For anyone wondering how all these dead villains reproduced; in the books they reveal that the "good guys" used magic to revive all the dead villains just so they could put them on trial and banish them to slum island forever. I feel like if magic was real, that would be against the Geneva Convention.
Rest in peace, Cameron Boyce. He died when he was only 20 years old, and starting to break away from the Disney Channel. His Swan Song was even the third Descendants movie, and we never got to see him land a mature, darker role.
I still can't believe it's four years. When I first heard about it, I thought it was a joke until looking at every news source that has sadly confirmed it. I just finished watching a news story that Angus Cloud sadly passed away not too long ago.
@@kamsismith May both Angus and Cameron rest in peace. It's so heartbreaking, they were both very young, being 25 and 20 respectively. Angus had been open with his mental health struggles, and it's been reported that he was found dead in his family home.
The fact that he died in his sleep from having a seizure kinda scares me. I mean, I had a seizure that lasted for 3 days, who knows what can happen next.
I honestly feel like the reason Ben takes such a backseat in the other two films and never gets another romantic song with Mal is because they realized he sucks lmao. But they couldn't just write him off, so they sidelined him.
Bro I wish they gave more male characters actual personality. Like Ella enchanted and ever after both had really funny princes with great chemistry with the lead, it's not that hard!
I don't get why/how almost every single major Disney character would have all had kids the same year because they are all the same age. Also, it always bothered me that Jay is a "thief"... when was Jafar a thief? Aladdin was a thief before meeting Jasmine and all that. So idk that always struck me as weird
@lynettebr I didn't even realize that but yes you are right! That is definitely weird. And, as Nick pointed out, it's weird that the evil queen doesn't have a name either, although idk if she ever had one in the original Snoe White. Either way, it's also weird that the evil queen is so into love. She seemed pretty against it in the original lol
yeah. I think the only time he became a thief was AFTER he got his ass yeeted because obv he's exiled from the entire city no way he's getting a job, but like... he was also only stealing for the lamp iirc. and I know that in the one scene with Jay and Jafar, Jay hands him a lamp he found bc obv Jafar wants to find the magic lamp again so he can wish himself outta here (and probably wish everyone out for ultimate chaos n shit.)
Yeah it does land badly when I think about it like that. I had assumed he was maybe trying to raise his own "diamond in the rough," to retrieve the lamp again or something. Still I guess if that isn't is the case, points for being the only villain in the first movie who seems to love his kid.
@@kellifavazza8021 To me, it doesn’t seem that she’s into love necessarily. It seems like she’s into status and power. She doesn’t tell Evie to marry for love, but she always tells her to marry a prince. And don’t forget the mother in law wing! She mostly just wants Evie to marry someone with status so she can benefit
It kind of reminds me of how the evil queen in one of the Shrek movies randomly decided not to be evil anymore because Justin Timberlake's character gave a weak speech, and so she's was just like ' Nevermind, I'm going to go open a spa. ' What happened to all that malicious ambition??
THANK you! I feel like Snow White and her Prince Charming would have been a better fit in that regard, seeing as in the older tales the evil queen was forced to dance in burning iron shoes until she died. Beauty and the Beast’s moral was antithetical to the whole “evil stays evil” conflict.
It kinda reminds me of that Little Mermaid sequel where Ariel basically forbids her daughter to go into the ocean, and I think they even build a wall. Like...the first movie didn't happen?
It kills me how the "good" characters and their kids look like they're disney bounding, the villains look like pretty good cosplayers, and the kids of the villains look like they're from Kingdom Hearts
The ghastly costume design for this franchise is not talked about enough. Also, whomever aproved of THAT Be Our Guest cover deserves to be haunted by the ghost of Howard Ashman for all eternity.
The costume designs were unique and the rendition slapped Could we stop using a small budget as a criticism of a movie or show it’s really unfair the stylists and directors and creators had no control over that and they did their best with it
@@madnessarcade7447The costumes looked like Halloween knockoffs and the music and performances were pretty bad. In terms of budget, a lot better has been done with a lot less...
@@madnessarcade7447 the first movie was actually the most expensive disney channel original ever produced at the time. the second and third ones ended up having even higher budgets
@@madnessarcade7447op didn’t say anything about the stylists or directors or anyone besides specifically the person who *approved* (not created) the be our guest rendition. For all you know, the critique on the costume design could very well be a critique on the lack of funds and not the stylists themselves.
I gotta say, this movie made a terrible job making Audrey, their supposed “mean girl” unlikable. Sure, she doesn’t trust the villain kids, but since they actually are working for their evil parents and only change their minds about it at the last minute, her only crime is being right.
I wish they focused on her arc more. I wanted to see her parents and grandmother pressure her more on who they want her to be and than when she can’t she gradually loses it which leads to film three. They could have set this up in movie 2.
Yeah it’s been a while since I’ve seen it and even then it was only once but it seems like she kinda got a really raw deal? Like you say she was right about them being nefarious (before they changed their mind at the last second) then gets her boyfriend stolen? Like damn!
@astrowolvez Yes, I have seen the third movie, if that’s what you mean, and honestly, I’m kind of on Audrey’s side even when she goes villain. Ben was her partner, the guy she thought she was going to marry, and he’s been absolutely horrible to her-sure, he was under the influence of a love spell when he confessed his love to Mal, but even after the spell wore off, he never apologized to Audrey or even spoke to her at all. He just completely ignored her for almost a year, and when she finally confronted him in the third movie, he acted like SHE should be apologizing to HIM. To make matters worse, literally everyone else is taking Ben’s side. Jane, who in the first movie seemed to be Audrey’s only real friend, wouldn’t even invite her to her birthday party. Audrey’s own grandmother was berating her and calling her a failure for all of this, despite none of it being in any way her fault. Add to that the fact that she’s been raised in a rigid, binary system where everyone is either a hero or a villain with no room for shades of gray, and it becomes clear why she’s made the choice she did. Everyone is treating her like a villain for things beyond her control, so she may as well give them a real villain and get some revenge on everyone who’s hurt her. Plus, the person we’re actually supposed to root for, Mal, is constantly acting selfish to the point of being sociopathic, so rooting for the person opposing her is sounding like an increasingly good idea.
@@Arella17I still want to know when Apple and Darling will realize!!!! I am so mad because I heard that the books stopped updating the story as well so even if I read… I’ll never know how it all ends…
FINALLY! Someone bringing up the fact that Descendents was literally created for the sake of drowning out EAH. All because Mattel ended their Disney Princess doll contracts. 🙄
The Evil Queen actually does have a name! Old publicity material and comics from around the time Snow White first released gave her the name Queen Grimhilde, but Disney never really mentioned that name since.
Nah, you're totally right about that moment in the forest between Carlos and Ben being a whole gay love story. They had more chemistry in those 5 seconds than Ben and Mal did in the whole trilogy.
I remember when it was a popular headcanon that Carlos was gay but then they made him like Jane in the second movie despite having little interaction in the first movie.
