Descendants
A present-day idyllic kingdom where the benevolent teenage son of King Adam and Queen Belle offers a chance of redemption for the troublemaking offspring of Disney's classic villains: Cruella De Vil (Carlos), Maleficent (Mal), the Evil Queen (Evie) and Jafar (Jay).
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- Cast:
- Dove Cameron , Cameron Boyce , Booboo Stewart , Sofia Carson , Mitchell Hope , Melanie Paxson , Brenna D'Amico
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You won't be disappointed!
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
When you love your 10 year old daughter very much, this is what you do. Like listening to Taylor Swift sing. Or trying an Impossible Burger. Or just taking a bullet. This was a painful 112 minutes (yes I counted!) and by the gods, I truly feel like I am dumber than I was before. I could go on and on about how terrible this was, but just looking at the picture above has caused my head to hurt and my body to cramp up. I would rather have my hair and fingernails beauty shopped by my daughter and her friends and also have all my teeth pulled by a rusty pair of pliers while letting numerous insects lay their eggs in both of my ear canals than see part 2. But as I said, I love my daughter very much. Bullet #2 is on its way...
This movie is so good! The songs are so great! The story is great! I've rewatched this movie several times and loved it every time. Yes, sometimes the lines are cheesy but that is all part of the musical experience. Watch with your family or all by yourself ...either way it will bring a smile to your face.
The Devil That You Know: This Is A Children's Film That Promotes The Luciferian Archetype.The film ostensibly deals with an ethical dilemma. Will the teenage children of sinister Disney characters choose to follow in their evil parents footsteps,or decide to embrace their goodness and save the magical kingdom of Auradon. HARMFUL PSYCHOLOGICAL THEMES: The male character Ben tells the daughter of Maleficient her that he can 'see goodness when he looks into her eyes, not evil' When he asks her if she loves him, Mal says that she doesn't know what it feels like to love; Ben says he might be able to teach her.This particular theme is promoting the co-dependent idea of winning the love of a nasty hearted female through the power of romantic love. It is a psychologically unhealthy message & unfortunately children who have experienced abusive parenting will be highly susceptible to this dysfunctional notion. Any relationship based on one person trying to fix the other is doomed to failure.Those who make it their business to try to fix others are not empaths, they are people who were abused as children, their need to heal others stems from an internal sense of shame-they regard themselves as not being worthy of a normal (non-abusive) partner. Males who unconsciously seek nasty women as romantic partners are unconsciously trying to mend an inadequate mother.* The movie is intentionally being marketed to very young children. The shades of grey philosophy is too complex & confusing for young minds to process-it is developmentally inappropriate . A definite boundary between good and evil needs to be presented to very young children - it needs to be represented in a stark way, as in the contrast between black and white.HARMFUL SPIRITUAL THEMES This movie glorifies villains and it encourages very young children to explore dark energy. The general public is so brainwashed and desensitized these days that they will not understand that this movie is openly mocking God by glorifying the Luciferian archetype - how many parents will even realize that what they are putting in front of their children's minds is blatant mind control.The film makers are pushing a satanic Gnostic belief system onto innocent unsuspecting minds. Gnosticism teaches that Lucifer is not bad - just misunderstood. This philosophy is not harmless,it is an occult inversion of Christian teaching. Disney would never have been able to get away with this a few decades ago but anything goes these days. Early experience has an important influence on adult behaviour so when the young children watching this sort of material grow up they will easily accept occult and illuminati type themes due to the fact they have sentimental & warm childhood memories of films like this one.* Disney recently released the sequel to this film it's called Decendants 2 Long Live Evil. The title says it all.
I watched this film with my niece because she had been dying to see it for ages. After hearing mixed reviews, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. The songs are fun, the story is good and although the characters could have been slightly better, Id say overall it was worth the watch.There were a few things that kinda niggled for me though.1. Belle is meant to be all sweetness and seeing the good in people when others cant, yet as Queen she doesn't want to see good in the 'Lost Kids' (as my niece calls them) just because their parents were Villains? Felt like a character flaw to me. She didn't give them a chance to be good until the very end, when they proved they were good. So that's not really giving them a chance...its just accepting what she can see in front of her. If she hadn't given Beast a chance and seen the good in him before he fully showed that side, it would have been a very different story..2. Preppy Prince's trying to rap really didn't work for me. It kinda made me cringe anytime a rap started, it just didn't feel right for them and they didn't look right doing it. I enjoyed the songs, I just feel like they shouldn't have tried to add rap into them.3. Although I liked the songs and they were catchy enough for some of them to still be stuck in my head, I feel like they over-edited the singing too much, so it didn't look right when they were singing. It didn't look natural. Which I understand may sound stupid as its just a film, but it didn't actually look like it was them singing at some points. Kristen Chenoweth is an amazing singer, but even her singing was edited far too much for me to enjoy it as I normally would.4. Jays personality is far more like Aladin than Jaffar. I like Jay, but it didn't feel believable that he was Jaffar's son. Maybe its something about growing up on the Island and being the 'Bad Boy', I don't know. Of course this could be explained if I read the books, which I think I might have to do as I did enjoy the story.But all in all, I think this is an enjoyable film that is definitely worth a watch for a chilled day.