos then put out a 2 hour banger with the promise of 8 hours more is tragic.

[@DriverHenryWho3245]

1:32 thought he was Saul Goodman for a sec. Which is funny, considering his name is Walt... much like a certain client of Saul's...

[@LenamLorbington]

I want to boost engagement but I don't know what to comment. I suppose I enjoyed the video.

[@willnovak4173]

It’s almost certainly just nostalgia, but I still kinda love Dinosaur since it was one of the first films I watched, and I was a Dino-loving kid. Chicken Little on the other hand, that was maybe the first time I realised that films could be bad… #FuckBuckCluck

[@movieforceofficial]

I was more offended by Peter Pan's racism than I was by Song of the South's.

[@benjharper267]

Good video

[@chables74]

Frozen didn’t save Disney animation; the Pixar acquisition did

[@Jazzhands25]

He's back 🎉🎉

[@GraySheep1717]

Woah slowed down Palmtree Panic Past

[@Creek932]

I still can't believe how bad Wish's soundtrack is lol.

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

1:28:42 I think what makes this one the worst is... well, these are *human beings* being shown here, whereas other movies make the racist caricatures some kind of animal, like a crow or a cat, which you could argue is worse in the sense that it's dehumanising those races, but like... at the very least kids won't pick up on the racism with the crows or the cats, especially if they don't know what those races are yet. But these are literally human beings of the race they represent, so if this is a kid's introduction to them... Ouch. :/ Like, bruh... freaking _Annie Get Your Gun_ is less racist than this, because while the Natives in that play and film may be somewhat stereotyped by today's standards, they otherwise seem like normal people, especially considering that Chief Sitting Bull is based on a real person of the same name, and the real racism comes more from Annie herself, claiming she's "an Indian too" [sic] because Sitting Bull adopted her as his daughter, and going to sing a song listing off a bunch of cultural stuff without its proper context. And yet that's *still* less racist than, "Duhhhh, we red because ancestor blush at pretty gurl! Hurhurhur!!!"

[@renaigh]

Okay Medium Joel

[@gooeydude574]

In terms of tone, Chicken Little feels less like a Disney movie and more like an episode of The Fairly OddParents

[@FriedWafflez8208]

57:22 Crazy how David Mitton plagiarised Disney

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

1:26:31 For me, the chief is the *definition* of a wasted character. You see, unlike the rest of the tribe, who are nothing more than shockingly racist depictions of Native Americans, the chief is all that... mixed with the seeds for an actually decent character. Like... he's basically the movie's Cobra Bubbles; a sort of intimidating but well-meaning authority figure who's merely looking out for the community, but is still a legit threat to the main characters despite his lack of malevolence. But alas, he falls victim to the same racist caricaturing as the rest of the tribe, because 50s gotta 50s, amirite?

[@sanddagger36]

Tinkerbell is my favorite fictional character of all time

[@ajeladnro]

DISSAPOINTMENT IN THE GAM... Oh wait, wrong channel

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

1:48:09 So... is zooming in a joke to you?

[@RakoonCD]

Waiting for Song of the South at number 1. 40:43 This is accurate though. We stan Panchito

[@renaigh]

never trust a pixie

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

1:30:48 I mean, you're not really much better in the shmexism department if you're equating women to minorities like that... even though the movie itself shows a young girl being racist, like *you yourself* pointed out. Like... do you not watch your own videos before you post them?

[@GraySheep1717]

Bad future Stardust Speedway!!!!!!

[@BelbyB]

I WAS looking forward to this until I saw you had Brother Bear bottom 10 🤨 and now I am debating your judgement

[@VerdanaVideos]

Brother Bear shall not divide us

[@BelbyB]

If we can't muster an opposing army in defense of Brother Bear, what can we muster an army for 😂

[@juhuu13579]

Nah Verdy, the Black Cauldron is easily the worst one

[@juhuu13579]

That Gollum from temu is the most painful character in Disney history

[@renaigh]

What about Peter Bi?

[@DisneyGirl2004]

Can you please like wish? Its a good movie ctirics are wrong and animat says spelllbpund is worse

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

2:09:32 Yeah, that's pretty bad when even I, some nobody from the rural hick town of Adelaide, understand this better than these "professional writers". Like, I'm not gonna act like I'm an expert writer or anything, but like... my main character's main goal is to write a song to serenade a boy she has a crush on. Pretty simple goal, easy to understand. So the frick is up with Asha, then? "teh monehs", that's what.

[@ChristopherGrisolia]

I will always love Dinosaur till the day I die

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

1:29:09 Next time someone pulls the "women and minorities" card, just show them this scene from this movie - that'll show them that women can be racist too. Also, not sure what it says about kid me that I merely assumed that Wendy was just bored of the party and wanted to go home. I guess I saw a bit of myself in Wendy, minus the racism, of course.