Can we talk about how Mal roofies Ben with a love potion and never really gets called out for it? Even when Ben realizes what she's done, he just kinda laughs it off and goes, "D'aaw, it's okay, Mal! Happens to the best of us! 🥰" Like bro you are WAY too chill about this girl putting a mysterious liquid into your food to get you to fall in "love" with her. ✋🏾😭 But when Uma does the same thing in Descendants 2 (albiet via a spell instead of a potion), suddenly it's wrong to bewitch someone to force them to be in love with you?? Wtf?? 💀 Also as lackluster as the whole soundtrack may be, Set It Off is lowkey kind of a bop and is still one of my favorite songs to listen to to this day
The love potion thing could have been SUCH a good moment for Mal!!! Realizing her actions have consequences and that maybe she doesn’t want to put people in harms way to get what she wants. And eventually earning back Ben’s trust would be a nice parallel to the rest of Oradon(? No idea how it’s spelled) learning that evil isn’t inherent, and that people are capable of change.
Kristin Chenoweth is always a win, and she and Dove Cameron later played Velma and Amber in Hairspray Live. Also, it bothers me that Mal drugged Ben with a love potion, yet she's instantly forgiven, with barely a slap on the wrist.
Even as a 13 year old teen that always bothered me. Also the fact that she was raised to be evil yet when she meet this boy she rarely knows she and the others becomes 'good'. Which is why I instantly never watched the other movies.
Kristin Chenoweth was such an odd casting choice for Maleficent, though. It was clearly a case of, "This Broadway superstar will be in our movie, so let's give her a big role." Like she's 4'11" and sings a showtune... Pretty far from the menacing villain from Sleeping Beauty.
Giving someone a potion or putting them under a spell is kinda expected for the child of a villain.. why would she get in trouble? I thought bc he fell in love and knew about the potion it wasn’t necessary
Basically every descendants movie is Mal messing up people's lives and getting away with it because everyone just decides to not hold her accountable after a while
It just feels unoriginal and lazy tbh. They couldn’t put any effort into giving them names that were thematically appropriate and thought out, so they just nicknamed them after their parents
literally. Like, ever after hugh the superior show has one character who's name is close to her dad's, and that's Maddie Hatter, but that's mostly bc her dad is mad hatter so like not much else would work... (and bc she's just as weird as him) everyone else has a name that semi relates, but that's about it. Like, snow white's daughter is apple white, etc etc. but y'know, those are more like references to the stories themselves and bc the names are cute I'm sorry...
When I was younger the biggest thing that confused me about these movies was if the adults were immortal??? Like is Snow White really gonna be alive at the same time as cruella DeVile of Dr. Faciller??? They should’ve let ever after high run the teenage fairytale gig
Did they really? I kind of see them as bi, but will agree that she took away his choice. I also questioned that even with the potion, he wasn’t completely infatuated with her. He still focused on things outside of her. Not justifying it, but thought that was kind of interesting.
Par for the course for a movie that could be variously read as a weird and problematic kind of allegory for "Dreamers" and immigration reform, a weird and problematic allegory for intergenerational prejudice, trauma, and/or poverty; or a weird and problematic allegory for the American prison system.
I- I can’t tell if you’re joking or not lol But if you’re not, in this specific case, I’d highly doubt it as Kenny tried to push whatever queer rep he could get away with in his movies and, for Descendants, many of the cast members tried to allude to subtext as well in their characters. Descendants has some pretty roughly connected allegories that lead to bad messages but I don’t personally believe that was one of them
@@Catz1a I am kidding, but I definitely noticed the chemistry between Ben and Cameron Boyce’s character. That shoulder touch/longing stare combo is the most erotic exchange two closeted teens can have!
One thing I always hated is that, when the villains had kids, they literally just stuck the kids on the island with the parents. Did no one say ' Hey, maybe we should take these babies away from their evil manipulative families and raise them without any negative or toxic influences?'
I remember loving this franchise but Mal always ticked me off cause of how she always did outrages and possibly illegal things and would get away with it with no consequence even though the whole point of the villain kids coming to the school was to learn how to be better and not repeat their parents actions
Once Upon A Time for me is the best Disney extended universe idea because it was incredibly ridiculous and absolutely relied on you being very familiar with the franchises. I highly recc purely for the experience of watching it because it's absurd: some real fanfiction stuff happening. It gets so much more absurd as a soap opera, as a concept, AND with the Disbey properties--tour de force in "I can't believe this exists for several seasons"
I don’t know much about the other Descendants stuff but it seems like they missed a real opportunity to actually give these villain parents spouses or ex-spouses or at the very least make some of them spouses to each other. That would go a long way into at least adding some variety into those relationships
Soooooo it's revealed in the third movie mals dad is Hades, so yeah the blue fucker from Hercules was getting it on with maleficent for an unspecified period of time.
I lost my damn mind at the Hunchback sequence halfway through the video.. another of those famous "Clip Breakdown laugh until I cry moments" Thanks for being awesome as always, Nick!
I think The Beast was chosen as the King because according to the story, he was treated as a villain by the villagers for awhile and has his redemption when he met Belle, so out of all the princes, he should be the one that can be "sympathetic" to the villain and how people can change - hence his declaration letting the villain kids join the good school
The hilarious thing is he doesn't want them to join, like his first scene is him fighting against it. As someone who was unfairly shunned he should be more sympathetic but writing that would take time and brain power Disney dosen't have
nah nah nah Ben made the declaration. Beast was like "why not like, idfk all apples with hereby be free of cost because otherwise bad actors will have an incentive to poison them for profit why do you wanna let those bitches on the island l"
The idea of a show where the main characters are the children of famous fairytale villains and heroes and go to school is also stolen, prior to Descendants there was an animated show called Ever After High, similar premise but less dystopian, essentially summarized it's a school for the children of people in famous fairytales to learn how to fulfill their destinies and follow in the path of their parents, suffice it to say some of the kids didn't like the fortune they were assigned so they chose to not follow that path.
"Dopey-san" made me laugh way too much. Literally had to pause the video and get up to make food in hopes of distracting myself, and still kept giggling the whole time I was in the kitchen
Fun fact, the wooden sticks that they use in the tournament game are called hurleys. They are used in an Irish sport called hurling, which is one of the fastest field sports.
Ariel is conspicuously absent as the only official Disney Princess who was released at the time who didn't get so much as a shoutout. I'm convinced that the wheelchair-using extra with reddish hair in the first two films was going to be Ariel's daughter who got her subplot cut entirely. But yeah, one of the most iconic princesses and her story isn't repped until the sequel
Probably because you’re smart - no shade towards the siblings..but you know better. This is confusing as hell to me and I can only tolerate it because Nick is doing a clip breakdown 🙃🤣
I really stan Nick for normalizing the struggle to feed oneself. It's not that there is no food in my home: I'm just somehow incapable of summoning the wherewithal to do anything with it. I feel embarrassed about it regularly, so knowing there's another person who's executive dysfunction also makes cooking an insurmountable feat is a real comfort.
according to the comments, you are NOT alone. i'm way too old to admit this in public, but.... maybe i'll watch ever after high. multiple people are speaking very highly of it.
Actually Descendants was in production for a doll line before EAH which was being made by Mattel Darling Dollz made a great video about it that I highly recommend watching watching because they explain the whole Ever After High and Descendants being a mutual betrayal really well
I always thought this was produced solely to sell corresponding dolls so Disney could keep up with Mattel‘s Monster High line which sold so many movies and toys during that time.
