Had a movie night with the kids last night and watched this movie and I've got to admit it was much better than I thought it was going to be. I don't really know what I was thinking it was going to be like, but I had a lot of fun watching it, as did the kids. Especially my little girl who for some reason had really, really, wanted to see this movie. When it was over she wasn't disappointed and said she liked the movie and wanted to see it again. I think the little candy land girl in the movie helped with that situation.
This movie has the typical storyline about fitting in and finding your place in the world, but like my brother and I have been saying over the years: there's not really a great abundance of new stories out there, it all comes down to how you tell the story - that is what makes the difference. Characters make this approach to telling a good a story a really big deal. Because if you don't have good characters, no matter what the story you tell, who's going to care about the story? Good, focused characters help to guide the audience through the story you're telling. The more good characters you have the easier it will be for the audience to get into the story. Wreck-it-Ralph does manage to have some good characters to help the audience with the story.
I'm not saying these characters are on par with the Toy Story movies, there's nothing that groundbreaking here, but they do serve as good characters are supposed to serve, and that is to help the audience along with the story being told. Visually they are some really interesting characters from Ralph - his freakishly big hands, Felix - the small repair main with the magical hammer, Vanellope - whose glitch only makes her more interesting, and Calhoun - the high-def tough guy persona with metal armor and short blond hair. These characters are extremely helped along by the voice talents behind them, who help to flesh these characters out even more, and make them more endearing to the audience.
Another thing that makes this movie stand out, is the great visuals of the game world themselves that are vastly different, yet wildly entertaining, and, basically, become mini-characters in the movie, as they add so much to what is going on. Ralph's world is the basic 16-bit graphics with nothing wild going on, which only magnifies the insane, high intensity, High-definition of Calhoun's world that's fast passed and a complete 180 from Ralph's world. Then we are thrown into Vanellope's world, where the majority of the movie is played out, and her world is the richest in color and wildest in design, as candies - and their assorted colors - act as the building blocks for everything in her world, and truly give it a distinct difference from Ralph and Calhoun's world. All in all it was fun watch and a good family night. You can't go wrong with watching this movie.
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