Will anyone be tuning into Disney's Descendants?

(Disclaimer: I checked five pages into the message boards and didn't see a thread about this yet, so sorry if I did miss it.)

Anyway, Disney Channel's Descendants movie seems to be fusing Ever After High dolls with High School Musical to create the ultimate piece of teen fan-fiction. While I think the...shall we say...artistic decisions made for this film are quite warped, I am interested in the music. Apparently, Kristin Chenoweth as Maleficent (!!!) gets a big solo number, etc. If only the execution behind the interesting ideas made some sense. I may still tune in out of pure curiosity.

What about all of you?

Honestly, I'm very curious so I'll give it a chance. Mostly for Kenny Ortega, Kristin Chenoweth, and the fact this it's a musical and isn't being promoted as one like HSM or their Teen Beach series which are clearly musicals.

The names made me roll my eyes at first, but honestly it helped me remember who their parent was. lol. The costumes for the Auradon (?) Prep students (sons and daughters of the Disney prince/sses) are nice, and I don't mind the look for Maleficent or Jafar. I listened to a preview of "Evil Like Me" and IDK what to think until I see it in context. But the fact that Jafar is out of the lamp, Evil Queen is not dead after her fall as the old hag, etc. bothered me a bit. But again, I don't mind that on Once Upon A Time but this is kiddie.

Here is an article profiling the score; it appears to have been done by several musicians including Andrew Lippa!

Updated On: 7/7/15 at 07:39 PM

I wasn't planning on watching this, but looking into it, I'm also very curious. My step sister still loves Disney Channel, so I'll have to ask for the lowdown, I might even watch it with her when it comes on.

Disney's descendants.

Update: As a collector of all things Disney, I must say that the merchandise showing up for this is really quite good. Retail PR at its finest...

I watched it last week with the Watch Disney app and exceeded my expectations...it was horse ****

Does hate watching it count? Because I would hate watch it SO HARD, and then hate myself in the morning and promise myself to never do it again.

0:25 to 0:35

I watched it last night and I was less than impressed, which is what I expected. I thought Chenoweth was the highlight and I really enjoyed her song. The other 1 hour and 45 minutes was standard Disney Channel bubblegum pop crap. I thought this was such an interesting concept, but it just failed in execution. As good as Kristin's song was, it felt to sophisticated compared to what surrounded it. If only Lippa had written the entire score, it could have at least had more than one catchy tune. I probably would have enjoyed Kathy Najimy if she had gotten any once of a character to play.

I thought I got out of watching this, seeing as my parents and I went to Idina's concert last night, but I woke up today to find that my mom had recorded it for the family to watch. (Even though my younger brothers had already seen it last night.)


Anyway, having watched a good 3/4 of the movie earlier, I can easily say that High School Musical was worlds better than this crap. (Even Teen Beach Movie was better.) The songs are strange. Kristin Chenoweth, while certainly trying her best to ham up her role (and also being the only singer to not have her voice drowned in autotune), wasn't enough to save what ultimately felt like a twelve-year-old's "modern high school AU" fanfiction featuring the kids of all the classic Disney characters.


The only member of the cast that I saw any promise from was Dove Cameron. I could see her being G(a)linda in the Wicked film, if it ever gets made in time.

For people in this thread saying this is crap and questioning artistic choices etc, apparently you are not the target audience. Per BWW, the show delivered ratings for Disney! But what a bunch of...lol

PS: Haven't heard of the show till now, no interest in seeing the show just nauseous of all the blah blah blah in this thread!

Updated On: 8/2/15 at 12:25 PM