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Welcome to WatchMojo, and today, in the aftermath of Snow White 2025, we're taking a closer look at it and the other classic properties that Disney has ruthlessly run through the mud in recent times.

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Snow White. 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is where it all began for Disney, and really, for feature-length animated movies in general.

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Oh, yes.

Very comfortable.

So, in another world, it might have been exciting to revisit and reimagine something that's so entrenched in Hollywood history, but that world is not this world.

The live-action remake met headlines, sure, but only because it seemingly managed to annoy everyone.

This was my father's kingdom.

A place of fairness.

Wept the Queen.

Changed everything.

Take him away!

Controversy dogged the project from announcement through to release, with rumors of feuds between the cast and reports of scale-back premieres as Disney aimed for damage limitation.

Rachel Zegler's turn as the title character did receive some praise from some reviewers, but the rest of it was relentlessly panned.

It's a human!

What did you think I was?

Nothing. It goes down as a cash-grab poison apple, which left audiences relating to one particular character far more than the rest.

Pinocchio If Snow White was where it all began, then the original Pinocchio was what proved that the magic wasn't a one-off.

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Say something.

Gee, you're funny.

Do it again!

The tale of a wooden boy searching for real meaning is easily one of Disney's most popular films of all time, but then they went and did what they did in 2022.

Father, what's that big shining thing?

That is the sun, my son.

It goes around the Earth once a day.

It's basic, simple science.

You'll learn all about it in school.

The Robert Zemeckis remake fell flat, to put it mildly.

Critics and fans rallied against the soulless rehashing of what should have been a timeless tale.

Disney threw Pinocchio into the modern world by trying to polish him up with some shiny CGI.

But in doing so, they rubbed out all the charm.

It came three years after Tim Burton's remake of Dumbo, which reportedly lost the studio a ton of money.

Pinocchio certainly couldn't regain those losses.

For many, it couldn't even justify its own existence.

And let me tell you, it's no easy job.

The Lion King When will Disney just leave their best work be?

The Lion King was a huge driver of the studio's renaissance over the 1990s.

It was a movie that could make you sing, laugh, cry, sing some more.

And still, when it was over, you felt compelled to rewind it back to the start and watch it all again.

In truth, perhaps Jon Favreau's 2019 remake wasn't quite so bad as many of Disney's other misfirings.

It definitely made a fortune at the box office, as fans flocked to see the new take.

But that doesn't make the photorealistic animation any less jarring.

It doesn't make the slow and methodical pace any less tedious.

From a commercial point of view, the huge takings of the 2019 version do justify the 2024 follow-up Mufasa.

But was anyone really asking for this particular origin story?

Probably not.

But where Disney's concerned, relentless re-dos are apparently the circle of life.

Star Wars When Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, a heady mixture of fear and excitement among Star Wars fans soon bubbled up to make 2015's The Force Awakens one of the most hotly anticipated movies ever.

Could the House of Mouse be trusted to do the iconic saga justice?

Many were doubtful, but on first showing, the signs were good.

For the most part, The Force Awakens earned Star Wars new fans, and it didn't royally anger those who'd been with it since the 70s.

Rogue One, as well, was genuinely great.

But over time, the good feeling gradually faded.

And by the sequel trilogy's close with the rise of Skywalker in 2019, the now-muddled story left many dissatisfied.

Sure, there's nothing catastrophic about these movies, but the fatigue is real.

Not that that'll stop Disney from going at it again, and again, and again.

Winnie the Pooh Was there ever a happier, more whimsical, generally light and enjoyable bunch of Disney characters than Winnie the Pooh and friends?

I'm Tigger!

T-I-double-guh-er!

That spells Tigger!

Yet somehow, they managed to misguidedly turn all that fun and brightness on its head for 2018's Christopher Robin.

Now, Here Again is a movie that does have its plus points.

For one, Ewan McGregor's performance is effective and affecting.

But ultimately, all the story boils down to is a stereotypical swipe at how grumpy adults lose their joy and imagination in favor of working themselves to the bone.

All the Winnie the Pooh-ness is just kind of lost.

Of course, rather than think up new characters and stories, Disney opts to go to the well again with a supposedly fresh, but ultimately thin, alternative perspective.

It's a formula that we've come to know and expect.

In this case though, it simply missed the mark.

And in the concurrent era of Paddington, new Winnie lost out big time.

Whenever there's a sequel to be made, you can bet your bottom dollar that Disney will make it.

For better or, more usually, for worse.

Moana was an awesome original with a forgettable follow-up.

The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has been steadily sailing into rougher and rougher seas for years now.

But, with Alice Through the Looking Glass, Disney apparently plumbed new depths of pointlessness.

This Mad Hatter backstory was exactly what no one needed.

The look and feel of the film followed on right from the first live-action Alice, which in itself was only mildly well-received.

While the incessant kookiness in Looking Glass seemingly meant that they could just skip over there being any kind of actual story, at all.

No amount of bright colors and set pieces can excuse such blatant and lazy pillaging of a classic.

Captain America, like it or loathe it, the MCU has had an incredible run, and Disney has been a large part of its success.

But all good things do come to an end.

The tide has been steadily turning against the seemingly never-ending Marvel movies even before Brave New World in 2025.

Nevertheless, Brave New World did become something of a dumping ground for everyone's growing grievances.

Anthony Mackie's starring role worked well, Harrison Ford as a rampaging Red Hulk turned heads.

But other than that, this long-awaited revamp for one of Marvel's greatest-ever characters was a whole heap of nothing much.

Place a villain with incredible power here, add a clunky, crashy fight scene there, insert ambiguous easter eggs throughout, it's tried and tested and tired.

And the pressure's only mounting on Disney to stop the slump.

Toy Story.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a better, more influential, more universally-liked cinematic trilogy than the first three Toy Stories.

With Andy passing on his toys at the end of three, the bittersweet move from childhood to adulthood caught many by surprise in how goddamn emotional it all was.

With Toy Story 4, Disney perhaps pushed its luck, but survived.

While it could reasonably be described as the weakest installment, 4 did still carry most of the magic.

Lightyear, though, in 2022, missed the high bar of its predecessors.

While in the last decade or so, we've learned that apparently every mainstream leading character needs an origin story, perhaps Buzz just didn't.

And with Toy Story 5 coming over the horizon, some fans are growing concerned.

Okay, so this is a classic that hasn't yet been milked to death exactly, but is the time when it will have been fast approaching?

So, what do you think?

Is Disney destroying legacies?

Or are things actually not so bad as all that?

Let us know in the comments.

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