Plot Synopsis

With a knowing wink at Disney's traditional fairy tales, this TV movie fuses castles with classrooms to create a contemporary, music-driven story about the challenges in living up to parental and peer expectations. In the current-day, idyllic kingdom of Auradon, Ben, the benevolent teenage son of the King and Queen (Beast and Belle from "Beauty and the Beast"), is poised to take the throne. To the shock of his parents, his first proclamation is to offer a chance at redemption to Mal, Evie, Carlos and Jay, the trouble-making offspring of Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Cruella de Vil and Jafar, who have all been sequestered on the forbidden Isle of the Lost for 20 years. These villainous descendants are allowed into Auradon for the first time to attend prep school alongside the teenage progeny of Fairy Godmother, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Mulan. The preppy glee club soon welcomes the new students with an acapella remix of "Be Our Guest." But only time will tell if these evil spawns do their parents proud with their wicked behavior or eventually see the golden light under the guidance of the children of goodness. Also on Friday 31, 2015 the movie will be available on DVD at retailers nationwide. The DVD includes a free "Isle of the Lost" bracelet packed inside, plus exclusive bonus features including cast dance rehearsal footage conducted by Kenny Ortega, bloopers and more. On Saturday, August 1, 2015 DESCENDANTS will be available for purchase on iTunes, Amazon and Google Play.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
On April 25, 2017 Disney Channel announced that the Disney Channel Original Movie DESCENDANTS 2 will premiere across five networks within the Disney|ABC Television Group, Friday July 21 at 8pm ET/PT on Disney Channel, ABC, Disney XD, Freeform and Lifetime. In DESCENDANTS 2, the story deepens as the Villain Kids (AKA "VKs") -- Mal, Evie, Carlos and Jay -- continue to try to find their place in idyllic Auradon. When the pressure to be royal becomes too much for Mal, she returns to her rotten roots on the Isle of the Lost where her archenemy Uma, the daughter of Ursula, has taken her spot as self-proclaimed queen of the run-down town. Uma, still resentful over not being selected by Ben to go to Auradon Prep with the other Villain Kids, stirs her pirate gang including Captain Hook's son Harry and Gaston's son Gil, to break the barrier between the Isle of the Lost and Auradon, and unleash all the villains imprisoned on the Isle, once and for all. Starring are Dove Cameron, Cameron Boyce, Sofia Carson, Booboo Stewart and Mitchell Hope reprising the roles of Mal, Carlos, Jay, Evie and King Ben, respectively. Starring as the new villains are China Anne McClain as Uma, the daughter of Ursula; Thomas Doherty as Harry, son of Captain Hook; Dylan Playfair as Gil, son of Gaston; and Anna Cathcart as Dizzy, daughter of Cinderella's evil stepsister Drizella and granddaughter of wicked stepmother Lady Tremaine. Also reprising their roles in this sequel are Brenna D'Amico as Jane, the daughter of Fairy Godmother; Melanie Paxson as Fairy Godmother; Dianne Doan as Lonnie, the daughter of Mulan; Jedidiah Goodacre as Chad, the son of Cinderella; Zachary Gibson as Doug, the son of Dopey; Keegan Connor Tracy as Belle and Dan Payne as Beast.