Instead, she wants her mother and by extension, her society to get on her level. Pixar movies, on the other hand, typically base their movies on conflicts born out of relationships and group dynamics. Not as fun, no, but much more nuanced and applicable to daily life. On that note… one of the things that really bugged me is that Ralph, unlike Merida, has no real character flaw.
Because of her rebellion and impatience, she ruins the archery competition, destroys the tapestry, strikes a deal with the witch… etcetera.
The difference there is that at the end of Shrek , the titular ogre has to come to grips with the fact that it was his own fault that Donkey and Fiona got pissed off at him. He actually drives most of the plot, has a thematically relevant story, and is a total video game character. They tend to be smaller; less overt. It bites off more than it can chew, the plot is rushed and a little messy at times.
Wreck-It Ralph , what with a narrative gateway to all of the tropes and history of video games, should have easily come out feeling like the bigger, more expansive movie. Instead, it made the bizarre decision to localize over half its action in one made-up-for-the-movie game. Honestly, this was the most shocking thing to me about Ralph. It barely feels like a video game movie. Where are the dungeons, water levels, power-ups, experience points, extra lives, loading screens, level ups?
When Toy Story a movie Ralph resembles more than once delivered a movie based on the premise of living toys, the conflicts and characters encountered were specific. That story could only take place in a world where talking toys exist. The opening birthday party sequence is brilliant from beginning to end. This is starting to sound nitpicky. Even if they have answers and for all I know they might , the fact that I had to ask throws up red flags to me.
I hate to beat up on Wreck-It Ralph — I really wanted to like it. Thing is, even in a relatively weak movie like Brave , they make an effort to put character first.
The reference is just there because, hey, Star Wars. Guardians was good, but not on the same level as Brave. Brave is a good FILM, period. I wish to god more people ubderstood that distinction.
I saw all 5 movies that were nominated and Rise of the Guardians and more. Paranorman was the best animated movie this year easily so the argument becomes moot on which of these movies should win. Paranorman 2. Brave 3. Wreck it ralph 4. Rise of the guardians 5. Frankenweenie 6. You can argue your own order but Paranorman was just wonderful in so many ways. Best animation as well if you ask me. Brave was just a bunch of fancy colors flying around on the screen with a sorry excuse for a story in the back rattling around.
To me, ParaNorman was an admirable effort but a bit of a mess onscreen. I got what they were going for but the actual execution kept feeling clumsy to me. I get why people like it, though… it feels like a product of genuine passion. Its animation is neck-and-neck with Brave, too. So… mixed feelings all around. I thought Wreck It was better and easily. Brave was actually kinda boring to me and bit of a disappointment after I waited all that time to see it.
The Oscars got it wrong. We see from the beginning that he begins the movie angry, self-centered, and irresponsible. I did see Wreck-it Ralph and am happy that you touched on my key, disgruntled complaint. For a movie that posters, previews and even the Blu-ray cover seem to show a made up titular character being consoled by known villains from actual games… the end product was far from that.
I understand licensing, and appreciate the nods to the genres, but ultimately the majority of the movie ended being up made up characters in a made up game that, as a gamer, I would have scoffed at. Give me a turtle shell or nothing at all. With Brave, it felt more of a stronger Disney film, with a princess, but much for deeper and defined.
With Brave, however, many people wanted more because of the Pixar brand name, and felt disappointed. When Vanellope tries to escape, King Candy instantly gets impatient and viciously attacks her with his cane. Vanellope's glitching interferes with King Candy's code and reveals that King Candy is actually Turbo in disguise, having somehow escaped his game before it was unplugged. Much to the shock of Ralph and Felix.
Not wanting Vanellope to undo all he has done to the game, Turbo rams his car into Vanellope's, causing her to be dragged in front of the car while approaching a walled fork in the road. Vanellope finally controls her glitching to escape from Turbo and drives away, yelling at her victory.
An enraged Turbo tries to pursue, but suddenly, a Cy-Bug appears on the track and devours him alive. The group attempts to flee the doomed game, but Vanellope cannot pass through the exit due to her status as a glitch. Calhoun says the game can't be saved because there is no beacon in the game like the beacon in Hero's Duty which attracts and kills the Cy-Bugs.
Ralph, in a last-ditch effort, heads to Diet Cola Mountain, where he plans on collapsing its Mentos stalactites into the cola at the bottom, causing an eruption that would attract the bugs.
While on top of the mountain, he pounds the mentos into the diet cola below from the top. However, before he can finish, Turbo, fused with the Cy-Bug that devoured him, arrives and stops him. Turbo declares that he has become "the most powerful virus in the arcade" and plans to take over all the other games using his new powers, but not before getting revenge on Ralph.
Ralph and Turbo battle, but Turbo quickly overpowers Ralph, carrying him above the mountain and sadistically forcing him to watch Cy-Bugs close in on Vanellope. Ralph breaks free and dives toward the mountain, hoping his impact will start the eruption. Seeing Ralph dive towards the mountain, Vanellope, in turn, uses her glitching abilities with the goal of catching Ralph. Ralph breaks through the roof of the mountain, but before he is killed in the eruption, Vanellope catches him in Crumbelina 's cart.
The eruption shines a bright light, which in turn draws the Cy-Bugs to their destruction. Turbo, being more powerful than the others, is able to resist for a short time, but his Cy-Bug programming overwhelms him, and he flies into the lava as well, killing him. Because video game characters who die outside their own game are unable to ever regenerate, this means that the Cy-Bugs and Turbo die permanently. After Turbo and the Cy-Bugs are defeated, Felix restores the finish line, and Vanellope crosses it, restoring her memory as the game's lead character, and restoring the ruins of Sugar Rush.
