Every 2000s Disney Movie Ranked 

The 2000s, when every animation studio wanted to be Disney except for Disney

*Fun Fact:* Treasure Planet's box office was so low because Disney, on a urge of dumbness, decided to put it on cinemas alongside Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Fun fact about Lilo & Stitch. Aloha Oi is a song originally written by Hawaii's last Queen before the country was anexed, and it's basically her farwell to her country as she knew it before it was forcibly taken by an invading power. I find it incredibly powerful that they used it as a symbol of Nanis pain over her family being torn apart by agents of that very government. Especially for disney in the 2000's.

18:35 To be fair, I haven't seen the film in a while, but I think the lesson Tiana was supposed to learn was to not focus on achieving her dream to the unhealthy degree she displayed at the beginning of the movie. She was working so hard to raise the money, that she was: - Staying up late to the point of only getting seconds of sleep each morning (displayed during the time skip where she entered her room in her maid uniform and then had to get ready to work at the diner) - Constantly choosing work over hanging out with her friends (shown during her conversation with said friends) - Having to be convinced by Charlette (Tiana's closest and best friend) to take time off work and go to her ball, and even then Charlette had to give her a huge tip to make up for the money Tiana could potentially lose by not working. Her life hinged so much on achieving her dream, that when the guys said someone else bought the building she was gonna buy for her restaurant, she spiraled into a depression before her encounter with Naveen shifted her mind elsewhere.

He went from "I actually really liked chicken little as a kid" to "This is why kids shouldn't have opinions." And I have never felt so relatable in my life. 😂😂😂

I love how your ranking system has essentially become, "Is this movie better or worse than Ralph Breaks the Internet?"

"Treasure Planet was only ok " Me: *GASP* "But John Silver was excellent!" Me: " Ok, you're forgiven."

I'm pretty sure a lot of the whole point in princess and the frog was that Tiana *didn't* deserve to be turned into a frog, and that this collateral damage is what triggers Navine's character growth

I honestly didn’t know that this many still images of Tamatoa even existed

Can we talk about how David is the best boyfriend? Super nice to Lelo, helps Nani find a job, and doesn’t freak out about Stitch being an Alien. Heck, he helps them rebuild their house iirc.

I'm glad we got Lilo and Stitch at all honestly, but I'm so upset that they cut out that MASSIVE deleted scene of her scaring the tourists away from the beach just to punctuate how much she resents her home being treated like a vacation resort where she's basically seen as a photo opportunity just for being a native islander. That scene got so close to being finalized before it was cut too, literally only needing to be colored and cleaned up, it's such a shame because the only leftover from that concept is her taking pictures of tourists as a way of turning the tables on that disrespect. The movie doesn't give any context to her photos except to make it look like a quirky hobby instead of a calculated "see how you like it" revenge behavior. Then AGAIN when she's vengeful to her lil white friends predominantly taking up space in hula dancing school while going out of their way to other her and make her feel unwanted, the movie tries to make SURE white audiences can't pick up that maybe part of her frustration has to do with the other islanders trying to understand her trauma and grief, while Murtle just flat out calls her crazy to her face. The original uncut Lilo and Stitch was gonna be about how hard it is for a child to grapple with her culture being turned into theme park bullshit and it would have gone hard as hell.

Honestly, Jon Silver and Jim Hawkins relationship has to be my favorite of any Disney movie, which is saying a lot. Simply because it's one of the few movies where the villain and the hero interact with each other positively. They help each other grow, despite the fact Jim, and the audience, already knows Silver is the villain. We're all told this fact when Jim's handed the map. Yet, throughout the movie, we watch as the two grow closer and become better people thanks to one another, all the while we know that it has to end eventually. Silver acting as a sort of father figure to Jim, who comes from a broken home, and helping him grow into a confident young man. Whereas Jim helps Silver realize that there's more to life than treasure, that it's good to appreciate the nonmaterial things. Their relationship is what makes Treasure Planet such a good movie for me.

I really appreciate how Lilo is written. They wrote her as a problematic child bc that’s how a lot of children who have to deal with the trauma of losing their parents, especially as young as her, act. I love how they don’t write her as a nuisance, but as a child who’s gone through something really terrible and as a result acts different compared to the average child or the other girls in the movie. It isn’t just her being the quirky kid, and it isn’t the characters victimizing her too much or looking/acting w disgust around her bc of how she acts out.

I never liked the whole "the dad's an idiot" trope that's been in every kids media since the 90s, but Chicken Little takes that to a whole new low by having the dad be the most unlikable character in a whole roster of unlikable characters.

