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Disney Animated recap: the story so far

Updated October 21, 2026 · 20 titles · spoilers for everything below

This is a marathon of Disney feature animation from 1989 to 2004, not one continuing story: each film stands alone. It runs from The Little Mermaid, which began the Disney Renaissance, through the musicals of the early 1990s, to the experiments that followed, from computer-animated dinosaurs to science fiction, ending with Home on the Range, the last traditionally animated Disney feature before the studio's switch to computer animation.

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The Little Mermaid poster

No. 01 · 1989 · Film

The Little Mermaid recap

Ariel, the youngest daughter of King Triton, ruler of the merfolk, is fascinated by the human world and keeps a grotto full of objects salvaged from shipwrecks. Her father forbids contact with humans, and his court composer, the crab Sebastian, is told to watch her. During a storm, Ariel rescues Prince Eric from drowning and falls in love with him. When Triton finds out, he destroys her grotto in a rage. The sea witch Ursula, banished from Triton's court, offers Ariel a deal: three days as a human in exchange for her voice. If Eric kisses her before sunset on the third day, she stays human; if not, she belongs to Ursula. Ariel, mute, wins Eric's heart with help from Sebastian, her fish friend Flounder and the seagull Scuttle. On the second evening, Ursula disguises herself as a young woman named Vanessa and uses Ariel's voice to put Eric under a spell.

How The Little Mermaid ends

Ariel marries Eric as a human after Eric kills Ursula. Scuttle and the animals break up Eric's wedding to Vanessa, Ariel gets her voice back, but the sun sets and Ursula takes her. Triton gives himself up in Ariel's place, and Ursula, with his trident, grows to giant size. Eric drives the bow of a wrecked ship into her. Triton, restored, sees that Ariel truly loves Eric and turns her human, and they marry.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

The Rescuers Down Under poster

No. 02 · 1990 · Film

The Rescuers Down Under recap

In the Australian Outback, a boy named Cody frees a giant golden eagle, Marahute, from a poacher's trap. The poacher, Percival McLeach, wants the eagle, illegal to hunt, and captures Cody when he finds one of her feathers, then takes the boy to his hideout to make him reveal where she nests. A mouse caught in another trap sends word to the Rescue Aid Society in New York, and its best agents, Bernard and Miss Bianca, are sent to help. Bernard has been trying all evening to propose to Bianca. They fly to Australia on Wilbur the albatross, and are guided through the Outback by Jake, a kangaroo mouse who flirts with Bianca. Wilbur hurts his back and is taken to a mouse hospital, which he flees. McLeach, who has already convinced the rangers that Cody is dead, lets the boy go after telling him Marahute has been shot, then follows him to the nest with his pet goanna, Joanna, and captures the eagle, Cody, Jake and Bianca. Bernard hides the eggs and leaves Wilbur to guard them.

How The Rescuers Down Under ends

McLeach falls to his death over a waterfall, and Bernard finally proposes to Bianca, who accepts. At Crocodile Falls, McLeach hangs Cody over the water. Bernard arrives riding a razorback hog he has tamed, disables McLeach's truck and tricks Joanna into knocking McLeach into the river. McLeach fights off the crocodiles but is swept over the falls. Jake and Bianca free Marahute, who catches Cody and Bernard. Back at the nest, the eggs hatch under Wilbur.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

Beauty and the Beast poster

No. 03 · 1991 · Film

Beauty and the Beast recap

A prince who turned away an old beggar woman is turned into a beast by an enchantress, and his servants into household objects; the spell will become permanent unless he learns to love and be loved before the last petal falls from an enchanted rose. Years later, Belle, a bookish young woman in a French village, refuses the vain hunter Gaston. Her inventor father Maurice gets lost and is taken prisoner at the Beast's castle, and Belle takes his place. The servants, led by the candlestick Lumiere, the clock Cogsworth and the teapot Mrs. Potts, help the two warm to each other. The Beast saves Belle from wolves, gives her his library, and they share a dance. Seeing in a magic mirror that her father is ill, she is allowed to leave. Gaston, meanwhile, plans to have Maurice locked in an asylum to force Belle to marry him.

