Wreck it Ralph for Adults Too

by: Lilly LeGrand

Many high schoolers probably would not have this movie as their first choice on the list of films they want to see with friends. It is probably more of a movie that they would see with their family if they have younger siblings or hard-core Disney fans or gamers in the mixs. I, myself fall under the last category of hard core Disney and video game fan,so this movie was a must. Also because I loved the first movie, Wreck-It Ralph, I was really excited when I heard there was going to be a sequel, Ralph Breaks the Internet. I can tell you for sure that I loved the movie.

Though the intended audience for Ralph Breaks the Internet is mostly children, f you are into extreme racing games, movies that poke fun at the studio, a bit of satire, silly Vine-like videos, the internet, and having a hidden message, then this movie might be for you.

The movie takes place six years after the point the first movie left off. The main characters, Wreck-It Ralph and Vanellope Von Schweetz, voiced by John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman, are enjoying life in Litwak’s Arcade. Ralph is content with life as it is while Vanellope wants something new and exciting to happen in her life. The steering wheel for her game soon breaks, causing Ralph and her to have to go to the internet to get a new one. They go to various sites to get the steering wheel and the money for it, including eBay, Slaughter Race, Buzztube, and OhMyDisney. Along the way, Vanellope discovers that she does not want to return to her game and wants to be a racer in Slaughter Race, an extremely gritty apocalyptic racing game. Ralph does not agree with her choice and sets loose a virus in the game; the virus later gets into the internet and creates a Wreck-It Ralph virus that almost destroys the internet. In the end, the two friends go their separate ways, and Ralph returns with a new steering wheel for Vanellope’s old game.

I personally thought that the movie was really sweet, funny, charming, inspiring, a bit sad, and overall had good messages towards the audience no matter what their age was. I felt the overall messages in the movie were that you can be friends with someone despite what their dreams are or personality is like, that you have to be careful with what you do on the internet, and that people might need to spend a little less time on the internet. Also, the way they portrayed the internet world was neat, from the way they had little avatars of actual people walking around each site to the popup people, it was nice to be able to actually see the different areas of the internet; they did this a bit better than the Emoji Movie. The movie might be seen differently by everyone and not exactly be up everyone’s alley, but I overall enjoyed it.