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Disney has unveiled the full list of films and TV shows that'll be available to watch on its brand new streaming service.
Named Disney+, it'll launch in the US, Canada and the Netherlands tomorrow (12 November), and in the UK on 31 March 2020.
The streaming service will come equipped with every Marvel , Pixar , Lucasfilm title in existence.
It'll also be the home of several Fox titles following the Disney-Fox merger earlier this year.
You can find the full list of Disney+'s films and television shows below – and a list of the 10 things you didn't realise would be on the streaming service here .
Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculousShow all 32 1 /32Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 321. Gridiron Gang (2006) Loosely based on the true story of the Kilpatrick Mustangs – a team comprising teenagers at a juvenile detention camp – Gridiron Gang would be more at home near the top of a list ranking Dwayne Johnson's most clichéd films than ridiculous.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 31. Snitch (2013) Snitch is an extremely straightforward action thriller with a lead character that ranks as Johnson's most believable: a father who goes undercover for the DEA to free his son who's imprisoned after being framed for drug dealing. The film was actually inspired by a documentary on new federal drug policies designed to encourage felons to snitch on their accomplices.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 30. Walking Tall (2004) A former US soldier who takes matters into his own hands after returning home to find his town overrun by crime is perhaps the role Johnson was born to play. Because of this, it ranks fairly high on the believability scale – seeing The Rock smash cars to pieces with a baseball bat is pretty tame compared to his actions in recent films.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 29. The Other Guys (2010) Johnson makes a hilariously brief cameo in Will Ferrell/Mark Wahlberg buddy comedy The Other Guys, which kicks into gear when the pair are forced to replace the NYPD’s superstar detective duo of Johnson and Samuel L Jackson. Veritable action heroes on the New York streets, they are cocky, revered and incredibly expensive, costing the city millions of dollars in property damage every time they hit the beat. But because The Other Guys generally takes place in reality, Johnson and Jackson’s characters end up smack-down dead on concrete, riding high on their own confidence, after a foot chase spins out of control. It’s comic genius, and a Dwayne Johnson movie has never been more real.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 28. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2018) Incredibly successful Jumanji reboot Welcome to the Jungle has its fair share of nuttiness, Johnson and his cohorts Jack Black, Karen Gillan and Kevin Hart fending off rhinos, hungry hippos and angry militia men. But it’s also set entirely in a video game, Johnson embodying a fictional action hero avatar known as Dr Smolder Bravestone, and therefore resistant to such typically important factors as “rules” or “logic”. It’s basically believability Kryptonite.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 27. Be Cool (2005) Otherwise appalling whenever he’s not on screen, Be Cool casts Johnson as a character whose absurdity has become increasingly less absurd as time has gone on. Back in 2005, casting Johnson as an aspiring actor desperate to make the big time, only to be ultimately rewarded with a starring role in a romantic drama titled Samoan Rendezvous alongside Nicole Kidman, felt ludicrous – but in light of how he has ascended the Hollywood ladder since, not so much. He also recreates a monologue from Bring It On, for what it’s worth.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 26. Jumanji: The Next Level The zaniness ensues in Jumanji sequel, cleverly titled The Next Level, with Johnson and his gang – including Jack Black, Karen Gillan and Kevin Hart – caught up in antics involving mandrills, mercenaries and magic necklaces. Only slightly more ridiculous than the first installment for seeing Johnson impersonate a character played by Danny DeVito after he's sucked into the video game the film's largely set in.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 25. Central Intelligence (2016) Central Intelligence is big and broad as a comedy, its tagline (“Saving the world takes a little Hart and a big Johnson”) every bit the indicator of the film’s tone. But this vehicle for recurring co-stars Johnson and Kevin Hart is surprisingly authentic to their off-screen personas. Johnson plays a formerly obese school nerd who has grown into a wise and sensitive CIA agent – basically a fun-house mirror version of his transformation from high school turtleneck-wearer to A-list movie star.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 24. Faster (2010) A grimy and underrated action vehicle for Johnson, Faster marked his last stand as a vaguely (and trust us with this) chameleon-like actor, before he became “Dwayne Johnson” and developed a particular strain of tics and trademarks. He’s a getaway driver known as Driver, hunted by a killer known as Killer, and in pursuit of a corrupt cop called Cop. The lack of names nods to classic Westerns, but if anything, this is true pulp fiction cinema, with a mood that’s more noir and heightened than plain stupid.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 23. Get Smart (2008) Get Smart's existence as a film version of the classic spy series is what allows viewers to swallow the antics of its characters led by Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway. The extent of its ridiculousness is Carell's analyst being thrust into the field operative position after a terrorist organisation exposes the identity of all agents at the intelligence unit he works at. Beyond that, anything goes.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 22. The Game Plan (2007) Dwayne Johnson is, by all accounts, an incredibly nice guy. Even his minor political scandals are rectified within minutes with entirely acceptable apologies. But it makes parts like the one he plays in The Game Plan, that of a self-involved American football player uninterested in bonding with his long-lost daughter, particularly hard to believe. He bonds with her in the end, however – Madison Pettis’s gap-toothed, lispy charm breaking through Johnson’s harsh exterior per Disney family film tradition.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 21. GI Joe: Retaliation (2013) Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick were behind GI Joe: Retaliation, the oh-so-loud sequel to the film based on Hasbro's toy franchise. Johnson joined the cast as Roadblock, an artillery specialist who – you guessed it – saved the day and is set to return in a new crossover film with the Transformers.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 20. Welcome to the Jungle (2003) This old-school action-adventure – called The Rundown in the US – nods to the Dwayne Johnson of the future (hell, the title even predated his 2017 Jumanji reboot). It's a suitably zany jungle treasure hunt in the vein of Romancing the Stone. Christopher Walken is the bad guy, Rosario Dawson is the beautiful woman along for the ride and Seann William Scott, aka the Chris Pratt that should have been, is the comic relief, with Johnson troubled by explosions, car wrecks and very angry monkeys.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 19. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) The most ridiculous aspect of Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, a follow-up to the Brendan Fraser-starring Journey to the Centre of the Earth? Michael Caine as an eccentric grandfather who lives in a hut made from the wreckage of a ship. Everything else is pretty standard for a family adventure.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 18. Race to Witch Mountain (2009) Johnson is a Los Angeles taxi driver who inadvertently picks up two alien children that need to retrieve their spaceship and return home. Race to Witch Mountain is also a Disney movie, released smack-dab in Johnson’s early “cutesy family film” phase and desperately unremarkable as a result.