Story: Based on the classic video game,
Fix-It Felix Jr. Wreck-It Ralph is the game's resident bad guy. For 30
years, when every player starts the game, Ralph does his job wrecking
the building so Felix can fix the damages with the help of the player.
But what happens in between when the game is over and until another
player drops a coin in the video game? Unknown to us players, the
characters are living secretly in their world called Game Central.
Poster courtesy of Disney Animation |
Review:
What I like about the movie is that the target audience are really the
gamers like me. I have been playing video games like these in the days
of Atari and at the arcade. I surely remember Fix It Felix. What's great
about this movie is that Disney was able to arrange using real licensed
game characters from different games like Street Fighter, Q-Bert, Sonic
The Hedgehog and Super Mario Bros.
I
enjoyed this movie because there are lots of cameos from licensed games
even symbolic ones if you pay close attention. The punchlines of these
licensed characters are hilarious. Of course not all licensed games were
used. Instead, Disney was able to create fictional games to use like
Hero Duty and Sugar Rush. Hero Duty is like a sci-fi first person
shooting game in tradition of Doom or Quake were the player/s and the
soldier characters led by Calhoun are tasked to kill the CyBugs.
Sugar Rush is like a girls' version of Mario Kart Race.
Even though the movie has lots of gaming reference, non-gamers can
still watch the movie. What also made it interesting is the story has
some valuable insights that can relate to real life like how we treat
other people and stereotyping them. The rules are quite simple. There
are not cheat codes, no walk throughs and that each character has a role
to play in this game called life. The movie is also ideal to watch for
the whole family. There are no violent images, no graphic images, no
vulgar languages and it's wholesome. Also included is the short film
also produced by Disney Animation, Paperboy. It is done in classic Black
and White that is ideal in the story's time period which is mid-20th
Century. It was so simple that even without dialogue, you can grasp the
story. It is like a boy-meets-girl but I guarantee you will like it.
Wreck-It Ralph opens November 1 in Philippine cinemas and was released
and distributed by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Game Over.
Paperman. Photo courtesy of Walt Disney Animation |
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