CaitSeith said:
Canadamus Prime said:
I'm guessing they're just going to gloss over, if not completely ignore, the fact that they're abandoning their games even though that was a major plot point in the first movie.
Now that you mention it, how the heck did Vanellope get out of her game? She was still glitchy at the end of the first movie.
This illustrates the other thing I don't like about
Wreck It Ralph (besides it being a movie ostensibly about arcade games, spending most of its time marketing a candy land at kids); The movie has to constantly set up arbitrary rules to make its plot work, only to screw itself over later on.
So to start with, they do the
Toy Story thing of having the characters having to hide the fact they are sentient from the human players. I'm fine with that because the masquerade is intuitive; human children don't see videogame characters or toys moving in real life, so if they can, they must be doing it out of sight.
From there, we are helpfully told if a game character dies inside their game they're fine, but outside of their game, they stay dead... which I guess is necessary to set up a plausible danger for the protagonist, even if that sounds kind of arbitrary.
Then we are told that glitches can't leave their game. Because the story needs a reason for Vanellope to be stuck in to be stuck in one place, and they couldn't think of anything better than this made up rule that exists purely for this purpose.
Then we are told that some of the characters in the game are actually viruses so it is fine to kill them, even though there is no reason for them not to be game characters, and the whole premise of Wreck it Ralph is that the "bad guys aren't bad guys" (unless I guess they're space bugs; fuck those guys).
Then we are shown that Vanellope is actually a proper character in her game, that all the other racers had their brains messed with by a cheatcode, and their memories had been wiped to make them unaware of this fact and to hide the bad guy's identity. This is all a hasty justification for why Penelope (and the audience) are no longer supposed to resent the other characters for bullying Vanellope, and to hide the obvious fact that everyone would notice some asshole appearing in their game. It however creates its own plot hole in that if Vanellope's glitches are a built in character perk, then she isn't a glitch and she should have always been able to leave the game. So I guess the cheat code changed that aspect about her too? Eh.