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The Best Comedy Movies on Disney+ Right Now (October 2026)

By Matt Oakes · October 25, 2026

Comedy is the genre streaming algorithms do the worst job with: they surface whatever is newest or loudest, and the genuinely funny stuff gets buried. These are the best comedies on Disney+ that I’ve reviewed and still stand behind, led by Toy Story 5, Encanto, and Toy Story 4.

Every pick links to my full review, and the list gets refreshed as titles come and go.

Critics and Audience scores from Rotten Tomatoes; ratings from IMDb. Scores as of October 2026.

TOY STORY 5 (2026)

92%Critics 94%Audience 7.3IMDb

Toy Story 5 is a funny, heartbreaking, and insightful meditation on childhood in the digital age, asking what gets lost when screens begin replacing imagination. The gang is all here but it’s newly-minted Sheriff Jessie, in her journey to help her kid Bonnie make a real friend, that this story belongs to.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

ENCANTO (2021)

92%Critics 93%Audience 7.2IMDb

Vibrant Afro-Latinx culture, eye-popping visuals, and toe-tapping songs from Lin Manuel-Miranda intersect with one of the House of Mouse’s most original and meaningful stories with Encanto, a dazzling showstopper that proves that Disney is still capable of magic.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

TOY STORY 4 (2019)

96%Critics 94%Audience 7.7IMDb

Toy Story 4 succeeds as a fleet-footed and charming animated spectacle but its underlying deconstruction (and denouncement) of the moral imperatives of blind love and loyalty that have always driven the franchise make it worth dwelling upon long after closing time. Another deep endeavor from Pixar.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (2014)

91%Critics 92%Audience 8.0IMDb

A ragtag crew of space misfits, including a talking raccoon and a tree, team up to save the galaxy and steal a few scenes along the way. James Gunn’s irreverent space opera is pure fun, powered by Chris Pratt’s charm and a killer mixtape.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

HOPPERS (2026)

94%Critics 93%Audience 7.2IMDb

Hoppers is a delightful return to form for Pixar. This story of animals and humans coming together for the common good delivers laughs, awe, and genuine thematic heft, making it one of the studio’s finer entries of the 2020s.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

ZOOTOPIA 2 (2025)

92%Critics 95%Audience 7.3IMDb

Funny, heartwarming, and thematically potent, Zootopia 2 is one of the better animated movies of the 2020s, but more importantly, it marked a pivotal moviegoing experience for this critic: my daughter’s first time at the altar of the cinema.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

INCREDIBLES 2 (2018)

93%Critics 84%Audience 7.5IMDb

Incredibles 2 offers so much to love, a charming voice cast, dazzling and inventive set pieces, a keen sense of wit, and charitable cultural commentary, that it’s relative familiarity is essentially a non-issue. After a long stay on the sidelines, Pixar has returned to form.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 (2017)

85%Critics 87%Audience 7.6IMDb

As watchable as a Baby Groot dancing GIF, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 merrily continues the saga of its lovable band of space rascals. Upping the emotional ante and providing truly stunning intergalactic set pieces while leaning heavily on a pitch perfect playlist, James Gunn creates a sequel that, while very much in the same vein of its forebearer, is an effortlessly enjoyable summer blockbuster sure to please most inhabitants in this galaxy.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

ANT-MAN (2015)

83%Critics 85%Audience 7.2IMDb

Paul Rudd’s ex-con shrinks down to insect size for a heist, and Marvel goes small in the best way. It’s a breezy, funny caper with some of the most inventive action in the early MCU, including a climactic brawl on a toy train set.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

FROZEN (2013)

89%Critics 85%Audience 7.4IMDb

Two royal sisters, one with icy powers she can’t control, and a kingdom stuck in eternal winter. Disney’s smash hit earns its reputation with a smart twist on the true-love formula and songs that will be stuck in your head forever.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

CRUELLA (2021)

75%Critics 97%Audience 7.3IMDb

Emma Stone is simply incandescent in this Cruella De Vil origin story that exceeds the reach of its potentially lame premise. With a pair of head-turning performances from Stone and Emma Thompson, a script that’s as freewheeling and fun as it is invested in character, stunning costume design, and an exhilarating soundtrack of classic hits to back it all up, Cruella represents the best that Disney live action movies have to offer, particularly because it actually feels new.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

ONWARD (2020)

