Descendants Movie Reviews 🐉
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
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Starring the next generation of Disney characters, this Disney Channel film series is all about forcing princes to fall in love with you, pirates, almost betraying your homeland, and ultimately being bad-guys-gone-good, even if you're still "rotten to the core."
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Will never forgive this franchise for killing Ever After High.
Lmao descendants didn’t ‘kill ever after high” that show just died on its own I never really found it interesting and neither did my younger cousins did every time I played it for them on tv they would simply ignore it and they never do that when I put on the tv for them
@@honeyheartcrushhh6102 actually it would still be on had it not been for Disney making descendants. EAH would have gotten into copyright issues blah blah blah. Leave your personal hatred for it alone and just accept the facts please. Whether you like descendants or EAH more, it’s still Disney’s fault.
same here, I miss EAH very much
Me neither. I say we start a revolution.
I agree. Ever after high managed to be good (for a kids show) i think it had a good storyline, characters that managed to have meaning, amazing designs, animation that had effort put into it, and it was entirely an ad for dolls.
Having Descendants being more known and beloved than Ever After High is my villain origin story
Same
As it should be.
I can relate
So true
Completely and utterly agree
My biggest beef with these movies is in the armour dance scene where they sing the line "they got us outnumbered one to fifty!". No. No they do not. There are 15 of them. We can count. They hardly outnumber you one to two.
on one level i agree but the other level is a dumb songwriter that really likes it
@@bluejay316 Songs still a banger for sure ^_^
They barely outnumber us two to one has the same rhythm to it
Descendants is a decent franchise and despite the fact that the movies could have been better, we must admit that the 3 are not bad and are entertaining to watch
@@mariocastillo2461 Yeah, I think they are super entertaining :)
Are we just gonna ignore the fact that Mal literally drugged Ben? Ik he was already freed of the spell but it really irks me that no repercussions were made against Mal, like she literally did a crime. I wish Ben had a milligram of backbone in his body and actually felt like, idk, uncomfortable??
it was weird...
I know! God, it was so disturbing and he was completely okay with being drugged because he thought she liked him? Like, if he knew, after they went on a date, would he, y'know be suspicious of it? And wasn't he already dating Audrey? Like, their relationship was so toxic though.
@@ophilliosa3448 THIS. i physically recoil every time there's a "magic potion" plot in a romance movie. the connection to date rape drugs is so easy to make that im baffled it's a trope that's still around.
@Jóie Joestar There's this descendants wattpad fanfic I read before called "Were you expecting flowers?" and its honestly way better than the descendants movie in terms of writing. Mal doesn't drug Ben, instead, they actually fall in love naturally, and they don't completely villainise Audrey. It does however focus on heavier themes like child abuse, mental abuse etc. But it's realllllly good.
@@ophilliosa3448 Fanfiction writers are amazing tbh
The real villain of Descendants 3 was Doug's ponytail
And Audrey's grandmother lol
It made him look like a lonely 30 year old. Whyyyy
He looks exactly like my ex, it’s not even funny 💀
Ever since the first movie came out, I always wondered: So the good guys sent the villains to the Isle of the lost, right? Did they also just decide to send any other human being that isn't royalty as well? Like there are just random innocent people and children stuck on that island- why?
The henchmen I think. The henchmen and their kids and such are probably the random people?? Idk honestly someone could have been brainwashed and committed it all unwillingly and still be bottled to the Isle and I wouldn't be surprised, the system sucks
I am 98% certain that half of then are henchmen and their descendants and the other half are just poor people they didn't want to look at
@@Andreeavirginia1 Yeah probably
Maybe it’s also a penal colony, similar to Australia. All those random background extras are minor criminals that were never elevated to the rank of “villain”
dont let those cute little children fool you. their sins are immeasurable.
If the outfits had like, a better look or just better quality I would wear them, I kinda like them👁👄👁
All the jackets are amazing, the outfits underneath are terrible. The pants take it too far
@@winterthewisp1001 agreed, something more simple would be way better
I really like Evie's jewelry and gloves too
honestly its kinda camp. i cant hate it, they tried
*edit : it was like 2014 so really it couldve been so much worse. also uma and harry carried the wardrobe*
i find it ironic that Evie was literally a fashion designer in the movies
My issues w/ descendants
- constantly villianized uma even though a lot of her points made sense and she actually cared about the isle kids
-evie’s entire character arc subverted by “one kiss” where instead of finding value in who she is she is hinging her worth on validation based on a kiss
- After Cam’s death, saying they’d honor him while proceeding to *continually* capitalize off of Descendants through the royal wedding shorts and animated shorts
:/ if anyone has any more feel free to add
Mal literally drugging Ben in the first movie and then having a 'romantic relationship' with him. Totally normal and okay. Especially in a kid's movie.
I watched all three of the movies with my sister, and anytime they would show Mal and Ben together a part of me would just die inside. It never felt genuine, nor did it feel passionate. Them dating just felt...bizarre. Bizarre and very, very odd. At the end of the third movie where Ben proposes to Mal almost made me scream out loud, like, "NO, THIS IS NOT A GOOD PERSON TO MARRY!" Uma never really liked Ben and manipulated him *using magic* to tease Mal at the cruise party (It's been awhile since I've watched the movies, but I remember most of their plots because of how bad it was), yet Uma was called out for such behavior. Why, why wasn't Mal? Seriously?!?! (Glad Uma was caught, but why not Mal, too?)
