Descendants: Rise of a faux-edgiest franchise

It's today that the 4th line of the Descendants movie franchise make its official release, but unlike the three past movies that have premiered all on Disney Channel, the film is set to Disney+ before its linear TV release. 

Regarding your thoughts with these kind of movies, it's another murky example of a corporative company of entertainment that is desperate for such form of originality or style. The word "style" seems to be inexistant with this universe that consists of sons and daughters of the Disney's Villains, but, (And especially to the girls!) their way to dressed seems to encapsulate all the problems with this movie series and part why no one from the animation community will wasting their times in. It's all bogged down that don't looks to them like humans but clowns that were comes from cheap summer theatre plays. Kinda odd that Disney pretending to have investing lots of money to these features for a fraction of the payoff, if critics were rarely favorable with these kinds of cosplay things.

When the first Descendants movie was released in summer 2015, it has gotten the most biggest ratings in Disney Channel history for that time. But times passed by, and the fourth installment is exclusive to those who own Disney+, which makes a big disservice to fans who have parents who don't got the streaming service. It's very apparent that the Descendants movie franchise really appeal to a faux-edgiest audience that never seems to exists. Or those who were stuck to what was "edgy" in the early-00s but sound to look stupid and hokey in 2024. It's as if Disney still desperate to get the monopoly of narratives by steal ideas from creators people all around, as they never bothers to will.

There was a time where the works of Disney means only for animation and movies. And a little of amusement park between. Now all that have changed. They own Marvel. They thrown away all the artistic edge of Star Wars by their own trilogy of movies and spin-offs that exists only for make the company greedy of money. And gave lots of collateral damages and lack of control to their employees and artists by even put any minute change as they want, which meant the creative pace of what have made the studio's reputation emblematic in the old days is nowhere to be found now. Walt, Roy or anyone from the Nine Old Men will sure turn to their graves to what the current studio has done to their hard-earned work. And who ever ask a live-action remake of the Walt Disney's most ambitious movie project, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?

As if own a level of sincerity is too hard on this superficial world of entertainment world. Disney movies have give up to own favorable reviews from movie critics and moviegoers for some quite time and Pixar are stuck with its set of sequels for many years. Thankfully, we got a brand-new Traditional Donald Duck short name D.I.Y. Duck directed by modern-day Disney veteran Mark Hen, whom have animated all his own the Mickey's Christmas Carol animated sequence where Mickey Mouse was in full-slow tears in front of the Tiny Tim grave. Such elegant and natural moments like this one would never be achieved today without any form of sheer snarkiness or cynicism.

P.S.: If it really is Mark Hen's final project of his Disney career, then, he really have accomplish it with this short. Fully recommanded to take a look on. It's the most sincere throwback for the Donald Duck cartoon career at its peak years: The 1940s and 50s.