Plot: After the Queen of Hearts incites a coup on Auradon, her rebellious daughter Red and Cinderella’s perfectionist daughter Chloe join forces and travel back in time to try to undo the traumatic event that set Red’s mother down her villainous path.
This movie was really good.
Pros: I like how focus this movie was with its storytelling. I’m glad the previous characters were mention at the beginning including the late Cameron Boyce. The dynamic between Red & Chloe were terrific together. The costume designs are amazing. This film has right amount of cheese & charm to it & Rita Ora was surprisingly good as the queen of hearts.
Cons: Some songs didn’t connect with me that much. The sets do look low rent and not believable and there wasn’t blown away by the ending because I was expecting some twists that didn’t happened.
Genre: Coming of Age, Fantasy, Musical
Directed by Jennifer Phang
Written by Dan Frey, Ru Sommer
Starring: Kylie Cantrall, Malia Baker, Dara Reneé, Ruby Rose Turner, Morgan Dudley, Melanie Paxson, Joshua Colley, Julee Cerda, Leonardo Nam, Paolo Montalban, Jeremy Swift, China Anne McClain, Rita Ora & Brandy Norwood.
Composer: Torin Borrowdale
Executive Producers: Suzanne Todd, Gary Marsh
Producer: Wendy S. Williams
Cinematography: Declan Quinn
Editor: Katie Ennis
Production companies: Suzanne Todd Productions, Potato Monkey Productions, GWave Productions, LLC., Disney Channel
Network: Disney:
Casts:
- Kylie Cantrall as Red, daughter of Queen of Hearts
- Malia Baker as Chloe Charming, daughter of Cinderella and Prince Charming
- China Anne McClain as Uma, daughter of Ursula
- Dara Reneé as Uliana, younger sister of Ursula and aunt of Uma
- Rita Ora as the Queen of Hearts, Red’s mother
- Ruby Rose Turner as Bridget, the young Queen of Hearts
- Brandy as Cinderella, Chloe’s mother
- Morgan Dudley as Ella, the young Cinderella
- Joshua Colley as young Hook
- Peder Lindell as Morgie, son of Morgana le Fay
- Paolo Montalban as King Charming, Chloe’s father
- Tristan Padil as teen Prince Charming
- Melanie Paxson as Fairy Godmother
- Grace Narducci as Fay, young Fairy Godmother
- Levin Valayil as Aladdin
- Kabir Bery as teen Aladdin
- Shazia Pascal as Jasmine
- Aiza Azaar as young Jasmine
- Jeremy Swift as Merlin
- Leonardo Nam as Maddox Hatter, the son of the Mad Hatter
- Alex Boniello as Jack of Diamonds, captain of the Queen of Hearts’ Red Army
- Sam Morelos as Meadow, a student at Merlin Academy
- Mars as young Maleficent
- Anthony Pyatt as young Hades
- Julee Cerda as Evil Stepmother, aka Lady Tremaine.
Dove Cameron, Mitchell Hope, Sofia Carson, Booboo Stewart and Cameron Boyce also appear in portraits taken from previous installments as Mal, Ben, Evie, Jay and Carlos respectively.
I highly recommend watching this spin-off on Disney+.
Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars
Ryan Balkwill:
Resident film reviewer,
Level Best Art Cafe