Also, you're 100% correct, I never liked how Uma's main motive was villainized when she was concerned about the other Isle kids' educations and qualities of life. It felt like a slap in the face when Mal basically said, "You know, I'll let other kids attend the school, *BUT* only after the fact it was brought up by the antagonist of the movie, to make me look good in front of everybody." But then she only let a select amount of kids do so. If Mal opened up her policy to the other children in the Isle, it would've made me respect her a lot better in the second movie because it would've seemed like she realized her mistakes and the fact that she was wrong, and that additionally, she really did care about her people, remembering where she came from and how hard life was.
Yeah, I don't agree with how Uma acted to achieve her goals but trying to steal the wand and tying up Ben, but she was right. Like Syndrome in 'Incredibles'. He acted terribly to prove his point (trying to exterminate all superheroes), but he was ultimately right. You don't need superpowers to be a superhero.
On another note regarding Mal's arc in the second movie, wasn't the whole point of her character arc in 'Descendant's 2' is that she didn't really care about what people thought about her, hence why she ran away from her kingdom in the first place? Not gonna lie, that does not sound like a good ruler/advisor/user of Ben to make political decisions. And didn't think about the fact that being with Ben, a royal family member, would traditionally expect her to act the same way as the royal family if she was considered to be a part of it? There's a lot of stress involved with royal and political offices, even if you're only a partner or relative of a politician or royal.
Basically, Mal's character herself. Not the actress; I'm not the idiot who hates the actor/actress for playing a terrible character I don't like. But Mal is a horrendous protagonist and role model for young children, anybody really. Ironically, however, she's the most advertised character besides Evie in merchandise.
P.S. I, too, despise Disney for Cameron Boyce's death and how they just continue to monetize off him and his work. They should just leave the series in peace to respect the actor, especially since he played one of the main characters, Carlos. And I loathe how Audrey's character was handled, but I believe that is a comment for another time.
Thank you for coming to my TedTalk, and I apologize for the rant.
@@annieleonhart365 Beautiful, Absolutely Beautiful. And if you don’t mind i would love to hear your thoughts on Audrey because i believe what disney did to her was absolutely not fair at all
Disney didn’t make descendants the royal wedding and it’s quite obvious
I agree with the Uma thing. She did the same exact thing Mal did in the first movie and Uma actually had a good reason, which was to free the kids of the Isle. And I was annoyed when Mal said she "had" to be queen of Auradon and The Isle, like being the queen of Auradon isn't enough. Uma should've been the queen of the Isle.
And I feel like the movies center too much around Mal. It's called Descendants so Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay should have an equal role. It might as well be called The Mal Movie ft. Evie and a little bit of Carlos
My sister mentioned this to me when we talked about the movie
"Why wasn't snow white queen she was the first Disney princess"
Which, tbh makes sense 😭
Bro, did we even see snow whites kid or am I forgetting things? Like, we saw Doug and Evie but not Snow’s kid? And yeah, who decided Belle and Beast were the rulers? It stinks of bad writing.
seriously, four movies and an animated short, and we get the children of the DWARVES but not the princess???
Cause she dead
Plot hole filled
@@coyotix I was a bit confused about that about the whole dwarves thing
Ever After High ran and dramatically jumped off a cliff so that Descendants can trip and punch itself in the face
I like the songs, but the plot is just a giant mess 💀 EAH isn't perfect but it has so much more merit and you can't deny that
Ikr I loved ever after high
@@musikyleproductions2488 exactly, EAH has some major plot hole (especially in the animated version) but wow compare to Descendent it looks like perfection
Pretty much
I miss EAH :'(
In the second one it feels like they’re wearing sports clothes, for a dystopian future that forces children to fight for the world’s amusement
Thats.... oddly specific
@@Carcino.Geneticist am I wrong tho?
the hunger games
rotten to the core eH?
Wow, Descendance is actually the Hunger Games?
Damn it, now you’ve made me think of a Hunger Games musical...
It’s cursed
It literally hurts that something like this helped in the dwindling of Ever After High.
Descendants is a decent franchise and despite the fact that the movies could have been better, we must admit that the 3 are not bad and are entertaining to watch
@@mariocastillo2461 yes, 3 movies isn’t bad, but people have different tastes, and I really didn’t enjoy descendants
Cold, hard reality
Same oml
as it should
And are we gonna gloss over the fact that Mal is a Demigod
yes because they made hades a conceded pretentious asshole whose power comes from a rock when he is one of the most powerful gods
Honestly, I couldn’t focus the rest of the movie after hades name drop as mal’s dad. Like, was this before or after persefone.
@@zoainaiip fr it ruined my favorite mythology couple for a couple of hours
Would that make her Nico's sister?
@@kittycheshire5099 does that also mean that there can canonly be a Descendants and PJO crossover?