How Beauty and the Beast ends

Belle tells the dying Beast she loves him just before the last petal falls, and he turns back into a prince. To prove Maurice is sane, Belle shows the town the Beast in the mirror, and Gaston leads a mob to the castle. The servants drive off the villagers, and Gaston stabs the Beast before falling to his death. The spell breaks, the servants become human, and Belle and the prince dance.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

Aladdin poster

No. 04 · 1992 · Film

Aladdin recap

In the desert city of Agrabah, the vizier Jafar needs a "diamond in the rough" to enter the Cave of Wonders and fetch a magic lamp. Aladdin, a street thief with a monkey, Abu, meets Princess Jasmine, who has slipped out of the palace to escape an arranged marriage. Jafar has Aladdin arrested and sends him into the cave in disguise. Abu grabs forbidden treasure, the cave collapses, and Aladdin is trapped, but he has the lamp, and he releases its Genie, who grants him three wishes. Aladdin promises to use his last wish to free the Genie. He wishes to become a prince to win Jasmine and arrives in a grand parade as Prince Ali. He takes her on a magic carpet ride, and she sees through his disguise, though he lies again. Jafar tries to have him drowned, and the Genie uses a wish to save him.

How Aladdin ends

Aladdin tricks Jafar into wishing to become a genie, which traps him in a lamp, and then frees the Genie with his last wish. Jafar steals the lamp, becomes sultan and sorcerer, and exposes Aladdin. Aladdin goads him into his final wish, and Jafar is sucked into a lamp with his parrot Iago. Aladdin keeps his promise, the freed Genie leaves to see the world, and the Sultan changes the law so Jasmine can marry Aladdin.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

The Nightmare Before Christmas poster

No. 05 · 1993 · Film

The Nightmare Before Christmas recap

Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, is tired of running the same holiday every year. Wandering into the forest, he finds trees with doors to other holiday towns and falls into Christmas Town, where he is amazed by the lights and snow. He brings back presents and decides that Halloween Town will take over Christmas. Sally, a rag doll made by the mad scientist Dr. Finkelstein, loves Jack and has a vision of the plan ending in disaster. Jack has the town build toys, which come out monstrous, and sends three trick-or-treaters, Lock, Shock and Barrel, to kidnap "Sandy Claws". They hand Santa over to Oogie Boogie, a gambling bag of bugs. On Christmas Eve, Jack flies out in a coffin sleigh pulled by skeleton reindeer, guided by Zero, his ghost dog, and his presents terrify children everywhere.

How The Nightmare Before Christmas ends

Jack is shot down by the army, realises he belongs in Halloween, rescues Santa from Oogie Boogie and helps him save Christmas. Sally has tried to free Santa and been caught too. Jack pulls Oogie Boogie's thread and the bugs spill out. Santa puts Christmas right, then sends snow to Halloween Town as a gift. Jack and Sally declare their love on the hill in the graveyard.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

The Lion King poster

No. 06 · 1994 · Film

The Lion King recap

Simba is the cub of Mufasa, king of the Pride Lands, and the heir to the throne. Mufasa's jealous brother Scar wants the crown. He sends Simba and his friend Nala to the elephant graveyard, where hyenas attack them before Mufasa rescues them. Then Scar sets up a wildebeest stampede in a gorge with Simba trapped below. Mufasa saves his son, but Scar throws him from a cliff to his death and tells Simba it was his fault, telling him to run away. Simba is found in the desert by Timon, a meerkat, and Pumbaa, a warthog, who teach him "hakuna matata", no worries. He grows up with them, while Scar and the hyenas ruin the Pride Lands. Years later Nala finds him and begs him to come home. The baboon Rafiki shows Simba that his father lives on in him, and the ghost of Mufasa tells him to remember who he is.

How The Lion King ends

Simba returns, defeats Scar, takes his place as king, and the Pride Lands recover. Scar admits he killed Mufasa, and in the battle Simba throws him from Pride Rock. Scar tries to blame the hyenas, who overhear him and turn on him at the foot of the rock. Simba climbs Pride Rock and roars as the rain puts out the fires. The rains return, and the film ends with Rafiki presenting Simba and Nala's cub to the gathered animals.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

A Goofy Movie poster

No. 07 · 1995 · Film

A Goofy Movie recap

Max Goof is a teenager embarrassed by his father Goofy, a single dad. On the last day of school, Max pulls a stunt, dressing as the pop star Powerline and crashing the assembly, to impress his crush, Roxanne, who agrees to go with him to a party to watch Powerline's concert on TV. But the principal calls Goofy, who decides to take Max on a fishing trip to Lake Destiny, Idaho, the trip he took with his own father. Max lies to Roxanne that his dad knows Powerline and that he will be on stage at the concert in Los Angeles. On the road, Goofy and Max clash; they meet Pete and his son PJ, and run into Bigfoot. Max secretly changes their route on the map to Los Angeles. Pete overhears Max telling PJ and warns Goofy, who trusts his son anyway; when Max picks the California road, Goofy stops in fury at the Grand Canyon, and the car rolls away without them.

