'Descendants: The Rise of Red' Movie Reviews

The Descendants series is back! With horrible plotholes, forgettable songs, and Rita Ora for some reason? Out of Wonderland comes our new main VK hero, Red, as she messes with time and our eyeballs with all these bright, monochromatic outfits.
Here are some of the most fun/interesting reviews of Descendants 4 that I found on Letterboxd. Enjoy! (some reviews have been edited by me for length purposes)
 

[palinurus]

The only things I know about this movie are:
1. The wigs just kept changing?
2. Time travel??
3. "Call us Jalladdin"

[purgatoryproductions]

3:08 to be fair, the rest of the main cast didn’t want to come back after cameron boyce’s passing, so i can’t fault them for that.

[RubyP]

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.

[wintersnow]

_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.

[TheRealSuperKirby]

4:10 THANK YOU. This wasnt just a mediocre movie, it utterly destroyed the premise of the entire franchise.

[rosykindbunny]

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.

[arrow_of_ravenclaw]

The minute the movie was over, I went to ao3 to find fix it fics

[SkellSeer]

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

[Emma.Lou]

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.

[_.z._]

0:58 the weirdest was that bridget and ella had chemistry but so did their kids???? it wad so odd

[CreativaArtly]

The opening of this movie made me cry. “Do it for Carlos.” I was bawling.

[giantpinkcat]

*insert comparison to Ever After High here*

[Honestmairda]

2:00
Dawg EVERYONE in Ulianas Gang needed more screen time

[theotherjared]

Descendants is Disney's next high school musical. They let the last one go out with dignity, but now they will milk this one for all its worth.

[ARandomYoutuber]

3:46
people forget that adoption exists
4:56 they were married before! Then he dipped, lol he literally said “try being married to your mama”

[Dolphin]

The implication of saying that this movie isn't 1000x gayer than the first three is crazy

[LukasDilonardo]

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

[MLBeditsU-bcsp]

by far, my favorite revie has to have been

"kenny ortega if you can hear us please kenny ortega please save me please save me kenny ortega"

[fukushuu_bara]

if we get a 5th movie with this cast, i'm going to scream.

edit: by cast, i mean red, chloe, bridgette, etc, not kylie, malia, china, etc

[squid-]

all i could think about while watching that movie was where the heck chad spawned from.