Posted: 8/2/15 at 12:25pm
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
Posted: 8/2/15 at 12:26pm
So people who are fans of Broadway and musicals are not the target audience? Would you mind explaining who is the target audience then?
Posted: 8/2/15 at 12:29pm
Blah blah blah blah
Updated On: 8/2/15 at 12:29 PM
Posted: 8/2/15 at 1:48pm
Was an audience member at THE VIEW last Wednesday and they gave us a voucher/order form for the dvd. So I will see it in about 4 to 6 weeks when it arrives.
Posted: 8/2/15 at 2:37pm
"So people who are fans of Broadway and musicals are not the target audience? Would you mind explaining who is the target audience then?"
Children and tweens who are fans of Disney.
It's the Disney Channel.
Posted: 8/2/15 at 4:08pm
I grew up in the "golden" era of DCOMs and Disney Channel series (which, yeah, were incredibly corny but actually nailed the whole growing-up-is-imperfect-and-awkward thing pretty accurately). I'm in my twenties now and still watch the channel just for old reruns and for Girl Meets World, and I've caught snippets of their recent programming- such a drop in quality from what I remember.
That said, I wanted to like this movie for nostalgia's sake, I really did, but it was just not very good. At all. I think what really pushed it over the edge for me was the horrific Pitch-Perfect-ization of "Be Our Guest".
Posted: 8/2/15 at 4:40pm
"I grew up in the "golden" era of DCOMs and Disney Channel series (which, yeah, were incredibly corny but actually nailed the whole growing-up-is-imperfect-and-awkward thing pretty accurately). I'm in my twenties now and still watch the channel just for old reruns and for Girl Meets World, and I've caught snippets of their recent programming- such a drop in quality from what I remember.
That said, I wanted to like this movie for nostalgia's sake, I really did, but it was just not very good. At all. I think what really pushed it over the edge for me was the horrific Pitch-Perfect-ization of "Be Our Guest". "
Girl Meets World is the only thing worth watching on that channel anymore. Kids deserve so much better than shows like Dog With a Blog and Jessie.
Updated On: 8/2/15 at 04:40 PM
Posted: 8/2/15 at 4:45pm
"For people in this thread saying this is crap and questioning artistic choices etc, apparently you are not the target audience."
And you are? So you must be about 12, considering your "blah blah blah" comment.
I'm a Disney fan and worked for them earlier in my life. So, I can speak with some authority on anything Disney.
What are your qualifications, ebontoyan?
Posted: 8/2/15 at 4:51pm
We have to list our qualifications to critique Disney now?
Posted: 8/2/15 at 4:52pm
eyeroll,sarcasm, thank you for the one who said I'm 12 blah blah blah blah blah lol lol
Updated On: 8/2/15 at 04:52 PM
Posted: 8/2/15 at 5:11pm
You certainly act like it.
And, no, CouldBeWorse, you don't need qualifications to have an opinion. But it helps, because ignorance is a waste of board space.
Posted: 8/2/15 at 5:25pm
And your qualifications are what again??! Former Disney employees are either blind loyal or disgruntled lol lol Doesn't mean much of anything to me!!
PS: Free country I can write whatever opinion I have. Nobody tells me what to say, much less you. Who made you the board police anyways??! Oh btw plz feel free to block me! lol
Updated On: 8/2/15 at 05:25 PM
Posted: 8/2/15 at 11:34pm
I loved it and it gave me HSM feels. Most likely because it was directed by Kenny Ortega
Posted: 8/3/15 at 5:27pm
I have one burning question for those of you who saw it: did they explain how the villains had kids, or was it just mitotic?
Posted: 8/3/15 at 5:28pm
I must admit..."Evil Like Me" is pretty darn catchy.
I actually REALLY like that song!
Posted: 8/3/15 at 9:33pm
"Oh btw plz feel free to block me!"
Why? I get a good laugh out of your posts?
I hate when school is out and the kids fill the boards with their nonsense.
Posted: 8/3/15 at 9:38pm
"I have one burning question for those of you who saw it: did they explain how the villains had kids, or was it just mitotic?"
Midi-chlorians!