To me it was always Ever After High but worse, but that’s totally because I had a massive crush on Raven Queen in Ever After. Okay, but maybe I still do.
Oh the ever after characters are hot as shit
@@quaelgeist3337 HAHAHAHAHA (I felt the need to put that just because both of these comments are hilarious)
Descendants is a decent franchise and despite the fact that the movies could have been better, we must admit that the 3 are not bad and are entertaining to watch
Postscript: I've seen EAH and if it's better than Disney's Descendants but it doesn't make the franchise bad I think the reason one was famous and the other not so much is because one is an animated series and the other is a franchise of live action movies, and you don't have to be smart to know that a movie franchise with real actors is going to make more known than an animated series don't be stupid for god's sake
@@mariocastillo2461 why are you commenting on everyone who mentions how descendants killed eah 💀💀💀
Out of jokes. It's really sad that Carlos' actor (Cameron Boyce) have died at a young age (20 years old).
He shall Rest In Peace
Rip
I know. Epilepsy is no joke, I pray for anyone who has been diagnosed with this horrible disease
Fun fact: There was this 90s alt rock hit, "Bitch" by Meredith Brooks, and that was written by the same lady who wrote "Rotten To The Core" (among some other songs for people like Brandy and Christina Aguilera).
I'M A BITCH I'M A LOVER I'M A CHILD I'M A MOTHER
It's a The Joker ripoff LMAOO (yeah idk if it came out after u can fight me)
I've been searching for that song for over a decade. Thank you!!!!!! Bitch by Meridith Brooks, got it.
Was she the singer who got really mad at Hillary Clinton for being 'mean' to Trump or am I confusing her with someone else?
Let's be honest, Ume stole the show in Descendant 2. She looks amazing
Totally!!!
She did,that absolute queen ✨
Uma carried descendant 2 and 3, change my mind
@@ruedadesalami8317 she did tho,whats my name is a BANGER (for a kids movie) and she’s just so full of ✨personality✨
I didn't realize until now that Uma pulled the same crap as Mal did to Ben in Descendants 1...and we're supposed to feel sorry for Mal??? When we weren't supposed too for Audrey? Like Mal really snatched her life plan away and everyone glanced away because she's the main character and "learned her lesson." I'm still mad about the Audrey thing, nevermind them stealing away Ever After High's hype
EXACTLY
Mal only did it for her mom's approval, Uma did it because she felt like it
I was at a sleep over/birthday party one year and her mom put on some movies for us. The movies were Descendants 2 and the Strawberry Shortcake Movie, on loop. Not many people can say they watched Descendants 2 four times in a row, and I’m glad about that.
That looks like a perfect way to drive one crazy.
Ok but which Strawberry Shortcake movie there is several
@@cyansky8178 man idk
You probably don't want to hear about my Descendants watching habits huh.
WAIT, ROSITA FRESITA'S NAME IN ENGLISH IS STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE?!
This was based off a book series. A book series. A BOOK SERIES. A book series that is very blatant about "forgive your abusive af parent, they're your biological parent oh and piss on those horrible people who left those parents they're ungrateful princesses who fled their abuse" and it makes me want to die inside. It's written like the most edgy of fanfictions and the movie series is even worse.
We did not survive abuse for this schlock to be fed to the next generation. It's beyond trash.
I have so many questions and none of them should be answered.
off-topic but i love your pfp
The movie didn't do that tho
And what do you mean "we"?
I thought that the books were based on the first movie and then the sequels were just made with a lot of not books canon plots and characters...
I remember being OBSESSED with this when I was 7
The memories are flooding back
Stop making me feel old
@@organizer.spaztasticc3541 sorry lol 😂
YEAH SAME LMAO
I didn't even know it existed
Wait was it that old ???
>Seems really contrived that all the fairytale villains had kids the same age who then hung out together in the same school
Then again,
-Several of the heads of state of major European powers in WWI (e.g. Germany, UK, Russia) were *cousins* because they were all related through Queen Victoria
-Before they rose to power, Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, and Trotsky apparently were all regulars at the same cafe
With this cursed information, all I can imagine is someone writing a coffee shop au featuring a bunch of dictators and that's awful
@@someoneiguess560 why put that idea into people's heads 😭
@@LivVirtual I couldn't be alone with this cursed thought, so you have to suffer with me.
The idea has been planted
@@someoneiguess560 i like this idea, someone should write it, i'll read
If only... this franchise was good. Like, a Disney Animated Canon next gen fic? Why not?
But then they had to DCOM it and literally none of the decisions they made made sense. Everyone has a child, except for 70% of the Disney Princesses. It's modern day to be more ReLaTaBle to the Disney Channel audience. Cruella de Vil and Doctor Facilier, two characters living in the 1920's, are SOMEHOW in the same timeline as any of the fairy tale characters.
Also, I just learned that Mal's last name is "Bertha". At least it's not "Efficient", because the series is already enough of an Ever After High rip-off as it is.
yeah, i feel like the descendants franchise COULDVE been good but they just decided not to.
but i would like another one so jay&gil and evie&mal can be together officially.
