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movie review - Descendants 2

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2019.07.28

When I reviewed the Disney direct-to-whatever movie "Descendants" two weeks ago, my hasty review contained a lie.

> about the only thing I can say for it is that there aren't sequels

This is incorrect, dear reader. For there is in fact a sequel and now I have seen. This movie raises important philosophical questions like : Why? Why did they make a sequel? And eventually, why did I have children? And finally, did I do something to deserve this?

The melodrama is back but now there are no adults to anchor the thing. There are still songs and camp and mugging for the camera, of course, and a tissue-thin plot involving said melodrama.

Not recommended. I don't think it even holds as much for the kids as the first one.

rand()m quote

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.