Did Disney remove Descendants: The Rise of Red? Details explored 

Disney’s Descendants: The Rise of Red, is the fourth movie of the children’s Descendants series. Released on July 12, 2024, the movie continues the franchise’s trend of bringing fan-favorite Disney characters to the screen.

The Rise of Red features multiple fan-favorite characters and their offsprings, including Red, the Princess of Wonderland, Chloe Charming, the daughter of Cinderella, and Prince Charming, Ursula’s daughter Uma, and Ella, a younger version of Cinderella. The movie has the following synopsis on IMDb, and was until recently, available to watch on Disney+:

“Follows Red, daughter of the Queen of Hearts, and Chloe, daughter of Cinderella, as they team up to save Auradon by traveling back in time using the White Rabbit's pocket watch, to stop an event that would cause grave consequences.”

However, it seems that Descendants: The Rise of Red is currently not available to watch on Disney+. Fans airing their grievances on a recent Reddit post about the same and speculating the reasons behind the removal.

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Why has Disney removed Descendants: The Rise of Red?

Posts from the descendants community on Reddit

Indeed, it seems that Descendants: The Rise of Red is not available right now on the official global streaming platform Disney+ for the time being. The unexpected removal led to immediate confusion from a range of fans, as multiple parents claimed how they only recently found out the movie was no longer available to be watched.

Disney has not yet provided any official statement on the matter and has not officially removed The Rise of Red from Disney+. Fans have further speculated that the removal may have been a temporary technical glitch due to the lack of an official statement on the matter.

"Disney is unsure what happened but they have people working to fix it. Still no idea when it will be put back up though," commented one user.

Of course, that does not mean that Descendants: The Rise of Red is no longer available on the internet. It can be viewed on multiple platforms such as Amazon Prime, Google Play, and Apple iTunes, although the movie will need to be purchased for the time being.

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Are the other Descendants movies still on Disney+?

Yes, the three Descendants movies prior to The Rise of Red are still available on the official platform. Right from Descendants released in 2015 to Descendants 3, which was released back in 2019, are currently available to be viewed on Disney+.

This further supports the notion that The Rise of Red may only have been temporarily removed from the platform. However, for the time being, fans hoping to watch the latest movie will instead have to contend with the first three offerings of the franchise.

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What is Descendants: The Rise of Red All About?

By itself, The Rise of Red revolves around the character of Red, who is the daughter of the Queen of Hearts from Wonderland, and Chloe, who is Cinderella’s daughter. The two are tasked to stop the Queen of Hearts from taking over Auradon by traveling back in time, which means a range of reunions occur in the movie.

The two meet their parents back in high school, which brings to light the huge ways in which the characters of Cinderella and the Queen of Hearts have transformed since.

Red’s mother, Bridget, is not the evil queen that she becomes in the future, and is shown as a kind and happy woman who cannot imagine turning into the evil queen that she eventually becomes. The group struggles against time to stop her transformation into the Queen of Hearts, leading to an epic adventure that occurs decades before the present.

An obvious tailor-made watch for children, Descendants: The Rise of Red was released on July 12, 2024, on Disney+, but is not available on the platform at the moment but will hopefully soon be back.