The Best Disney Live-Action Is Not the One You Think, and Here Are 7 Reasons Why

Following the success of Disney's 2010 live-action quasi-sequel Alice in Wonderland, the studio has taken to remaking its most beloved animated classics as live-action movies. The peak of this strategy came between 2016 and 2019 when the live-action versions of The Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King grossed over a billion at the box office. Reviews were always solid, if not necessarily impressive, but they were good enough to justify more live-action efforts. Since the pandemic, however, the Disney live-actions have pretty much fallen out of favor, becoming increasingly soulless and far less successful. It's a shame because the best Disney live-action adaptation came in 2021.