59 John Ratzenberger Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

Fleeing from a brutal imperial attack on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker and his R2-D2 crash-lands on Dagobah, where he trains under Master Yoda. Meanwhile, Han Solo and Princess Leia flee to Bespin, where they are captured by Darth Vader as baits to eventually lure in Luke, whom he plans to seduce to the dark side.

Based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, the movie begins in South Africa when a young Gandhi is thrown out of the train for travelling in the first class compartment despite having tickets for it. He begins a nonviolent protest campaign and later uses it in India’s fight for independence. 

A radical American journalist travels to Russia where he gets involved with the communist revolution in the country. He also meets an activist sharing the same ideology, and gets married to her.

It is based on the events of ‘Operation Market Garden’ of September, 1944. In order to bring a quick end to the WWII, the allied forces decide to drop thousands of paratroopers to secure strategic bridges in Netherlands to obtain access into Germany. The main bridge was the one to Arnhem. But tough German resistance and faulty allied intelligence led to failure.

Jor-EI, a scientist from the doomed Planet Krypton, sends his infant son Kal-EI on a spaceship to Earth. Brought up in Smallville by farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent, he becomes aware of his extraordinary abilities during boyhood. Later, working for Daily Planet as a gentle and polite reporter Clark Kent, he uses his superhuman powers to fight criminal mastermind, Lex Luthor. 

An upper-class family residing in New York finds a baby of African-American origin abandoned in their garden. They soon find out that the police are about to charge the mother with child abandonment and attempted murder. The mother decides to take the child in into their home, although the father is reluctant. However, things get complicated when the child’s father enters the picture.

Three evil conspirators - General Zod, Ursa and Non – are banished from planet Krypton and are imprisoned at Phantom Zone. They are accidentally released after a terrorist attack on earth leads to a hydrogen bomb blast. The trio head towards earth to claim it. Meanwhile Clark Kent and Lois Lane grow closer with Clark deciding to let go his superman powers for the sake of love.

Outland is a science fiction thriller film which tells the story of a federal marshal stationed at a mining colony on a Jupiter moon.  Soon, when he uncovers a huge drug smuggling conspiracy, he is determined to expose it.  However, he is soon targeted by multiple killers.

Kenya McQueen is an accountant whose friends set her up for a blind date. Upon meeting her date, Brian Kelly, a free-spirited landscaper, she decides to back off, due to their racial differences, despite the fact that she finds herself attracted to him.   

Christopher Boyce gets a job at the CIA and he gets to know the less reputable side of the American government while he is going through classified documents. As he grows disappointed, he sells the information to the Russians, in an act of defiance. His drug pusher childhood friend, Daulton Lee, becomes a middleman between Soviets and Boyce. But as a twist of fate, Lee fails to sweep his deeds under the carpet.

Vincent Smith is a farmer and butcher who is also running a motel named ‘Motel Hello’. He sets traps on nearby roads to catch human victims, whom he harvests for their meat in his ‘secret garden’. He is aided by his sister Ida, as they both see the victims as animals.

Vietnam-veteran and former Air Force pilot Major Mitchell Gant is sent on a covert mission to steal the Soviet Union’s newly developed high-tech fighter aircraft, which is undetectable on radar and is controlled by thought-process. Infiltrating the Bilyarsk airbase with inside help from a dissident scientist, he successfully flies away with the aircraft. The Russians immediately pursue with Firefox prototype, ensuing a fierce dogfight. 

Evil sorcerer, Caliph Alquazar, promises his daughter’s hand in marriage to Prince Hasan, if Hasan can bring him the magical Rose of Elil. Prince Hasan embarks on a magical adventure, overcoming obstacles, genies and battling monsters to reach the rose and claim the hand of the Princess Zuleira. 

Sunny Ann Davis is a young woman working as a cocktail waitress who lives a lousy life in Washington. Her life takes a turn when due to a series of comic misadventures, she becomes famous overnight, which leads her to becoming a protocol official for the State Department.

She’s Having a Baby is a romantic comedy drama film which tells the story of Jake and Kristy Briggs, who are newly married, and are living a happy life with each other. However, when they try to have a baby, they face a number of challenges and learn how unprepared they are, for what lies ahead.

