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A Review: "Wreck-It Ralph"

Oh, Disney. I thought we had lost you for a bit there. After Pixar became legendary, you were just kinda left there pooping out movies like "Home on the Range" and "Chicken Little". You had gone from "amazing" to "meh", and, for a while, it seemed as though there was no going back. However, like many characters from your movies, you pulled yourself up, dusted yourself out, and started pumping out great movies again. "Princess and the Frog", "Tangled", and now this.

"Wreck-It Ralph" tells the story of Ralph, a classic video game villain from the arcade game "Fix-It Felix, Jr." On the game's 30th anniversary, Ralph isn't invited to a party being thrown by the citizens of the video game. He had already been disillusioned with the concept of being forced to be the bad guy by the game's programming, but this was the last straw. He sets out to other video games in the arcade in an attempt to win a medal and prove his heroism. However, he doesn't realize that he has set in motion a plot that may just ruin his own game and get several other unplugged for good. 

This movie's strengths lies mainly in it's characters. Our leading quartet is very likeable (and the villain is very interesting, but I don't want to spoil anything). You always root for Ralph to succeed, even when his actions cause more harm than good. John C. Reilly is perfect at playing the misunderstood sad sack who just wants people to notice him (see also, "Chicago"). Felix is the perfect foil to Ralph. He's so pure and perfect (even when he doesn't want to be) that it becomes simultaneously hilarious and endearing. Jack McBrayer brings just the right amount of peppy and old-fashioned heroism to the role, while still knowing when to tone it back for more emotional scenes.

I did have a few issues with Vanellope, the glitchy outcast of a "Mario Kart"-esque racer called "Sugar Rush". She's meant to be the annoying sidekick who the viewers are supposed to grow to love. The problem is that she's a bit too good at being annoying. It's not so much her demeanor or her character; it's just that some of her jokes go on for too long. This lead to her rubbing me the wrong way in her first appearance, which kept me from liking her as much as I wanted to later. To the movie's credit, though, emotional scenes revolving around her still work, and I never wanted harm to befall her or anything. I just wish they'd toned her down just a bit. I don't dislike Sarah Silverman, but she needs to be used correctly.

The clear standout of the four leads is Jane Lynch's Sergeant Calhoun. As an amalgam of Samus Aran, female Commander Shepard, and pretty much every other "strong, independent woman" character in video games, the irony lies in that she probably is better written than most of them. She has an interesting backstory which actually informs her actions as she proceeds through the story and interacts with other characters. Not to mention that she has many of the best jokes, and Jane Lynch is a pro when it comes to snappy one-liners. Many of my personal favorite scenes were the ones between her and Felix which examined their different game styles and personalities.

The story is also great. It goes by at a decent clip, though it does get a bit bogged down in the middle while Ralph is trying to help Vanellope get a kart and learn to drive. Other than that, though, this is an original and interesting story, with a few more twists and turns that I was expecting. It's also very good at getting legitimate emotion from the audience. There were a couple of moments where I was questioning one or two things, but the movie is so good at world building that I could let it slide and just allow myself to be immersed in the world of the arcade.

Speaking of the world of the movie, it is beautiful. Everything is beautifully and diversely animated. Different characters and games are done very differently, down to the way that the citizens of Ralph and Felix's game move very choppily while characters from "Hero's Duty" are animated hyper-realistically. There's so much care put into every characters and detail, especially during crowd and panoramic shots and in Game Central Station. I just wish that we'd have had the opportunity to visit more game worlds. If there's one reason I would want a sequel, that's it.

I would be remiss to end this review without mentioning the various video game cameos. As a gamer, it was a lot of fun to point out all of the references that popped up. I was impressed by how numerous, varied, and accurate they were (for the most part). I also give the movie credit for letting them occur naturally and not allowing them to bog down the movie or make it purely a game of Spot the Reference. I don't know if they would alienate anyone who doesn't play video games as intensely as I do, but I think Disney managed to strike a very good balance.

"Wreck-It Ralph" is superb. You don't need to be a gamer to get it, though it does add a bit of an extra layer to things. It's full of great characters, amazing visuals, and real emotion. It's wreck-tacular (that's the tagline on the poster, and I really couldn't think of a way to end this...)!

P.S. The short that accompanies the movie, "Paperman", is really cute. I thoroughly enjoyed its story and its interesting animation style. I sense an Oscar nomination in this short's future.

P.P.S. You can download an actual version of "Fix-It Felix, Jr." for your phone that looks and plays exactly like the 8-bit version featured in the movie. It's free and a lot of fun. Check it out if that sounds cool to you.

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Wreck it Ralph concept art. Character concept inspiration.

Courtesy of Disney Animation Studios

DUDE, WHY?!

so what if there was some expansion loaded onto hero’s duty and in the new storyline brad respawns somehow… and the last thing he remembers is his wedding with calhoun 

and when calhoun sees him again she just gets dumbstruck and doesn’t know how to tell him she got remarried

and poor felix is so self conscious with brad back in the picture and even though the thought kills him he contemplates bowing out gracefully since he wasn’t necessarily calhoun’s first choice 

BABIES

I wanted to do this meme with 80’s boyfriends

headcanon: Felix secretly reads graphic saucy romance novellas

kit and i were talking about in the gamer au how in high school felix’s parents wouldn’t let him participate in sex ed and i thought of king of the hill when peggy tries to say penis

8-Bit Hero: Click for full size pic!

Why? Because good guys wait until after marriage. (ﾉಥ益ಥ）ﾉ ┻━┻ You won’t win THIS game, Felix. YOU WILL LOSE.

((rebloggable by request))

Felix just calm down and admit that you can't fix this without your hammer.

hehe ghost-turbo haunting felix au

turbo is connected to the last piece of his code in the whole arcade - a trophy he gifted to felix in mid 80s as a symbol of him genuinely caring about their relationships on par with being the best racer. felix also gave him one of his medals and both kept their gifts next to other rewards, but when roadblasters and turbotime were unplugged, the medal was gone with everything else

now, after burning in cola-lava turbo is basically dead, but scraps of his code still were intertwined with the trophy (after all, it was his first winner's cup, but felix never knew about it), giving turbo an opportunity to exist as a shadow incapable of interacting with anything and anyone besides felix, who kept the trophy even after the roadblasters incident

also I went crazy in tags, feel free to check them out

don't look at first image

He’s just a quirky lil fella thats all!

FLASHING IMAGES WARNING ⚠️

Litwak's arcade better call pest control cuz there's a RAT living in the walls

We all watched the same 2hr analysis that got us back into wreck it Ralph right?

Here's some low effort doodles

I have provided all the context necessary . Please no more questions

GOOD BOY BAD BOY

Thanks for @randomalistic for integrating them into my mind >:(((

White board from king-crawler :3

Late but hum fashionably late so here’s my contribution

This is just a drawing of characters from Wreck-it Ralph. I love this cartoon and decided to post my fan art on this topic, heh ❤( ^ - ^ )❤

And also this little girl next to Tamora, this is her daughter and Felix, this couple really fell in love with me ~ 🌸🐤

(and I am also Russian, and I apologize for my English)