As a Native American, while I do agree with some of your points, Brother Bear is incredibly important to me. I’m Plains Cree/Métis and seeing the bit about the northern lights relating to our ancestors was a joy to see. Having some positive representation without it excusing MMIW or the genocide of our people/sexualizing our women it makes me happy.

TIMESTAMPS: 12) Dinosaur 1:12 11) Chicken Little 2:34 10) Brother Bear 5:04 9) Bolt 8:29 8) Home on the Range 10:36 7) Treasure Planet 11:59 [SQUARESPACE] 14:49 6) The Princess and the Frog 16:45 5) Meet the Robinsons 21:22 4) Fantasia 2000 23:35 3) The Emperor’s New Groove 25:31 2) Atlantis: The Lost Empire 26:54 1) Lilo and Stitch 29:06

"They all hated me..." Meet the Robinsons really is pretty good ngl.

Nani was on track to be a pro surfer before their parents died and she had to drop everything to raise Lilo

Putting treasure planet so low actually physically hurt me because I absolutely loved the movie as a kid and even now. I thought the movie was so ambitious and visually amazing, and I loved the idea of mixing the traditional old novel with futuristic space. I also felt really attached to Jim and was very surprised by the amazing arc John silver went through

Brother Bear might not be my favorite Disney movie but damn the scene where Kenai tells Koda he killed his mother killed me so much.

Okay,raise your hand if you have genuinely forgotten more than once that Bolt is a Disney film

There's actually a deleted segment of Lilo and Stitch that I think was a real shame to be omitted. In Lilo's room the walls are plastered with photographs of seemingly random people. This was actually explained to be due to the fact that tourists would take photos of Lilo in public because she's a "real hawaiian girl" (a scene specifically cut was a car full of tourists taking a photo of her in passing without consent). So in protest she takes candid photos of tourists and hangs them up on her wall. I guess the whole aspect was cut because Disney wasn't ready to tackle that kind of racism. Learning about it made Lilo and Stitch that much better to me. EDIT: I was actually reminded/informed about that car scene in the comments below, none of the drivers take a picture of Lilo, but ask her where the beach is. One of the drivers ask her if she speaks english. Soon after Lilo arrives on the beach and a tourist remarks that she is "a real native", and another takes a picture of her. I conflated the two events into one, please forgive my senile brain.

Tiana was so focused on her dream that she lost sight of whats truly important, and that the people you share your dream with. She learns that its okay to slow down enjoy yourself, and take comfort in the people around you. This also ties into Naveen, who only enjoys himself, and needs to learn to work for those moments to mean anything.

I think that Bolt would be so much cooler if it was that spy-action movie it seemed to be at the beginning. Bolt's superpowers were so creative

"The aesthetic of treasure planet didnt make sense to me, i dont think the old timey setting meshed well with the furturistic tech" ah, so you never went through a streampunk phanse i see

Bowler hat guy is such a great character, he reminds me a lot of Dr. Doofenshmirtz and that’s a compliment.

I don't care what anyone says, Bolt is a charming movie that warms my cold heart. There's a song with the lyrics "I may not see in color, but I sure can feel blue". C'mon. I say "You're my good boy" to my cat all the time now.

A lot of people say that Princess and the Frog is based on the old fairy tale of the frog prince, but it's loosely based on a book that's in turn loosely inspired by that story that's called the Frog Princess. In the original book the titular princess turned into a frog because a bracelet her aunt gave her to keep her from getting cursed had an unforeseen reaction with the curse that was on the prince (it was enchanted to turn any magic she got involved with back on the caster). And you're right, Charlotte and her father don't have any equivalents in the book, they probably were added for the reason you think.

*Fun Fact:* Originally, Chicken Little was going to be a coming-of-age story with the protagonist being a girl. No aliens included. This is the story about a small yellow chick who suffered from paranoia which caused several panic outbreaks in her hometown. Not only becomes a freak to the town, but also upsets her father who wanted her to improve as a better person (and have the mother being alive as well). In order to give confidence, she was sent to a summer school called Camp-Yes-You-Can where she met her friends like in the final product but with Ugly Duckling being a boy. The sheep who ran the camp turned out to be wolves in disguise who were planning to eat all the students. Now, it is up to Chicken Little to confront her fears and save the day. The scrapped version of Chicken Little could've been great in the final product but too bad Disney can't accept that.

"Why didn't anyone tell you Atlantis is underrated" - because everyone and their dog knows Atlantis is a solid movie.