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 17. Doom (2005) A film so silly that even Johnson has expressed his regrets about it, this (ahem) doomed adaptation of the popular video game saw him in boring Sylvester Stallone mode. He’s the muscle in a team of scientists battling a zombie virus located in a portal to Mars discovered in the desert outside Vegas. It also (spoiler alert) builds to a highly unbelievable ending in which Johnson is overpowered and turned into a zombie but then thrown into the Mars portal by tiny hero Karl Urban. Puh-lease.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 16. Southland Tales (2006) Far and away the most bonkers film in Johnson’s filmography but also his most interesting by proxy, Southland Tales only makes sense if you really, really want it to. He’s an amnesiac action movie star entangled in a Republican Party conspiracy that involves neo-Marxist revolutionaries and something called the “the fourth dimension”. It’s also an oddly prophetic movie in how it depicts pornography, reality television and politics as overlapping and dependent on one another, and in the political aspirations of Johnson’s character. When Johnson hinted in 2017 that he may one day run for office, it made Southland Tales seem that bit less absurd.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 15. Baywatch (2017) Why exactly are lifeguards investigating murders? It's a question you'll be asking throughout the big screen version of Baywatch, which is more smutty than the TV show ever was. One scene sees Alexandra Daddario's lifeguard tell a male colleague, played by Zac Efron, to look at her face instead of staring at her boobs. “I’m trying," he replies, "but it’s so close to your boobs." Yikes.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 14. The Scorpion King (2002) Beloved by anyone who was between the ages of 10 and 12 when it came out, The Scorpion King was Johnson’s first starring role, and inexplicably decent considering the CGI eye-sore teaser it received in the earlier Mummy Returns. The Scorpion King is, naturally, swords-and-sandals cheese, with an array of sub-Indiana Jones set pieces including a memorable one involving Johnson being buried up to his neck in the ground and forced to squash a number of approaching fire ants with his chin. There’s also a wacky camel sidekick, which only increases the enjoyable madness of it all.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 13. The Mummy Returns (2001) The Mummy Returns is Johnson’s debut in a high-profile movie, and shamefully, he’s overshadowed by an infamously horrid CGI version of himself, who also sports giant crab legs for some reason. Granted, this is less a cameo than a teaser for a Mummy spin-off, but it’s a dismal use of a man who would quickly emerge as one of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 12. Hercules (2014) In Hercules, Dwayne Johnson leads a band of mercenaries comprising a king-turned-prophet named Amphiaraus of Argos, a knife-wielding thief known as Autolycus of Sparta and the Amazon archer Atalanta of Scythia. So, there we go.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 11. Longshot (2001) In 2000, boy band impresario and future convicted fraudster Lou Pearlman wrote romantic comedy film Longshot that would covertly serve as a promotional tool for teen-pop acts on the Jive Records label at the turn of the millennium. As a result, Britney Spears and *NSYNC are among the stars roped in to provide cameos. As for Dwayne Johnson, in his cinematic debut, he gets 15 seconds of screen-time as an armed mugger swiftly pummelled to the ground by a late-1990s dreamboat with a ponytail who looks like someone who was this close to becoming a member of O-Town. Believability rating: zero.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 10. Pain & Gain (2013) Murder, kidnap, torture, extortion – it's hard to believe that Michael Bay's Pain & Gain is based on a true story by Pete Collins that was posted in Miami New Times in 1999. Well, that's because it's loosely based on real events with several of the film's key moments fabricated somewhat. Take, for instance, the scene in which Johnson's character robs an armoured truck and gets his toe shot off while escaping – entirely fictional.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 9. Fast & Furious 6 (2013) Most things are tamer than the fifth Fast & Furious film, but the franchise's sixth outing is not one of them largely thanks to a climactic scene that sees the crew tether their vehicles to a plane in order to stop it from taking off.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 8. Fast & Furious 7 (2015) Johnson's character is mostly bedbound in Fast & Furious 8 so has to sit out most of the crew's hijinks, including a breathless sequence that sees them drop several cars from a plane while it's 10,000 feet in the air. Johnson is still handed the most ridiculous moment, though: watching his friends thrown into danger on a hospital television, he decides enough is enough and breaks out of his cast – by tensing his muscles.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 7. Rampage (2018) Rampage puts its plot forward so sincerely that, while watching it, you almost forget how ridiculous the whole thing is. Johnson plays primatologist Davis Okoye who must team up with an enormous albino gorilla to stop a mutated wolf and crocodile from wreaking destruction on the world.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 6. Skyscraper (2018) The one Dwayne Johnson movie just too absurd for audiences, in that it was one of his few box office bombs in recent years, Skyscraper descended new heights of improbability. Johnson’s one-legged security guard is the Bruce Willis of this 255-floor spin on Die Hard, whose most sensational feat involves climbing a 96-story crane, running along its extension and then leaping into the burning skyscraper nearby that happens to have trapped his family inside. It gets believability points for recruiting Neve Campbell as Johnson’s nicely age-appropriate wife, but otherwise is a logistical disaster. Mythbusters would need an entire season of episodes to get to the bottom of it.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 5. Fast & Furious 5 (2011) With just one car chase, Fast & Furious 5 was the film that reinvented the franchise. Gone were the street races of the series' earlier instalments in favour of higher stake-storylines, such as the bank heist at the heart of this film. It culminates in one of the most entertaining sequences in action film history – the crew dragging a giant vault through the city of Rio and using it to take out the police cars chasing them.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 4. San Andreas (2015) Shortly after her sister-in-law Kylie Minogue plummets off the edge of a collapsing building, Carla Gugino clambers to safety by leap-frogging her way onto various pieces of falling debris until she manages to reach her ex (Johnson) in the helicopter he is piloting above her. It is somehow not the most ludicrous moment in the film. San Andreas takes a very believable disaster-movie scenario (the collapse of the San Andreas Fault), and then Dwayne Johnsons it. He’s an agreeably solemn hero here (San Andreas is more Sans Quipping, in truth), but everything around him is peak insanity.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 3. Fast & Furious 8 (2017) The writers of Fast & Furious, forced to outdo each other with every new film, threw two outlandish sequences into the eighth instalment. One involved a nuclear submarine (of course) and the other was a lengthy prison riot that tracked Johnson's character's escape from high-security lockup alongside Jason Statham's Deckard Shaw.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 2. Tooth Fairy (2010) When someone told Dwayne Johnson to become a household name by going down the family film route, he really listened. In 2010, he played a minor-league hockey player who, after telling his daughter that the tooth fairy doesn't exist, is sentenced to one week as the actual tooth fairy.
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Dwayne Johnson films in order of least to most ridiculous 1. Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) One day, not too long ago, it would have been difficult to think that the Fast & Furious franchise would feature *ahem* Jason Statham in the co-leading role, a literal walking terminator (played by Idris Elba, no less) and Dwayne Johnson lassoing a helicopter with a chain from a moving truck... but here we are.
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101 Dalmatians (1961)
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(500) Days of Summer
The Absent-Minded Professor
The Adventures of André and Wally B.
Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
Adventures in Babysitting (2016)
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
The Adventures of Huck and Finn
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Aladdin
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Aladdin II: The Return of Jafar
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Alice Through the Looking Glass
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Alley Cats Strike
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America’s Heart and Soul
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An Extremely Goofy Movie
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Bedtime Stories
Before the Flood
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva La Fiesta
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Big Hero Six
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The Black Hole
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The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
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Boundin’
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Breaking2
Breaking Away
Bridge to Terabithia
Brink
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Brother Bear 2
Buffalo Dreams
A Bug’s Life
Burn-E
Cadet Kelly
Camp Nowhere
Camp Rock
Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam
Can of Worms
Candleshoe
Captain America : Civil War
Captain America: The First Avenger
Captain Marvel
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Cars 2
Cars 3
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Cars Toon: Mater the Greater
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The Cheetah Girls: One World
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Cinderella (2015)
Cinderella 2: Dreams Come True
Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time
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Coco
College Road Trip
The Colour of Friendship
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
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Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
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The Country Bears
Cow Belles
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D3: The Mighty Ducks
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Marvel films – ranked worst to bestShow all 23 1 /23Marvel films – ranked worst to best Marvel films – ranked worst to best Iron Man 2 23. Iron Man 2 barely holds together. Rather than act as a straight sequel to the surprisingly successful Iron Man, Marvel Studios decided to overstuff the film with universe-building references (Black Widow, Nick Fury and SHIELD’s Agent Coulson all make appearances) and two-dimensional villains (played by Sam Rockwell and Mickey Rourke). The result is a film without any direction that serves as a Trojan horse set-up for the Avengers.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Thor: The Dark World 22. When the Thor franchise lost its director Kenneth Branagh between the first and second films, it also had to kiss goodbye to the Shakespearean theatrics that had lent it a sense of goofy charm. Directed by Game of Thrones’s Alan Taylor, The Dark World prioritises its VFX effects above all else. It’s a dull affair: Christopher Eccleston’s Malekith is (by far) Marvel’s worst villain, being a pile of prosthetics with zero personality, while Chris Hemsworth’s Thor completes one of the most unrealistic London Tube journeys in all of cinematic history.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best The Incredible Hulk 21. Edward Norton’s version of the smashing Hulk often gets forgotten by Marvel fans – and for good reason. Whereas Mark Ruffalo’s bumbling interpretation of the character has a gravitational charm, Norton’s moping monster is void of any charisma. With Liv Tyler phoning in her performance as love interest, Betty Ross, the film falls emotionally flat and serves only as a by-the-numbers origins story.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Avengers: Age of Ultron 20. Just in case we’d forgotten that the Disney corporation is an all-consuming titan that owns half of Hollywood, the sequel to 2012’s Avengers decided to sneak in a little corporate synergy: when Iron Man accidentally creates a sentient robot (voiced by James Spader) who decides the earth’s only salvation is through the destruction of humanity, he announces his grim plans with accompaniment of a little citation of the classic “I’ve Got No Strings” from 1940’s Pinocchio. It’s a moment that exemplifies how Ultron feels like a cold, calculated operation from Marvel Studios. It’s merely tick list of obligations to move us on to the next chapter of the MCU.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Thor 19. Although Kenneth Branagh’s introductory outing for Marvel’s God of Thunder fared perfectly well on release, it’s suffered massively from the MCU’s dramatic sense of progression over the years. Certainly, Tom Hiddleston’s Loki is a strong, well-crafted character right out of the gate, and his plot against his adoptive father (Anthony Hopkins) is delightfully heightened. Yet, it arguably took until Thor: Ragnarok for Chris Hemsworth’s hero to develop much sense of character beyond the initial “fish out of water” trope.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Doctor Strange 18. A self-centred wealthy white man ventures to a distant land and realises his superhero potential – sound familiar? That’s because Doctor Strange and Iron Man are basically the same story, except one uses magic and the other explosives. Benedict Cumberbatch’s Marveldebut impresses with kaleidoscope visuals but lacks the heart of Robert Downey Jr’s hero, leading to a film that wastes the talents of both Tilda Swinton and Mads Mikkelsen.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 17. The first Guardians of the Galaxy was a risky Star Wars-inspired romp through space, following a bunch of a-holes who form an unlikely familiar bond. For the second film, James Gunn decided to turn everything up to 11, cramming half a dozen interweaving storylines, leading to Chris Pratt’s gaunt Star Lord getting side-lined. The sequel did, however, introduce the now beloved line “I’m Mary Poppins, y’all”, shouted by Yondu as he gracefully falls from the sky. A wonderfully comedic moment in a film that misses on another half-dozen punches.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Avengers Assemble 16. Marvel’s first crossover film was an unparalleled cinematic event – one that arguably changed Hollywood filmmaking forever, now that every major studio seems to be attempting the “shared universe” approach to franchises. Although the MCU has refined the template since, Avengers Assemble still established the focus on humour, character, and heart that would come to define the success story of Marvel Studios. It’s a blockbuster that feels large on all fronts, delivering thrills not only in the “Battle of New York” finale, but in the creation of a team of characters that feel perfectly balanced and complementary.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Captain America: Civil War 15. Despite Captain America: Civil War (AKA Avengers 2.5) featuring Iron Man, Black Widow, and Ant-Man (as well as introducing Black Panther and Spider-Man), the film remains first and foremost about Captain America. And that’s perhaps why the stuffed blockbuster works – were it not for a central focus, Civil War could have fallen into the trappings of other Marvel sequels in being too convoluted. The Russo Brothers also direct one of the best actions scenes in Marvel history so far, the airport scene, which looks as if it leapt straight out of a comic book.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Ant-Man and the Wasp 14. While the first Ant Man was a mirror image of its star Paul Rudd, essentially delivering a studio comedy dressed in spandex, the second found a new trick up its sleeve in the form of Evangeline Lilly’s Hope van Dyne – a smart, capable female hero who didn’t simply exist to serve as a caretaker for the male characters.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Spider-Man: Far From Home 13. What comes after the end? It’s the question that was hanging over the Marvel Cinematic Universe ever since the release of Avengers: Endgame was sold to us as the ultimate, cumulative chapter in a series of 22 interconnected films. And yet, while Far From Home is distinctly mid-level Marvel fare, there’s a lot to be said for the fact it isn’t crushed under the weight of its own ambitions. It feels comfortably like the end of a chapter, the beginning of a new one, an epilogue, and a palate cleanser all at once. It also works perfectly well as a film about Spider-Man.