Starring: John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack
McBrayer, Jane Lynch
Rating: PG for some rude humor and mild
action/violence
Run Time: 1 hour, 48 minutes
Synopsis: Wreck-It Ralph (Reilly) plays the villain
in an old, beloved arcade game called Fix-It Felix, Jr. After decades of
being disliked for being the bad guy, when he really isn’t one, he decides to
leave his game to try and win a medal to prove his worth. Along the way he
befriends a 9-year-old girl named Vanellope von Schweetz (Silverman), a racer
in a game called Sugar Rush, who’s also ostracized because she’s a “glitch.”
Together they try to prove their worth to the world, but unknowingly may
ultimately bring doom to their respective games.
REVIEW
Andrew: Hello readers! This past weekend
Sarah and I went on a little date and caught a showing of Wreck-It Ralph, the
latest animated film from Walt Disney Animation Studios. That’s right, it’s not
a Pixar film, but you honestly wouldn’t know it if you went in without any
prior knowledge of the film.
It stars John
C. Reilly (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story) as the voice of Wreck-It Ralph,
the “bad guy” of a 30-year-old arcade game called Fix-It Felix, Jr. It’s
Ralph’s job within his game to play the villain and smash a tenement building
to pieces so the namesake of the game, Fix-It Felix, Jr. (30 Rock’s Jack McBrayer) can
come along with his magic hammer and fix all the broken windows and be awarded
medals by the building’s residents. But it turns out Ralph isn’t really a bad
guy, it’s just his role in the video game and he’s tired of living in a dump
(literally) and never being given the proper recognition for his contribution
to the game’s longevity, so he goes about jumping to other games to try and be
the good guy and win himself a medal.
Sarah, this is a film that we’ve been looking forward to ever since we saw the trailer many moons ago. Now that we’ve seen it, what did you think of Wreck-It Ralph?
Sarah: I loved Wreck-It Ralph! I thought that the cuteness of the characters
mixed with the modern and classic video games was genius. We talked about in
the preview that we were fine with tht fact that Pixar wasn't involved in this
movie and I think Disney succeeded in more ways than one. What did you think
about Ralph?
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| Wreck-It Ralph is full of fantastic scenes using classic video game characters, such as this "Bad Guys Anonymous" scene that kicks the film off. |
