Wreck-It Ralph is a good moive

[Reincarnatedwolfgod]

I had a hd tv sitting in my room for weeks since I was being lazy about setting it up. when I finally had the motivation to use my tv the first time in a few weeks and dish network also has something like a week of free movie channels conveniently.
I wanted to find a channel where a movie I have not seen in many years(the princess Bride) is going play. I found it and on that channel Wreck-It Ralph was about to come on. I remember hearing it was a good movie thus I watched it. I well aware that I am late to the party.

I like the concept of the movie and it's well executed. The video game references were a nice touch and one would not need to get the references in order to enjoy the movie. I would recommend watching Wreck-It Ralph if you have not already.

I would but this in review section of the thread but what said about the movie is far too vague be a review by my standards.

 

[Grach]

Yeah, it's pretty good. The world doesn't overtake the characters, making them feel like living beings in a actually living world. It doesn't go all out and shoehorn famous videogame personas into the plot.

Essentially, it's the Who Framed Roger Rabbit? of videogames, with references and cameos, but a solid story as well.

 

[Spambot 3000]

I couldn't help but feel that the second half of the movie (or perhaps the remaining three fifths) would've have felt more appriopriate if the movie was named Wreck-it Ralph in Candyland instead.

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

It's probably my favorite animated movie since Treasure Planet. It really is just so fun and full of great jokes and references. It really is good that Disney is starting to make incredible movies again now that Pixar's starting to drop the ball.


Yeah, Smash-em-Sam is one for the ages.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

I love that movie. It's so sweet, and the video game call outs are amazing for someone like me. I hear they have an idea for a sequel, and if they do make it, I'm curious to see where they'd go with it.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I'd been afraid that it would be a cheap, cynical cash-in on gamer nostalgia with a flat story and boring characters.

It turned out to be the utter and absolute opposite. And honestly....

Spoiler

...who expected the action-packed climax to be inside the colorful, candy-themed racing game?

 

[Scarim Coral]

I loved it but my brother on the other hand didn't I knew that huge game cameo won't be the main part of the film and it made sense when they did their own thing (Candyland race) so they have they own property to work on.

 

[Auron225]

I really liked it too I only saw it a couple of months ago and was concerned it would just throw in videogame references and rely on those rather than be creative about it (seeing Bowser in the trailer kinda concerned me).

But it was all well executed, I liked the characters and it made me laugh a fair few times.

 

[BeeGeenie]

Why, yes. Yes it is.
The fact that they handed over the oscar for best animated feature to frikin' Brave when this was on the ballot is a travesty that will live through the ages. (ParaNorman was also better than Brave, but then, that's not saying much since Pixar hasn't even been trying since they finished Toy Story 3)
Vanellope is best Disney princess.
But I digress.

Wreck-it-Ralph is the perfect mix of video-game culture, perfectly conceived art design, good writing, and ... perhaps not terribly complex, but fun, likeable characters.

 

[Ubiquitous Duck]

I think Wreck it Ralph might have gotten some stick around these parts or other gaming communities, just because some people expected a movie that would have lots of gaming references in it.

Maybe they felt misled by the advertising when they got a different movie than expected? I imagine for accessibility to the subject matter that the references were always going to be minor and marginalised or generalised, so I don't really get why people were surprised at the content.

I personally thought it was a pretty good film though. I've rewatched it, which is more than I can say for most family-oriented animation films.

I wouldn't say it was incredible, but I'd agree with your assertion that it is 'good'.

 

[1Life0Continues]

I watched it on a flight to the US last year.

I was pleasantly surprised. It has a lot of heart, and I admit to tearing up...

Spoiler

...when Ralph did his thing on Vanellope's car.

I also find Sarah Silverman a horrendously terrible comedienne, and her voice normally makes me cringe. But in the movie, she was surpisingly (to me anyway) perfectly suited to voice Vanellope.

I enjoyed it immensely and it was a great way to while away a couple hours during 'sleep time' on a transpacific flight.