As Ralph predicted, the gamers end up favoring her as a character, despite her glitches her ability to teleport short distances is perceived by at least some gamers as a special power, rather than a glitch , Turbo had been destroyed forever Sour Bill , Wynnchel and Duncan , and the Sugar Rush Racers , never again heard about him.
Felix later marries Calhoun, with Ralph being the best man and a good friend, and Vanellope as the maid of honor. Ralph concludes the movie narrating both to the audience and the aforementioned support group for video game villains on how much his life has now improved, but how the best part is that he's finally made a true friend in Vanellope and how his favorite part of the day is when the Nicelanders lift him up before tossing him off the building.
When he gets to see a quick glimpse of her in her game, he declares, "if that little kid likes me, how bad can I be? In addition to the spoken roles, Wreck-It Ralph contains a number of other video-game references, including characters and visual gags. At the meeting of video-game villains, the above characters include, in addition to any mentioned above: Bowser from the Super Mario series, Dr.
Additionally, Mario and Lara Croft are mentioned in dialogue. Additional references are based on sight gags. The "Cyborg" credited in the credits is based on Kano from Mortal Kombat , and performs his famous "heartrip" fatality on a zombie. The residents of Niceland and the bartender from Tapper are animated using a jerky motion that spoofs the limited animation cycles of the sprites of many eight- and sixteen-bit arcade games. There is also a reference to the Metal Gear series when Ralph is searching for something in a box and finds the "Exclamation point" with corresponding sound effect from the game , and a mushroom from Super Mario Bros.
Litwak wears a black and white striped referee's shirt, a nod to the iconic outfit of Twin Galaxies founder Walter Day. One of the songs in the credits is an original work from Buckner and Garcia, previously famous for writing video game-themed songs in the s.
The Disney closing logo variation appears in a glitched state, a reference to the kill screen from many early arcade games such as Pac-Man. Since then, it was redeveloped and reconsidered several times: In the late s, it took on the working title Joe Jump , then in the mids as Reboot Ralph. In , the project later became Wreck-It Ralph. John Lasseter , the head of Walt Disney Animation Studios and executive producer of the film, describes Wreck-It Ralph as "an 8-bit video game bad guy who travels the length of the arcade to prove that he's a good guy".
In a manner similar to Disney's film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and all three Toy Story films, Wreck-It Ralph features cameo appearances by a number of licensed video game characters. For example, one scene from the film's first theatrical trailer shows Ralph attending a support group for the arcade's various villain characters, including Clyde the orange ghost from Pac-Man , Doctor Eggman from Sonic the Hedgehog and Bowser from Super Mario Bros. Rich Moore, the film's director, had determined that for a film about a video game world to feel authentic, "it had to have real characters from real games in it".
Before production, the existing characters were added to the story either in places they would make sense to appear or as cameos from a list of characters suggested by the film's creative team, without consideration if they would legally be able to use the characters.
The company then sought out the copyright holders' permissions to use the characters, as well as working with these companies to assure their characters were being represented authentically. In the case of Nintendo, the writers had early on envisioned the Bad-anon meeting with Bowser as a major character within the scene; according to Moore, Nintendo was very positive towards this use, stating in Moore's own words, "If there is a group that is dedicated to helping the bad guy characters in video games then Bowser must be in that group!
Despite knowing they would be able to use the character, the producers could not find an appropriate scene that would let Mario be a significant character or take away the spotlight on the main story, and opted to not include the character.
Moore debunked a rumor that Mario and his brother character Luigi were not included due to Nintendo requesting too high a licensing fee, stating that the rumor grew out of a joke John C. Reilly made at Comic-Con. Wily from Mega Man was going to appear, but was cut from the final version of the film.
Overall, there are about individual character models in the movie as a result of these cameo inclusions. Moore aimed to add licensed characters similarly as cultural references in Looney Tunes shorts, but considered "having the right balance so a portion of the audience didn't feel they were being neglected or talked down to".
However, Moore avoided creating the movie around existing characters, feeling that "there's so much mythology and baggage attached to pre-existing titles that I feel someone would be disappointed", and considered this to be a reason why movies based on video game franchises typically fail.
Instead, for Ralph , the development of new characters representative of the 8-bit video game was "almost like virgin snow", giving them the freedom to take these characters in new directions. The film introduced Disney's new bidirectional reflectance distribution functions, with more realistic reflections on surfaces, and new virtual cinematography Camera Capture system which makes it possible to go through the scenes in real-time.
Begin with the vocal talent, which also includes Jane Lynch as the hard-bitten sergeant of Hero's Duty, a human-versus-alien-bugs shoot-'em-up. Neither she nor Reilly nor McBrayer is bad, exactly, but all are typecast so meticulously that their performances are largely devoid of inspiration or surprise. Rounding out the primary characters is professional provocatrix Sarah Silverman, who voices Vanellope von Schweetz, the gung-ho underdog of a candy-colored car-race game called Sugar Rush.
The evident gag here—she has preadolescent potty-mouth! The movie's principal flaw, however, is its failure to develop a compelling narrative or genuine emotional connection. Unlike the Pixar films toward which it aspires—which marry sophisticated conceits to straightforward storylines— Wreck-It Ralph consistently gets lost in its own intricate plot mechanics.
If a character dies in her own game she can regenerate, but if she dies in another she can't; a character who's correctly "coded" can jump to other games, but a character who's a "glitch" can't; the Cybug monstrosities of Hero's Duty can't destroy their own game from within, but they can destroy others; and who exactly is this mysterious "Turbo" to whom everyone keeps referring?
Over the course of its minute running time, Wreck-It Ralph offers nearly as many twists as a full season of Homeland.
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