It was actually about Mattel's Ever After High which was similarly themed about a school with kids of fairytale characters... but like so much better imo.
I always assumed descendants was disney's way of interfering with mattel's ever after high since there's a lot of conceptual overlap between the two. I knew there were novels but I never really considered it to be a hunger games adjacent tbh
These movies are my special interest and I can say with full certainty that they are some of the worst movies I’ve seen screenwriting wise. They have so many good ideas and such bad writing. I adore the concept and would die without these movies but I literally agree with everything you said in this review. 😂 You definitely need to do the second film and be prepared for the third to be far worse than the first.
these movies are also my special interest! it's such a mess and had so much potential and yet we got some lackluster plots and awkward dialogue. yet i would die for every single one of these characters lol
@@bunnie5394 There is so much potential that I ended up starting a rewrite of it myself. I love the universe and the characters, despite their flaws from bad writing, and nearly everything it has to offer. But the movies are just so bad! Will I watch them on repeat? Oh absolutely. But I won’t lie and a say they are a masterpiece. So I started a rewrite. It’s now 69,000 words and on chapter 7 of the first book. I made a mistake.
@@UrsulaIncorporated you're making good decisions and you should continue tbh lmfao. who knows what will come of that :) impressive tbh, i'm more of a poet cause i don't have the attention span to actually write a plot LOL
@@mightymeatymech I appreciate the compliment, lol. I haven’t posted anything yet but there is a oneshot out now. Might be my hardest project ever but probably my favorite project to date.
The first movie was something me and my sister bonded over and I wish I could bring myself to watch the third, but Cameron Boyce’s sudden death really really upset me.
@@arareanddifferenttune3130 dude I was the stunt man for that so I jumped off the set and picked up people and pretended to get slapped, genuinely the only fun number (I was chad)
My kiddo just turned 7 and she gets a yes day for her birthday so I binged all three of these movies with her. I dont know if it was my medication or my exhaustion..or both...but I started to like them. This is the weirdest part of parenting. You go in knowing its bad and you still end up liking it. 😂
I watched this for the first time this year( at age 28 I might add) and I was absolutely on the villains side. Like not only are the kids being punished for being the children of villains( a thing they can’t control) they live in abject poverty and their entire lives and are told by the ruling class that they deserve it just because. Also why in the name of all that makes sense would Bell and Beast leave their kingdom to be ruled by an immature 16 year old boy? I know the actor was like 20 something in real life but still. He’s a child. He knows nothing about anything. Much less politics. Ideally Mel making him fall in love with her could have been used by the villains so they could rule but from a distance as long as they could manipulate this child who has been giving this tremendous power with an underdeveloped frontal cortex.
17:30 the costuming is…… a LOT, but every once in a while it’s got something good going on, and i am OBSESSED with the fairy godmother’s outfit. instantly recognizable as the character without straight up putting her in a hooded robe, i’m so into it. however it is also very clearly the fairy godmother from cinderella?? not sleeping beauty?? like yeah there were fairies in sleeping beauty but they have names, and the only character referred to as a fairy godmother is the one from cinderella. i guess it would’ve been a lot to incorporate all three fairies, plus it’s pretty obvious in the film that maleficent’s magic is way stronger than theirs so like, why even bother. but idk they could’ve easily explained it as maleficent being power hungry and having a grudge against all good fairies instead of getting their own story wrong
*honestly I don’t know why they’d choose Beauty and the Beast as his parents. Like, everyone thought the Beast was a monster except Bella and her dad, wouldn’t his parents be more understanding of the villain kids???*
I had to watch this with a kid I used to babysit and all I kept thinking is who is the other parent in most of these scenarios? Like, ok Maleficent is your mom but who is your dad? Who is the other half of your DNA? I guess Maleficent used magic to make a baby.
The way I had most of the dolls and knew (and still know) all the songs and dances by heart and even wrote fanfiction at some point THE *FAN THEORIES* I MADE WENT CRAZY TOO 💀
29:41 😂😂 my snooping toddler nephew came to me the other day _convinced_ his parents hate him coz they left him home alone quite a bit. He used to ask them to leave him home alone so my sister would, but she'd be right outside the door for thirty minutes to give him a "home alone experience." He's too cute.
I had a very emotionally draining day today and this has lifted my spirits. As soon as I put on one of your videos I start smiling and laughing. I'm only 6min. in so far! 🤣 Thank you Nick!
I heard decendents was why ever after High never finished. Which is sad because as a kid I was looking forward to the crossover with monster high. Although I think once upon a time started that trend, which was ironically full of Disney characters.
May I also remind perhaps some of the younger Disney nerds, that of all the princes who were "rewarded" with a princess, Prince Phillip is the realest of them all. The part where Maleficent turns into a dragon at the end of the Descendants movie: Prince Phillip fought that dragon 1v1 to save Aurora (which I don't know if this movie even mentions Sleeping Beauty's name) and that's 100% cooler than anything the nameless princes of Cinderella and Snow White.
I would like to argue that Prince Eric actually got to know Ariel before he fell in love with her and took the whole “waking up from a trance at his own wedding to an octopus and his girlfriend turning into a fish” thing like a champ
These movies came out when I was in my early 20s and I absolutely love them (except for the third). The songs are catchy, the actors are great (at least the main cast) and I really got to love Dove through this. Learning of Cameron's death after this was heartbreaking. He was a ray of sunshine and incredibly talented. May he rest in peace 🕊️❤
I was in my mid twenties when this came out so it was way after me. I’d like to think Disney channel got worse than when I remember it, but I’m sure Brink and Luck of the Irish probably aren’t the masterpieces I remember them as lol
It’s a unique experience to have the baritone up top of the song… also odd that he was not the lead… at least in the dance have him up front to make it make sense lol
A movie about allllll the children of iconic Disney characters, set in a world with no magic? Genius. 🙄 What's next, a show about Wednesday Addams where she's actually the most normal person in a weird, magic setting?
your videos have genuinely helped me more critically analyze media i consume. so thank you for presenting your film knowledge in a hilarious and informative way
If I had a nickel for every time Disney created a piece of media based around the villains of their most popular 2-D animated films reimagined as conventionally attractive young adults attending a preparatory school, I’d have have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice.
@@hexinthelilypond4213 Twisted Wonderland. It's a mobile game and manga (soon to be an anime, supposedly). I think they did a much better job with the concept. Mal, Evie, Jay, and Audrey even have direct counterparts in Malleus, Vil, Jamil, and Silver so you can compare and contrast.