 

[McElroy]

It's a decent film. That Candyland milieu got annoying by the end of it. Everything about that place, including its inhabitants. Ugh...

 

[Nazulu]

This threads excepting negative answers as well, no? Eh, I found it painful and too childish. What can I remember?

I couldn't get into the story at all. Not only was it completely obvious what was going to happen next but they made the story concept even harder to swallow than Toy Story. And while many classic animations are really silly, there was nothing that made it up for me. I found the dialogue generally bland and the jokes lacking, which is a shame because I like the character designs and from what I saw of the trailer seemed interesting.

Many people consider it a good example of a video game movie, but I have no problem listing this one as a failure too.

 

[themyrmidon]

My favorite line? "What's going on in this candy-coated Heart of Darkness?" Because that is basically the story, as odd as it seems.

 

[MysticSlayer]

I'd say it is probably the best animated film I've seen over the last couple of years. It had a good story with some memorable characters, and the references were fantastically done. My brother and I actually had a competition to see who could pick up the most references. I won, simply because I caught the GLaDOS reference, which I still don't know how he missed.

 

[Risingblade]

It was pretty meh in my opinion.

 

[Headsprouter]

Sadly I wasn't able to enjoy the cameos as much since they didn't show any characters from the franchises I enjoy most (and how could they, it's a kid's film and my childhood game characters have since been either vastly reworked, abandoned or had their companies go out of business) but yeah, it was still fun thanks to having a decent story as a backbone. They had to make their own videogame world to make their own videogame story, though, and it wasn't much of an interesting one. "Candyland".

Better to have a focus than to dart all over the place, though.

 

[Anachronism]

perfectly conceived art design

Really? Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the movie a lot - it was very clever and a lot of fun. But for me, the art design was easily the weakest aspect of the film, and one of the areas where I think it could have been drastically, and easily, improved. It doesn't look bad as such, it just looks like every single other CG animated movie made in the last 20 years.

They had an opportunity to make a really unique, visually arresting art style by trying to, you know, actually make it look like a video game, and they just didn't bother. There's nothing to distinguish it, visually speaking, from practically anything Pixar or DreamWorks have made lately. I'm not necessarily suggesting they should've done it as pixel art, but considering that the movie is basically a love letter to vintage arcade games, it would have been a much better film if it had actually looked like a vintage arcade game.

 

[Quazimofo]

I'd been afraid that it would be a cheap, cynical cash-in on gamer nostalgia with a flat story and boring characters.

It turned out to be the utter and absolute opposite. And honestly....

Spoiler

...who expected the action-packed climax to be inside the colorful, candy-themed racing game?

Spoiler

I honestly wasn't even expecting the majority of the movie to take place there. I figured it would just be a short joke on mario-kart style racing because the licensing would probably cost half-again the movie's budget. I also wasn't expecting it to be as entertaining as it was. Those food puns perform a rather majestic dance on the line between excellent puns and facepalm worthy puns)

 

[Quazimofo]

perfectly conceived art design

Really? Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the movie a lot - it was very clever and a lot of fun. But for me, the art design was easily the weakest aspect of the film, and one of the areas where I think it could have been drastically, and easily, improved. It doesn't look bad as such, it just looks like every single other CG animated movie made in the last 20 years.

They had an opportunity to make a really unique, visually arresting art style by trying to, you know, actually make it look like a video game, and they just didn't bother. There's nothing to distinguish it, visually speaking, from practically anything Pixar or DreamWorks have made lately. I'm not necessarily suggesting they should've done it as pixel art, but considering that the movie is basically a love letter to vintage arcade games, it would have been a much better film if it had actually looked like a vintage arcade game.

I don't know about that. I thought the less overt ways the implemented the vintage videogame aspect was pretty good. They could have done more, sure, but little things like how the nicelanders moved were enough to remind you that it was indeed a videogame without making it irksome. Imagine if they ALL moved like the nicelanders or Tapper the whole time. It would have felt off and distracted from the plot and characters themselves.

They certainly could have done more with the environments, but what they have was pretty good.