@@queenelizabethii4397 I'm sorry.. what? Jay and Gil, and Mal and Evie were never going to be together. Do you understand the concept of *friends?*
her middle name is bertha but honestly the books slapped
@@dr.temperancebrennan im supposed to believe what i saw was HETEROSEXUAL? ESCPECIALLY mal and evie? delusional
@@dr.temperancebrennan league of legends players really can't comprehend not being heterosexual
I remember hearing about Mal & Ben getting married & thinking “What the hell, aren’t they kids?!?”
EXACTLY YOU GET IT
I think because they graduated high school they were about 18, so they legally were adults. They graduated before Descendants 3, it was mentioned in the 4th Descendants novel by Melissa de La Cruz
Just remember Ever After High was canceled for this to exist
Excuse me wha-
Postscript: I've seen EAH and if it's better than Disney's Descendants but it doesn't make the franchise bad I think the reason one was famous and the other not so much is because one is an animated series and the other is a franchise of live action movies, and you don't have to be smart to know that a movie franchise with real actors is going to make more known than an animated series don't be stupid for god's sake
@@mariocastillo2461 how many times have u copy pasted this, man? Also, no the reason why descendants was pushed over eah wasnt bc it was live action vs animated, but because it was disney corporate vs....well, any company versus disney would absolutely lose that battle. don't be stupid for god's sake
I'll vomit. I hate these movies seriously THEY ARE UNSUFFERABLEEE
@@harayaalirak4040 they have a point eah is trash
I miss ever after high but literally nothing will ever come close to Chillin' Like a Villain and I stand by this
Factual agreements
ate
Fr
im really happy to see the comments about ever after high here, I like descendants too but eah has a special place in my heart, also it had a much better plot and amazing character designs
I wish mattel would bring back eah like monster high but I know it wont happen
Postscript: I've seen EAH and if it's better than Disney's Descendants but it doesn't make the franchise bad I think the reason one was famous and the other not so much is because one is an animated series and the other is a franchise of live action movies, and you don't have to be smart to know that a movie franchise with real actors is going to make more known than an animated series don't be stupid for god's sake
Although, at this point, I'm more worried that if they do bring EAH back, they'd deviate completely from the EAH we know now and completely butcher it.
@@neruneru9713 Honestly, same. I certainly hope that they will bring it back and do it well, but the magic may have already faded, you know?
The sad truth
Same
Descendants, in my humble opinion was a 'pretty okay' movie, like the 'I'll watch it if I don't have anything better to do' Type of movie. The story telling wasn't that great but the songs were good (some of wich I liked more than the others) but my biggest problem is how they handled the characters themselves and pretty much failed at doing it.
Like for example, the auradon kids. You would think, for Disney's most iconic characters (Though most of them weren't original characters per say) woman that were supposed to teach children how to show compassion, hard work and being kind to others, would raise spoiled, egotistical, and kind of the total opposite of their parents?
Like Chad charming, the supposed son of cinderella and Prince charming, hard working, kind, and humble. Chad is absolutely nothing like them. Or y'know, like Lonnie, she was fine, but I find it odd that she wanted to be 'cool' like mal and evie when her mother quite literally saved China, and worked her ass of to become a badass warrior woman. Like why would you feel the need to be cool when you have a badass mother and father who were heroes that served for their country? You're already badass dammit.
And how they villainised Audrey, like, she was completely in the right to feel upset about mal and ben, while yes, she was spoiled, but atleast y'know she didn't drug Ben. Like **cough** mal **cough** like seriously, I know we're supposed to root for her, but it was so disturbing watching mal drug Ben, Ben being completely okay with it for some reason (wich is absolutely toxic) and for some reason, they still get to together in the end? I know there were moments were Ben looked at mal alot, but it's just... He was already dating Audrey? I mean, I dont need to tell you crushing on another girl while you're dating someone who's you're GIRLFRIEND is wrong. Like everything about their relationship is wrong, and THIS is the couple we're supposed to root for? Evie and Doug would've been better, or like, uma and Harry.
And also uma, like, why did they have to do her dirty? I remember the whole point Ben wanted the vk's to come to auradon was because he wanted to give the vk's a chance to have a normal life, and I know the 2nd movie addressed this too, and Ben feel bad, but why hasn't mal? She's been on the Isle, she KNOWS what happens there, there are kids who just want to be able to live a normal life too, like Mr. Smee's kids, or drizella's kid or any other younger kid in the isle and yet she's never bothered to help them until the 3RD MOVIE. And remember that uma was the one who told Ben that there are kids in the Isle that need help too, and she actually CARES. Unlike mal, who I repeat "I haven't given you a thought since I left" has she never thought of the other kids that were suffering?
I mean I know she never wanted the royal life but there people who DO. And again, it was never addressed until like, the third movie, were she did that whole ass musical number while her friends were turned to stone, and she had the nerve with calling herself the 'Queen of the Isle' like?? No? You shouldn't be, if anything uma should be the Queen. Like there aren't enough words to explain how problematic this movie was.
Thanks for listening to my rant, if you read all of this until the end you get a cookie 🍪 and don't worry, it doesn't have a love potion it in, unlike, y'know.
