@@PurgatoryProductions1I still can’t re watch Jessie without feeling sad about his passing. He really is the only celebrity who’s death makes me miserable to this day
I haven't seen a single descendants movie but as a fan of the 1997 Cinderella, the scene where the Queen of Hearts shatters Ella's glass slippers in front of Charming as a way to say "hey your wife is dead" and Charming's subsequent breakdown was absolutely brutal.
The whole movie, I was confident that Ella was the reason Bridgette became evil, not the prank. It would have been such an amazing twist if nothing changed because the girls didn’t do anything big to mess up the timeline.
Me and my sister watched it and were so certain from “Love Ain’t It” on that Ella was the on responsible, that I think I was genuinely more surprised that she wasn’t than I would’ve been had they gone with that as a “twist”
EXACTLY. They could’ve done something there! This whole movie Bridgette had been nice to a girl who bullied her relentlessly and she was just going to turn evil because of a dance prank?? ella could’ve been her heartbreak.
_Descendants: Rise of Red_ continues the franchises trend of dragging Fairy Godmother through the mud. 😂😅 Poor lady can't cast a successful spell to save her life, much less anyone elses.
She's like princess celestia from my little pony: friendship is magic - both supposedly powerful magic users - has accomplished great magical feats from before the series - is always thrown away by the plot - lets the purple main character do all of the important stuff with friendship or something
@samanthamoss1026 the timeline doesnt match at all to the original and they contradict multiple plots that happen throughout the story that impact the first movie
@@payt00n more than that the whole thing that whole appeal of descendants to me is the descendants of classic evil villains proving them don't have to follow in their parents footsteps And that we would be seeing how those classic middle ages characters would be in a more modernized setting But this movie shows that this is completely detached from any source material, and the villains started as cringey high school bullies and whole world is just an inexplicably modernized version of the classic stories.
I'd love a Descendants movie based on the children of lesser known Disney villains. I wanna see the children of Goob from Meet the Robinsons, Rourke from Atlantis the Lost Empire, Silver from Treasure Planet, and maybe even the grandchild of Yzma from Emperor's New Groove. Maybe they could all try to prove their worth in a society that barely acknowledges them or their parents.
Yes! If they wanted to make a sequel,why not focus on the villian kids? The whole driving force of the original trilogy? See how their lives changed during the time skip
@wantedbird55srandomchannel28 I mean, half of the villains in Descendants are dead, so how would they even have kids? I think canon goes out the window with this franchise.
The villains (not Uliana) should have gotten more lines. The had plenty of screentime! But like, it's always Uliana talking. I initially watched this movie for Hades (who got 1 line) but stayed for Hook and Morgie. I initially didn't like Morgie because he wasn't a known villain, but I grew charmed by his happy and sad dog aura
@@CreativaArtly Maybe to not be confused with Morgie's mom? And that's not even getting into the fact his mom's real name is MORGAN Le Fay, not Morgana
Originally when I heard about Uliana I thought she'd be like the wannabe, the other 4 vk's just let her around them, they don't actually see her as a villian, but no. THE OTHER VILLIANS WERE HER SIDEKICKS?!
@@CreativaArtlyif you go from the little mermaid musical, ursula killed all her sisters and forgot to kill Triton which is why she didn't inherit the throne (look up the song "Daddy's Little Angel" where she recounts how she murdered each one)
Okay!!!!! Chloe is just Darling Charming. I wondered how Chad existed, and then I remembed Daring, the blonde older brother of Darling, a blue haored sword fightinng princess with ties to Wonderland and also has knight-themes to her clothes. After remembering those two I figured if those two Charming siblings can do it, so can Chad and Chloe Charming.