Posted: 8/3/15 at 9:38pm
what r u, 60??! lol I am amazed by the stupidity...but oh well
Posted: 8/3/15 at 9:44pm
"what r u, 60??! lol I am amazed by the stupidity...but oh well"
And I'm delighted by your spelling and use of the English language.
Posted: 8/4/15 at 3:55am
I'm someone who really wanted to like this movie, I was excited about it, I love twists on fairytales and taking them beyond their original stories but this movie was so half-assed. I was so disappointed in Disney. The script was terrible, the plot was strange, all over the place, and resolved in literally about 2 minutes out of nowhere, and they only skimmed the thinnest layer of the surface as to what they had available to them character wise, and then there was the sets and costumes. The costumes legitimately looked like knock offs you'd get from a cheap halloween costume company, and the sets really weren't much better. This had potential to be wonderful and I really wanted it to be, but it's like they wanted the premise to do all the work and didn't even try
Posted: 8/4/15 at 1:37pm
Okay, so I was perusing the "Junior Novel" of the film in the store and they made Cinderella's child out to be a complete tool?! That did NOT sit well with me, so I came up with a theory...
First problem- the Fairy Godmother is obviously much older than Cindy, so it would be very improbable for them both to have kids around the same age. If we're going to say "screw logic" anyway...did anybody notice how detached Jane seemed from the FG? It is my suspicion that after the events of the original story, at least in this Descendants AU, the Godmother suggested a payback from Cinderella as a proverbial thanks for her help.
Since the Fairy Godmother was too old to have children of her own, she forces Cindy into giving up her firstborn. Cinderella and Charming have boy-girl twins, the girl is born first, and the FG takes her to raise as her own. Cinderella is left with that jerk Chad for a son. Years later, at Prince Ben's coronation, Jane asks her adoptive parent to put her in a dress that Mother would have worn. I don't think it's a coincidence that Jane's coronation outfit in the movie resembles Cindy's ballgown.
Possible sequel plot? [/crazy fan theories]
Posted: 8/4/15 at 4:42pm
I had no idea anyone would actually take this alternate universe tv movie targeted to children and tweens so seriously and so angrily.
Posted: 8/4/15 at 6:12pm
Only when it comes to Cinderella, Scotty. Haha. This is all in good fun, no anger intended- but I do take her character a bit seriously...!
Posted: 8/4/15 at 7:28pm
I find it funny that so many have said that they wanted to love it but ended up hating it... meanwhile I had ZERO faith in the movie since I first heard about it over a year ago and I am the one that came out loving it in the end.
I think my appreciation for it however comes a lot from the disappointment over all their other attempts to recapture what they had with High School Musical. Camp Rock is boring to me. Lemonade Mouth was okay but just didn't take off. And Teen Beach Movie I was so excited for but man it is BAD. Especially the second one. That ending. Ugh. Descendants is the closest they have come. Personally I think I like it better then High School Musical because if I am gonna have to sit through a musical about high school drama, I’d much rather see it with magic and fairy tales in the mix.
Is it a work of art? No. Are there a lot of plot holes? Yes. But it's clearly an AU setting to all these fairytales to the fact that really go out there with some of them is okay with me. If we are being REALLY honest... the whole this is a flat out copy of the idea from the Ever After High doll line/web series... but it still works. I find it hard to pin point exactly what I liked about it. I guess you have to sort of accept that these are a form of the Disney characters we know and yet it is not them at the same time. After all, most of these villains would be dead long before having kids let along raising them if this was something that was canon.
Oh.... but the lip sinking was really REALLY bad. Nothing will fix that.
Posted: 8/4/15 at 9:20pm
" Since the Fairy Godmother was too old to have children of her own, she forces Cindy into giving up her firstborn. Cinderella and Charming have boy-girl twins, the girl is born first, and the FG takes her to raise as her own. Cinderella is left with that jerk Chad for a son. Years later, at Prince Ben's coronation, Jane asks her adoptive parent to put her in a dress that Mother would have worn. I don't think it's a coincidence that Jane's coronation outfit in the movie resembles Cindy's ballgown.
Possible sequel plot? [/crazy fan theories]"
I'd be down for that if Fairy Godmother's daughter wasn't the only kid in the cast who actually resembled her parent.