I appreciate your hard work in typing this, thanks for the cookie
@Kimiko the Rando You're welcome.
This comment is honestly better and more thoughtful than any of the Descendants movies, although I realize that isn't saying much.
Descendants is a decent franchise and despite the fact that the movies could have been better, we must admit that the 3 are not bad and are entertaining to watch
Honestly yeah, Uma really cared about the other kids, and bonus: she was really fucking pretty
"the real villain is whoever approved Mal's hair"
THANK YOUUUUUUUU
my cousin forced me to watch the 3rd descsendants movie and i vividly remember wanting to cry at one point, idk why
How old were you?
don't worry I cried during the steven universe movie for some reason
Please do the Twilight movies!!! I can’t get through even the first one without cackling like a deranged witch
Yes those are amazingly bad and I'd live to see reviews
My mum made me rewatch all the twilight movies two weeks ago. It was torture.
@@venus_918 rip sorry mate
@@venus_918
My mom used to adore Twilight when I was like 6 or 7 or something. She would play it on repeat because she has a major crush on the vampire guy.
It's been so many years since she last saw it but then it recently aired on HBO, she decided to watch it again and realized how horrible it was lol poor mum
Helpful tip for people who want to watch Twilight: mute it and take away the captions, and then voice act whatever you think they’d be saying. It makes it funnier without the use of drugs.
anyone else when they saw Audrey's new hair think it looked like a 3 year old drew in her hair? it just really clashes with her outfits and makes her look washed out. Also very disapointed in mal's wedding dress, it looks soooo much like what one would find in a kid's flash game in one of those dress up game sites compared to a wedding gown, or the very least a regular ball gown one would find at a ball.. nothing in her outfit screams wedding except maybe her veil
I hope you’re talking about her hair in the beginning because thank god someone finally said it. It’s like a washed out My little pony’s tail and barely styled at all. It’s also up in the top most unrealistic wig ever, her head looks huge with them on
@@asteria3604 I was talking about the beginning it just made no sense why her hair would look like that it just looked horrible completely horrible
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I 100% agree with this person, the movies may be cringy, but you can tell the actors genuinely had fun with their roles! It’s the same with Jesse, cringy at times but the actors had a genuine bond that they still have today! Rest In Peace Cameron Boyce, you where a huge part of so many of our childhoods, and will always be remembered ❤️❤️❤️
Mal can never live up to anything Raven Queen or Faybel has ever touched
also i love how almost every EAH fan has watched descendants
I'm glad someone mentioned Faybel, honestly, as evil as she was (according to her storyline that she's supposed to follow), she had her own little thing going on 😔
I don't even like the movies that much, Kristin Chenoweth maleficent, What's My Name, and the way it's impossible to believe that mal and evie are straight are the only reasons I would still watch the movies willingly.
For me it's Uma and the other polyamorous pirates...
harry hook brooo 😭😭😭
@@mrithabose134 ^ One of the polyamorous pirates. 😁
@@mrithabose134 he had no right to be so hot
harry hooks eyeliner
shame that the actor for Carlos died, he will always be missed.
I jus rewatched the mal and evie duet scene because of this and they literally have so much chemistry what
As a Descendants fan , I honestly HATED the "royal wedding" I would have preferred it to be live action , or at least some better animation.
if it was animated like the wicked world shorts it would've been so much better
i remember when each movie came out, my grandma and i would sit on the couch and watch them all repeatedly. i remember how she could never remember any of the character's names except for mal. i especially remember when she bought the first movie's soundtrack, and we sang all the songs for hours. she passed away a little over a month ago. it's been really hard, but ive been going back and rewatching everything we used to watch together. i love this franchise to the bottom of my heart. it has its flaws and there are a few things i didn't like abt it (like how mal and evie didn't end up together) but it's still one of my favorite movie franchises. such a wonderful team made such great movies. but what's most important are the memories i got from these movies. i will be forever thankful
People always be saying that Audrey was the villain when in reality, Mal is the real evil all along. Come *AT* me, Mal stans.
neither of them are good, only hero here is Ben, who probably has Stockholm syndrome as he decided to marry the chick who basically date raped him
fr, mal lied to her friends
Audrey did nothing wrong, she was abandoned by her parents, abused by her grandma, then had her 'friends' revealed to be fake and only care about status, then everyone worships Mal even though she did horrible things but got away with it. No wonder she had a mental breakdown, my only issue is she didn't go far enough and they tried to remove her agency by saying the staff made her do it. I would've preferred she got resurrected and immediately tried to strangle Mal, proving it wasn't the staff but all her hate for Mal, due to her ruining her life, that made Audrey do everything. At least that way we can have some consequences, instead of everything being for nothing.
All the characters at least got better in some way while Mal just kept getting worse and worse, a constant mantra with my mom and me when watching the movies was ‘goddammit mal’ or ‘god mal stop making dumb decisions, be honest to your friends for once!’
Mal is the reason Audrey turned evil. Mal drugged her boyfriend, then stole him, humiliated her in front of the entire school, basically took everything that was important to Audrey. And on top of that, her grandma made her feel worse.
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Okay, something must be wrong with my sense of humor, because the way TJ said "Octopus" had me cackling for a good three minutes.