One Night Stand is a romantic drama film which tells the story of a commercial director in Los-Angeles, who finds himself attracted to a married woman named Karen. After spending a night together with her, he eventually returns to his wife and his children, but their paths cross again after one year, when Max returns to New York to visit his dying friend Charlie.

Jesse moves to a house belonging to his parents along with his girlfriend Kate. After reading some old documents, he makes up his mind to go to the local cemetery along with his friend Charlie to unbury his great great grandfather.

Following the events of The Stud, Fontaine Khaled is now a divorcee, and her extravagant lifestyle is suffering as she is running out of money and her nightclub, Hobo, is failing. When Fontaine teams up with conman Nico to win a horse race that will end all her woes, the mafia gets involved. 

Ten year old Chihiro and her parents find themselves in a deserted amusement park. Overruling their daughter’s objections, her parents eat at an empty restaurant and turn into pigs. Chihiro, with the help of Haku, realises that she has entered a world inhabited by demons, spirits and evil gods. She must now figure out a way to rescue her parents and return to human world.

Young Miguel just loves music and wants to be as famous and loved like his idol Ernesto de la Cruz. However, a hatred for music runs in his family, since generations. Despite protests from his family, Miguel enters a Day of the Dead talent show and soon finds himself in the Land of Dead. Along with Hector, he explores the colourful land and discovers his real family history.

This Golden Globe & Academy Award winning sci-fi adventure animation film follows the life of the sole trash compactor robot, WALL-E,  on an abandoned garbage strewn earth. When he falls for EVE, a search robot sent by humans to find plant life on earth, he follows her across the galaxy in a journey that has its effect on the future of humanity.

Aspiring explorers Carl and Ellie Fredricksen dreamed of travelling to and living in Paradise Falls, South America, but after marriage they got busy with life until they grew old. Now, with Ellie dead, retired balloon salesman Carl transforms his house into a makeshift airship and flies towards new adventures, only to find a young stowaway scout onboard.

Woody, a pull-string cowboy doll, is the favourite of his owner Andy till the arrival of spaceman figure Buzz Lightyear. Desperate to reclaim his position, he plans to do away with Buzz Lightyear. However, things take a turn when they get lost and have to join hands to escape the cruel toy killer –Sid–and return home to their owner.

This Pixar Animation’s computer-animated comedy film is third in the Toy Story series. As Andy, prepares to leave for college, Woody, Buzz Lightyear and other toys – some new – find themselves in a day-care centre instead of the attic. They now have to devise a plan to return home before Andy leaves.

11-year-old Riley had a happy life led by her basic emotion of Joy, but Sadness takes over after her family moves to a new city. Following a power struggle between the two emotions, both get sucked out of the headquarters along with her core memories. With Anger, Fear, and Disgust in control, Riley's life turns into a nightmare.

Marlin, a clown fish, is horrified after his son, Nemo, who has a lame right fin, is captured by underwater sea divers. He sets out on a perilous journey to rescue Nemo, accompanied by Dory, a blue tang suffering from short-term memory loss. Meanwhile, Nemo hatches an escape plan with the other fishes in a dentist's aquarium.

Sulley and Mike are among the top scarers working at Monsters, Inc., a factory that harvests the screams of 'toxic' human children to power Monstropolis. Their lives are jeopardized after Sulley accidentally lets a child, Boo, into the monster world. The ensuing chaos turns Monstropolis upside down and changes forever the way monsters perceive human children.

A family of superheroes lives a simple life in the suburbs of Metroville. The head of the family Bob Parr, formerly Mr. Incredible, desires to return to his adventurous life as a superhero; however government ban prevents him from doing so. He gets his opportunity, though, when he is called upon to deal with a secret assignment. Soon his whole family gets involved.

Remy, a provincial rat with extraordinary senses of taste and smell, wants to become a great chef in Paris. Separated from his family, he ends up in his idol chef Gusteau's restaurant and helps newly appointed garbage-boy in fixing a soup. Now he must impress renowned food critic Anton Ego with his culinary skills, while remaining hidden.

