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Disney Pixar has knocked another one out of the park with their creation of an eye-popping animated adventure called Wreck-It-Ralph, a brilliant and imaginative adult journey based on childhood imagination and what can stem from it that explores a possible look at what happens when a video junkie sees the words "Game Over" flash on the screen and the arcade locks its doors. From this simple concept the viewer is led on a dazzling adult adventure sprung from childhood sensibility that touches on classic cinematic subjects like self-loathing and social acceptance through an exciting journey that will keep the young and the young at heart glued to the screen.
The title character is the villain in a video game called Fix-It-Felix who is tired of being the villain in the game. While the rest of the characters in the game live and party together in the building where the game is set, Ralph lives alone in a dump and goes to a support group for video villains. Tired of being a bad guy, Ralph decides to change his life by earning a medal in another game called Hero's Duty, but becomes separated from his medal and the journey to retrieve leads him to another game called Sugar Rush where a little girl turns out to be the key to getting his medal back but, of course, there are a few hundred strings attached. Meanwhile, Fix-It-Felix and Hero's Duty have both been threatened with Out of Order signs due to Ralph's actions and their leaders must work together to get Ralph to return where he belongs.
Director and co-screenwriter Rich Moore has created a fascinating adventure filled with all kinds of interesting characters and situations, building some very human relationships and presenting in such a surprisingly adult manner that, as an animated film, you have to wonder who the intended demographic was for this film, because there is so much going on here that I have a difficult time believing children would grasp.
But what really shines through in this story is two relationships: the one between Ralph (wonderfully voiced by John C. Reilly) and the little girl Vannelope (voiced by Sarah Silverman) and the relationship that develops between Fix-It-Felix (voiced by Jack MacBrayer) and the leader of Hero's Duty, Calhoun (brilliantly voiced by Jane Lynch) and it is these two relationships that formulate the heart that brews underneath all the razzle dazzle going on here.
There's so much going on here it's impossible to catch it all, there are things you just have to let go and move the same pace as the story. The film also scores in the area of art direction, set direction, and sound editing. There is joy and imagination to spare in one of the most amazing offerings from Disney Pixar I have ever seen.
Disney Pixar has knocked another one out of the park with their creation of an eye-popping animated adventure called Wreck-It-Ralph, a brilliant and imaginative adult journey based on childhood imagination and what can stem from it that explores a possible look at what happens when a video junkie sees the words "Game Over" flash on the screen and the arcade locks its doors. From this simple concept the viewer is led on a dazzling adult adventure sprung from childhood sensibility that touches on classic cinematic subjects like self-loathing and social acceptance through an exciting journey that will keep the young and the young at heart glued to the screen.
The title character is the villain in a video game called Fix-It-Felix who is tired of being the villain in the game. While the rest of the characters in the game live and party together in the building where the game is set, Ralph lives alone in a dump and goes to a support group for video villains. Tired of being a bad guy, Ralph decides to change his life by earning a medal in another game called Hero's Duty, but becomes separated from his medal and the journey to retrieve leads him to another game called Sugar Rush where a little girl turns out to be the key to getting his medal back but, of course, there are a few hundred strings attached. Meanwhile, Fix-It-Felix and Hero's Duty have both been threatened with Out of Order signs due to Ralph's actions and their leaders must work together to get Ralph to return where he belongs.
Director and co-screenwriter Rich Moore has created a fascinating adventure filled with all kinds of interesting characters and situations, building some very human relationships and presenting in such a surprisingly adult manner that, as an animated film, you have to wonder who the intended demographic was for this film, because there is so much going on here that I have a difficult time believing children would grasp.
But what really shines through in this story is two relationships: the one between Ralph (wonderfully voiced by John C. Reilly) and the little girl Vannelope (voiced by Sarah Silverman) and the relationship that develops between Fix-It-Felix (voiced by Jack MacBrayer) and the leader of Hero's Duty, Calhoun (brilliantly voiced by Jane Lynch) and it is these two relationships that formulate the heart that brews underneath all the razzle dazzle going on here.
There's so much going on here it's impossible to catch it all, there are things you just have to let go and move the same pace as the story. The film also scores in the area of art direction, set direction, and sound editing. There is joy and imagination to spare in one of the most amazing offerings from Disney Pixar I have ever seen.