What the hay is wrong with me?
Ever after high was better! Raven has more character development than any Descendants character. Also Apple white was pissed at Raven for not signing that book! Felt implied Apple white becoming a villain! But it was cancelled for descendants sht!
Ikr
I agree 100%
you guys should check out the book series The School For Good And Evil, It's kind of like EAH and Descendants. Netflix is also releasing a live action movie, based off the book this year; but I'm not sure if I'm going to watch it.
@@melancholyghost18 I love that book series, and I can't wait for the move come out l.
I agree. The characters in Ever after high had visible character development.
The outfits in Descendants were so Union χ in their vibe it's the closest we got to Kingdom Hearts media
Young me absolutely adored their outfits, and honestly if they were a little less,, everything, I would still love them
i remember the days when i blasted rotter to the core for a whole week and tried to learn the dances
Lmao same. when i was 7 I remember putting on Descendants 2 (or 1) and acting it out as Mal. I would put on my Mal costume and a purple wig, I also would do my makeup 😭 I knew line by line and was able to do every dance. I miss those days.
You just made rember when I attempted to sing"It's going down" for a school talent show with a friend back in elementary school. One of the cringyist things I've ever done.
About Uma possesing people: Its actually an ability she has in the original books off of which the movies werw inspired from. There are four of them, and the “short story” is suposed be the extremely cheap and shitty version of an important scene in the third book, the one where Uma is introduced. She uses Dizzy, Harry and Gil’s bodies to lure Mal to the docks. I dont remember if their angry conversarion hapens underwater, but I do know there was no singing. But it actually makes more sense in the book for her to be able to posses people with the neckalce because there’s an entire arc and plotline surrounding Uma trying to use her mother’s necklace and it’s powers through the barrier. In the movie, we barely know anything about the necklace, and it’s not even introduced to us as a plot point of any importance. In the books Uma uses the magic of the necklace through the barrier because she went on a long-ass quest to find a hole in the barrier and a trident or something. Throught most of the book there’s a little bit of magic that seeps under the isle and lets magic be used in small portions. We don’t get any of the cool Isle lore in the movies. Just romance drama and a bunch of useless singing. Also, it wasn’t a dream, that’s just how Mal remembers it, and the other VKs also help out (I’m so tired of The Mal Show). Not saying the books are perfect, but at least we know WHY shit happens sometimes. Thank you for reading my excessively long essay about the descendants franchise, sincerely, an ex-superfan with way too much to say.
Ben deserved better than Mal
I would gladly be the “better” you speak of
And vice versa
Exactly
She literally drugged him he deffo does 😭😭
he deserved a better crown 😭
Okay, I agree on the speaking dog. And the hair. And the "not so straight" thing. And the not so rotten thing. But I still love the movies anyway and I also agree that they are at least part of Camerons Legacy, together with all the other stuff he did ♥
Carlos will always have a part in all our hearts
These movies are one big fever dream and no one can convince me otherwise
Oh yeah baby,
Leather on zippers on leather on denim on sweaters on zippers on leather on denim on leather on sweaters on denim on zippers on leather on leather
sidenote but this lowkey makes a really good vocal warmup lmao
"What's My Name" and "Ways To Be Wicked" and "Queen of Mean" are such bangers
The fact that like three years ago I would have gotten pressed at these reviews for not giving five stars
So is no one gonna talk about Mal DRUGGING Ben in the first movie??
i absolutely love the descendance movies because i don’t take them seriously, so what if there’s inconsistencies, the costumes look like someone robbed a spirit halloween and thought “lets make a movie about this”, and the effects weren’t great, it’s an interesting story and i get serotonin from watching them
7:54 NO CUZ I SAY THIS ON A DAILY BASIS EVER SINCE I WATCHED THIS MOVIE💀
I didn't know that I needed this video until I saw it. Aurodon is definitely a fascist society, and the 'good guys' are actually kinda morally and politically the bad guys.
Seriously, what the hell were those outfits
I’m a 19 year old grown ass woman and I could not figure out how Audrey went from being the villain in the third film to planning the wedding of the two people she tried to screw over big time. Magic of Disney I guess
ALL I HAVE TO MAKE ME GO INSANE IS ROTTEN TO THE CORE
I used to love this movies but now beeing 18 i see how questionable they were ... still i'll give them 5 stars cause why not
Beeing? BEEING? EXCUSE ME-
@@Snailsnsialsnial._1 ever heard of a misspelling error?
@@ac1dk1d if you’re eighteen you can probably spell being. (Unless English is not their first language or it’s a typo)
@@Snailsnsialsnial._1 Its just a spelling error, and you're acting like its a big deal. alot of people type rushed, which causes them to misspell something on accident.
@@ac1dk1d I’m not acting like it’s a big deal? I meant what I said as a joke. I’d never actually get that angry at somebody’s spelling mistake, I believe there’s a minor misunderstanding here.
3:24 IKR!?!?!?
3:42
I actually jumped when I read Diamondbolt's name
The true chad.
