'Wreck-It Ralph' makers build a winner The Disney tribute to arcade gaming is delightfully off the rails, offering a grown-up-friendly tone and merging of visual styles that are reminiscent of the studio's 1988 animated homage to film noir, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." The resulting hero's journey takes Ralph through the arcade, settling in a modern racing game called "Sugar Rush" - where he mentors Vanellope von Schweetz, a character whose "glitch" properties have made her an outcast. Q*bert is homeless in "Wreck-It Ralph," and the send-up of the shapely female space marine leader from the fictitious "Hero's Duty" game is vicious in its hilarity. (An exploding cake creates a blocky 8-bit mess.) Characters from the newer games have their own modern neuroses, victims of too much adrenaline and an almost gross sexuality. Action, nostalgia and humor power the movie until the final act, when the filmmakers' penchant for rewriting the rules as they go becomes a liability. If it's not the "Pac-Man" of animated movies, it's definitely in "Dig Dug" territory.
'wreck-it Ralph' Makers Build A Winner
Entertainment, San Francisco Chronicle: Entertainment
Thu, 11/01/2012 - 3:33pm
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