How A Goofy Movie ends

Max and Goofy end up on stage with Powerline, and Max tells Roxanne the truth; she admits she has always liked him. Their runaway car carries them down a river, where they argue, make up, and narrowly avoid a waterfall. Goofy decides to take Max to the concert in Los Angeles. They sneak in and dance with Powerline on live TV while Roxanne watches. Back home, the car explodes, and Max introduces his father to his new girlfriend.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

Pocahontas poster

No. 08 · 1995 · Film

Pocahontas recap

In 1607, English colonists of the Virginia Company sail to the New World under Governor Ratcliffe, who wants gold. With them is Captain John Smith, an explorer. Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, is asked to marry Kocoum, a serious warrior, but she follows her own path, guided by Grandmother Willow, a talking tree. She meets John Smith in the forest, and they fall in love, teaching each other about their worlds while the colonists dig for gold and fight her people. Kocoum sees the two kiss and attacks Smith, and Thomas, a young colonist, shoots Kocoum dead. Smith is captured and sentenced to die at dawn. Powhatan's warriors prepare for war, and Ratcliffe leads the colonists out to attack the tribe, calling the natives savages. Pocahontas, guided by Grandmother Willow and Meeko, her raccoon, runs to stop it.

How Pocahontas ends

Pocahontas stops the execution by throwing herself over Smith, and her plea persuades Powhatan to make peace. Ratcliffe fires at Powhatan, Smith takes the bullet, and the colonists turn on Ratcliffe and send him home in chains. Smith must sail back to England for treatment; he asks Pocahontas to come, but she chooses to stay with her people, and she watches his ship leave from a cliff.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame poster

No. 09 · 1996 · Film

The Hunchback of Notre Dame recap

In Paris in 1482, Quasimodo, a deformed bell-ringer, has spent his life locked in Notre Dame by his guardian, the judge Claude Frollo, who took him as a baby after killing his mother. Frollo claims to protect him. Quasimodo's only friends are three gargoyles. During the Festival of Fools, Quasimodo sneaks out and is crowned king of fools, then humiliated by the crowd; the Romani dancer Esmeralda defends him. Frollo becomes obsessed with her. Esmeralda takes sanctuary in the cathedral, and Quasimodo helps her escape. Captain Phoebus, Frollo's soldier, defies him and joins Esmeralda. Frollo burns Paris to find her, and Quasimodo and Phoebus find her hiding place, the Court of Miracles, guided by a pendant she gave Quasimodo. Frollo follows them there and captures everyone, and Esmeralda is sentenced to burn.

How The Hunchback of Notre Dame ends

Quasimodo saves Esmeralda from being burned at the stake, Frollo falls to his death from the cathedral, and Paris accepts Quasimodo. Quasimodo breaks his chains and swings Esmeralda into the cathedral, the gargoyles and citizens drive off the guards, and Frollo plunges into the molten lead. Esmeralda and Phoebus are together, and Quasimodo, given their blessing, walks out of the cathedral into the daylight, where the crowd that once mocked him cheers and lifts him up.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

Hercules poster

No. 10 · 1997 · Film

Hercules recap

Hercules is the infant son of Zeus and Hera on Mount Olympus. Hades, ruler of the underworld, learns from the Fates that in 18 years he can overthrow Zeus with the Titans unless Hercules interferes. His minions Pain and Panic give the baby a potion to make him mortal, but they miss one drop, so he stays strong. Raised by human parents, Hercules learns his true father is Zeus and that he can return to Olympus only by proving himself a true hero. He trains with the satyr Philoctetes, Phil, with his flying horse Pegasus, and becomes a celebrity by defeating monsters, many sent by Hades. He falls for Meg, who works for Hades, having sold her soul to save a man who later left her. Hades offers Hercules a deal: give up his strength for a day, and Meg will be safe.

