Wreck-It Ralph

(I have no idea who Alan Tudyk is)

I really loved this movie, and my kids (of course) dug it too.

Disney have really upped their game with this. It was funny as hell (no "oh MAN!!!" Dreamworks-style "jokes"), visually awesome, and the central relationship didn't feel forced or annoying. It was fast-paced too, which I liked because of all the gags thrown in (not sure how kids would take it in). The world they created was really engrossing, like Toy Story/Monsters Inc as mentioned upthread.

Most enjoyable movie I've seen in ages.

Just watched it. Haven't seen Brave, but there's no way it was better than this.

pretty good, despite ripping off The Iron Giant a bit

Enjoyed this a lot. Loved the references (incl. king of kong). Didn't catch gag.

Watched this last night, like most Pixar movies I've seen recently it started out amazing and quickly devolved into Hollywood Film Story A and i spent much of the rest of the movie just wishing it would pursue the stranger more character-driven beginning rather than HERO SAVES THE WORLD. But still, lots of affecting moments, pretty enjoyable, etc. When he smashed her car it was effing sad!

The crazy candy mayor was pretty rad, reminded me of the Mad Hatter from the OG Alice in Wonderland.

Music kinda sucked, they should have had some real Chiptune stuff instead of the pop tunes during the sugar race but whatever.

The Darth Vader sound when Ralph was breathing through a straw hiding in the chocolate pond.... was Disney hinting at the SW merger?

I liked the joke when he went "You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would you?" and then Ralph takes off his glasses and hits him with them, and the guy goes "Oh, i see what you did there..."

Oh yeah, there was a part where they are at the party and he smashes the cake and some stuff lands on Pac Man and his jaw drops or something, i think it was a reference to Watchmen.

It seemed a lot darker than Pixar - even with Monsters Inc you didn't get the impression that they thought of themselves as villains - the heel turn in fact seemed completely brutal - compared with what I was expecting it was some Lars Von Trier shit.

Cosign on Paper Man being an interesting technical demonstration that can largely go fuck itself.

Just watched this as my inaugural "movie I watch with my kids (even if they're too young to appreciate it)" and it was pretty great, although part of my has some concerns about how much the "accept yourself" motto was mixed in with strains of "know your place" and "pull yourself up by your bootstraps".

Hey, at least it didn't go as far as The Incredibles

Like, people talked a lot about how conservative The Incredibles was and the baseline message of this movie was "things work for the best when everyone plays the roles they were born into (unless you are Q-Bert)"

xp: lol

i saw it a couple months ago, thought it was great and very sweet.

xp Yes and no... Penelope being a secret princess and follow that, but her heroism and uniqueness stems from the fact that she isn't willing to follow "the rules", what with the glitching. Not to mention the relationship between the space marine and Fix-It Felix certainly deviates from their fated paths. I don't think Ralph's desire to be something more was seen as bad, so much as being disliked by everyone else in the game that wasn't Felix; the way I read it, it was their failing in recognizing him for himself as much as his own self-esteem issues.

It's not as black and white as The Incredibles mocking of stepping-up ceremonies and a main character actually spouting Randian chestnuts like "If everybody's special, than NO ONE IS!"

Shit that just reminds me of why I hated the incredibles

I actually liked both movies a lot, but yeah, the politics in The Incredibles makes it harder to revisit compared to, well, every other Pixar film.

It's one where I thought if I had kids I would be opposed to letting them absorb that movie's message

do any Pixar or Disney movies have a strong non-conformist message? I know people have made the argument for "Let It Go" as something of an outsider anthem

But... the main bad guy is the character who started hijacking other racing games so he could continue being the best. Ralph's quest to be treated better by the people in his game almost destroys his game, as well as another wholly separate game. Ralph doesn't save the day or become a good guy until he explicitly states that he will never be more than a bad guy. The day isn't saved until Sugar Rush is rebooted and Vanellope is put back into the place where she belongs, which happens to be the ruler, which happens to grant her enough leeway to make the choice as to how she will present herself. Also, the Felix/Tamora relationship has zero impact on their games.

Really, the only thing that makes the movie less conservative is that it found a space for the random homeless characters, which is why I added that aside. It's a really fun, entertaining piece of work and it's message is deeply rooted in adhering to existing class structures as the root of all happiness.

kids don't absorb movie messages especially not when their fathers might encourage thinking about such things as opposed to the bit where the talking animal fell over or farted

like I watched Jedi with my dad and he kept spoiling it by solemnly intoning "THATS VERY TRUE" at all of Yoda's lessons and that's basically why all his sons don't believe in positive thinking.

this movie is a+ btw

fwiw I liked The Incredibles tons, as well

ha! good yoda story. oh, dads.

I'm obv against analysing the politics of most movies and esp kids ones

but eeesh the incredibles

it's a shame because The Incredibles really is one of their best films, it adds a sour taste to it

Huzzah.

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--GLt6DiAO--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/xkkcnnxbrvo7prbznsy0.jpg

(Actual title, actual logo.)

Plus this, with lots of little Twitter-like birds too.

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--YQy5hb7n--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/jdyixelbl3ex3rbf0dy3.jpg

I'm cashing in all of my industry chips to lobby for an Ornaldo Bloomps cameo.

