Small Rant and Review: Disney's Decendants

With news of Descendants 3, I thought we'd look back at the original one. For those of you that don't know, let's look at the poster.

Let's get this straight, I hate this movie because it's the poorest, tone deaf writing I have ever seen from a DCOM. I'm not just talking about tone deaf in terms of music - though I can make an argument against their version of "Be Our Guest" and the opening "Rotten to the Core" - I'm talking about terms of poorly made plot. Let's look at the following scenario.

The good United States government brings the military into the Indian Reservation and orders them to bring forth their children in order to be educated into a superior society in a school hundreds if not thousands of miles away from home. If they do not comply, then the reservation is lost.

Let's mold this into the plot of Descendants

The good United States of Auradon brings the royal guards and workers into the Isle of the Lost and orders them to bring forth their children in order to be educated into a good society hundreds if not thousands of miles away from home.

Sure, there is the argument that they're simply removing the children from a bad home, after all, the Isle of the Lost lacks electricity, unspoiled food, and clean water, but Auradon is the reason why they're there in the first place with their choice to banish the villains to the Isle of the Lost, making the Indian Reservation analogy more legitimate.

"But wait, Mr. Stranger, only Disney villains were brought back from death and/or banished off to the Isle of the Lost. Aren't you equating a shapeshifting psycho dragon with a common Native American?"

To this, I say that this leads into my next complaint: showing rather than telling. In the first and second movie, we only see the villain kids act evil at all. In fact, their opening number of "Rotten to the Core" has the various shopkeepers look out right annoyed at the VK antics of interrupting their business. While the second movie shows that even children who cannot be older than ten be forced to steal for their survival. We're shown to more good, ordinary people than we are truly evil people. The Indian Reservation analogy still holds.

Since I'm dealing with showing over telling, 'let's talk about the villains. All of them suck. The Disney Villains were said to be among the worst of the worst, but what do the Disney Villains do with their screen time? Bicker with each other, fire petty insults at Fairy Godmother, and talk about how evil they are. If these people are the worst of the worst, then I hate to see who the least evil person on the Isle of the Lost is. As you can tell, there is no tension when Maleficent steps into the picture at all. It's boring. I don't know how you made a dragon confrontation boring, but Disney Channel did it.

TL;DR: I'm going to go play Kingdom Hearts.