12 Disney Movies That Got Terrible Reviews

For shame! Entertainment Weekly gave Pocahontas a C grade, calling it "generic" and forecasted that it would usher in "new-era Disney cartoons that feels less than animated."

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As magical as you may have found the movie, Variety called the characters "mean and ugly and simply awful" while The New York Times said the story was "familiar and overworked." Rude.

55 percent

Roger Ebert said that although kids will enjoy it, "parents will be sneaking looks at their watches." Even more accurate, he predicted that "its real future, I suspect, lies in home video." The shade!

54 percent

Even the good reviews on Robin Hood are rough. Time Out London wrote, "no one makes cultural appropriation as much fun as Walt Disney." The review goes on to call out "the familiar, repetitive plot and the several lapses of taste and intelligence." Yeah, Rotten Tomatoes classified this as a positive review.

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The Washington Post's review called this movie's screenwriter "lazy" and "unimaginative," the main character an "insufferably eager nincompoop" and the animation style "harsh, a hybrid of saucer-eyed anime and square-jawed angularity that brings to mind an edgier Pokémon." Yikes.

49 percent

The Chicago Reader deemed this adorable flick "tolerable enough" for kids, and called the computer-generated animation (still in its early days) "unexciting though serviceable."

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Time Out London was very unimpressed with the speedy sequel, calling it a "scene-hopping mess made worse by dint of a million car chases and hardly any gags." Their scathing review concludes with this zinger: "Time, perhaps, for the franchise to be towed off to the scrapyard."

39 percent

The general consensus on Brother Bear was that it's not horrendous, just lame. Variety called it "underwhelming" and "uninspiring" while The Washington Post deemed it "innocuous."

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Yes, this is a Disney movie. The lackluster film prompted The New York Times to declare: "It’s time to admit that dressing actors in LED-studded catsuits, asking them to give performances on sterile white sets and handing the results to a team of computer animators is not a way to make a good movie."

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Poor Chicken Little was met with a lukewarm reception in a post-Shrek world. The Seattle Times called it an "odd up-and-down storyline" with "too many shortcuts." The best compliment they could muster was that the movie is "just kind of cute."

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Dane Cook's vocal star vehicle was more of a junker. (High-five for that pun?) The Washington Post was underwhelmed, calling it "bland" with a "largely tedious story." Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times called out the film for laying on too many feel-good messages, joking that the movie "stays grounded while it might have soared."

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Finally, the worst-reviewed Disney film is the guinea pig-driven "comedy," G-Force. Entertainment Weekly called it "frantic and loud, with a few lame jokes inserted pertaining to [Penelope] Cruz's Spanish accent." Even Time Out London tried to be positive but ended up admitting that the movie "does lag occasionally and is encumbered by bland voiceovers and a lack of laughs." Ouch.

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