Category:Disney's Experimental Era films

Disney's Experimental Era, also known generically as Disney's "Post-Renaissance" Era, refers to the period between 1999 and 2007 when Disney's animated films were losing relevance to the general public. Audiences were getting tired of the studio's animated musicals and were showing more interest in the emergence of computer-animated films, forcing Disney to get more experimental with their storytelling, hence the term "Experimental Era". (Similarities between the name of this era and the "species" and "birth name" of the latter title character of Lilo & Stitch, the era's most prestigious film and the originator of the era's most successful franchise based on a DAC film, is merely coincidental.) The films in this era usually garnered less critical and commercial success than earlier Disney animated films, with some becoming box office bombs. By the late 2010s, however, most of the films have received greater appreciation as Millennials and early Generation Z, who were most likely to have watched these films when they were younger, have grown into adulthood, with most of the less successful films becoming cult classics.

The films of the Experimental Era are in chronological order: Fantasia 2000 (1999), Dinosaur (2000), The Emperor's New Groove (2000), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), Lilo & Stitch (2002), Treasure Planet (2002), Brother Bear (2003), Home on the Range (2004), Chicken Little (2005), and Meet the Robinsons (2007), the last of which is the first animated film made under the "Walt Disney Animation Studios" banner, and the first film made with the supervision of John Lasseter, whose studio Pixar was bought out by Disney by then.

In terms of periods in Walt Disney Animation Studios history, this era follows the Disney Renaissance and is followed by the Disney Revival.