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Ant-Man 12. Ant-Man should not have worked as a film. Just look at the title! Ridiculous to think a movie about a man with ant powers should work – let alone be a blockbuster success and part of the biggest cinematic universe going. Yet, despite production problems (Edgar Wright was initially meant to helm the film), Peyton Reed directs this hilarious heist film with aplomb, taking the Marvel world a little less seriously than others.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Avengers: Infinity War 11. Marvel redefined cinematic narratives once more in 2018, creating a single culmination to a decade’s worth of films. While it plays as total nonsense to anyone who’s a newcomer to the franchise (if that’s possible), it was, for fans, an unmatched emotional release. The Russo brothers faced the monumental task of making each crossover – from the Guardians of the Galaxy to the kingdom of Wakanda – work in a way that feels natural, while also ushering the MCU’s biggest villain, Thanos, into centre stage. Epic both in its sense of scale and stakes, Infinity War also stages one of the most memorable finales in blockbuster history.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Captain America: The First Avenger 10. With or without the beard, Steve Rogers aka Captain America has now become the brooding centre of the Avengers, but there was once a time when he was all about the old-fashioned heroics. Director Joe Johnston stayed true to the film’s 1940s setting in a film that embraces that pulpiness of early comic book history, as Steve punches Nazis and romances military officer Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), although her character is thankfully never relegated to the role of damsel in distress.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Captain America: The Winter Soldier 9. Despite centring on a super-powered American nationalist, the Captain America trilogy has the most consistent quality in the MCU. Its crowning moment comes with The Winter Soldier – an adrenaline-fuelled conspiracy thriller that features a spectacular twist and provokes questions regarding modern day surveillance. However, given The Russo Brothers root the rest of the movie in realism, the bombastic CGI-heavy ending is a little ridiculous.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Captain Marvel 8. Brie Larson gives a superpowered performance as Carol Danvers, the actor playing a hero that's both relatable and aspirational, strong but vulnerable. While Captain Marvel may not revolutionise the studio’s formula, the superhero's debut outing provides a platform to show off her Thanos-annihilating powers. Thanks to a smart script, it also offers some of the very best character development in the MCU.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Spider-Man: Homecoming 7. While Spider-Man’s miraculous arrival in the MCU came with Captain America: Civil War, it was not until Homecoming that we truly got to know Peter Parker. Tom Holland’s incarnation swings past Andrew Garfield’s version, thanks to the film’s lower-stakes high school story allowing for intimate moments with the character. Along with including some great comic performances (Jacob Batalon as Ned stands out), Michael Keaton’s Vulture makes for a terrifying villain, and the twist is superbly done.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Iron Man 3 6. While divisive among Marvel fans, Shane Black’s superhero outing – with the writer/director’s sharp, stinging dialogue – brings Tony Stark's story arc to an end (or what should have been its end) with humour and heart aplenty. As Robert Downey Jr’s genius, billionaire philanthropist deals with PTSD and struggles with his robotic creations, we see an actor giving his all.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Avengers: Endgame 5. It’s a film that’s hard to place within the MCU canon, simply because the majority of its emotional pay-offs only work due to the groundwork laid by over a decade of filmmaking. Avengers: Endgame is less about individual storytelling and so much more about the collective experience of cinema itself. This exists to be consumed in the dark, surrounded by loved ones, as you all cheer, gasp, and cry in unison. The fan service at work may, at times, feel a little outrageous in just how bold it feels, but Endgame earns the right to indulge. This, above all, is a celebration of these movies and their impact on the world.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Thor: Ragnarok 4. Completely transforming the Thor franchise in a single, effortless move, director Taika Waititi injected new energy into the MCU. Ragnarok is perfectly balanced both as a standard Marvel movie, with all the right heroics and world-building intact, and as a work belonging exclusively to Waititi, filled with the humour and charm he’d previously displayed in What We Do in the Shadows and Hunt for the Wilderpeople. By finding a way to incorporate individual voices into its massive franchise machine, Marvel found the secret to true long-term success.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Iron Man 3. Where it all started. Iron Man subverted expectations by not only reintroducing Robert Downey Jr to the world, but by showing that a relatively unknown B-character could be at the centre of a blockbuster. Other cinematic universes fail because they attempt to introduce too much (a mistake made in Iron Man 2). The first Iron Man, though, had a self-contained story that only hinted at a bigger world – a world that would eventually become a multi-billion-dollar franchise.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Blasting the Marvel universe into space for an adventure with a truly ragtag group of heroes, including both a talking racoon and a sentient tree-creature, Guardians of the Galaxy is arguably the biggest risk the franchise ever took. And it paid off in spectacular fashion, with director James Gunn giving the superhero genre a light coat of B-movie glee. It also transformed Parks and Recreation star Chris Pratt into the major box office draw he is today.
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Marvel films – ranked worst to best Black Panther 1. Although Black Panther still dutifully fulfils all the requirements of a Marvel film, providing a bridge to films both past and future plus ending in a cinematic battle filled with CGI trickery, Ryan Coogler’s achievement as a director is to use a familiar framework to tell a radical story within mainstream filmmaking. In the strife between Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa, the ruler of Wakanda, and Michael B Jordan’s Killmonger, he provided a nuanced, layered commentary on colonialism and black identity. It’s a film that triumphs both within its genre, bringing new perspectives to the superhero story, and outside of it, satisfying purely as a piece of narrative drama.
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Day and Night
Decorating Disney: Holiday Magic
Den Brother
Descendants
Descendants 2
Diana: In Her Own Words
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Dick Tracy
Dinosaur
Disney’s A Christmas Carol
Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings
Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings: Holiday Magic
Disneynature African Cats
Disneynature Bears
Disneynature Born in China
Disneynature Chimpanzee
Disneynature Crimson Wing
Disneynature Expedition China
Disneynature Ghost of the Mountains
Disneynature Growing Up Wild
Disneynature Monkey Kingdom
Disneynature Oceans
Disneynature Penguins
Disneynature Wings of Life
Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Strange
Don’t Look Under the Bed
Donald and Pluto
Double Teamed
Doug’s 1st Movie
DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
Dug’s Special Mission
Dumbo
Dumbo (2019)
Earth Live
Easter Island Unsolved
Eddie’s Million Dollar Cook-Off
Eight Below
Emil and the Detectives
The Emperor’s New Groove
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy
Escape to Witch Mountain
The Even Stevens Movie
Expedition Mars: Spirit and Opportunity
Fantasia
Fantasia 2000
Finding Dory
Finding Nemo
The Finest Hours
First Kid
Flight of the Navigator
The Flood
Flowers and Trees
Flubber
For the Birds
The Fox and the Hound
The Fox and the Hound 2
Frank and Ollie
Frankenweenie (1984)
Frankenweenie (2012)
Freaky Friday (1977)
Freaky Friday (2003)
Freaky Friday (2018)
Free Solo
Frenemies
Frozen
Full-Court Miracle
Fun and Fancy Free
Fuzzbucket
The Game Plan
G-Force
The Game Plan
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
Geek Charming
Genius
George and A.J.
George of the Jungle
George of the Jungle 2
Get a Clue
The Ghosts of Buxley Hall
Giants of the Deep Blue
Girl vs Monster
Glory Road
Go Figure
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Going to the Mat
The Good Dinosaur
Good Luck Charlie: It’s Christmas!