My biggest grip has to be making the Beast and Ben completely human instead of having animal tendencies due to the curse. Disney got the budget and would make Ben a lot more interesting character design and arc.
it always felt stupid that Mal had no repercussions for anything, especially drugging her boyfriend to get him to love her, I also hated how unapologetically plastic the prince's crown looked 💀
The fact that the good guys have bratty kids makes no sense. Like Chad is supposed to come out of Cinderella's gene pool? She would've raised him to be the most kind person. Instead of a jerk make him into the pet guy. Like he's way to involed with his rats and Evie is terrified but he's too dumb to realize he's freaking her out
All I can think about while hearing Nick review this is Twisted Wonderland 😭 it’s a Japanese Disney series really similar (the creator took inspiration from Descendants) but it’s anime boys in magic school and the houses/characters are based on the villains rather than them being descended from them. I like to think Nick’s quips are applicable to that too lol. But I remember being interested in the potential Descendants had but once I read the book it left a weird taste in my mouth so I never rlly revisited it past the first movie and part of the first book. Which is to say it’s nice to see Nick review smth I loved so much!! 💕
So I never watched these movies but did they ever acknowledge that technically the evil queens daughter is snow whites step sister,.like by law. Or was snow white not important enough.
Descendants is (in my opinion) capitalizing off of the "Ever After High" doll line. Which in turn was capitalizing off of the "Monster High" doll craze.
"Like it's really cool but it's really like vancouver" This made me ugly laugh. It always feels nice to be validated in how shit Vancouver (my hometown) is.
Would love to see you do the second one. I’m like a couple years too old for this franchise so I didn’t even know it happened and enjoyed the ride not knowing the plot
33:44 “my daughter was raised by fairies.” “Grandma, we say that she was adopted by a same sex couple, I’m so sorry about her. “omg I busted out laughing.
Something that I just realized is that Descendants has a major plot hole: Maleficent is killed by Prince Phillip in the OG Disney's Sleeping Beauty. They never explained how she survived nor how she met Mal's father. Also, you'd think someone as cunning as Maleficent would name her daughter something more clever instead of just Mal Eficent -.- Ursula was ALSO killed and she gets to have a daughter too.
For anyone wondering how all these dead villains reproduced; in the books they reveal that the "good guys" used magic to revive all the dead villains just so they could put them on trial and banish them to slum island forever. I feel like if magic was real, that would be against the Geneva Convention.
lucky for beast they dont have a geneva
“You thought *death* was gonna stop you from catching a legal ass beating?? FOOL”
*Geneva Suggestion.
The real reason they wanted to crush Ever After High even though it had a better premise of the fairy tales are put on for generations.
they could have just….kept them dead and the children were conceived before……………..the hoops they made to then jump thru, fumbling it.
Rest in peace, Cameron Boyce. He died when he was only 20 years old, and starting to break away from the Disney Channel. His Swan Song was even the third Descendants movie, and we never got to see him land a mature, darker role.
He had one movie runt that came out after this. It was a lot darker than descendants
I still can't believe it's four years. When I first heard about it, I thought it was a joke until looking at every news source that has sadly confirmed it. I just finished watching a news story that Angus Cloud sadly passed away not too long ago.
@@kamsismith May both Angus and Cameron rest in peace. It's so heartbreaking, they were both very young, being 25 and 20 respectively. Angus had been open with his mental health struggles, and it's been reported that he was found dead in his family home.
The fact that he died in his sleep from having a seizure kinda scares me. I mean, I had a seizure that lasted for 3 days, who knows what can happen next.
If you want to see him in a dark roll, watch Mirrors...
“Space Between” from Descendants 2 was SO queer-coded it made me cry, I wanted Mal to leave that generic prince to be with Evie. 😭
I honestly feel like the reason Ben takes such a backseat in the other two films and never gets another romantic song with Mal is because they realized he sucks lmao. But they couldn't just write him off, so they sidelined him.
Bro I wish they gave more male characters actual personality. Like Ella enchanted and ever after both had really funny princes with great chemistry with the lead, it's not that hard!
Ok, but Dove Cameron has made a lesbian lovesong called Boyfriend! So gay fr fr.
BRO DONT TALK TRASH ABOUT BEN HES TOO GOOD FOR MAL 😭
The way Mevie(Mal + Evie) could've happened if it was disney plus era!!! 😭😭
I don't get why/how almost every single major Disney character would have all had kids the same year because they are all the same age. Also, it always bothered me that Jay is a "thief"... when was Jafar a thief? Aladdin was a thief before meeting Jasmine and all that. So idk that always struck me as weird
Its so stupid. Also why does Aurora's daughter call her sleeping beauty??
@lynettebr I didn't even realize that but yes you are right! That is definitely weird. And, as Nick pointed out, it's weird that the evil queen doesn't have a name either, although idk if she ever had one in the original Snoe White. Either way, it's also weird that the evil queen is so into love. She seemed pretty against it in the original lol
yeah. I think the only time he became a thief was AFTER he got his ass yeeted because obv he's exiled from the entire city no way he's getting a job, but like... he was also only stealing for the lamp iirc. and I know that in the one scene with Jay and Jafar, Jay hands him a lamp he found bc obv Jafar wants to find the magic lamp again so he can wish himself outta here (and probably wish everyone out for ultimate chaos n shit.)
Yeah it does land badly when I think about it like that. I had assumed he was maybe trying to raise his own "diamond in the rough," to retrieve the lamp again or something.
Still I guess if that isn't is the case, points for being the only villain in the first movie who seems to love his kid.
@@kellifavazza8021 To me, it doesn’t seem that she’s into love necessarily. It seems like she’s into status and power. She doesn’t tell Evie to marry for love, but she always tells her to marry a prince. And don’t forget the mother in law wing! She mostly just wants Evie to marry someone with status so she can benefit
major emphasis on why the hell was jafar made to be an owner of a convenience store 💀 he wanted to be a king like wtf
that always bothered me when I watched this movie 🤧 also why was Jay a thief?? stealing wasn’t jafar’s thing, it was Aladdin’s
I guess all that hard work for the Sultan then failing to rule broke him both mentally and financially lol.
@@affogatoadwell we never meet Jay's mom so obvi Jafar and Aladdin coparent
It kind of reminds me of how the evil queen in one of the Shrek movies randomly decided not to be evil anymore because Justin Timberlake's character gave a weak speech, and so she's was just like ' Nevermind, I'm going to go open a spa. ' What happened to all that malicious ambition??
The dramatic irony of SPECIFICALLY Belle and Adam (Beast) being anti-redemption will never cease to be the stupidest part of this series for me
THANK you! I feel like Snow White and her Prince Charming would have been a better fit in that regard, seeing as in the older tales the evil queen was forced to dance in burning iron shoes until she died. Beauty and the Beast’s moral was antithetical to the whole “evil stays evil” conflict.
It kinda reminds me of that Little Mermaid sequel where Ariel basically forbids her daughter to go into the ocean, and I think they even build a wall. Like...the first movie didn't happen?
It kills me how the "good" characters and their kids look like they're disney bounding, the villains look like pretty good cosplayers, and the kids of the villains look like they're from Kingdom Hearts
The ghastly costume design for this franchise is not talked about enough. Also, whomever aproved of THAT Be Our Guest cover deserves to be haunted by the ghost of Howard Ashman for all eternity.
The costume designs were unique and the rendition slapped
Could we stop using a small budget as a criticism of a movie or show it’s really unfair the stylists and directors and creators had no control over that and they did their best with it
@@madnessarcade7447The costumes looked like Halloween knockoffs and the music and performances were pretty bad. In terms of budget, a lot better has been done with a lot less...