"lubhub"

reminds me of how Chicken Little had a line about "Chickens Gone Wild"

"lubhub"

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, March 29, 2017 10:17 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I...I don't know what to say. Spoilers for a particular scene at least.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/wreck-it-ralph-2-is-bringing-back-all-the-disney-prince-1796938437

Sounds fake but who knows. Disney writers could actually be this blind.

But there is one place where everyone shares all the same likes: OhMyDisney.com, the happiest place online.

She said the place has everything, including food and merch—and then someone runs and screams “Tsum Tsum,” a real-life popular stuffed toy, which Vanellope calls “little furry sausages.”

Tsum tsum have been a thing for a long time.

word, I had been wanting to see this movie for a while but if it turns out that it's become part of a franchise I'll be crossing it off my list.

that sounds awesome tbh

bizzaro otm

was gonna say it sounds funny to me actually

This year he’s going to break it 👊 #RalphBreakstheInternet pic.twitter.com/wKNL13W26Z

— Wreck-It Ralph (@wreckitralph) January 1, 2018

Pushed back to November, it seems?

the trailer for this makes this look like the worst fucking movie ever made.

Yeah, I'm hoping for more than Ready Player One: Disney IP edition.

it's seriously like emoji-movie level bad

i thought it looked fine. you guys saw the first one, right?

new one is very good, a huge step up from the first and marred only by some intermittently rushed/forced plotting, and all the real-life branding stuff, and a certain clunkiness to the realization of the metaphor-as-antagonist. but the shit this is really about, and the way it's about it, seems so relevant and on-point for a kids' movie in 2018. and visually it's just a feast.

i wish they had just left felix and jane lynch out of it though. their whole bit added nothing, about as much as the still-tedious zangief jokes.

Whole family haaaated this movie, which we all thought was ugly and boring and annoying.

Interesting. I quite enjoyed it, and like seeing how it attempted to show the internet on the big screen. Overall though, it’s quite disposable or forgettable.

Some parts were quite dark - such as the virus/dark web sequence. I thought this might be a bit disturbing for younger viewers. The messages around friendship were also a bit mawkish.

Visually, and in every other way, the Spider-man film is far superior.

That's for sure.

One of the (many) problems I had with it, besides Ralph and Vanellope being pretty annoying, imo, is that their friendship did not feel like this huge thing that needed to be saved. So when the movie takes its turn halfway toward this epic "I want to be your friend," "no, I want to be your friend!' "no, let's both be FWENDS!" theme, I couldn't wait for it to be over. It was like watching a louder episode of Barney. Also, while I get it, I'm not usually a fan of films where the corporations play themselves. It's a hard trick to pull off without it feeling like an ad. (Though it was interesting to see which companies OK'd their participation and which didn't.)

I might have posted this on a different thread, but my two main takeaways were:

1) This was like watching a feature length adaptation of a five-minute cartoon they show before an Epcot ride and 2) We all would have rather watched a movie about tough-talking but still singing crime-fighting Disney princesses. Speaking of that, even Vanellope's big ironic musical number we all thought was a dull, tuneless, easy-target missed opportunity.

Though I will say, as a family experience it's rare that we all agree on a movie, even if we all agreed we hated it, so at least there was that!

song gave me a few giggles AND got me teary, i'm a sap.

idk i really responded to the whole idea of friends that move away/follow their own thing but that doesn't mean the end, etc.... i agree it was laid on a little thick, and to get us there ralph has to be a REAL doof for most of the movie. just do one-third as many scenes that reestablish his problem. i also think it wd have been better if his toxic masculinity had been provoked and encouraged by some gamergate svengali types who picked up on his jealousy of shank, etc. the whole virus scheme just took too much time and verbiage.

i wish all the corporations were fake equivalents, just as the made-up video games are funnier and more charming than having the street fighter characters and pac-man there.

i'm not a parent so what do i know - but it struck me as cool that the takeaways from this went beyond "believe in yourself!" to more practical lessons like "don't read the comments," "don't be a clingy jealous jerk dude," "the internet is toxic," and "your friends are going to move away someday, but seeing them in a few months and staying in touch by phone is still a real friendship."

And mentioned in this thread a little earlier, but the Spider-man cartoon is sooooooooo good - smart, gorgeous, funny, moving - that it really shows how subpar Incredibles 2 and Ralph are.

We can have both! I don't really see them as being in the same category at all, especially since Spider-Man drew from tons of source material and the other two are original properties (well, for the most part)

Both movies had pretty clear themes, even if you didn't like 'em lol

I can't even remember the theme of Incredibles 2. Was it that dads have trouble being stay at home parents and women should work? I dunno. I do seem to recall the villain's evil plan being to make superheroes legal again so that they can frame them crashing a boat into stuff so that superheroes would be made illegal. Lots of runaway vehicles in this one.

Regardless, I did literally forget Incredibles 2 came out this year!

The theme of Incredibles 2 is "I, Brad Bird, am a better person than I was 15 years ago"

"I, Brad Bird, made the jump to live-action blockbusters with Mission: Impossible, but then flopped with the terrible and boring Tomorrowland, so was forced to go back and make a sequel to my best known animated hit in order to get out of movie jail."

look, if you can't appreciate a stealth-Randian family film i don't know what you to tell ya

I did not appreciate it

evergreen