Without any further ado, some of this was hard to watch, especially the bits with Carlos (Cameron Boyce), who unexpectedly died in July.
This is Disney's third 'normally blue but now has a human skintone' character in a live action movie this year, after "Kim Possible" and "Aladdin".
One thing that continues to annoy me is the inconsistency of the characters between the book, webisode, and movie medium. Freddie Facilier doesn't exist in this verse, but Celia Facilier does.
Mal and Ben are getting married, and they're like...what, 17? You're a child. Stop.
Also, it took so long to film this, Doug, the son of Dopey, now looks like a middle aged man.
Essentially, you can sum up this movie as 'White girl from slums colonizes a black girl's birthright', but it wasn't really her birthright.But that's more an instance that this series was full of colorblind casting - Lady Tremaine is East Asian and her granddaughter Dizzy is white.
Though, there is a moment with a photo that shows a young Ben and Audrey...but the little girl is white, so. Well, I guess Disney hoped the fans would be as stupid and incessantly pro-white as they are for their Animated Canon princesses.
The songs, that's why we're here, right?
"Good to Be Bad" is fine, "Queen of Mean" is amazing, especially the second part. There's a duet between Mal and Hades - her father. It's okay, Hades himself is hilarious.
I'm more struck that it took about 25 minutes to get to the third song.
The song all the kids sing while fighting the knights is pretty kickass (I don't know what most of these are called yet).
I'm glad Sofia Carson gets a solo song as I do think she's the most capable singer of the Rotten 4. I don't care too much about the subject matter.
They always give Dove some weird poppy solo in the 3rd act and it never works. Give her something better to sing, and the ending song is always blandly saccharine.
These songs are much better than Descendants 1, but that's not saying a whole bunch. They are quite enjoyable!
It's very much a Mal / Hades / Uma (whom I love) / Audrey show, though I am happy that Uma's sidekicks return.
I laughed harder than I should have when Celia destroys the Macguffin on a whim like that.
Mal *intends* to apologize to Audrey for stealing her life, but she doesn't actually *do* so. It's the thought that counts, I guess.
It's an interesting plot and twist, and it's still a DCOM at heart and a fine ending.
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