You know what doesn’t make sense, Ben fell in love with Mal because she made him cookies. And Audrey turns Mal into an elderly thinking that Ben will never love her again. But you know who makes THE BEST cookies? GRANDMAS!!!
alex meyerssss
@@sunsetgirl5798 exactly
The outfits are all atrocious idfc, Mal needs to learn how to actually style clothes to match that hair instead of just throwing on the closest purple thing she sees. However, Evie’s looks slay EVERY 👏 SINGLE 👏 TIME 👏 I cannot stress this enough, her outfits are all so good
2:22 but this leaves the question. who diddled dopey?
My favorite part is the decedents franchise is probably that one 3d animated cartoon they made for no reason.it has surprisingly really good songs
wicked world had incredible bops
good is the new bad and night is young screams my childhood
the thing i hate most is how they forced jane and carlos's relationship.
also how disney disregarded how dove, booboo, and sofia all said they didn't want to do any more descendants projects post-cameron's death. they went on and did the royal wedding
ben’s crown from the second movie looks like it came from burger king and it makes me so annoyed 😒
who thought mal hair in the second one was NO it should never exist
5:18 Same justification Scarlet Witch gives to Doctor Strange in Multiverse of Madness.
As much as the movies don’t make sense sometimes I honestly love them lol and harry is literally Disney’s version of Killian Jones he must be his son 😫
Disney _*Channel's_ version, you mean.
"Once Upon A Time" is _very_ much a Disney property.
Oh my stars, it's been so long since I heard that name. I was obsessed with OUAT in ninth grade, but haven't watched it since. I almost completely forgot it existed.
Disney practically ripped off that show with those movies
I treat this movies like the Sharknado franchise: Yes, I know that they are horrible and don't make sense, but they are so bad that they loop back to being good... so I watch them trapped somewhere between loving it and agonizing with the lack of sense of the plot
Descendants is a decent franchise and despite the fact that the movies could have been better, we must admit that the 3 are not bad and are entertaining to watch
Postscript: I've seen EAH and if it's better than Disney's Descendants but it doesn't make the franchise bad I think the reason one was famous and the other not so much is because one is an animated series and the other is a franchise of live action movies, and you don't have to be smart to know that a movie franchise with real actors is going to make more known than an animated series don't be stupid for god's sake
@@mariocastillo2461 They are entertaining, but the plot lacks a lot of sense
@@ericregis3912 maybe a little but it's not that they're very serious either, I mean you don't have to be so demanding with an original disney channel movie since tell me, which disney channel movie is free of errors or lacks in its history? even lemonade mouth can't get rid of it
@@mariocastillo2461 I agree, but Descendants is something special because, in theory It's in the same universe as over 60 years worth of animated movies, and, somehow, contradicts all of them at the same time. It's hard to suspend disbelief about characters from XIV century b.c. up to XX century are alive, at the same time, in a world with internet. And it gets worse with Mal being the only character that we saw using magic without some magical atifact, and she looks more like Madam Mim's daughter than Malificent's and/or Hade's.
But, at the end of the day, yes, the movies are very entertaining, but very bad at the same time
10:06 this is actually referencing a disney game called twisted wonderland!! it was made by the creator of black butler and it's basically hogwarts but the houses are based off of disney villains and the students are pretty anime boys based on said disney villains!! there's also 7 houses and a severe lack of deeply needed therapy :D
the main cast was dressed by people who have never had a genuine interaction with an emo/scene/alternative teen
i entirely believe they just googled "edgy teen" and picked the first PG image
9:13
yeah, but also I remember Cameron Boyce as Luke from Jessie lol- idk if thats just me tho
I feel like Jay and Lonnie are the two gay besties that everyone ships even though they have told the general public multiple times they are gay
Fun fact! One of the many reasons Descendants was made..was because mattel stopped making disney themed princess because what where they focusing on? Ever after high! Disney got upset and basically took Ever after High and turned and twisted it into their own story but with less plot...I mean..Look at the difference of characters personality between the two shows..especially raven and evie,prince charming's sons,and most importantly Sleeping beauty's daughter..the change of personality between these are HUGE! Raven the daughter of the evil queen is the main character while Evie is just a side piece to mal's adventures with a little bit of her own story shown..Prince charming's sons where more likeable in royal high because they where more interesting and had more personality and wasn't an ass towards others..the twins where so nice in royal high and i even had a crush on the twin with the glasses that was friends with Raven! And then we have Sleeping beuaty's character..Audrey is a complete Karen despite the Daughter in Ever after high is all about having fun,partying,being with friends,she literally is friends with raven and has no problem with the rebel kids.
Another thing i want to point out..did you guys remeber Zombies? By disney? Notice how that's about Monsters and humans being in a school together..the second movie just came out and features vampires and werewolves..are they now trying to rip off of monster high? I mean Monster high said they would do a reboot last year and with the live action movie out...the second installment of Zombies movie to come out just a bit after the live action even though it was announced after monster high was going to do a live action verison of the well known show and movies..The fact that disney has the balls to use this as a tatic against Mattel..is disturbing..I mean Everafter high and Monster high will forever be titans..and because Disney is using both of these by taking the ideas..and using them for their own gain..like they are controlling mattel into just worrying about barbie and their disney princess dolls line..it's like Disney has started to become shady...