A Goofy Movie
Gotta Kick It Up
The Great Mouse Detective
The Greatest Game Ever Played
Greyfriars Bobby
Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
Halloweentown High
Halloweentown
Halloweentown 2: Kalabar’s Revenge
Hannah Montana: The Movie
Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert
Hatching Pete
The Haunted Mansion
Heavyweights
The Help
Herbie: Fully Loaded
Herbie Goes Bananas
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
Herbie Rides Again
Hercules
High School Musical
High School Musical 2
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Hocus Pocus
Holes
Holiday in Handcuffs
Home on the Range
Homeward Bound 2: Lost in San Francisco
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Honey, We Shrank Ourselves
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
Horse Sense
The Horse Whisperer
How Dogs Got Their Shapes
How to Build a Better Boy
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
I Am Number Four
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas
Ice Age: The Great Egg-scapade
Ice Princess
The Incredible Dr. Pol: Blue Ribbon Kids
The Incredible Journey
Incredible: The Story of Dr. Pol
The Incredibles
The Incredibles 2
Inner Workings
Inside Out
Inspector Gadget
Inspector Gadget 2
Into the Grand Canyon
Into the Okavango
Into the Woods
Invincible
Invisible Sister
Iron Man
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 3
Iron Man and Hulk: Heroes United
Iron Will
Jack
Jack-Jack Attack
James and the Giant Peach
Jane
The Jennie Project
John Carter
Johnny Kapahala: Back On Board
Johnny Tsunami
Jonas Brothers : The Concert Experience
The Journey of Natty Gan
Journey to Shark Eden
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jump In
Jumping Ship
Jungle 2 Jungle
The Jungle Book (1967)
The Jungle Book (2016)
The Jungle Book 2
The Jungle Book: Mowgli’s Story
Jungle Cat
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
Kazaam
The Kid
A Kid in King Arthur’s Court
Kim Possible (2019)
Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama
Kingdom of the Blue Whale
Kronk’s New Groove
La Luna
Lady and the Tramp
Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp’s Adventure
The Last Song
Lava
The Legend of Mordu
Lego Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles – Clash of the Skywalkers
Lego Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles – Escape from the Jedi Temple
Lego Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles – Race for the Holocrons
Lego Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles – Raid on Coruscant
Lemonade Mouth
Lend a Paw
Leroy and Stitch
Let It Shine
Life is Ruff
Life Size 2
Life with Mikey
Lifted
Lilo and Stitch
Lilo and Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
The Lion King (1994)
The Lion King 1 1/2
The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride
The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea
The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning
The Little Whirlwind
The Living Desert
The Lizzie McGuire Movie
The Lone Ranger
Lonesome Ghosts
The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great
Lou
The Love Bug (1969)
Lovestruck: The Musical
Luck of the Irish
Luxo Jr.
Man Among Cheetahs
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Mars: Inside SpaceX
Mars Needs Moms
Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
Marvel Super Hero Adventures: Frost Fight
Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins Returns
Mater and the Ghostlight
Max Keeble’s Big Move
McFarland, USA
Meet the Deedles
Meet the Robinsons
Melody Time
Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
Mickey’s House of Villains
Mickey’s Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse
Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas
Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas
The Mighty Ducks
Mighty Joe Young
Mike’s New Car
Million Dollar Arm
The Million Dollar Duck
Minutemen
Miracle
Miracle at Midnight
Miracle in Lane 2
Miracle Landing on the Hudson
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Mission to the Sun
The Mistle Tones
Moana
Modern Inventions
Mom’s Got a Date with a Vampire
Monsters, Inc
Monsters University
Motocrossed
Mr Boogedy
Mr Holland’s Opus
Mr Magoo
Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
Mulan
Mulan 2
The Muppet Christmas Carol
The Muppet Movie
Muppet Treasure Island
The Muppets (2011)
Muppets Most Wanted
Musical Farmer
My Fake Fiance
My Favourite Martian
My Future Boyfriend
National Treasure
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Never Been Kissed
Newsies
Newsies: The Broadway Musical
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Now You See It
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Olaf’s Frozen Adventure
Old Dogs
Old Yeller
Oliver and Company
Once Upon a Mattress
One Magic Christmas
Operation Dumbo Drop
The Other Me
Oz the Great and Powerful
The Pacifier
The Parent Trap (1961)
The Parent Trap (1998)
Paris to Pittsburgh
Partly Cloudy
Party Central
People Like Us
Perri
Pete’s Dragon (1977)
Pete’s Dragon (2016)
Peter Pan
Peter Pan: Return to Neverland
Phantom of the Megaplex
Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
Piglet’s Big Movie
Pinocchio
Piper
The Pirate Fairy
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
The Pixar Story
Pixel Perfect
Pizza My Heart
Planes
Planes: Fire Rescue
Planet of the Birds
Pluto’s Christmas Tree
Pocahontas
Pocahontas 2: Journey to a New World
Pollyana
Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
Pooh’s Heffalump Movie
The Prince and the Pauper
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
The Princess and the Frog
The Princess Diaries
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Princess Protection Program
Prom
The Proof Point
The Proud Family Movie
Queen of Katwe
Quints
Race to Witch Mountain
The Radiator Springs 500 1/2
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Ratatouille
Read It and Weep
Ready to Run
Real Steel
The Reluctant Dragon
The Rescuers Down Under
The Rocketeer
The Rookie
Recess: All Growed Down
Recess: School’s Out
Recess: Taking the 5th Grade
Red’s Dream
Remember the Titans
Return from Witch Mountain
Return to Halloweentown
Return to Oz
Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish
Right on Track
Riley’s First Date
A Ring of Endless Light
Rip Girls
Robin Hood
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Rookie of the Year
Roving Mars
Ruby Bridges
Sacred Planet
Saludos Amigos
Sammy, the Way-Out Seal
The Sandlot
Sanjay’s Super Team
Santa Buddies: The Legend of Santa Paws
The Santa Clause
The Santa Clause 2
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Claus
Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
Saving Mr Banks
Science Fair
The Scream Team
Sea of Hope: America’s Underwater Treasures
The Search for Santa Paws
The Secret of the Magic Gourd
Secret of the Wings
Secretariat
Secrets of Christ’s Tomb: Explorer Special
Secrets of Life
Secrets of the King Cobra
The Shaggy DA
The Shaggy Dog (1959)
The Shaggy Dog (2006)
Sharks of Lost Island
Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure
Shipwrecked
The Sign of Zorro
The Simpsons Movie
Sister Act
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
The Skeleton Dance
Sky High
Skyrunners
Sleeping Beauty
Smart House
Snow
Snow 2: Brain Freeze
Snow Buddies
Snow Dogs
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snowball Express
Snowglobe (2007)
Solo: A Star Wars Story
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
The Sound of Music
Space Buddies
Spacecamp
Splash
Spooky Buddies
Star Wars: A New Hope
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars films – ranked worst to best Show all 11 1 /11Star Wars films – ranked worst to best Star Wars films – ranked worst to best 11. Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) The prequel trilogy has lived on in infamy, but the true low point of this low point in the Star Wars franchise must be Attack of the Clones, the dry, crusted middle of the cinematic sandwich. While Revenge of the Sith has some sense of completion and The Phantom Menace has some sense of wonder, all Attack of the Clones has is a CGI Yoda bopping about the screen like an unswattable fly while battling Christopher Lee’s Count Dooku. It’s a film driven by unnecessary desires: from the space politics, to Boba Fett’s backstory, to Padmé and Anakin’s romance. The latter is the most insufferable, since George Lucas never had much of an ear for dialogue, as notoriously pointed out by Harrison Ford when he declared on set: “George, you can type this s***, but you sure as hell can’t say it.” Which leads us to one of the worst line readings in cinematic history, when Hayden Christensen’s Anakin laments: “I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating – and it gets everywhere.”