@@madnessarcade7447 the first movie was actually the most expensive disney channel original ever produced at the time. the second and third ones ended up having even higher budgets
THANK YOU! I always thought they looked a mess
@@madnessarcade7447op didn’t say anything about the stylists or directors or anyone besides specifically the person who *approved* (not created) the be our guest rendition. For all you know, the critique on the costume design could very well be a critique on the lack of funds and not the stylists themselves.
I gotta say, this movie made a terrible job making Audrey, their supposed “mean girl” unlikable. Sure, she doesn’t trust the villain kids, but since they actually are working for their evil parents and only change their minds about it at the last minute, her only crime is being right.
Apple from ever after high is a better mean girl
I wish they focused on her arc more. I wanted to see her parents and grandmother pressure her more on who they want her to be and than when she can’t she gradually loses it which leads to film three.
They could have set this up in movie 2.
Yeah it’s been a while since I’ve seen it and even then it was only once but it seems like she kinda got a really raw deal? Like you say she was right about them being nefarious (before they changed their mind at the last second) then gets her boyfriend stolen? Like damn!
Now is this based only on this movie?
@astrowolvez Yes, I have seen the third movie, if that’s what you mean, and honestly, I’m kind of on Audrey’s side even when she goes villain. Ben was her partner, the guy she thought she was going to marry, and he’s been absolutely horrible to her-sure, he was under the influence of a love spell when he confessed his love to Mal, but even after the spell wore off, he never apologized to Audrey or even spoke to her at all. He just completely ignored her for almost a year, and when she finally confronted him in the third movie, he acted like SHE should be apologizing to HIM. To make matters worse, literally everyone else is taking Ben’s side. Jane, who in the first movie seemed to be Audrey’s only real friend, wouldn’t even invite her to her birthday party. Audrey’s own grandmother was berating her and calling her a failure for all of this, despite none of it being in any way her fault. Add to that the fact that she’s been raised in a rigid, binary system where everyone is either a hero or a villain with no room for shades of gray, and it becomes clear why she’s made the choice she did. Everyone is treating her like a villain for things beyond her control, so she may as well give them a real villain and get some revenge on everyone who’s hurt her. Plus, the person we’re actually supposed to root for, Mal, is constantly acting selfish to the point of being sociopathic, so rooting for the person opposing her is sounding like an increasingly good idea.
I never forgive them for Descendants taking away the Ever After High dolls.
RIP Cameron Boyce
I'm still mad because the cartoon was starting to move into some interesting territory with it's storytelling.
@@Arella17I still want to know when Apple and Darling will realize!!!! I am so mad because I heard that the books stopped updating the story as well so even if I read… I’ll never know how it all ends…
FINALLY! Someone bringing up the fact that Descendents was literally created for the sake of drowning out EAH. All because Mattel ended their Disney Princess doll contracts. 🙄
Yesss 😭
@@starsiadrawsEAH was already down the drain when the first movie came out so that’s false 😂
The Evil Queen actually does have a name! Old publicity material and comics from around the time Snow White first released gave her the name Queen Grimhilde, but Disney never really mentioned that name since.
Well if that isn’t the most old evil crone sounding name I’ve ever heard 😂 Thanks for that info, never knew! ❤😊
Yeah, and Dove Cameron said on this commercials that Maleficient's name was a fusion of "magnificent" and "malevolent" lol.
In the stage show I'm in rn, she's listed as Queen Grimhilde
@@arareanddifferenttune3130Griemhild is also the name of a heroine in the Nibelungen song.
It's used from time to time such as the stage show but it's treated as secondary canon
I love how "evil magic" tends to take the form of desserts.
"I'm so evil" hands you a chocolate chip cookie
"Join the dark side, we have cookies!"
@@DrawciaGleam02LOL
Nah, you're totally right about that moment in the forest between Carlos and Ben being a whole gay love story. They had more chemistry in those 5 seconds than Ben and Mal did in the whole trilogy.
I REMEMBER THINKING THE EXACT SAME THING
I remember when it was a popular headcanon that Carlos was gay but then they made him like Jane in the second movie despite having little interaction in the first movie.
@@neb.9489 Carlos and Jane have a lavender-marriage sort of situation imo
I'm just saying straight men do not call other men "good boy" no matter how much of a golden retriever they are.
That was a really sweet moment
Can we talk about how Mal roofies Ben with a love potion and never really gets called out for it? Even when Ben realizes what she's done, he just kinda laughs it off and goes, "D'aaw, it's okay, Mal! Happens to the best of us! 🥰" Like bro you are WAY too chill about this girl putting a mysterious liquid into your food to get you to fall in "love" with her. ✋🏾😭 But when Uma does the same thing in Descendants 2 (albiet via a spell instead of a potion), suddenly it's wrong to bewitch someone to force them to be in love with you?? Wtf?? 💀
Also as lackluster as the whole soundtrack may be, Set It Off is lowkey kind of a bop and is still one of my favorite songs to listen to to this day
The love potion thing could have been SUCH a good moment for Mal!!! Realizing her actions have consequences and that maybe she doesn’t want to put people in harms way to get what she wants. And eventually earning back Ben’s trust would be a nice parallel to the rest of Oradon(? No idea how it’s spelled) learning that evil isn’t inherent, and that people are capable of change.
She literally drugged him and no one batted an eye WILD💀
Kristin Chenoweth is always a win, and she and Dove Cameron later played Velma and Amber in Hairspray Live. Also, it bothers me that Mal drugged Ben with a love potion, yet she's instantly forgiven, with barely a slap on the wrist.
Also, justice for Dove who shouldve been Movie Glinda BY BIRTH RIGHT
Even as a 13 year old teen that always bothered me. Also the fact that she was raised to be evil yet when she meet this boy she rarely knows she and the others becomes 'good'. Which is why I instantly never watched the other movies.
Kristin Chenoweth was such an odd casting choice for Maleficent, though. It was clearly a case of, "This Broadway superstar will be in our movie, so let's give her a big role." Like she's 4'11" and sings a showtune... Pretty far from the menacing villain from Sleeping Beauty.
Giving someone a potion or putting them under a spell is kinda expected for the child of a villain.. why would she get in trouble? I thought bc he fell in love and knew about the potion it wasn’t necessary
Basically every descendants movie is Mal messing up people's lives and getting away with it because everyone just decides to not hold her accountable after a while
I always hated that their names were so similar to their parents. I get why but it just annoys me so much.
It just feels unoriginal and lazy tbh. They couldn’t put any effort into giving them names that were thematically appropriate and thought out, so they just nicknamed them after their parents
literally. Like, ever after hugh the superior show has one character who's name is close to her dad's, and that's Maddie Hatter, but that's mostly bc her dad is mad hatter so like not much else would work... (and bc she's just as weird as him) everyone else has a name that semi relates, but that's about it. Like, snow white's daughter is apple white, etc etc.
but y'know, those are more like references to the stories themselves and bc the names are cute I'm sorry...