I think a fan's relationship with their father (especially a son's relationship) defines how each responds to Treasure Planet. That is why so many guys that grew up with that movie care about it so much because they see aspects of their own father-son relationship in it. I can recognize that it isn't overall as quality of a movie as many make it out to be, but it is personally meaningful to me and one of the few Disney movies of this era that really brings out deeper emotions from me, so I get why so many love it.

25:48 - "WROOONG LEVAAAAAAAAAAR!"

Me not seeing Atlantis until the top 3 *”A MAN OF CULTURE”*

“Why was the family so big?” *laughs in Black, Mexican, and Asian*

I remember watching Meet the Robinsons as a kid and whenever I remembered it I was pretty sure it was a fever dream. Now you’ve reminded me it was a actual thing.

Treasure planet is one of my all time favorites, right up there with robots tied for my top animated movies of all time. I had a cat named morph bc he was such a slinky fella, that movie is just so beautifully whimsical, and has the dad figure making changes to be a better mentor, which I feel very closely to home with my own dad, it just is a beautiful movie that can jerk the tears even after watching it enough to rewrite the script word for word

So.... we’re just not gonna talk about how Disney purposefully destroyed any chance Treasure Planet had at success just to make the writers sit down and obey (for lack of a better word)

ok but the scene where people were saying Goob’s binder was cool and if he wanted to come over with him immediately going “they all hated me” is still one of the funniest scenes in any movie i’ve seen

My sister and I were obsessed with Bolt growing up. We watched it so many times, we memorized it, and would reenact it with our stuffed animals.

If I had a nickel for every time Disney made a movie where the main character turns into a bear, hates it, but then ends up deciding to stay a bear in the end, I'd gave two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

I have never watched a youtube video about the movies I grew up with as a kid so I was not prepared for how unnecessarily angry hearing you rip them apart would make me

“When the villain stepped on Raymond I laughed” wow today I learned Schaf is a psychopath disrespecting my poor firefly

Princess and the Frog will always be my favorite princess disney movie and one of my favorite movies of all time. I am so endeared to all of the characters. Louis the alligator is one of my favorite characters under the "They have a dream and they get it but they're a side character." trope. Naveen has one of my favorites arcs in a disney movie simply because it handles it well and gives it time. Tiana is so amazing to watch and I always feel like I want her to succeed. For me personally, easy 10/10

The 2000s may not have been the best decade for Disney, but it's probably my favorite decade from them. I like the way they experimented in their animated movies and it's honestly more enjoyable to watch than the Renaissance or the 2010s.

"I just don't think the old-timey ships and outfits bend that well with futuristic tech at all" Schaffrillas discovers Steampunk

Schaff : Doesn't rank Treasure Planet high The comments : So you have chosen death

For the record Bolt is one of my all time favorite Disney movies

I still remember watching Atlantis in an almost-empty theater with my aunt. Still one of my favorite movies to this day.

The thing with Tiana is that she and Naveen are at the far ends of the working mindset. Naveen is enjoying life but is also being incredibly lazy, while Tiana is overworking herself and so goal focused that she’s letting the joys of life go by. Their relationship is Tiana helping Naveen develop a work ethic and Naveen teaching Tiana that she can focus on her goals and enjoy life too. They help each other balance out.

Whenever I hear the song "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls I have PTSD of watching Chicken Little as a 6 year old in my elementary school's auditorium

16:44 I was NOT expecting ProtonJon’s impression of Big the Cat in a Schaffrillas video. I was laughing my ass off for a solid minute or two.

Atlantis the lost empire has always been one of my favorite Disney movies, we used to own a VHS tape of the movie, and I guess I watched it so much on repeat as a kid it legit stopped working.

Lilo's parents died in a rainstorm and that's why she gives the sandwiches to Pudge (since he controls the weather). She doesn't want to lose Nani too.

Fun Fact: Atlantis actually is one of the reasons why I went into linguistics because the way Milo was able to decipher the Atlantic language impressed me so much as a child

18:36 Tiana actually had a "reason" for becoming a frog, and in fact it was that she "worked" too hard and was very obsessed with the "working" part of making a dream come true. Through the journey, and also through what Mama Odie wanted to point out to her (but she didn't understand), she learns not to be so obsessed with hard work and listening to her own self (digging a little deeper hehe), because everything she needed and what was more important she already had: love (as she states for Dr. Facilier). That was the point of her turning into a frog.

14:00 Lowkey the most underrated part of this video

I like how there aren't really villains in Lilo and Stitch. They're just obstacles. Each of the antagonists, like agent Bubbles and the galactic space federation are just trying to do their job and want to seek the best for either Lilo or for the safety of the world. In the end, the villains just get a new perspective on Stitch and find to accept him as a part of Lilo's family

Fun fact: Atlantis characters look like comic characters cause the creator of Hellboy work on it too

8:17 "Nana, you won't believe this, I was at the top of this huge rock and all of a sudden it's the police ma'am, your son's been hit by a drunk driver. He's dead."