How Hercules ends

Hercules becomes a god by dying to save Meg, then chooses to stay on Earth with her. The Titans storm Olympus, and when Meg is hurt saving him, Hercules' strength returns. He beats the Titans, then dives into the river of souls in the underworld to save Meg; his willingness to die makes him a god. He knocks Hades into the river and gives up immortality to live with Meg.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

Mulan poster

No. 11 · 1998 · Film

Mulan recap

When the Huns invade China, the emperor orders one man from every family to join the army. Fa Mulan, who has embarrassed her family at a matchmaker, cannot let her aging, injured father go, so she cuts her hair, takes his armour and joins in disguise as a man, "Ping". Her ancestors send Mushu, a small, disgraced dragon, to protect her, and a lucky cricket, Cri-Kee, follows. At training camp under Captain Li Shang, she struggles at first, then excels. Marching to the front, the unit finds the army destroyed by Shan Yu's Huns, and in the mountain pass Mulan buries the Huns under an avalanche. She is wounded, and the army doctors discover she is a woman. Shang spares her life but leaves her behind.

How Mulan ends

Mulan saves the emperor from Shan Yu in the Imperial City and returns home a hero, and Shang follows to court her. She finds the Huns survived and races to warn the city. Shan Yu takes the emperor hostage, and Mulan, with her friends disguised as concubines, frees him and kills Shan Yu with a rocket. The emperor bows to her, and her father welcomes her home.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

Tarzan poster

No. 12 · 1999 · Film

Tarzan recap

A shipwrecked couple build a treehouse in the African jungle and are killed by a leopard, Sabor, leaving their baby son alive. The gorilla Kala, who has lost her own baby to Sabor, adopts him and names him Tarzan, despite her mate Kerchak, the troop leader, refusing to accept him. Tarzan grows up trying to prove himself, and as a young man kills Sabor. Then a team of humans arrives: the professor Archimedes Porter, his daughter Jane, and their guide, the hunter Clayton. Tarzan saves Jane from baboons and is fascinated by her, and she and her father teach him about the human world. Clayton wants to find the gorillas to capture them, and convinces Tarzan that Jane will stay if he shows them the gorillas, which ends in a fight with Kerchak.

How Tarzan ends

Tarzan defeats Clayton, who dies tangled in vines, and Kerchak, dying, names Tarzan leader of the gorillas; Jane and her father stay in the jungle with him. Clayton captures the gorillas and the humans, but Tarzan and his friends free them. Clayton shoots Kerchak and fights Tarzan in the trees, accidentally hanging himself. Jane jumps off the boat to stay with Tarzan.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

Fantasia 2000 poster

No. 13 · 1999 · Film

Fantasia 2000 recap

A sequel to the 1940 Fantasia, this anthology sets animated shorts to classical music played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, introduced by celebrity hosts. It opens with abstract butterflies to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Respighi's Pines of Rome follows a family of humpback whales that fly into the sky. Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue tells the stories of four New Yorkers in the 1930s, drawn in the style of Al Hirschfeld. Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 adapts The Steadfast Tin Soldier. Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals has a flamingo who plays with a yo-yo. The Sorcerer's Apprentice, with Mickey Mouse, returns from the original film. Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance has Donald Duck as Noah's assistant loading animals onto the Ark; he and Daisy each believe the other was lost in the flood. Hosts between segments include Steve Martin, Bette Midler and Quincy Jones.

How Fantasia 2000 ends

The film ends with Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, in which a forest spirit brings a land back to life after a volcanic firebird destroys it. The sprite, an elk and the forest return after the eruption, completing a cycle of death and renewal. In the segment before it, Donald and Daisy are reunited as the flood waters go down and the animals leave the Ark. The film closes the programme there, with no framing story to continue.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

Dinosaur poster

No. 14 · 2000 · Film

Dinosaur recap

An iguanodon egg is carried away by predators and ends up on an island of lemurs, where Aladar hatches and is raised by the lemur Plio and her family. Years later, a meteor shower destroys the island, and Aladar and his lemur family swim to the mainland, where they join a herd of dinosaurs heading for the Nesting Grounds. The herd's leader, Kron, drives the weak to the back, leaving them to die, while Aladar helps the stragglers, including the old dinosaurs Baylene and Eema. Aladar falls for Kron's sister, Neera. Carnotaurs hunt the herd. When the lake they reach is dry, Aladar finds water and saves them, and Kron becomes jealous. Kron abandons the stragglers to the carnotaurs, and his lieutenant Bruton dies bringing down a cave on one of them. Baylene breaks through a cave wall into the Nesting Grounds, but its main entrance is blocked by a rockslide.

