"I'm gonna wreck it!!!"

      There are times when I think Disney knows what they're doing.  Come to think of it, I'm not really sure if there's a movie by Disney that I 've seen where I thought it was bad.  So anyway, here's a family movie by Disney that was very enjoyable.  Today's topic.......

Wreck it Ralph

 

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      "I'm gonna Wreck it!"

"Fix it Felix!"

"I can fix it!"

 

      I thought Wreck it Ralph was a great movie.  Something the whole family can enjoy.  I give Wreck it Ralph a 5 star rating.  So take the kids, or just yourself, and go see this movie.

The characters in this animated video game based movie were the voices of John C. Reilly (Ralph), Jack McBrayer (Fix it Felix Jr.), Jane Lynch (Calhoun), Sarah Silverman (Vanellope), and Alan Tudyk (King Candy).  Although there are plenty more of these characters, I figured we would stick to the main ones.

 

      First of all, before the movie started they played this really cute skit.  This man was at the train station or metro (whatever you want to call it) waiting on his train to come and take him to another days work.  In the skit they called him the paper man.  A piece of paper comes flying passed him and then he noticed the pretty lady running after it.  As she stands next to him, a piece of his paper goes flying and lands on her face leaving a lipstick "kiss" on the paper.  She laughs and points at the paper.  When he looks at it, he starts to laugh too, but when he looked back, she was gone. She already gotten on the train.  Well to make a long story short, or I guess a short story even shorter, while he was at work, he noticed she was in the building across the street. He began making paper airplanes and kept trying to get her attention but they just kept missing.  Despite the fact that his boss kept coming out, he kept trying.  Finally, he gave up and left work. As he tried to walk away all the paper airplanes followed him and stuck to him causing him to go a certain way.  While at the same time, the one with the lipstick kiss found her and made her follow it til they were in the same place.  I thought this skit alone was just too cute.

 

      Now, back to Wreck it Ralph.  Like they say in the previews, Ralph has been doing this for 30 years.  Always the bad guy.  However, Ralph doesn't want to be the bad guy, he wants to be the good guy for once.  He's never invited over, never gets pie, never gets a kiss on the cheek for doing a good job, and doesn't have any friends.  Ralph decides it's time for a change.  Ralph joins a group meeting for bad guys called Bad-Anon: One game at a time.  It's like an AA meeting, but for bad guys.  He listens to what the others have to say and he tells his story as well.  When Zangief announces himself, he talks about how he can crush peoples skull like an egg with his thighs.  He also said to Ralph, "You are 'bad guy,' doesn't mean you are 'bad guy.'"  Then the zombie announces himself telling Ralph, "....You must love you."  At the end of it, they say the "bad guy" affirmation which goes like this,

 

"I'm bad, and that's good.  I will never be good,

and that's not bad.  There's no one I'd rather

be then me."

 

Ralph wants to be good, he wants to have friends, but everyone is afraid of him and at home, they just don't like him.  So, Ralph decides to go game jumping and puts his game in jeopardy.  In order to get a metal, he has to find a game that gives out metals for doing something good.  So, Ralph went to Heroes Duty to get his "hero" metal.

 

"This is make your momma proud day."

"I love my momma!"

 

      Calhoun is the captain of these soldiers in the game Heroes Duty.  She is the one giving the instructions for the "first shooter" players.  Ralph starts to freak out and causes the player to lose.  When the arcade closes, the game characters leave and do their own thing.  Ralph, on the other hand, wanted that metal.  After reaching the metal and retrieving it, a computerized general and other soldiers appear to congratulate him.  As Ralph walks away proud of himself, he trips over a bunch of eggs and creates a big mess.  Inside these eggs are bugs and they grow in a very fast paste.  These bugs become whatever they eat and are naturally dangerous.

 

      So one of these bugs attacks Ralph and as he tries to get the beg off his face, he ends up in an air craft.  Leaving Heroes Duty, crashing into every wall in Game Central Station, and makes a crash landing in a game called Sugar Rush.  This game is a car racing game that features characters that represent some kind of candy.  This is also the game where Ralph meets Vanellope and King Candy.  Mean while Felix and Calhoun is trying to get Ralph and the bug back home where they belong.  With Ralph no longer in his game, the game is considered Out of Order with the possibility of being unplugged.  That is of course unless Ralph gets home before the arcade opens.  