I really liked Brother Bear as a kid, and watched it again after watching this and I still think it's good

"Treasure Planet is okay" So, you have chosen death.

“Treasure Planet’s setting is confusing and distracting!” This dude has never heard of Steampunk apparently.

“Atlantis has a comic-book aesthetic” Buddy, you’re not gonna believe who designed the characters.

Atlantis may be one of my favorite Disney films, like you said Schaff, the art style is so unique and comic-like, the 3D assets look awesome, the story writing and characters are so fun, and Princess Kida can get it

Sora was more supportive of Chicken Little than his dad ever was, even though he had never met him before summoning him for the first time. Let that sink in for a moment.

"What did Tiana do to deserve being turned into a frog?" Nothing. But that doesn't mean there wasn't a point to it. Tiana is a very earnest, hardworking person at the beginning of the story, and while this is a great virtue to be sure, it still holds her back. Ironically, because Tiana is so hard working, she considers herself to be above people who haven't learned to respect hard work, and thus finds it difficult to accept their companionship and help. Furthermore, she is somehow convinced that her accomplishments don't count unless she does everything entirely on her own. By being put into the same position as Naveen, she learns to empathize with him and how to both relax and to let other people share in her difficulties. She wasn't too hardworking -- she was too *stubborn.* (Notice the duality of this term; it can be both a good thing and a bad one.) I think Tiana did "deserve" to become a frog, but as a blessing, not a curse. Because it was exactly what she needed to fulfill her dreams. What makes you so sure being tuned into an animal is a punishment? Your favorite animated character ever is a freaking ogre! And the conclusion to both Shrek and Shrek two involves a character turning into an ogre through a *kiss* as a reflection of their authentic selves. You intentionally depict yourself as a giant crab.

The Emperor's New Groove had all the feels it needed.

i love how the doppler scientist dude from treasure planet (I can’t be bothered to look his name up) was animated by the same dude who directed klaus. you can definitely tell with the design.

Let's take a second to remember the bald guy from Lilo and stitch who never got to enjoy his ice cream.

The voodoo man's death is one of the darkest deaths in any Disney movie, he gets his soul eaten, and his body thrown into the freaking shadow realm.

I watched meet the Robinson's again a few years back as an adult and I'm shocked how good this movie was.

I think one of the biggest reasons I love meet the Robinsons so much is because my family is also an overly large cast of underdeveloped characters. It feels like home.

The scene in Lilo and Stitch after the fight and Mr. Bubbles is taking Lilo away, with Nani pleading, and Bubbles yelling, "Is this what she needs??" Literally gives me chills everytime

Now that I think about it, I wish "Bolt" was made like "The Truman Show"

5:03 bear!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 This man's intros to each movie he's about to talk about is comedy gold.

For me Treasure Planet is the peak of creativity. Taking an already existing story, a pirate story and puting it into space, but completely rewrite the laws of space, plus adding alien characters, sailships, with solar sails flying in the sky, and putting all of this into a steampunk setting is just brilliant.

I didn’t catch on as a kid, but now I understand why Lilo finds it so important to feed Pudge the fish. Lilo says Pudge controls the weather so she feeds him to keep him happy. Her parents died in an accident because of the stormy weather. She feeds Pudge so nobody else gets hurt because of the weather

This vid honestly hits my nostalgia hard. Grew up with all these movies.

To this day I am in shock that you rated Treasure Peak below Mid the RoBINsons

I’ll never forget when Disney made a post about Chicken Little on their social media pages, and everyone bashed Buck Cluck. That was a highlight of 2020

Y'all on the princess frog thing when the dude stepped on the bug I was crying for like 10 minutes

Noticing the most replayed parts of videos is immediately after an ad break and I don't feel like a monster anymore.

I'd definitely love to see a full review of Chicken Little from you!

Bolt actually confused me when I was 5 years old because I didn’t realize that bolt didn’t have powers throughout the movie

I appreciate how real Treasure Planet was with the missing father trope, as Jim’s dad just straight up fucking left on a trip and never came back.

29:37 I love bloopers so I'm so happy you left this in

25:29 makes me want him to rank all the old classic movies from the 40s-60s before the sort of dark age of disney

Schaff: *doesn’t rank treasure planet high up* Everyone: Treason. Betrayal. You dastardly, dastardly man Edit: slight redemption with the ranking of Atlantis. Slight.