How Dinosaur ends

Aladar leads the herd into the Nesting Grounds after the last carnotaur kills Kron and falls to its death. Kron attacks Aladar for trying to stop the herd climbing the rubble, which hides a sheer drop, and the herd follows Aladar instead. When the carnotaur charges, Aladar has them stand together and it backs off, then mortally wounds Kron, who is alone on the rocks. Aladar drives it to the edge, which collapses under it. Later Aladar and Neera's young hatch, and the lemurs find others of their kind.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

The Emperor's New Groove poster

No. 15 · 2000 · Film

The Emperor's New Groove recap

Kuzco is the young and spoiled emperor of an Inca-like empire. He fires his scheming advisor Yzma and tells the village leader Pacha that he plans to build a summer home, Kuzcotopia, on his village's hilltop. Yzma tries to poison Kuzco with the help of her muscle-bound helper Kronk, but the potion is the wrong one and turns him into a llama. Kronk is told to kill him but cannot go through with it, and Kuzco ends up in Pacha's cart. Pacha offers to help Kuzco get back to the palace if he will spare the village. They travel through jungle, escaping jaguars, and Kuzco slowly learns to be decent, though their trust breaks down once before they make up. Yzma and Kronk chase them, and the race ends back at Yzma's secret lab, reached by a lever-operated rollercoaster.

How The Emperor's New Groove ends

Kuzco becomes human again and builds his summer home on another hill, beside Pacha's family, instead of on the village. They reach Yzma's lab, she is turned into a cat, and Kuzco and Pacha fight her for the antidote; Kuzco becomes human. Yzma ends up working as a girl scout with Kronk. Kuzco visits Pacha's family at a small cabin nearby.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire poster

No. 16 · 2001 · Film

Atlantis: The Lost Empire recap

In 1914, Milo Thatch, a linguist at a museum in Washington, wants to find Atlantis, as his grandfather did, but no one listens to him. The wealthy Preston Whitmore, a friend of his grandfather, hands him the Shepherd's Journal, a guide to the city, and puts him on an expedition led by Commander Rourke. The submarine Ulysses is destroyed by a mechanical Leviathan, and the survivors travel by land. They reach Atlantis, still inhabited, and meet Princess Kida, who asks Milo to help her read the ancient writing her people have forgotten. Milo learns that the city's life force comes from a giant crystal, the Heart of Atlantis. Rourke reveals that he planned all along to steal the crystal and sell it.

How Atlantis: The Lost Empire ends

Milo and the crew save Kida and the crystal; Rourke dies, and the Heart restores Atlantis. The crystal merges with Kida, and Rourke packs her in a crate. Milo leads the Atlanteans and the crew, who turn on Rourke, and Rourke, scratched by a shard of the crystal, turns into crystal and is destroyed. Kida becomes queen, Milo stays, and the others go home with treasure.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

Lilo & Stitch poster

No. 17 · 2002 · Film

Lilo & Stitch recap

On a distant planet, the scientist Jumba is jailed for creating Experiment 626, a destructive creature, which escapes and crash-lands in Hawaii. Lilo, a lonely girl living with her older sister Nani after their parents died, adopts the creature from an animal shelter as her dog and names him Stitch. A social worker, Cobra Bubbles, is checking whether Nani can care for Lilo. Jumba and Pleakley, an Earth expert, are sent to catch Stitch quietly, and Stitch hides behind Lilo. He wrecks Nani's job chances and nearly drowns Lilo while surfing, and Cobra decides to take Lilo away. Stitch learns about "ohana", family, from Lilo, and reads The Ugly Duckling, realising he is lost and wants to belong. Nani loses one job after another, and Jumba's attempts to catch Stitch end up destroying the family's house.

