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“Sure must be nice being the good guy,” laments Ralph, the over-sized but lovable doofus who has but one job in life and that’s to wreck things in the new animated feature from Disney, Wreck-It Ralph.
In the video arcade game Fix-It Felix Jr. Wreck-It Ralph is the villain. Ralph knocks buildings down, Felix rebuilds them. That’s the game. In the way that the toys from Toy Story speak to each other once the humans leave the room, the video arcade characters in Wreck-It Ralph socialize with each other after a busy day of performing once the arcade closes its doors to the public. They relax and hang out. It’s a very funny idea.
Ralph’s problem is that he’s getting tired of always being the bad guy. He wants to be the hero, and he knows that heroes are only acknowledged as heroes when they win medals, so what does Ralph do? He skips out of his own game and crosses into Hero’s Duty, a video sc-fi war game where characters don futuristic protective armor and fight deadly Cy-Bugs.
Because of Ralph’s over-enthusiasm to be a hero he unwittingly allows for a singular Cy-Bug to get out of its game and enter the candy-coated world of Sugar Rush, a kart racing game decorated with cookies, popsicles, and other assorted candies. The Cy-Bug, we are told, is a virus. It will multiply and kill. It doesn’t know it’s in a game. Ralph, along with the hero’s medal he has now won from the sci-fi game has to enter the world of Sugar Rush and become a real hero before the Cy-Bugs take over everything.
To quote another Walt Disney production, Mary Poppins, the voice work in Wreck-It Ralph is practically perfect in every way. John C Reilly, who himself always comes across as a lovable doofus in live action films, makes a great Ralph. On reflection, I can’t think of a better voice to suit the character. Jane Lynch voices the tough female character of Sergeant Calhoun, the no-nonsense military leader who repeatedly leads the soldiers in battle against the Cy-Bugs. Calhoun’s character is one tough woman. “She was programmed with a terrible backstory,” one character advises Ralph while trying to explain why the Sergeant acts the way she does. I kid you not, this is Jane Lynch’s best role to date. Alan Tudyk voices King Candy, the royal character from the Sugar Rush game, and he immediately reminds you of
Wreck-It Ralph begins with a funny idea and gets better and better as it goes along, and while the film’s 3D tends to darken the screen images by at least 30% from a regular 2D image there is a sense of immersion in a video animated world that – and I hate to admit it – gives the film an extra level of fun.
And look out for a five minute, wordless animated short at the beginning called