88%Critics 95%Audience 7.3IMDb

All in all, Onward casts a spell but it’s a relatively mild one, one that’s mainly aimed at the viewer’s emotional side and can only take partial advantage of its magical setting. Tom Holland and Chris Pratt voice elf brothers on a quest to spend one more day with their late father, and the ending is a genuine tearjerker.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

DEADPOOL 2 (2018)

83%Critics 85%Audience 7.6IMDb

This juvenile, scatalogical, and hopelessly violent celebration of cinematic immaturity is nonetheless irresistibly entertaining. Aided by some stellar new cast additions, Deadpool 2 is super-smart-ass ruckus perfected; an all-around improvement on its predecessor.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

ANT-MAN AND THE WASP (2018)

87%Critics 78%Audience 7.0IMDb

Ant-Man and the Wasp is the closest Marvel has ever gotten to cute and cuddly, delivering a family movie filled with warmth and hope, and some nifty little uses of size, a needed small-scale anecdote from Marvel’s knack for everything yuge.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET (2018)

88%Critics 64%Audience 7.0IMDb

Disney’s Ralph Breaks the Internet is the cinematic equivalent of clickbait, you just can’t help yourself but follow it down the rabbit hole. Its easy nostalgia-fueled laughs, clever world-building, and delightful characters make for a breezy distraction, but not one of Disney Animation’s bests.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

THOR: RAGNAROK (2017)

93%Critics 87%Audience 7.9IMDb

Pulsing with side-splitting energy, Thor: Ragnarok thrives working outside the boundaries of the tightly wound, hawkishly overlorded Marvel Cinematic Universe. A neon-plated smear of laughs bursting with colorful characters and jaw-dangling FX work, ’ Ragnarok’ really is something to marvel at when viewed as a comedy even if it’s limited by the usual cinematic universe constraints.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

MOANA (2016)

96%Critics 89%Audience 7.6IMDb

Moana doesn’t really break new narrative ground for Disney, though the lack of a romantic angle is refreshing, but its hypnotic visuals, winning voice cast and catchy tunes make it a splashy family-friendly delight from start to finish.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE (2024)

77%Critics 94%Audience 7.5IMDb

Deadpool & Wolverine is a chaotic venture into the margins of the multiverse that delves into the entire spectrum of superhero history while unapologetically embracing its signature irreverent humor and over-the-top violence. Viewers’ mileage will depend entirely on how they have previously received what Deadpool is dishing up, though the unruly, rebellious, and explicit nature has been faithfully maintained in the transition to the Disney-run MCU.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON (2021)

93%Critics 97%Audience 7.3IMDb

Disney Animation Studios one-ups their craftsmanship in the Asian-set adventure Raya and the Last Dragon, a beautiful-to-look-at effort that feels decidedly borrowed from establishment narratives. The jokey aspect works less than it usually does, and the musical sing-a-longs are sorely missed, but the voice cast is second to none.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

FROZEN II (2019)

77%Critics 92%Audience 6.8IMDb

The sure-to-be-popular Disney sequel checks pretty much all the boxes a good sequel should, going in a darker (though still highly risk-averse) direction in a follow-up that cannot really live up to its predecessor. The animation of the enchanted forest and the dark sea is stunning, and “Into the Unknown” is a worthy successor to “Let It Go.”▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

COCO (2017)

97%Critics 94%Audience 8.4IMDb

Coco by most accounts is a well-made film; the animation is wowing, the songs are full of life and love and it tells a heart-warming story, but it also feels like Pixar finally acknowledging that they’ve run out of steam. The there-and-back-again story is familiar and kind of dull, the characters fail to make much of an impression and it misses out on the high marks for overwhelming emotion and disarming comedy that Pixar was once known for. All in all, a lower wrung Pixar entry story-wise aided by excellent animation and memorable music.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

DEADPOOL (2016)

85%Critics 90%Audience 8.0IMDb

Deadpool is the superhero equivalent of Ace Ventura; a sub-social mold of swirly-giving irreverence; a modern day homo erectus arched over and talking out his butt. The shamelessly crass character proves (surprisingly) more fetching than felching, though an unmistakable stench of formula pervades the narrative integrity of his superhero antics.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review

FINDING DORY (2016)

94%Critics 84%Audience 7.2IMDb

A Neptunian pathos piece showcasing masterfully slick animation and plenty of good humor, Finding Dory still can’t escape the grasp of ancillary, auxiliary storytelling. And for all its trying, it cannot summon that signature Pixar tear.▶ Streaming on Disney+ · Read the full review