@@chocomelo454I get your point, but then we also have characters like Hunter Huntsman and Jillian Beanstalk 😂
@@geegeep true 😔😔
@@geegeep hunter huntsman is hilarious and I wouldn’t change it for the world
When I was younger the biggest thing that confused me about these movies was if the adults were immortal??? Like is Snow White really gonna be alive at the same time as cruella DeVile of Dr. Faciller??? They should’ve let ever after high run the teenage fairytale gig
I’m guessing they were all resurrected from the dead at some point by a wizard/witch or sum shit😭
30:06 - They were so wrong for trying to remove Ben’s gayness with a “love potion cookie.” That’s Disney coded promotion of conversion therapy.
Did they really? I kind of see them as bi, but will agree that she took away his choice.
I also questioned that even with the potion, he wasn’t completely infatuated with her. He still focused on things outside of her. Not justifying it, but thought that was kind of interesting.
Par for the course for a movie that could be variously read as a weird and problematic kind of allegory for "Dreamers" and immigration reform, a weird and problematic allegory for intergenerational prejudice, trauma, and/or poverty; or a weird and problematic allegory for the American prison system.
I- I can’t tell if you’re joking or not lol
But if you’re not, in this specific case, I’d highly doubt it as Kenny tried to push whatever queer rep he could get away with in his movies and, for Descendants, many of the cast members tried to allude to subtext as well in their characters. Descendants has some pretty roughly connected allegories that lead to bad messages but I don’t personally believe that was one of them
@@Catz1a I am kidding, but I definitely noticed the chemistry between Ben and Cameron Boyce’s character. That shoulder touch/longing stare combo is the most erotic exchange two closeted teens can have!
Ah, Disney's lesser Ever After High.
I love the costumes, but that rendition of Be Our Guest made me want to turn inside out.
One thing I always hated is that, when the villains had kids, they literally just stuck the kids on the island with the parents. Did no one say ' Hey, maybe we should take these babies away from their evil manipulative families and raise them without any negative or toxic influences?'
Oof getting into eugenic territory there.
@@amdza But then Audrey wound up being an evil sorceress for a minute, so that didn't work out too well for them. 🤣
“My daughter was raised by fairies!” “ _Grandma_ , we say that she was adopted by a same-sex couple!” I WHEEZED
no matter how many times nick says "darsney charsney," it makes me laugh uncontrollably
Not the “my hump” ringtone when Quasimodo called 😂😂😂😂😂 I laughed so hard i can’t even explain
I remember loving this franchise but Mal always ticked me off cause of how she always did outrages and possibly illegal things and would get away with it with no consequence even though the whole point of the villain kids coming to the school was to learn how to be better and not repeat their parents actions
Yeah, I could never root for Mal, because she was always acting like a freaking sociopath.
@@tsifirakiehl4250 ikr, and I've heard that she's even worse in the books
@pineapple9167 Well, that’s terrifying.
@@pineapple9167
Worse in the books?
Though the Mistress of all Evil is Mal's parent, so I see why she might have issues....
Once Upon A Time for me is the best Disney extended universe idea because it was incredibly ridiculous and absolutely relied on you being very familiar with the franchises. I highly recc purely for the experience of watching it because it's absurd: some real fanfiction stuff happening. It gets so much more absurd as a soap opera, as a concept, AND with the Disbey properties--tour de force in "I can't believe this exists for several seasons"
Oh my god, I would love if he did a whole series on that show. It's so ridiculous, but there is also a lot to appreciate from that show.
I totally agree. OUAT is far superior in regards to fairytale characters and stories.
I don’t know much about the other Descendants stuff but it seems like they missed a real opportunity to actually give these villain parents spouses or ex-spouses or at the very least make some of them spouses to each other. That would go a long way into at least adding some variety into those relationships
...and also answer the burning question of who is hooking up with these people in the first place, which is what *I* want to know.
The father of Mal is disclosed later and he's another known villain, that's all I remember from watching these soooo interesting sequels...
Soooooo it's revealed in the third movie mals dad is Hades, so yeah the blue fucker from Hercules was getting it on with maleficent for an unspecified period of time.
@@calcifiedweatherfrog4945 Everytime you spoil a movie, somewhere in the world a kitten dies.
@@PattyMatheson bro I don't think anyone give that much of a shit about spoilers for the at least 3 year old movie descendants 3
I lost my damn mind at the Hunchback sequence halfway through the video.. another of those famous "Clip Breakdown laugh until I cry moments" Thanks for being awesome as always, Nick!
That was an epic joke, the ringtone playing My Humps! 😂😂 I was dyin! 😆
I think The Beast was chosen as the King because according to the story, he was treated as a villain by the villagers for awhile and has his redemption when he met Belle, so out of all the princes, he should be the one that can be "sympathetic" to the villain and how people can change - hence his declaration letting the villain kids join the good school
The hilarious thing is he doesn't want them to join, like his first scene is him fighting against it. As someone who was unfairly shunned he should be more sympathetic but writing that would take time and brain power Disney dosen't have
nah nah nah Ben made the declaration. Beast was like "why not like, idfk all apples with hereby be free of cost because otherwise bad actors will have an incentive to poison them for profit why do you wanna let those bitches on the island l"
The idea of a show where the main characters are the children of famous fairytale villains and heroes and go to school is also stolen, prior to Descendants there was an animated show called Ever After High, similar premise but less dystopian, essentially summarized it's a school for the children of people in famous fairytales to learn how to fulfill their destinies and follow in the path of their parents, suffice it to say some of the kids didn't like the fortune they were assigned so they chose to not follow that path.
Ever After High is just so underrated.
damn it dude Ever After High was my show as a kid what sick soul cancelled it 😭
It’s TRAGIC how this shit series pretty much steamrolled Ever After High. Such an underrated series most pretty much forgot about.
The Gaston bit killed me😂 "he fell off a cliff during a rainstorm!!"
"Dopey-san" made me laugh way too much. Literally had to pause the video and get up to make food in hopes of distracting myself, and still kept giggling the whole time I was in the kitchen
Fun fact, the wooden sticks that they use in the tournament game are called hurleys. They are used in an Irish sport called hurling, which is one of the fastest field sports.
I’d love to watch this video, but I’m watching with my 17 year old daughter and she has an impassioned rebuttal approximately every 46 seconds.
Hahahah I love this
Is she a big fan of the movie?
me
Yikes that sounds like me 😅
as someone who's around the same age this is me rn cause this movie was a huge part of my childhood 😭
Yes the team dystopian craze did burn out quickly thank goodness.
I love your pfp ! I love IT and can’t wait for Welcome to Derry
“My daughter was raised by fairies!”
“Gramma, we say adopted by a same-sex couple, I am SO sorry about her.”
Legit spit out my coffee.
Wasn’t it actually a same sex throuple
@@normalhuman9878 Yup. Fauna was a total power-bottom.
They missed the opportunity to include Melody, the only Canon Disney child
Ariel is conspicuously absent as the only official Disney Princess who was released at the time who didn't get so much as a shoutout. I'm convinced that the wheelchair-using extra with reddish hair in the first two films was going to be Ariel's daughter who got her subplot cut entirely. But yeah, one of the most iconic princesses and her story isn't repped until the sequel
@gingergoddess8953 even then its technically not her story, it's Ursula's story
My siblings loved this series, I watched it with half interest bc of all the colors and costumes… and that’s all that drew me in lol
Probably because you’re smart - no shade towards the siblings..but you know better. This is confusing as hell to me and I can only tolerate it because Nick is doing a clip breakdown 🙃🤣
@@nonprofitgirl yea I mean it is a kids movie lol 😂 they are kids so they loved it.