As superheroes continue to live in hiding despite their recent heroism, wealthy Deavor siblings of Devtech propose a plan to send Elastigirl on secret missions aimed at gaining public trust. This leaves Mr. Incredible struggling with domestic chores and parenting their three superkids, while a new supervillain, the Screenslaver, plans to hypnotize the entire population through television screens.

When greedy toy collector Al McWhiggin steals Woody to send him to a Japanese museum, Buzz Lightyear leads the rest of Andy's toys on a brave rescue mission. Woody, however, learns that he is a rare collectible from a popular television show and is introduced to other members of his team, who convince him to stay.

Onward is an animated fantasy adventure comedy film  which tells the story of Ian and Barley, two elf brothers, who set out on an epic journey to resurrect their late father for a day.  

Barbie Doll and her boyfriend Ken are disappointed upon learning that Bonnie is going to Hawaii with her family, without them. Therefore they decide to stow away in her backpack. Things don’t go as expected, as Bonnie leaves them in her room.

This prequel to Monsters, Inc. looks back at a time when legendary scarers Mike and Sully were learning scare tactics at Monsters University as students. A bitter rivalry starts between the two when Sully, an overconfident natural-born scarer, tells the rather cute-looking one-eyed monster Mike that he cannot be a scarer no matter how hard he studies.

Dory, a regal blue tang suffering from short-term memory loss, regains some memory of her parents during a field trip and embarks on a journey to reach Jewel of Morro Bay, California, across the ocean. She is accompanied by her new family, clownfish Marlin and his son Nemo, and makes more friends along the way.

Flik, a resourceful wannabe inventor ant, accidentally destroys the pile of food his colony amassed as annual payment for marauding grasshoppers led by Hopper, who demands double compensation for the mishap. With the entire colony threatened, he sets out to recruit warrior bugs to fight with the grasshoppers, but only finds a group of inept Circus Bugs.

Courageous but impulsive, Princess Merida of Scotland defies an age-old tradition and, with the help of an eccentric witch, attempts to change her controlling mother. However, the plan goes terribly wrong, endangering her mother's life and leaving the kingdom in chaos. Now, the brave princess, equipped with excellent archery skills, must lift the curse before it is too late.

Two brothers Remy and Emile speak out for oppressed rats all over the world. They explain that although rats see themselves on par with humans, humans instead have been waging war on rats. They continue to explain about historical as well as scientific facts about the species, and their relationship with human beings.

The 3D computer-animated film follows legendary Lightning McQueen who feels he is being pushed out of the racing by new generation of high-tech fast racers. Now, to regain his place as champion, McQueen needs help from young racing trainer Cruz Ramirez and Fabulous Hudson Hornet’s former-engineer Smokey. Equipped with modern tricks, McQueen is set to take on Storm at the Florida 500.

A gentle young Apatosaurus, Arlo, finds himself far away from his home and family after he accidentally falls into a fast moving river. The way back to his home is not a simple one and as he journeys, he learns to conquer his fear and recognise his own capabilities. Helping him is his new friend – a wild human child named Spot.

In a sequel to Cars, Cars 2 is an animated-comedy that sees famous race car, Lightning McQueen, and his buddy, Mater, travel abroad for the very first World Grand Prix. But when Mater gets involved in espionage with a British spy, adventure and drama ensues. Featuring the voices of Owen Wilson and Larry the Cable Guy, this is a fun family film.

Dusty Crophopper is a celebrity racer who is doing great in his career. When he comes to know that due to his damaged engine, he might never be able to race again, he soon starts training to be a firefighter.

Planes is a sports comedy film, which tells the story of Dusty, a crop duster plane, who dreams of becoming a great air racer. Along with his friend, Chug, a fuel truck, Dusty practices flying maneuvers, in order to qualify for the Wings Across the Globe race. 

Cars, the animated Pixar classic, tells the story of anthropomorphic talking cars. Racing rookie Lightning McQueen finds himself trapped in Radiator Springs after falling off his truck. As McQueen starts doing community service for damaging roads, he makes friends, falls in love, and ends up being trained by racing legend Hudson Hornet to discover who he truly is inside.