2:05 this is actually a fantastic callback to the direct to video sequel the little mermaid 2 featuring ‘URSULA’S CRAZY SISTER’ (she is called this multiple times in the movie) who is just ursula with a worse character design they have the exact same character and are voiced by the same person
Actually I think the Morgana referenced in the movie is from The Sword in the Stone. Morgie is her son. It’s a really weird coincidence. One of the lines in a song is “Son of Morgana, serpentine, Morgie’s the name better run and hide.”
things I noticed about the movie - Chloes wig keeps changing every scene 😭😭 - they completely drop the ball on the lesson of the whole movie - how is maleficent, Cinderella and fairy godmother AND The villains all at the same school..but yet Ursula’s baby sister is?? AND NO I WILL NEVER “CALL US JALADIN”
As a Twisted Wonderland fan (which is just descendants but theyre not well- descendents of the characters), all I can say is that RIDDLE ROSEHEARTS DID NOT OVERBLOT FOR THIS!?
ok so rapunzel was supposed to be in this movie and i wrote an entire rant so here (no editing btw) in rise of the red rapunzel was going to be in it as a teenage version of herself and she was going to be named zellie but i have so many problems with that (the character is still in the movie but they renamed her to meadow and she's not rapunzel anymore) that literally wouldn't make sense. she was literally locked up up until she was 18. okay i'll humor you. but why would she have dyed hair? if she was out of the tower her hair would be brown and short. also, she shows up when uma's sister falls into the fountain and she laughs. honestly she wouldn't do that. why would she choose the name zellie, if she had to choose a nick name it would be raps, or something sun related anyways i'm upset at disney for making a bootleg rapunzel and not vat7k
I’m also upset at them for making a bootleg Ella/Cinderella. Don’t get me wrong, I’m really excited to see what happens next, and I absolutely adore Bridget, but they messed up MULTIPLE characters personalities AND stories lol.
Not to mention Prince Charming’s parents in the 1997 movie that the same actors are from clearly aren’t Filipino, so it’s not surprising that they would be fine with adopting a kid.
My biggest gripe with this film was Maleficent's horns. THEY LOOKED STUFFED SND PLUSHY AND SHITTY. It just killed me to see how fake they look. I can handle bad plot, inconsistent wigs, plotholes galore, but messing eith the horns??? I can't.
i haven’t seen it but “call us jaladdin” is imprinted in my mind 😭 also i can’t get over hook being monty from dead boy detectives like i screamed when i saw him on the cast list. MONTY? my lil crow bb?
I don't think I'll ever be over the fact that they kept mentioning Castlecoming and then never even went to the dance. That's like, writing 101, you set up things to fulfill them later, and they just didn't.
Still really annoyed that they couldn't pull off Wonderland any better, closest thing we got was the random pipes in the castle acting like rabbit holes.
@@quangamershyguyyz7166 you do realize that ever after high came first right? Ever after high is based on the original fairytales and not the retellings of Disney movies. Some characters may be similar to Disney characters, but the actual plot and characters are entirely different from Disney. Descendants is ripping off of ever after high. Please learn the history of your doll lines before you go accusing other ones of rip off.
@@quangamershyguyyz7166 Dude are you saying Disney invented for exemple Cinderella ??? A story whose most famous version was written in 1697 so 226 years before the Disney company's fondation ???
Royalty did not typically adopt because keeping the line of succession in the blood was very important for some reason. A king was more likely to die childless and have the throne pass to his brother than to adopt a child.
Did anyone else see that Fairy Godmother/Melanie Paxson is also a returning cast member from the original Descendants movies? Im curious. I know she doesn't play the biggest role but still.
I will never stop thinking about the implication that Chad was adopted alongside the abandonment issues he displayed in the third movie, plus Cinderella’s whole history of abuse and neglect at the hands of her stepmother… did Ella continue the cycle???
