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Descendants 3 (2019)
A good concept with terrible execution
My rating is low because I've seen the majority praising the movie and an overall rating of 7.6 for Descendant 3 is insane. I admit the songs are great, the message is good, but even if it's Disney and it most likely cater to younger audiences, this poor writing and the amount of plot holes are inexcusable.
Usually, I don't write reviews for movies, but I had high expectations for this one because I like the concept of villains turning good, fairy-tales having twists, etc. This movie had the potential to be great, but it failed at it miserable from multiple points.
The plot is a mess and the characters' actions make no sense. I've heard this is an adaptation from a novel, so a lot of things could have been emitted and changed. It is possible that books actually had a good reason for whatever was happening, but that was never explained in the movie. So I'm going off from only knowing the movies.
Let's start with the characters, their actions, and background, and their connections to the plot.
Audrey: Although a bit better, but just like the others, she has know idea how to be a good villain. Here are the reasons
1. (1. is more a spoiler because it wasn't in the music video) Audrey hates the VKs, but only turns Mal old and doesn't do anything to the others
2.Audrey makes the knight's armors fight when she could have just turn the VKs to stone like she did later on. She also does nothing to Uma after seeing that somehow Uma makes Mal stronger
Now, moving to a new character.
Hades: Leaving Greek mythology aside and looking at the Hades from Hercules, there are a lot of things that doesn't make sense regarding him.
1. In Descendant 1, the barrier came down for a few minutes. Maleficent flew out to attack Auradon. Hades, being a god and having his ember, clearly could have escaped, so why didn't he?
2. Why does he even need an ember in the first place when both in the Greek mythology and in the Hercules movie he didn't need one?
3. Why is Hades on the Isle instead of Tartarus If he was deemed so dangerous? Who even managed to imprison him and how does the Isle even able to contain him? It couldn't have been the fairy wand that made force field since a fairy's power cannot be stronger than a god's. Also, who manages the Underworld and what happens to the dead if their ruler is imprisoned? Did they capture all the Underworld gods and creatures who served Hades? If not, the world should already be in chaos.
Moving on to Mal:
1. Considering how powerful her mother's scepter was and how completely unguarded it was, after failing to get the wand, why didn't she think to get her mother's scepter in the first movie, turn everyone to stone, get the wand, and then take down the barrier? And also, why didn't no one increase the security considering how scared they were of Uma and other VKs?
2. Hades said she is Half Hades, so why is she so weak? When Hercules only had a bit of his godliness left, he could easily lift statues, vehicles,etc. Yet Mal, who is a demigod, has absolutely no power and couldn't even defeat Uma in Descendant 2.
3. (3 is more a spoiler since it wasn't in the music video) When all of Auradon was in danger and she was clearly losing, she didn't think of flying to Hades and bringing him out to easily defeat Audrey and turn everything back to normal, but when Audrey, now a villain, was about to die, she was willing to risk to bringing Hades out. Makes no sense just like her idea to close the barrier forever, considering that Hades is her dad and she trusts him enough to go to Auradon and save a villain (Audrey)
As for the ending, I get that it wanted to point out the hypocrisy, but the fact that Audrey wasn't punished at all whatsoever and that her not dying is considered a good deed done by Hades makes no sense. Cinderella's stepmom and step-sisters were imprisoned for being abusive only, and yet the one who dishonored her own mother by going complete Maleficent on them and put everyone at danger faces no punishment. This is ridiculous just as releasing all the villains. That's literally what Maleficent wanted. Were they only afraid of her and Hades or why was it ok to release imprisoned villains with their full power without taking any measures to protect themselves against said villains?
Also, considering how every time Auradon is in danger, they have to rely on the VKS, I really wonder how in the world did they imprison Hades or other powerful individuals.