Right, my daughter loved these movies! They are cute
I really stan Nick for normalizing the struggle to feed oneself. It's not that there is no food in my home: I'm just somehow incapable of summoning the wherewithal to do anything with it. I feel embarrassed about it regularly, so knowing there's another person who's executive dysfunction also makes cooking an insurmountable feat is a real comfort.
Descendants: Disney's response to Ever After High. Yes, I am aware it has been 7 years, I'm still bitter.
according to the comments, you are NOT alone. i'm way too old to admit this in public, but.... maybe i'll watch ever after high. multiple people are speaking very highly of it.
@@mightymeatymechhaha I, an adult, am starting to think the same
Actually Descendants was in production for a doll line before EAH which was being made by Mattel Darling Dollz made a great video about it that I highly recommend watching watching because they explain the whole Ever After High and Descendants being a mutual betrayal really well
Kathy Najimy did two Sister Acts- she wrote the book on acting with an uncomfortable neck cowl
I always thought this was produced solely to sell corresponding dolls so Disney could keep up with Mattel‘s Monster High line which sold so many movies and toys during that time.
It was actually about Mattel's Ever After High which was similarly themed about a school with kids of fairytale characters... but like so much better imo.
I always assumed descendants was disney's way of interfering with mattel's ever after high since there's a lot of conceptual overlap between the two. I knew there were novels but I never really considered it to be a hunger games adjacent tbh
These movies are my special interest and I can say with full certainty that they are some of the worst movies I’ve seen screenwriting wise. They have so many good ideas and such bad writing. I adore the concept and would die without these movies but I literally agree with everything you said in this review. 😂
You definitely need to do the second film and be prepared for the third to be far worse than the first.
these movies are also my special interest! it's such a mess and had so much potential and yet we got some lackluster plots and awkward dialogue. yet i would die for every single one of these characters lol
@@bunnie5394 There is so much potential that I ended up starting a rewrite of it myself. I love the universe and the characters, despite their flaws from bad writing, and nearly everything it has to offer. But the movies are just so bad! Will I watch them on repeat? Oh absolutely. But I won’t lie and a say they are a masterpiece.
So I started a rewrite. It’s now 69,000 words and on chapter 7 of the first book. I made a mistake.
@@UrsulaIncorporated you're making good decisions and you should continue tbh lmfao. who knows what will come of that :)
impressive tbh, i'm more of a poet cause i don't have the attention span to actually write a plot LOL
@@mightymeatymech I appreciate the compliment, lol. I haven’t posted anything yet but there is a oneshot out now. Might be my hardest project ever but probably my favorite project to date.
The first movie was something me and my sister bonded over and I wish I could bring myself to watch the third, but Cameron Boyce’s sudden death really really upset me.
I was in the play of this and the visceral cringe and flashbacks I get from this series cannot be remedied
Omg what was having to the the Rotten to the Core number like?? 😂😂 I can’t even imagine
@@arareanddifferenttune3130 dude I was the stunt man for that so I jumped off the set and picked up people and pretended to get slapped, genuinely the only fun number (I was chad)
@@leojolson4841 this is incredible! I love it 😆
“Like it’s really cool but it’s really Vancouver”. Vancouver better thank you for their new tourism slogan
My kiddo just turned 7 and she gets a yes day for her birthday so I binged all three of these movies with her. I dont know if it was my medication or my exhaustion..or both...but I started to like them. This is the weirdest part of parenting. You go in knowing its bad and you still end up liking it. 😂
I totally get, my friend and I watched the first two movies when they first came out and liked them, they’re definitely so bad they’re good movies.
I watched this for the first time this year( at age 28 I might add) and I was absolutely on the villains side. Like not only are the kids being punished for being the children of villains( a thing they can’t control) they live in abject poverty and their entire lives and are told by the ruling class that they deserve it just because. Also why in the name of all that makes sense would Bell and Beast leave their kingdom to be ruled by an immature 16 year old boy? I know the actor was like 20 something in real life but still. He’s a child. He knows nothing about anything. Much less politics. Ideally Mel making him fall in love with her could have been used by the villains so they could rule but from a distance as long as they could manipulate this child who has been giving this tremendous power with an underdeveloped frontal cortex.
I firmly believe that the perfect twist for Evie’s romance would have been her falling in live with a PRINCESS instead.
17:30 the costuming is…… a LOT, but every once in a while it’s got something good going on, and i am OBSESSED with the fairy godmother’s outfit. instantly recognizable as the character without straight up putting her in a hooded robe, i’m so into it. however it is also very clearly the fairy godmother from cinderella?? not sleeping beauty?? like yeah there were fairies in sleeping beauty but they have names, and the only character referred to as a fairy godmother is the one from cinderella. i guess it would’ve been a lot to incorporate all three fairies, plus it’s pretty obvious in the film that maleficent’s magic is way stronger than theirs so like, why even bother. but idk they could’ve easily explained it as maleficent being power hungry and having a grudge against all good fairies instead of getting their own story wrong
OMG - Quasimodo - you're killing me Nick lol. Also, Cameron was clearly so talented and I was legit sad when I heard of him dying.
Mulan didn't even have a choppy black bob, why did they have to do that to Lonnie to begin with, as the one East Asian character :/
Its booboo stuart doing the "rotten to the core" chorus, not Cameron
*honestly I don’t know why they’d choose Beauty and the Beast as his parents. Like, everyone thought the Beast was a monster except Bella and her dad, wouldn’t his parents be more understanding of the villain kids???*
Cameron Boyce’s death broke my heart. he was so young and seemed like he was kind and talented
I had to watch this with a kid I used to babysit and all I kept thinking is who is the other parent in most of these scenarios? Like, ok Maleficent is your mom but who is your dad? Who is the other half of your DNA? I guess Maleficent used magic to make a baby.
You gotta watch the later movies for that answer. Mal's dad is a trip and a half.
The way this franchise consumed my life. Rip Cameron
The way I had most of the dolls and knew (and still know) all the songs and dances by heart and even wrote fanfiction at some point THE *FAN THEORIES* I MADE WENT CRAZY TOO 💀
I feel like this was a really fun premise that was mostly wasted. The 2nd movie was a lot of fun, though.
If dreamworks did it it would be so much better
Uma elevated the franchise for sure
Fr the second one was fun as hell at the time the third one was alright but I think what Audrey did was justified tbh
the ongoing “darsney charsney” bit was so good lol that’s how I will be referring to the Disney Channel from now on😂🤣
29:41 😂😂 my snooping toddler nephew came to me the other day _convinced_ his parents hate him coz they left him home alone quite a bit. He used to ask them to leave him home alone so my sister would, but she'd be right outside the door for thirty minutes to give him a "home alone experience." He's too cute.
You have no idea how pumped I am to see you covering this one
Same!!
This damn movie. I worked at the Halloween store right after college and this damn thing was what Karens fought over in 2015.
I had a very emotionally draining day today and this has lifted my spirits. As soon as I put on one of your videos I start smiling and laughing. I'm only 6min. in so far! 🤣 Thank you Nick!
