Wreck-It Ralph ** (2012, voices of John C Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Alan Tudyk) – Movie Review

Video gamers may disagree, but despite the Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Animated Feature, co-writer/ director Rich Moore’s 2012 animated adventure comedy Wreck-It Ralph is not at all one of Disney’s best, though it has a decent idea to start it off and efficiently crafted animation.  Sorry guys, I just didn’t like the characters, the weak puns, the sickly designs or the silly story.

John C Reilly provides the dull voice of the boring hero Ralph, a video game villain who wants to be a hero like Fix-It Felix (Jack McBrayer) and jumps games to the sci-fi world of Heroes Duty featuring tough-as-nails Sergeant Calhoun (voice of Jane Lynch) and then to the candy land world of Sugar Rush.

Its ruler, King Candy (Alan Tudyk), is a bearable creation as a fussy traditional Disney character of the old school kind. But the Vanellope von Schweetz character, a trouble-making ‘glitch’ voiced by Sarah Silverman, is especially annoying, although she is supposed to be cute and even adorable.

Who is Wreck-It Ralph aimed at apart from very small kids, probably mainly little girls like Vanellope? No sequel please. Game over.

However, it took a fortune (US gross $189,422,889; worldwide gross $471,222,889) and Disney did make a sequel in 2018, Ralph Breaks the Internet.

By the way these films are amazingly costly to make, with a budget of $165,000,000. They seem a lot of effort for not very much result, except financial.

© Derek Winnert 2013 Movie Review

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