Disney has been putting out wonderful animated movies for decades, ranging from the classics to some relatively recent releases like “Turning Red” and “Lightyear.” Disney has currently made 18 terrible remakes of its own films, and a ton more are planned with questionable release dates. Beginning with “Maleficent” and “Cinderella,” both of which grossed over $1 billion worldwide, served as the catalyst for Disney’s never-ending “remake fever.”

The “Lady and the Tramp”, “Mulan” and the recently released “Pinocchio” are my picks for the three worst live-action Disney remakes, and they also appeared to generate criticism from Disney fans all across the world.

It didn’t take long for the movie “Lady and the Tramp” to be unfair to the original. In a bad attempt to make talking dogs realistic, the film included stiff characters with no emotions, forced dialogue, and drastically changed personalities.

“It’s impossible to shake the sense that the film exists primarily to tick itself off the studio’s own to-do list,” Robbie Collin, a top critic on Rotten Tomatoes said.

“Mulan” was very different from the original, which isn’t a deal breaker, but without Mushu and Li Shang, two of the most cherished aspects of its predecessor, it swiftly lost its appeal. Mulan is no longer shown in the remake as a powerful woman with a reckless attitude who frequently makes dumb decisions, but rather as a Mulan who always succeeds and is more capable than any trained soldier in all of China.

“Its cast, its attitude, its overall eagerness to please — all benefits, one would think — don’t add up to a good movie. They add up to a blueprint of the movie this ought to be,”  K. Austin Collins, a top critic on Rolling Stone, said.

“Pinocchio,” the most recent Disney live-action adaptation, is undoubtedly a movie I will never forget, despite my best efforts. I think that the actors play a significant role in a movie’s success. Even the presence of so many well-known stars, including Tom Hanks and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, couldn’t save this movie from disaster.

“Pinocchio” swiftly transitions from trying too hard to attempting too little after the first few minutes. The speech is an exact replica of the original, the remake only has one-note characters, and the scene shifts in the movie lack inventive transitions. The voice acting for the animated characters is by far the worst that Disney has to offer, making them creepy and nasty.

“Like the titular puppet at its center, Pinocchio lingers in an existential purgatory,” Christy Lemire, a top critic for RogerEbert, said.

There were numerous unsuccessful attempts by various studios to duplicate Disney’s enormous success during the 1980s and 1990s. For the most part, Disney’s remakes reinforce the idea that anyone can be a director even if their budget is ten dollars. Given that Disney no longer produces the animated movies it is remaking, it is ironic that the remakes are so focused on the animation that they omit. It’s hard to have made millions of children’s favorite films once let alone twice leaving Disney a victim of its own success.