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Star Wars films – ranked worst to best 10. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) Hollywood has increasingly made the assumption that “darker” means better when it comes to cinema – it explains why the Harry Potter films look like they were made while someone gradually turned down the dimmer switch on the studio lights. Of course, audiences know that “darker” sometimes means that your protagonist-turned-villain becomes a “youngling”-murdering, amateur street magician-looking sourpuss. Anakin’s arc here comes to a whimper of an ending, underlined by the much-derided decision to have Darth Vader’s first moments onscreen involve him howling “Noooooo!” up to the sky like a mournful hound. That said, Ewan McGregor confirms here that he managed to escape the franchise largely unscathed, as this instalment sees him have the most fun with the clunky dialogue (see: “Hello there!” and “I have the high ground!”).
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Star Wars films – ranked worst to best 9. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) The Phantom Menace escapes slightly ahead of the rest of the prequel trilogy, if only for the fact it remembers these films are meant to be fun once in a while. The pod race – it’s a good scene! Darth Maul is all looks, zero follow through – it’s embarrassing to act like you’ve won, only to be cut in half and sent hurtling down an exhaust pipe – but his inclusion in the film did introduce one of the best musical themes in Star Wars history, John Williams’s “Duel of the Fates”. However, the space politics are a particular drag here, with all the talk of trade disputes, and, of course, it's obligatory to mention the terror that is Jar Jar Binks.
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Star Wars films – ranked worst to best 8. Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) Although it’s the weakest of the new generation of Star Wars films, Solo still holds up as a fun romp worthy of Han Solo’s rascal reputation. Alden Ehrenreich picks up on enough of Harrison Ford’s mannerisms to sell the character without sliding into imitation, while Donald Glover is a scene stealer from the very moment he walks on screen as Lando Calrissian. It’s a lost opportunity, then, that the film is otherwise slowed down by an impulse to offer backstory to as many aspects of Han’s character as possible. Did we really need to know how we got the name “Solo”? Really?
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Star Wars films – ranked worst to best 7. Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker Director JJ Abrams, like the hero of an ancient prophecy, was destined to make both enemies and allies with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. There will be arguments. And there will be arguments about the arguments. There will be obsessive deconstructions and over-interpretations of each frame and intake of breath. But, at the end of the day, this is still a Star Wars film in its very bones, muscle, and sinew. Whatever controversy Abrams might have brewed up with his artistic choices, he still captures magnificently the soul of this series: that unwavering hope that the powerless can win, despite the odds.
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Star Wars films – ranked worst to best 6. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) There’s a lot to wrap up in the concluding chapter of the original trilogy. The result is a few odd turns for the sake of plot convenience. What does one do with a character as enigmatic as Boba Fett? Why, have him topple into the Sarlacc pit within the first 20 minutes! How does one put to rest the love triangle hinted at in A New Hope? Why, insert a revelation that Luke and Leia are, in fact, brother and sister! Even the second Death Star oddly feels sillier than The Force Awakens and its third attempt at a giant ball in space, since The First Order at least had the excuse that their obsessive admiration of the Empire may have clouded their judgement. That said, there’s still plenty of charm to be found here and the Ewoks aren’t all that bad. Before you dismiss them as irritating merchandise opportunities, it’s worth remembering that they have absolutely no qualms about killing and eating people.
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Star Wars films – ranked worst to best 5. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) If Rogue One is any indication of Disney’s plans for the franchise and its future, then there’s no cause for concern. The first of the “A Star Wars Story” spin-offs, it shifts into gear with ease, soothing audiences by not straying too far from the familiar timeline while introducing a full set of new characters and a grittier tone. Stylistically, it feels more like a Vietnam War movie and is proof of how far a gifted director like Gareth Edwards can stray from the franchise’s usual formula and still feel grounded in the same world. Plus, you have to admire the guts it takes to deliver an ending like that…
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Star Wars films – ranked worst to best 4. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) Disney made a very smart move with The Force Awakens. As the first Star Wars film of a new generation, it not only had to make its own mark, but feel familiar enough that it welcomed fans back with open arms. The balance is hit perfectly here. That’s largely due to the film’s new trio of central heroes, who radiate the same kind of warmth, bravery, and spirit that carved a special place in people’s hearts when they were first introduced to the franchise’s original stars. Daisy Ridley’s Rey, John Boyega’s Finn, and Oscar Isaac’s Poe honour Star Wars's past while striding into its unknown future. It also helps that the film has landed on a villain like Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), whose drive and complexity may see him surpass even Darth Vader by the end of his story in Episode IX.
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Star Wars films – ranked worst to best 3. Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) Any divisiveness the film attracted certainly proved one thing: here’s a Star Wars film that actually took a creative risk. And what a bold, ambitious, and ultimately beautiful risk that was. Director Rian Johnson took the cinematic legacy presented before him and added a new richness to its textures. He allowed heroism to go beyond the clean divide between good and evil; through Luke and Rey, we were taught not to be ashamed of our doubts but to grow stronger because of them. We were taught not to use destiny as a crutch, but to know when to forge our own paths. The Last Jedi is a soulful film told through some of the most striking cinematography of the entire franchise.
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Star Wars films – ranked worst to best 2. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) It’s the place where it all began. The Star Wars franchise has only become the success it is today because of how purely revolutionary the first instalment was as a piece of Hollywood filmmaking. It is, to this day, one of the most successful examples of the modern epic, endlessly imitated but so rarely with the same heart or ambition. George Lucas tapped into one of the most timeless qualities of storytelling: its ability to let us see and understand our own world through the eyes of another. Star Wars has become so iconic because, even on such a grand scale, we know and relate to the emotions at hand – fear, love, or a desire to do what’s right.
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Star Wars films – ranked worst to best 1. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) The Empire Strikes Back is remarkable in its ability to pursue real emotional stakes. Its closing moments, the final note to its symphony of sacrifice and tragedy, leaves us with the single, delicate emotion that is hope, blooming in the darkness as our heroes set out to save Han and restore the Rebel Alliance. What A New Hope built up by making us fall in love with these characters, The Empire Strikes Back recouped in sharing with us their pain and their fears. Darth Vader’s reveal that he’s Luke’s father has, of course, found its place in history, but there’s an equal sense of emotional resonance in the moment Leia and Han depart, moments before he’s trapped in carbonite. When Leia’s “I love you” is returned by Han’s “I know” – a line written by Harrison Ford himself – we’re reminded of how magical Star Wars’s sense of storytelling can be, condensing everything that these two characters feel for each other into five simple words.