How Lilo & Stitch ends

Stitch is allowed to stay on Earth with Lilo and Nani, who keep custody of Lilo, after he saves Lilo from Captain Gantu. Gantu catches Stitch and Lilo; Stitch escapes and, with Jumba and Pleakley, rescues her. The Grand Councilwoman lets him stay in exile under Lilo's care. Cobra turns out to have once met the Councilwoman. Photos show the new family together.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

Treasure Planet poster

No. 18 · 2002 · Film

Treasure Planet recap

Jim Hawkins is a teenager on the planet Montressor who helps his mother run the Benbow Inn. A dying alien pirate, Billy Bones, gives him a sphere and warns him about "the cyborg". Pirates burn down the inn, and the sphere turns out to be a map to Treasure Planet, where the legendary pirate Captain Flint hid his treasure. Jim and the astronomer Dr. Doppler hire the ship RLS Legacy, commanded by Captain Amelia. Jim works in the galley under the cook John Silver, a cyborg, who becomes a father figure to him. Jim overhears Silver planning a mutiny. The crew rises up, and Jim escapes with the map, Doppler and the wounded Amelia, and lands on Treasure Planet. There they meet B.E.N., a robot left behind by Flint who has lost his memory.

How Treasure Planet ends

Jim saves the crew from the exploding planet, Silver lets him go and escapes with a little treasure, and Jim enters the Interstellar Academy. On the planet, the robot B.E.N. leads them to Flint's treasure, which is a trap, and the planet begins to explode. Silver chooses Jim over the treasure, and Jim steers the ship through a portal. Back home, Jim has a future at the space academy.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

Brother Bear poster

No. 19 · 2003 · Film

Brother Bear recap

In North America at the end of the Ice Age, Kenai is the youngest of three Inuit brothers. He receives his totem, the bear of love, and is unhappy with it. A bear steals fish, Kenai chases it, and his oldest brother Sitka dies saving him. Kenai kills the bear in revenge, and the spirits, led by Sitka, turn him into a bear. His middle brother, Denahi, believing Kenai is dead, hunts the bear that killed him. The shaman Tanana tells Kenai to go to the mountain where the lights touch the earth to find Sitka. He meets Koda, a talkative bear cub separated from his mother, who leads him to the salmon run, along with two Canadian moose, Rutt and Tuke. Kenai learns from Koda's story that the bear he killed was Koda's mother. He confesses, and Koda runs away in grief before forgiving him.

How Brother Bear ends

Kenai chooses to stay a bear so he can raise Koda. On the mountain, Denahi corners Kenai, and Kenai protects Koda from his brother. Sitka's spirit appears and turns Kenai human again, but Kenai sees that Koda needs him and, with Denahi's blessing, asks to be a bear again. Kenai lives among the bears at the salmon run, and his people honour him as a man.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

Home on the Range poster

No. 20 · 2004 · Film

Home on the Range recap

Maggie, a show cow, is sold after the cattle rustler Alameda Slim steals her owner's entire herd. She ends up at the Patch of Heaven, a small dairy farm run by Pearl Gesner, and joins two other cows, the proper Mrs. Calloway and the dreamy Grace. The bank is going to sell the farm unless Pearl pays $750 in three days. The cows hear that the reward on Slim is $750, so they set out to catch him. Slim, riding his bison Junior with his nephews the Willies, steals cattle by yodeling, which hypnotises them; Grace is tone deaf and immune. The cows are chased by Rico, a bounty hunter, and Buck, a sheriff's horse eager to be a hero. With a peg-legged jackrabbit, Lucky Jack, they find Slim's mine hideout and learn his scheme: he ruins ranchers by stealing their herds, then buys their land at auction disguised as Yancy O'Dell.

How Home on the Range ends

The cows capture Alameda Slim, claim the reward and save the farm in time. Rico turns out to be working for Slim, and Buck, disillusioned, turns on him and helps the cows free the stolen cattle. Slim slips away to the auction in his disguise, but the cows and the farm animals expose him, and the sheriff arrests him. Maggie decides to stay, and the animals win prizes at the State Fair.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

Common questions

What is the Disney Animated story so far?

This is a marathon of Disney feature animation from 1989 to 2004, not one continuing story: each film stands alone. It runs from The Little Mermaid, which began the Disney Renaissance, through the musicals of the early 1990s, to the experiments that followed, from computer-animated dinosaurs to science fiction, ending with Home on the Range, the last traditionally animated Disney feature before the studio's switch to computer animation.

Where did Disney Animated leave off?

Home on the Range (2004) is the latest. The cows capture Alameda Slim, claim the reward and save the farm in time. Rico turns out to be working for Slim, and Buck, disillusioned, turns on him and helps the cows free the stolen cattle. Slim slips away to the auction in his disguise, but the cows and the farm animals expose him, and the sheriff arrests him. Maggie decides to stay, and the animals win prizes at the State Fair.

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