He’s at the equivalent of an AA meeting for villains, where they reassure each other that they’re not bad, they just have to be for the game. We meet our protagonist, Ralph, as he explains he’s been the bad guy in the game “Fix-it Felix Jr.” since the game was plugged in. They can travel between games by the power cords, which meet at Game Central Station (aka a power strip). Well, the story takes place inside an arcade, where when the people go home, the video game characters come to life. It acted as both an homage and a parody of video games. It had subtle jokes and nostalgia up the wazoo. It had characters that made you love them.
#Conserta felix jr movie#
This movie that I thought was going to be “eh…” and “just ok” had heart. So I wasn’t too excited to see it, but did because after Tangled I promised myself I would never miss another in the theater again unless there was an extremely legit reason. A topic boys care about will actually make them want to see it. Meanwhile, I was like “yeah, ok.” Go figure. My husband saw this trailer and immediately wanted to see it. I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again: Lassiter is a genius. Instead, they just, for once, took a topic that boys and teens actually care about and made a movie about it. They didn’t produce trailers that showed you only the “cool” or “dangerous” parts. They didn’t try to make it “cool” by adding songs from a well known teen-angst artist. What else worked for it? Disney didn’t try too hard to market this to boys. It has its issues too, but it doesn’t suffer from any of the issues the others had to suffer from. Now I am in no way saying that Wreck-it Ralph is perfect. One tried to cram too much into one story, one was boring and didn’t give us good characters, and the other was good, but no one gave it a chance because it was a normal story told in a strange way. Why did this movie succeed when the others have failed? After a bunch of failed attempts (Black Cauldron, Atlantis, Treasure Planet…) they FINALLY succeeded.
The protagonist (or is he the antagonist?) of Disney’s first successful attempt to market to not only little boys, but teenage boys as well. This post isn’t about me, it’s about Ralph. Any moment I get to rest I just find myself sleeping. long story short: I both started a new job, and I’m in the middle of my first pregnancy. Just understand that I won’t be posting as much for the next, well, I dunno when. I know I have people who love to read my blog, and I really do appreciate you. I have excuses (good ones in fact), but it shouldn’t matter. OMG I am incredibly sorry I haven’t posted in a while. I will never be good, but that’s not bad.