Wreck-it Ralph is fantastic! Go see it! If you like video games at all, go see it! if you like animation, go see it! If you like being annoyed by little kids while at the movie, you're insane!
Wreck-it Ralph is expertly written... It is a little slow at the beginning, but after the first 10 minutes or so, it picks up speed and becomes excellent.
This movie... it is a little hard to describe. I want to say it's like Pixar at it's best, but this is better... It's like it broke off from being a film solely for kids, and became something much more enjoyable. I would almost describe it as a Dreamworks movie, but it has a massive amount of heart behind it...
This movie feels like Disney. Disney at it's best.
I can barely find anything negative to say about the film, let alone anything to fix. (Apart from the whole thing about big-names like Sonic and Eggman on covers of the posters, when they only have 30 seconds of screen time at most.) The only thing I can possibly say is that the relationship between Felix and Calhoun feels a bit forced... But that's small potatoes compared to how well all the other characters are written.
Unlike Pixar's Brave, I want to get this movie on DVD & Blu-ray the day it comes out, hell maybe possibly go see this movie in 3D while it is still in theatres.
I know it seems like I should say more, but I don't want to spoil the movie in any way.
This is looking to be a good month; Wreck-it Ralph is brilliant, and Rise of the Guardians is coming out on the 21st. So while people are scurrying to buy all the black-Friday deals, I'll be watching Dreamwork's latest... And because it's black Friday I may even get to have an empty theatre! :D However, a review for it will not appear for a while... You'll see come December.
Though I am so happy to see Disney doing great again, I can't discount Dreamworks too much. One of the previews was a Dreamworks movie I hadn't heard of; The Croods. So far, it looks like Brave's female characterization done right, with Journey to the Center of the Earth done right as well. The best part: the designs. They didn't try to make them be attractive for the sake of being attractive, the characters look more like actual cavemen. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out!
Then there is Pixar... it seems to almost like dragging it's name in the mud now. They are re-releasing Monsters Inc in 3D. The cash cow goes Moo, and then prints money. The only film so far that looks like it has a shadow of a hope for Pixar, is "The Untitled Pixar movie that takes you inside the mind." Set for release in 2015.
Unless that movie is one of the trippiest things ever and just basically goes all out on creating something not seen in animation ever before, there isn't likely to be a winner from Pixar for a couple years... Get off your cash cattle Pixar, and start trying to find your name again.
But, to end on a happier note...
This has been Fixer Sue fanboying over the latest animated movie.
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