DECENDANTS: WICKED WONDERLAND

Here is the decision. This is a bright, loud, heavily stylized musical, and if your family has followed this franchise it delivers what it promises — fast-paced action, drama, catchy songs and a pile of Disney references to catch.
It is also built on magic. Portals, time travel, a time-altering pocket watch, whole magic lands: the pagan and occult furniture of this world is everywhere, and that is why a movie with an otherwise moral heart carries a caution rather than a clean bill. Add perilous situations, characters held prisoner, a kidnapping, and an evil character who puts people to sleep with a spell, and younger viewers may find it more than they want to carry.
The moral center is real, though. The story insists that what you do defines you, not the labels and titles you were handed — a decent thing to say to a room full of children who have been told who they are.
So: fine for older kids and up, with a parent willing to talk about the magic afterward. For young children, wait.

Red, daughter of the Queen of Hearts, and Chloe, daughter of Cinderella, once altered time to build the happily ever after they wanted. It worked, mostly. It also rearranged Wonderland.
The pocket watch that did it is hidden now, and the two friends are starting their first day at a school full of other Descendants. What they do not know is that Maddox — the Mad Hatter, Red's former advisor and best friend, banished by the Queen after his hunt for the watch left him unhinged — wants it back.
He is not planning to ask politely.

Three stars. The energy is undeniable: a heavily stylized, dramatic musical with fast-paced action and songs that stick, and the Disney references are a real part of the fun. The new roster widens the world — Hazel Hook, daughter of Captain Hook; Luis Madregal, son of Luisa Madregal of ENCANTO; Felix Facilier, son of Dr. Facilier; the Smee twins. Chessy the cat opens the film as narrator, and a transformed, trap-laden Wonderland gives the adventure somewhere interesting to happen.
The story picks up right after DESCENDANTS: THE RISE OF RED, inside the consequences of what those two did to time.

This is a light moral worldview, and the light is real. Friendship and teamwork are genuine values here. So is the film's central claim: that a person's actions define their character, not the labels and titles they were given. In a story about the children of villains, that is the point — Red wrestling with who she used to be, Chloe trying to understand her mother, Max hoping to step out of his father's shadow.
Scripture would agree that character shows in what we do. It would also push further than the movie does: identity is not finally something we forge. It is something we are given.
Threaded through all of it is magic, and a great deal of it. Portals. Time travel. Magic lands. A pocket watch that rewrites history. An evil character who puts people to sleep with a spell. The film treats it as furniture rather than as a claim about the world, but it is pagan and occult furniture, and the Bible is not neutral about it.
The film is honest about one thing, at least. Rewriting time to get the ending you wanted brings consequences you did not order: the Queen of Hearts turned kind, the Mad Hatter turned evil, and nobody asked for either. We are not qualified to author our own happily ever after. "See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are" (1 John 3:1).

There is real fun here — the songs land, the world is inventive, and the film's insistence that character is built rather than inherited is worth hearing. It is also soaked in magic, and that is not a footnote. Watch it with your older kids, then talk about it. Our answer stands: worth watching — older kids and up.