Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives.

So this was obviously a kids movie, but it was still cute and witty enough for me to enjoy.  Since finals week is quickly approaching I needed to get some fun into my system and this was exactly the movie to see.

Ralph is the cute and lovable bad guy and is underappreciated in his video game, Fix It Felix.  He leaves to prove himself (by earning a medal) and so when he returns his fellow game characters will finally accept him and he won't have to live alone at the dump anymore.

Ralph getting the medal was actually the easy part.  This kind of threw me for a loop.  In these kinds of movies the hero always spends more than half of the movie searching for whatever and then the rest of the way he is just trying to return home.

Ralph did it backwards.  He got the medal in about 5 minutes.  Impressive right?  But then he accidentally gets sucked into another game similar to Mario Kart on crack and loses his medal.  He makes friends with another outcast and they help to save the game from evil cyber-bugs.

Ralph goes home and everyone appreciates him.  The end.

Not an impressive plot, but I'll give Disney the thumbs up for twisting it around a little.  Going into this movie I didn't have high hopes.  Honestly I was hoping to get a 90 minute nap out of it.  But because of voices like Sarah Silverman and Jane Lynch I actually found myself laughing pretty hard.

All in all the graphics were really good.  It was cool to see how they mimicked other older games, like Pac Man and Mario Bros., you could really see the change in animation and technique.

Also the colors in Sugar Rush (the made up game that most of the movie takes place in) made me want to eat candy.  So now I'm eating gummy bears as I write this review :)

Overall I'm not sure if I would see it again, but I would give Wreck-It Ralph 3 stars.  I was entertained and I don't have too much criticism for the movie at all.  I don't want to give it more stars because I feel like once you know what happens that's the end of it.  The wonder of new worlds is lost and you don't have the same curiosity you did as the first time you saw it.  You know all the characters and how they will react.

But if my little cousins REALLY wanna see it I might reconsider.