"Up next (UGH!), (sigh) Chicken Little." That was actually a pretty genius transition.

Maybe the reason Tiana becomes a frog is due to her overworking herself to get her restaurant that she forgot about the love that's needed in the hardworking process to a achieve her dream, as well as socializing with those to open up instead of shielding herself from other people, it's a way to open up to interact and help the journey through achieving a goal with all the help and support needed. I know you change your mind a bit 3 years later but still letting you know.

23:05 he is like dr doofensmirtz

Fun fact about Atlantis's art style: the production designer was Mike Mignola, a comic artist and writer and creator of Hellboy, hence why it looks so comic-booky.

"Its everything Treasure Planet should have been" D A M N you didnt have to go there

i dont really understand the hate toward princess and the frog--every single one of its songs are amazing and the casting, voice acting and visual designs are spectacular. the reason (or two) i think it makes sense that tiana turns into a frog is (firstly) because that is an essential subversion of the original fairytale, wherein it is not naveen who is brought up to tiana's level, but rather tiana who is "brought down" to naveen's. secondly, i think it is also important that she is somehow physically separated from her ability to work or take part in society--she is a workaholic with no regard for her own happiness or personal freedom, valuing her and her father's old dream of having a family-owned business (which i think ties in with the "perfect POC" archetype)--an obsession probably also facilitated by her father's presumed demise in ww1, maybe a form of survivour's guilt needing to honour his memory. thirdly, naveen and tiana are both justly turned into frogs--naveen needs to experience the hardship and grit of life, and tiana needs to be separated from her everyday life for reasons i just mentioned. lottie is also an INSANELY important character to the story; especially in the context of her being white, rich and conventionally attractive for the time. she, like naveen, is an opposite force to tiana; a mirror image. she is frivolous, air-headed, romantic and childish, juxtaposed to tiana's practicality, maturity and exertion. she, though she does not have a mother, was likely too young when her mother died/left to remember her properly; but tiana is a lot more likely to recall her father's death, especially how her mother would have to pick up the slack and begin working twice as hard (as opposed to Big Daddy, a successful "Sugar Baron"--also a reflection on how trauma response isn't tolerated particularly in impoverished black people). she is a reflection of how rich white girls (particularly around the more racist areas of the USA in the 1920s, and even today) are allowed to be more childish (and particularly enjoy their childhood, while black girls are expected to grow up faster by their own families and by the white people around them). lottie has been handed everything to her on a silver platter, while tiana, who worked every day of her life as the daughter of a single black mother, doesnt live nearly as well as her friend does (also commentary on white privilege, the wealth gap and criticism of "grind culture"). in the end, all three of these opposite forces--that is, naveen (rich, charming playboy), lottie (spoiled privileged white woman) and tiana (hard-working, practical black woman) are forced to mature in their own ways. naveen learns to value soul and love over money and luxury, and begins to understand the value of independence and hard work. tiana learns to prioritize her mental health and personal relationships as much, if not more, than her work obsession (letting it become not an obsession, but a well-loved job). and finally lottie matures from her former vacuous and childish behaviour, managing to put the feelings of her best friend before her own--in the end giving up on the idealised version of life that has been handed to her by her father and her childhood fairy tales. finally, all of them turn into responsible, mature and realised ADULTS. i dunno--i just really love princess and the frog. i have a lot to say about why i love this film so much.

Honestly Atlantis and Treasure Planet always sort of blended together in my mind, with Atlantis having more clear memories to it, probably because I saw it rerun on TV more often than Treasure Planet.

The concept of Adam West playing Bolt would actually have made the movie about 13x better, thank you for this absolute wisdom

Obligatory “how dare you” for ranking treasure planet so low That is all But yeah the robot was bad

Lilo & Stitch is also just incredible funny. I rewatched it last year and had to laugh out loud the whole time.

I am from the Westbank, a pretty small town in Louisiana that typically gets overshadowed as most people I know have never heard of it. Growing up Princess and the frog(and brave) were my favorite disney princesses. Especially PATF because I was able to relate to it, being a little black girl from the south I was so happy to have someone who looked liked me on the big screen and in motion picture. Now being older when watching the video and not saying it’s good based on nostalgia lmao. it was definitely a slap in the face to see PATF get such a low rating but as I listened, you were right. The subtle racism to being a frog not fitting Tianas story. They had no real point in me writing this but I just wanted to share my thoughts. One thing I love about your channel is how everyone has their own opinions, I love how mature(mostly) and clearly you talk about these topics and especially because you are able to change my mind and i’m always so willing to listen.