"They say I'm trouble. They say I'm bad.
They say I'm evil. And that makes me a little bit
LA LA LALA LA LALA
A little bit Alexis."
I heard decendents was why ever after High never finished. Which is sad because as a kid I was looking forward to the crossover with monster high.
Although I think once upon a time started that trend, which was ironically full of Disney characters.
I'm so happy I grew up with Dcoms like cadet Kelly and Zenon. Descendants is a mess. But I like Dove Cameron!
Descendants is lowkey so nostalgic though even if it is messy as hell I miss the hype around it everyone has different nostalgia🤷♀️
Yes! I would totally run with the gay vibes in my head with them as a young teen lol
May I also remind perhaps some of the younger Disney nerds, that of all the princes who were "rewarded" with a princess, Prince Phillip is the realest of them all. The part where Maleficent turns into a dragon at the end of the Descendants movie: Prince Phillip fought that dragon 1v1 to save Aurora (which I don't know if this movie even mentions Sleeping Beauty's name) and that's 100% cooler than anything the nameless princes of Cinderella and Snow White.
I would like to argue that Prince Eric actually got to know Ariel before he fell in love with her and took the whole “waking up from a trance at his own wedding to an octopus and his girlfriend turning into a fish” thing like a champ
@@normalhuman9878 That is fair, Eric went through a whole lot to earn his trophy wife!
Lmaooo the “are you telling me evil queen is her government name” sent meeeee 😂
These movies came out when I was in my early 20s and I absolutely love them (except for the third). The songs are catchy, the actors are great (at least the main cast) and I really got to love Dove through this.
Learning of Cameron's death after this was heartbreaking. He was a ray of sunshine and incredibly talented. May he rest in peace 🕊️❤
I was in my mid twenties when this came out so it was way after me. I’d like to think Disney channel got worse than when I remember it, but I’m sure Brink and Luck of the Irish probably aren’t the masterpieces I remember them as lol
Lol I've rewatched them as an adult and they aren't. Still tons of fun though
My little cousin is obsessed with the descendants and she forced me to watch this with her. I lasted 10 minutes
“I came up with a line … so I’m smarter than Disney.” 🤣🤣💀
It’s a unique experience to have the baritone up top of the song… also odd that he was not the lead… at least in the dance have him up front to make it make sense lol
I'm 99% sure based on an interview I saw years ago that Jay/Booboo Stewart is the one who sings that part of the song
A movie about allllll the children of iconic Disney characters, set in a world with no magic? Genius. 🙄 What's next, a show about Wednesday Addams where she's actually the most normal person in a weird, magic setting?
your videos have genuinely helped me more critically analyze media i consume. so thank you for presenting your film knowledge in a hilarious and informative way
I thought my phone was ringing because my ring tone is also ‘my hump’
I always thought the "I'm rotten to the core" growling thing was Booboo Stewart but I could totally be wrong
If I had a nickel for every time Disney created a piece of media based around the villains of their most popular 2-D animated films reimagined as conventionally attractive young adults attending a preparatory school, I’d have have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice.
What was the other one?
@@hexinthelilypond4213 its a mobile game called twisted wonderland
@@hexinthelilypond4213 Twisted Wonderland. It's a mobile game and manga (soon to be an anime, supposedly). I think they did a much better job with the concept. Mal, Evie, Jay, and Audrey even have direct counterparts in Malleus, Vil, Jamil, and Silver so you can compare and contrast.
the lead vocal for rotten to the core that keeps playing is booboo stewart btw
Tbh I think this should have been animated and I always found it weird that they went the live action route
Hey Nick perfect timing. Ive been having such a horrid day. I get to veg out n hopefully laugh. You usually make me laugh so thank you..
My biggest grip has to be making the Beast and Ben completely human instead of having animal tendencies due to the curse. Disney got the budget and would make Ben a lot more interesting character design and arc.
They kind of get into that in the sequels
I swear every time I watch one of Nicks videos, my sense of humor improves.
Ps the makeup is very pretty and you look especially nice today! 😊
it always felt stupid that Mal had no repercussions for anything, especially drugging her boyfriend to get him to love her, I also hated how unapologetically plastic the prince's crown looked 💀
21:25 I’m glad I’m not the only one that couldn’t understand what Doug was saying in that clip😭
The fact that the good guys have bratty kids makes no sense. Like Chad is supposed to come out of Cinderella's gene pool? She would've raised him to be the most kind person. Instead of a jerk make him into the pet guy. Like he's way to involed with his rats and Evie is terrified but he's too dumb to realize he's freaking her out
"Grandma, we say she was adopted by a same sex couple" I lost my shit 😂😂😂😂
All I can think about while hearing Nick review this is Twisted Wonderland 😭 it’s a Japanese Disney series really similar (the creator took inspiration from Descendants) but it’s anime boys in magic school and the houses/characters are based on the villains rather than them being descended from them. I like to think Nick’s quips are applicable to that too lol. But I remember being interested in the potential Descendants had but once I read the book it left a weird taste in my mouth so I never rlly revisited it past the first movie and part of the first book. Which is to say it’s nice to see Nick review smth I loved so much!! 💕
So I never watched these movies but did they ever acknowledge that technically the evil queens daughter is snow whites step sister,.like by law. Or was snow white not important enough.
Descendants is (in my opinion) capitalizing off of the "Ever After High" doll line. Which in turn was capitalizing off of the "Monster High" doll craze.
To be fair, Beast is a prince in the original story, it kinda makes sense he'd be royalty
100% unwilling to watch these 3 movies myself, but I was absolutely hype that you are doing them.
Poor booboo stewart, went from twilight series to the descendants series. My neechii cant cacth a break in good projects 😭
"Like it's really cool but it's really like vancouver"
This made me ugly laugh. It always feels nice to be validated in how shit Vancouver (my hometown) is.
I’m so glad you said “Darsney Charsney” again because I get you chanting that phrase in my head sometimes. It’s weird lol
Looks like this was filmed at Casa Loma, the castle in Toronto. Beautiful and open to the public.
Would love to see you do the second one. I’m like a couple years too old for this franchise so I didn’t even know it happened and enjoyed the ride not knowing the plot
33:44 “my daughter was raised by fairies.”
“Grandma, we say that she was adopted by a same sex couple, I’m so sorry about her. “omg I busted out laughing.
19:30 This was the Ship that should've.
Hope Nick let's us know how it goes + grows + flows with Sully.
Something that I just realized is that Descendants has a major plot hole: Maleficent is killed by Prince Phillip in the OG Disney's Sleeping Beauty. They never explained how she survived nor how she met Mal's father. Also, you'd think someone as cunning as Maleficent would name her daughter something more clever instead of just Mal Eficent -.-
Ursula was ALSO killed and she gets to have a daughter too.
If you watch the house of mouse/ villians special its a callback to a joke in that on who her parents are lol
@@museoftheheart3041LMAO
psst, the father thing is brought up in the third movie and you DON'T WANT to know who that is and how!
@@darthtepesTrue, but shouldn't that have been tackled in the first movie or something?
@mariaarzeno9251 well, it's up to those who wrote the script 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️