"the de-gayification of Descendants" Honestly any part where Red and Chloe shared a fraction of screentime could be put behind a Chappell Roan track and it'd make a lot more sense than any other song used in the movie. They are going to kiss
@@totallynot_rue i hope you know the actresses that played the past versions of Chloe and red's moms shipped them together. This is just a you problem, gay people do exist I''m sorry to say
This movie feels like someones kinda crappy fanfic turned into a film (but also I wouldn't be surprised if the original idea was it's own franchise that got warped into a descendants movie)
I mean it wasn't really the casts or even the choice of characters fault that the movie wasn't good. It's just that the plot was so oddly rushed. If they do a part two that actually shows the consequences of this movie and flushes things out more, I'd be down. I actually liked these VKs a lot and kinda wanna see more of them.
I don’t think the cast was bad, I just think that the script was not great (it had potential but I get the feeling that the writers had Disney breathing down their necks the whole time) and the costume department needed a budget of more than 15 bucks per wig. Not to mention that it kinda just breaks some of the established canon of the universe, but to be fair it’s not like Descendants media is well known for maintaining its canon (* cough cough * the books * cough cough *)
2:37 Unrelated but I remember noticing this about insatiable on Netflix. How do all the parents have southern accents but none of their kids do? (except Dixie)
Actually I come from the south and in my experience this is true to an extent. We have access to the internet and tv so our accents are much more neutralized and just a general “city accent.” But my friends’ grandparents still go around like howdy how yall doing. Every once in a while we slip into the drawl but nearly everyone I know has the ability to sound California adjacent if they feel like it. Obviously it’s not like a universal thing but it’s p common imo even in the smaller towns
I could've forgiven the movie if they showed us the DAMN PRANK?! We were building up to smth but noOoO we'll have a cringe dance party in what should be the middle of the movie to end it off. The villains didn't even do anything 😭
The only fourth film,is the animated one where mal and ben gets married. 1:38 Those rap battles slapped though on RU-vid. 5:02 Maleficent and Hades were married.Hades mentioned that.
When we were watching the movie and were at the part when The Queen of Hearts offed Cinderella, my mother thought the Queen was going to hold up Cinderella's decapitated head instead of the glass slippers. I then reminded her that this is a kids movie.
8:25 actually got me thinking, there’s another movie coming out soon, and there IS no way the VKs pulled the prank in the og timeline, someone else HAD to have pulled the prank, and hopefully the next movie reveals who
I've come to the conclusion that it is a setup for another movie where they realize they did, in fact, screw something up. It was poorly eluded to, but Uma's end dialog pretty much confirms it was what they were trying to do.
Theory about the plot of Descendants Rise of Red and potential sequel to it if there is one. (Possible spoilers of the movie? I don't know.) Hear me out... what if the Fairy Godmother did it? What if she put the curse on Bridget? It kind of makes sense, she couldn't do any spells and yet Bridget could. Ella was her best friend and probably wouldn't help the villains. However, maybe the villains could've easily manipulated the Fairy Godmother, like how Mal convinced Jane to steal the magic wand for her own desires in the first Descendants movie. Since the spell book opens for those who are not villains or those who are good, they could use Fairy Godmother to open the book so they could have access to spells. We probably also don't see Fairy Godmother for a lot of the movie, not even during the plot or when the villains first appear. So this could make sense if they're trying to make a sequel where they show the actual villain. Or maybe, the Fairy Godmother could confess that she helped the villains curse Bridget. Not entirely sure if it really makes sense, but it is a good theory. Let me know what y'all think.
Regarding Uliana... if they were going to give Ursula a sister, why not Morgana from the Little Mermaid II? Where is she getting all these direct to video sequel sisters from????
I know people think it's bad, and honestly it opens a lot of plot holes, but the song Life Is Sweeter single-handedly convinced me to give Descendants another try, and I actually like it a lot now
my favorite part is when Uliana calls herself the worst thing on earth, true evil, etc. and I was like "then why are you attending highschool?" also Hook in this movie is very hot, but nothing can top Harry
I hated the ending. Like all they had to do was just hide the cookbook and there. That’s it. Nothing special didn’t even happen. If Ella was the one who did the prank that would’ve been better. And I feel like the music in this movie doesn’t really match too.
