--- title: Disney "Descendants" Trailer Stars Kristen Chenoweth and Kathy Najimy description: In the trailer for the Disney Channel's "Descendants," the children of Jafar, Maleficent, Cruella de Vil and the Evil Queen wreak havoc. canonical: https://time.com/3836788/disney-descendants-trailer/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-27T20:29:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:19:11.141Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch the Teenage Spawn of Disney Villains in the Trailer for "Descendants" og:description: In the trailer for the Disney Channel's "Descendants," the children of Jafar, Maleficent, Cruella de Vil and the Evil Queen wreak havoc. og:url: https://time.com/3836788/disney-descendants-trailer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Teenage Spawn of Disney Villains in the Trailer for "Descendants" twitter:description: In the trailer for the Disney Channel's "Descendants," the children of Jafar, Maleficent, Cruella de Vil and the Evil Queen wreak havoc. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch the Teenage Spawn of Disney Villains in the Trailer for _Descendants_  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Apr 27, 2015 8:29 PM CUT  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Apr 27, 2015 8:29 PM CUT If you’ve ever wondered if evil skips a generation, the trailer for the Disney Channel’s forthcoming TV movie _Descendants_ would suggest that it doesn’t. The movie features the spawn of four of Disney’s most heinous villains: _Sleeping Beauty’s_ Maleficent (Kristen Chenoweth), _Snow White’s_ Evil Queen (Kathy Najimy), _Aladdin’s_ Jafar (Maz Jobrani) and _101 Dalmatians’_ Cruella de Vil (Wendy Raquel Robinson). In the TV movie, the wicked offspring — Mal, Evie, Jay and Carlos — leave the rough-and-tumble streets of the island prison they call home to attend a fancy prep school with abundant opportunities to wreak havoc. They’re like the kids skipping class and smoking cigarettes in your average high school parking lot, but minus the cigarettes (this is Disney), instead using hair dye, leather and magic spells to signify their rebellion. But these teens have a choice: to carry on the legacy of evil they’ve inherited, or to forsake their birthright and do good. What ever will they choose? The suspense is killing us. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3836788/disney-descendants-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3836788/disney-descendants-trailer/"},"headline":"Watch the Teenage Spawn of Disney Villains in the Trailer for Descendants","datePublished":"2015-04-27T20:29:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:19:11.141Z","description":"\"They're at their best when doing their worst\"","url":"https://time.com/3836788/disney-descendants-trailer/","keywords":["movies","Newsfeed","Television","Disney","Movie trailers"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3836788/disney-descendants-trailer/","name":"Watch the Teenage Spawn of Disney Villains in the Trailer for Descendants"}}]}] ```