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Starstruck
Steamboat Willie
Stepsister from Planet Weird
Stitch! the Movie
Stonehenge Decoded: Secrets Revealed
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Straight Talk
Strange Magic
The Strongest Man in the World
Stuck in the Suburbs
The Suite Life Movie
Sultan and the Rock Star
Super Buddies
The Swap
Sweet Home Alabama
Swing Vote
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Swiss Family Robinson
The Sword in the Stone
Tall Tale
Tangled
Tangled: Before Ever After
Tangled Ever After
Tarzan
Tarzan 2
Tarzan and Jane (2002)
Teachers Pet
Teen Beach 2
Teen Beach Movie
Teen Spirit
That Darn Cat (1965)
That Darn Cat (1977)
The Thirteenth Year
The Three Caballeros
The Three Musketeers
The Tigger Movie
Thor
Thor: Ragnarok
Thor: The Dark World
Those Calloways
Three Days
Three Little Pigs
Three Men and a Baby
Three Men and a Little Lady
Tiger Cruise
‘Til Dad do us Part
Tini: The New Life of Violetta
Tinker Bell
Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the Neverbeast
Titanic: 20 Years Later with James Cameron
Tom and Huck
Tomorrowland
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 3
Toy Story Toons: Hawaiian Vacation
Toy Story Toons: Partysaurus Rex
Toy Story Toons: Small Fry
Trail of the Panda
Treasure Buddies
Treasure Island
Treasure of Matecumbe
Treasure Planet
Tree Climbing Lions
Tron
Tron Legacy
Tru Confessions
Tuck Everlasting
Turner and Hooch
Twas the Night
Twitches
Twitches Too
The Ugly Daschund
The Ultimate Christmas Present
Under the Sea: A Descendants Short Story
Under the Tuscan Sun
Underdog
Unidentified Flying Oddball
Up
Up, Up, and Away
US Secret Service: On the Front Line
Valiant
The Vanishing Prairie
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Wall-E
Walt and El Grupo
Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior
What About Bob?
When In Rome
While You Were Sleeping
Whispers: An Elephant’s Tale
White Fang
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
The Wild
Willow
Winged Seduction: Birds of Paradise
Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year
Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo
The Wise Little Hen
The Wizards Return: Alex vs Alex
Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie
World’s Greatest Dogs
Wreck-it Ralph
A Wrinkle in Time
You Again
You Lucky Dog
You Wish
The Young Black Stallion
Your Friend the Rat
Zapped
Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century
Zenon: The Zequel
Zenon: Z3
Zombies (2018)
Zootropolis
The 30 best Disney filmsShow all 30 1 /30The 30 best Disney films The 30 best Disney films 30. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) Although the film may feel relatively slight compared to the other titans of animation on this list, there is something so wonderfully zen about this Pooh, filtering the wise words of AA Milne through the slow, thoughtful tones of Sterling Holloway.
The 30 best Disney films 29. Bambi (1942) Bambi isn’t exactly the most action-packed Disney film around, and it’s hard to imagine many people are getting a kick out of the singalong version to “April Showers”. But is there any bigger shock to the system for a child at the movies than the sudden, ruthless slaughtering of Bambi’s mother?
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The 30 best Disney films 28. Pocahontas (1995) Of the Disney Renaissance offerings, Pocahontas stumbles in its messy handling of history, since turning any interaction between white colonisers and indigenous people into a fluffy romance arguably whitewashes the brutal reality of what happened. But there are plenty of positives to be found, since Pocahontas was such a huge influence in Disney’s later portrayals of strong, independently minded women.
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The 30 best Disney films 27. The Aristocats (1971) The film may be relatively light on story (it’s basically Lady and the Tramp, but there’s an added kidnap element), but who cares, when the film features the hottest party of the entire Disney franchise? It’s true what they say: “Everybody wants to be a cat.”
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The 30 best Disney films 26. Robin Hood (1973) In a way, Robin Hood is the ultimate Disney film of the 1970s. It’s a folksy, low-key entry into the canon that’s all about keeping the peace and spreading good vibes. Just ignore the fact that it recycled several pieces of animation from the likes of Snow White and The Jungle Book.
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The 30 best Disney films 25. Zootopia (2016) It may not have spawned the same level of craze as Frozen did, but Zootopia doesn’t deserve to become another forgotten Disney film. Although it’s as funny as you’d hope from a film about animals with jobs, it also offers parents an easy entry point to talk to their kids about racism and xenophobia. And that’s something that shouldn’t be taken for granted.
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The 30 best Disney films 24. Dumbo (1941) Dumbo demonstrates the two gifts of early Disney films. There’s the capacity for moments that are pure and heartwrenching, as seen in “Baby Mine” (a scene that’s almost impossible to watch without welling up). Then there’s the ability to descend into the totally bizarre, as characterised by the downright scary “Pink Elephants on Parade” sequence.
The 30 best Disney films 23. Tangled (2010) Tangled finds fun, humour, and adventure in its reimagining of the Rapunzel tale, but what’s crucial to its success is how it anchors the entire film around a single, showstopping sequence: “I See the Light”, where Rapunzel watches hundreds of paper lanterns float up into the skies. It’s, quite simply, a beautiful piece of filmmaking.
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The 30 best Disney films 22. Princess and the Frog (2009) Disney’s brief return to traditional animation reminded us what had been lost in the switch to 3D animation. There’s a wonderful sense of artistry to how The Princess and the Frog renders New Orleans during the Jazz Age, especially in the Art Deco stylised number “Almost There”. And a Disney princess working hard to make her dreams come true? That’s something to celebrate.
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The 30 best Disney films 21. Cinderella (1950) Although Cinderella is a central member of the Disney princesses, her film hasn’t aged quite as well as the rest of the early Disney films. There’s an odd amount of time spent on Lucifer the cat, and relatively little time spent at Cinderella’s magical soiree.
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The 30 best Disney films 20. One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) Cruella de Vil may have committed attempted puppy murder, but there’s still something irresistibly delightful about her “Patsy from Ab Fab” combination of luxury goods and frightening taste. Only Cruella could answer a simple “How are you?” with the line: "Miserable darling, as usual, perfectly wretched.”
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The 30 best Disney films 19. Lady and the Tramp (1955) One of several films on this list containing problematic material, Lady and the Tramp certainly isn’t a faultless film. However, given that the central courtship is between two dogs, the film boasts a surprisingly elegant love story. Not only is there the famous “Bella Notte” scene and its accidental spaghetti kiss, but the crooning Pekingese, voiced by Peggy Lee, is simply sublime.
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The 30 best Disney films 18. Moana (2016) Disney took the straightforward path to making a hit musical for today: they hired Lin-Manuel Miranda. The Hamilton composer and lyricist is a maestro when it comes to cranking out the hits. Opetaia Foa'i helped create the soundtrack’s South Pacific touches, while Dwayne Johnson even wheeled out some light rapping for his performance as the demigod Maui. Moana tells a culturally specific story with spirit, heart, and humour – more of this in the future please, Disney.
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The 30 best Disney films 17. The Emperor's New Groove (2000) The Emperor’s New Groove never quite got the appreciation it deserved when it was first released, largely because, like Lilo & Stitch, it’s been tossed aside as another forgettable post-Disney Renaissance entry. Not so fast: though it may not have the epic scale of Mulan or Beauty and the Beast, The Emperor’s New Groove is a funny, endlessly quotable (“Pull the lever, Kronk!”) Disney film that – most importantly – finally let Eartha Kitt voice a Disney villain.