Haven't seen the movie in full...but from the many clips I've watched and all the chatter I've heard about it...everything was valid except the part about Chad. In the movie his parents are from, his dad's dad is white (VICTOR GARBER) and his dad's mom is black (WHOOPI GOLDBERG). He literally comes from a legacy of colorblind casting.
Literally don’t know how they thought they could make this a decent movie without Cameron Boyce like bro he was the only reason I sat through the first 2 💀
K, so to preface my critique of this children's movie for children, I'll clarify that I am a guy in his early 20s who recently watched though all four movies with his twin tweenage sisters because they asked me to. So, yeah, I am very *not* the target audience for a movie like this, and I'm not attached to the world and characters like fans of the series are. I did think 1 and 3 were pretty nice though. I agree with pretty much every comment in the video (especially the one about the finale being cut, that *absolutely* happened). But what disappointed me the most was Red's character. If I could change anything about the OG Descendants movies, it would be to make the VKs more evil at the start. Like, aside from the love-potion laced cookie (which is nullified almost immediately), none of the VKs ever actually do anything particularly evil. Like, the snooty royal kids are *clearly* worse, and they don't really try to hide it. I know that's kind of the point, and the third movie does do a lot to point out the double standard, but when the VKs decide to "change" at the end of the first movie I wasn't really sure what they were changing from. Like, they were all clearly uncomfortable with their parents' plan from the get-go, and they never seemed like they were actually going to do it. It felt almost victim-blame-y to me. What'd they have to be sorry for? Anyway, the fact that the "Villain-Kids" were never really villains is fine and serves the story well enough. But what I wanted from RoR was to see a VK that was actually *evil* to start with. As is, she comes off as really wishy-washy about the whole "world domination" thing, but not in the way the original VKs were. The OGs were conflicted about taking over the world, whereas Red just seems largely unbothered by it. Her main issues with her mom don't really come from the fact that she casually and gleefully murders people, she just thinks she's kind of a nag. In the beginning, Red sidesteps ordering the execution of the commander guy, which might make you think she has a problem with murder. But then, not ten minutes later, she orders the execution of Cinderella just because Cinderella said she wouldn’t. It was a petty "Ha! That'll show her!" moment, but involving a murder, which would actually be fine by me if she stuck to her guns afterwards. But no, she's *immediately* remorseful, which is not what I would expect from someone who was A-OK with literal murder thirty seconds ago. Red had more to work with than Chloe when it came to motivation and backstory, but it felt like the writers couldn’t decide whether they wanted a rebel or a dictator.
My friend said that for our own peace of mind, we should think of it as them getting Cinderella grounded for the dance saving Bridgette. It's implied it's Cinderella's fault, and maybe it couldn't happen cause she had to stay home
We need a fanfic where Bridget became evil after her bestie (and probably lesbic crush) left her alone at the dance and decided "fuck it, I'll go with Charming" EVEN AFTER SAYING NO TO HIM 'CAUSE SHE HAD BRIDGET
In the original Aladdin movie, Aladdin and Jasmine first met they where in high school age, and lived in Arabia. In the Rise Of Red movie they are high school age which is the same age as when they met in the OG movie. And also the married I the OG movie. They are dating in Rise Of Red and also in some magical-land-place and not Arabia?
My friend and I watched this the day it premiered on Disney Plus and thought what a lot of these reviews were saying: IT FELT SO UNDONE!! My best friend has *not* endured a five-year-long Descendants fixation for this. 😔 (Jk... Sort of.)
It’s really sad I thought it was a fine series, like I didn’t grew up with it but it was great to watch on free times. It does remind me of hints of an animated version of Wicked for some reason. (Probably because of the interactions between Apple and Raven)
Because while all of the other og cast members are trying to build up their careers she's on TikTok shaking her ass. She could've been such a big success idk why she's not auditioning for anything or AT LEAST releasing some music