 

    

 

      Calhoun needs to find the bug before it lays any eggs and destroy it.  When these bugs make it to another game, as Calhoun describes it, it becomes a virus.  Like any virus, the bugs destroy everything in its path.  However, like a fly or mosquito, they are attracted to that very bright burning light.

 

      Now, Vanellope has been described as the glitch and if she wins a race, she will be put in the roster and possibly selected by a gamer.  Once she is picked, the gamer will notice her glitch and the owner will have to unplug the game.  In the game world, if you are a glitch and you game gets unplugged, as everyone tries to escape, the glitch can not.  With that being said, if you are a glitch, you die with game.  King Candy was the reason for everything.  King Candy used to go by another name from another game that was unplugged.  So in short, as they call it in the gaming world, he went "turbo," jumping into other games.  King Candy stayed in Sugar Rush and reprogrammed everything and wiping out all the characters memories on the truth.  King Candy did everything to keep Vanellope out of the race because he knew if she won a race or just made it across the finish line, it would reset the whole game, including the character's memory.

      Vanellope and Ralph eventually established a bond.  They created a car that may have been fast enough to beat not only the other players but King Candy as well.  King Candy had a different idea.  He grabbed Ralph's metal and gave it back so that Ralph could go home.  However, before he let Ralph go, he told him the story that caused Ralph to trash Vanellope's car.  So Ralph, after going back home only to find out that he made a mess of thing's there as well, so he went back to Sugar Rush to help his friends.  Felix and Vanellope was locked up in King Candy's kingdom, an area he called "fungeon."  Now if you remember, Felix can fix everything.  He has a magic hammer, so whatever it touches it makes it better or just fixes it.  So, when Felix finds that he may be able to escape the fungeon, he taps the loose bar in his cell and the become bigger.  Once Ralph found Felix and apologized for what he did and the trouble he has caused, Felix agrees to fix Vanellope's car.  Once they reach Vanellope, the only way he can get her to accept his apology is by calling himself names.  Mean while, Calhoun discovered that the bug hatched dozens of eggs and the game was in trouble.  With the bugs busting out of the ground, this was even too much for Calhoun herself to do it alone.  Her only plan was to get everyone out of the game.  Ralph was on his way out with Vanellope, but as long as she was a glitch, she couldn't leave.  

 

      To wrap things up, in order to save the game, Ralph knew what he had to do.  You see, Vanellope lived in a hidden cave that had an unfinished track.  In this cave there was an inverted volcano, but instead of lava it was hot cola.  Instead of sharp rocks forming from the top of the cave it was Mentos.  Every time a mentos fell into the hot cola, it exploded.  With that being said, Ralph had to cause all the mentos to fall into the hot cola and create that very bright burning light that the bugs are attracted to in order to get rid of all the bugs.  Calhoun and Felix created a bond of their own and got married, Vanellope still got the chance to finish the race first and reset the game.  Everyone form Sugar Rush got the memory back and remembered who Vanellope really was.  She was the Queen (or princess) of Sugar Rush.  Ralph and Felix made it back home before the arcade opened and was able to save their home.  In fact, some of the characters even found a new home in Wreck it Ralph.  You will find that at Game Central Station there are a lot of "homeless" or "gameless" characters.  Well anyway, they created a bonus round where Felix gets help fixing and Ralph gets help Wrecking.  With Ralph taking it one game at a time, he finally understood the meaning of the Bad-Anon affirmation.  The characters of Wreck it Ralph began to enjoy Ralph.  They were nice to him and he started making friends.  Ralph even began enjoying being thrown off the building, because now, when they pick him up, Ralph gets a clear view of Sugar Rush and he gets to see Vanellope all the time.

 

      Well, that concludes my review of Wreck it Ralph.  Like I said, 5 stars.  Sure, what I wrote may not seem like it, but you could always go see it for yourself.  Hope you enjoyed today's topic.  That's all for now folks, til next time........

 

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                                                            The Man with The Iron Fists

 

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