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The 30 best Disney films 16. Frozen (2013) It may be every modern parent’s least favourite Disney film, but Frozen is actually pretty great if you’ve not been forced to watch it five times a day, seven days a week. On top of a moving central story about self-acceptance and sisterly love, Idina Menzel’s rendition of “Let it Go” is a showstopper tune that demands to belted at least once at every karaoke night.
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The 30 best Disney films 15. Peter Pan (1953) A flight of fancy that celebrates the power of imagination, JM Barrie’s Peter Pan was always an obvious fit for Disney. The film presents an uplifting and limitless world to younger audiences, while letting the adults pretend miserable things like taxes and divorce don’t exist for a precious hour and a bit. Plus, Tinker Bell seems like a vicious gossip and the ideal person to go for a drink with, even if she doesn’t quite speak our language.
The 30 best Disney films 14. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) It’s the film that started it all. Although Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has since been overshadowed by its successors to some degree, it still has its fair share of magical moments. There’s the small army of birds and rodents that come to Snow White’s aid during “Whistle While You Work”, and the Evil Queen, gone full Joan Crawford, delivering her oft misquoted line: “Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all.”
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The 30 best Disney films 13. Hercules (1997) A round of applause for John Musker, who had the idea of telling the Greek myth of Hercules through a chorus of gospel singers. They are, without a doubt, the true heroes of this film, thanks to the insanely catchy “Zero to Hero”. That said, Megara’s definitely a close runner-up for the title, since her “I’m a damsel. I’m in distress. I can handle this” routine made her the go-to Disney princess for the cool kids.
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The 30 best Disney films 12. Mulan (1998) Let them deny it all they want, but you’ll be hard-pressed to find a Nineties kid who hasn’t secretly put “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” on their workout playlist. The whole film, in fact, is a power anthem, while Mulan’s one-woman feminist revolution makes her one of those rare multitasking princesses who can do a lot more than just win over a handsome prince.
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The 30 best Disney films 11. The Jungle Book (1967) As the very last film to be produced by Walt Disney himself, The Jungle Book marked the end of an era for the studio. The film captures the kind of easy charm that made Disney’s work such a huge part of so many childhoods in the first place. As Baloo eases into “The Bear Necessities”, it feels very much like someone’s come to gently pat you on the shoulder and tell you everything’s going to be alright.
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The 30 best Disney films 10. Aladdin (1992) Aladdin may have plenty of tricks up its sleeve, but it deserves its place in the upper echelons of Disney films purely on the strength of Robin Williams’s performance as Genie. The comedy actor recorded over 18 hours of additional improvised material for the film, and the finished product is one of the greatest existing tributes to his manic energy as a performer, alongside his vast gallery of impressions.
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The 30 best Disney films 9. Alice in Wonderland (1951) Another magnificent adaptation of complex source material, Disney’s take on Alice in Wonderland doesn’t get lost in Lewis Caroll’s maze of wordplay, but cooks up its own delightful nonsense. Alice gets read to filth by a patch of garden flowers, Ed Wynn’s Mad Hatter oozes moneyed eccentricity, and there is a general psychedelic vibe to the whole affair. Alice in Wonderland was initially a flop, but there’s no denying its status as a cult classic now.
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The 30 best Disney films 8. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) The Hunchback of Notre Dame is easily the most adult Disney film ever made. There’s religious hypocrisy, lust, genocide, prejudice, violent misogyny, infanticide, and corruption – take your pick! Although Disney certainly used a little creative license in adapting the 19th-century Victor Hugo novel (there are no singing gargoyles in the original, sadly), it’s surprising how fluently its central themes have been translated without threatening the film’s PG rating.
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The 30 best Disney films 7. Lilo & Stitch (2002) Although it was technically released in the dip that followed the Disney Renaissance, Lilo & Stitch is a highly underrated entry that deserves to sit among the classics. Few Disney films speak to real experiences like it does. Look past the alien intruders and Stitch’s more unusual characteristics, and you’ll find a reminder that family is defined only as those who love and support us, no matter where we find them. It’s a simple but pure message, elevated by a cast of characters who act and speak like those we recognise in our own lives.
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The 30 best Disney films 6. Pinocchio (1940) This is the Disney film that comes closest to a David Lynch fever dream. Putting “When You Wish Upon a Star” – the song that best captures Walt Disney’s dream – aside for a moment, let’s remember just how much of a surrealist nightmare the Pleasure Island sequence really is. “Be virtuous or you’ll be turned into a literal donkey,” was quite the threat for an America only recently freed from the grip of Prohibition. It’s a weird and wonderful entry from Disney’s early years.
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The 30 best Disney films 5. The Little Mermaid (1989) We’re free to question Ariel’s decision to trade her voice so she can chase after a cute guy she met only once, but she will always remain the most loveable dinglehopper-collecting weirdo around. Ariel’s unquenchable curiosity is what makes this aquatic tale so charming, second only to the fact its villain was inspired by the legendary Divine. Plus, “Under the Sea” is such a party tune.
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The 30 best Disney films 4. Sleeping Beauty (1959) Sleeping Beauty is Disney’s most beautiful film, thanks to the fact artists John Hench and Eyvind Earle drew heavily from Medieval tapestries, Renaissance art, and even Japanese prints. It gives the feeling of actually flipping through a storybook, as Aurora wanders a forest that looks as if it’s made entirely of stained glass. And, truly, has there ever been a Disney villain as deviously elegant as Maleficient?
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The 30 best Disney films 3. Fantasia (1940) One of Disney’s boldest and most avant garde films, Fantasia is simply masterful in its concept. A musical education for many young viewers, the film pairs classical pieces with short animated stories, each wildly different and inventive in its own right. Although Mickey’s appearance in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice has had a life of its own outside of the original film, anyone who grew up with Fantasia is probably more likely to remember the nightmares Chernabog gave them – the Night on Bald Mountain sequence is unlike anything else in the Disney canon.
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The 30 best Disney films 2. Beauty and the Beast (1991) If you need a sign of exactly how impressive a piece of filmmaking Beauty and the Beast is, reflect on the fact that a love story between a woman and a buffalo-bear-man is the first animated film ever to have been nominated for an Academy Award. And this is nearly two decades before The Shape of Water brought interspecies romance to the ceremony. This is truly “a tale as old as time”, with a lush Alan Menken score (with lyrics by Howard Ashman) and a smart, relatable heroine in Belle.
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The 30 best Disney films 1. The Lion King (1994) Produced at the height of Disney’s Renaissance in the 1990s, The Lion King is an epic testament to what animation can achieve as a medium. Can it match the power of its source material, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet? Well, when Rafiki lifts an infant Simba up to the skies, as an entire kingdom of savannah creatures bows in servitude, all soundtracked to “Circle of Life”, you can’t help but feel momentarily convinced. A film of stunning vistas, heart-wrenching tragedy, and memorable musical moments, there’s no doubt that The Lion King deserves its place as one of the greatest animated films of all time.
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