Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
Wreck-It Ralph is the 9-foot-tall, 643-pound villain of an arcade video game named Fix-It Felix Jr., in which the game's titular hero fixes buildings that Ralph destroys. Wanting to prove he can be a good guy and not just a villain, Ralph escapes his game and lands in Hero's Duty, a first-person shooter where he helps the game's hero battle against alien invaders. He later enters Sugar Rush, a kart racing game set on tracks made of candies, cookies and other sweets. There, Ralph meets Vanellope von Schweetz who has learned that her game is faced with a dire threat that could affect the entire arcade, and one that Ralph may have inadvertently started.
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Wonderfully offbeat film!
Load of rubbish!!
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
Wreck-It Ralph sees Disney trying to go the Pixar route before they decided to buy the company. It is a brisk colourful animation taking a retro look at arcade games. However the makers saw too many Pixar films because you can easily guess who the real villain really is going to be as it follows the Pixar beats too closely and adds some Disney mush to it as well.Wreck-It Ralph is the villain in an old 8 bit arcade game Fix-It Felix Jr. It really is a thinly disguised version of Donkey Kong. Ralph though has had enough of being a villain with no character development. He does not even get invited to the game's 30th anniversary party that Felix and his crew throw.Out of the game Ralph is a nice but clumsy guy who just wants to join in with the others but the villains of the arcade games tend to be ignored. So Ralph goes to join another arcade game in order to win a medal and gets involved in more adventures. Felix goes after him before his malfunctioning arcade game is switched off for good.
Wreck-It-Ralph was a cool film. The video games made up for this film, Fix-It-Felix and Sugar Rush, are both inspired by real video games that are Mario-related, which are Donkey Kong and Mario Kart. The Sugar Rush also reminds me a lot of the Sweet Sweet Canyon from Mario Kart Wii. There's also another game called Hero's Duty that's obviously Call of Duty renamed. Much like legos in The Lego Movie and toys in Toy Story, Wreck-It-Ralph also bought the rights to show or cameo other pre-existing video game characters, like Qbert and Sonic. They even remembered Tapper! That's a very obscure game from 1983.From what I hear, they actually could afford the rights to show Mario (Charles Martinet) in Wreck-It-Ralph, but had no place in the story for him. They barely even had a spot for Sonic (Roger Craig Smith) in the PSA about dying out of your own game. I really loved this film, but I still wonder how come everybody from all the old 8-bit games (including Ralph and Felix) still has their own modern CGI design on the other side of the screen. I thought Jack McBrayer and Jane Lynch played off each other very well, and this film also made me a fan of John C. Reilly. Vanellope was annoying at first, but then I started to like her more later in the film. She's very cute and she also sounds exactly like Sarah Silverman's Ollie Pesto from Bob's Burgers.I just want to say that I love Wreck-It-Ralph so much and I can't wait for the sequel Ralph Breaks the Internet to come out. All of the princesses from earlier animated Disney films will be in this movie, but I am most excited to see Mario! Maybe he will have an important part in the story helping Ralph and Vanellope. Bonus points if Luigi gets to be included in this. Hopefully Ralph Breaks the Internet will have better execution of The Emoji Movie's plot of traveling through various products, and get to be an admirable video since The Emoji Movie was the 146th atrocity video. I just hope Wreck-It-Ralph 2 doesn't fail like Mulan 2 from destroying the first movie's principles, where Felix feared Ralph was "going Turbo" by leaving their video game for Hero's Duty in the first film and Wi-Fi in the second film.
Wreck-It Ralph is another fantastic animation from Disney. If you are a fan of videogames, you cannot afford to miss this treasure trove of nods and references. Better still, the movie has real heart and soul. And some good laughs to boot.
When it comes to video game movies, they are usually absolute garbage. Ratchet and Clank, Tomb Raider, Assassins Creed just to name a few. But this movie pays homage to almost all the classic video game characters, as well as making a fantastic film, as the great story, great visuals, and great voiceovers really do showcase what Disney does best. The only flaw I can think of, which is more of a nitpick, is that the flow of the film can seem wonky at times, but considering that almost everything else is done right, this is probably the best Video Game movie I've ever seen.