THANK YOU FOR THIS OMG
I absolutely despise this movie for taking the cinematic masterpiece that was ever after high away from me. This movie deserves to rot in a pit of despair. 😤
Tell me you're an annoying Ever After High fan baby without telling me your'e an annoying Ever After High fan baby.
Ever After High flew on dragons, so that Descendants could run and trip
Say your'e an annoying Ever After High child without telling me your'e an annoying Ever After High child.
@@quangamershyguyyz7166 I’m 17, I mainly say this cuz I’m salty lol, the Descendants songs are good and the characters are alright, I just miss Ever After High :/
@@auroramoon_draws16 Lol. That’s fair I suppose
5:53 I need some context for this please, I watched the movie back when it was released, so I dont remember much. And this line out of context is very funny
But something that wasn't mentioned was that Mal and Ben were in high school and they got engaged
Once opon a time, Disney said.
*LET'S COPY EVER AFTER HIGH AND MAKE IT LOOK LIKE IT WAS OUR OWN IDEA!*
Sucks indeed
Yes
The thing that bothered me most is the fact that Ben was in a relationship for probably a long time but then some villain girl shows up and DRUGS HIM just to USE HIM yet he still loves her.
This movie was trying to be Ever after High, so badly
And it failed
@@claudiothewarrior not really you're just too biased 💀
@@sangyeoncupids4662 I can think what I want to think.
@@sangyeoncupids4662 it def failed.
3:59 Who ever wrote the Hook walk so Harry could run is incredibly stupid both actors are literally the same.
Are we gonna ignore the fact that Hades is Mal's father?Meaning greek mythology exists, but nobody dresses that the bigger problem here is that the titans could stomp auradon underfoot? or a big baddie like Gaea could just sink them, and what woulld they use to protect themselves? The power of love? This does not Make sense, and WHY ISNT HADES IN THE UNDERWORLD?? does that mean the other gods exist too? why aren't THEY burning offerings to the gods/ WHERE in the WORLD is persephone.
I had much time my hands
I absolutely hate the premise of Descendants or the fact they went with it. You’ll make more Disney villains and princes and princesses, you’ll be making more characters, more decisions in the Disney universe. So in order to have this movie make sense with the timeline you’d have to stop producing Disney in general, and this would be the only films left for the company to produce. Not only that but the Disney company is huge. And they’re only going with “one”(?) universe. But if you know Disney princess law at Disney world/land then you’d know that every dimension is different. Every Disney princess lives in a different world. Pocahontas in a cloned version of our world in 1540, Ariel a world similar to ours with more ocean expansion and proven Greek mythology, etc. But they’re mixing all the royals together which doesn’t make sense and breaks their own rules. Not only that but in Wreck it Ralph you see all of them together because of the Disney app. Here should theoretically have either one Disney universe, or all of them. But it has none. Just “Royal universe”. I hate this.
Not surprised that the films are terrible. After all, they are made by Disney.
People like you really like to take movies way too seriously.
8:30 THIS SHIT CRACKING ME UPPP 😭
The first wedding was my gay awakening and I will NOT explain nor provide any context as to why because I am still horrified and cringe into my soul whenever I think about it
4:49 I literally laughed so hard at this
I had genuinely forgotten this forsaken franchise existed until now, and I'm now just remembering that ever single girl in elementary was decked out in customers of mal and occasionally Uma during any kin of dress up day.
Lmao that was me as a kid 😭 I would wear parts of Mal's costume to school along with a spell book I made out of paper, I really thought I was all that 💀💀
love that the top comments are about ever after high. keep it up sweeties you're doing great
Agreed
uma being the villain feels anti-black, but you didnt hear it from me
no bc literally thats what i was thinking 🤔
I will defend these movies to the day I die.
Postscript: I've seen EAH and if it's better than Disney's Descendants but it doesn't make the franchise bad I think the reason one was famous and the other not so much is because one is an animated series and the other is a franchise of live action movies, and you don't have to be smart to know that a movie franchise with real actors is going to make more known than an animated series don't be stupid for god's sake
@@mariocastillo2461 are you a bot?
@@Joudx13 lol i'm not
I will never recover from Descendants taking over my childhood dream of seeing the ‘Monster High’ ‘Ever After High’ crossover
This will premiere in 1am (in the time zone I live in)
Guess who's gonna pull another all nighter even tho they have classes tomorrow
No stop please no
Was it worth it?
Well was it?
Staying up until 1:10 is not "an all nighter."
@@seanr.6498 I mean it's now morning of that day
Where was Persephone during ANY of this? The most “villainous” thing hades did was marry his cousin and rule the underworld, but compared to almost everyone in Greek mythology that’s tame. Persephone ruled with Hades she’s just as “evil” as him.
Also was it me or did Maleficent and Hades make no sense at all?
@@laylabeachy5341 facts, they said "they fire people" and ran with it and gave Mal blue highlights
the cgi dragon in this movie reminds me a lot of the one from Enchanted, which is pretty old compared to descendants
Yesss love that energy!!
The clothes are all amazing and I would wear them exclusively if possible