Animated video game nostalgia. What's not to like? Not much, but Wreck-It Ralph just doesn't have the flair to pull off the Pixar style it attempts to emulate. It's a cute, mildly funny feature that just doesn't accomplish all it set outs to.
It's a fantastic idea really: Wreck-It Ralph, the destructive villain in the fictional video game Fix-It Felix, just wants the chance to be a hero for once. Unhappy with his day job, he begins jumping between video games in an attempt to prove his worth. Unfortunately, after the first thirty minutes, Ralph finds himself in a saccharine racing game called Sugar Rush, where he stays for the rest of the film. There a few amusing references to Tapper, Q-Bert, and a few others, but almost all occur in the film's opening moments. Once Ralph reaches Sugar Rush, the film evaporates into little more than a childish underdog/outcast story and one amazing Oreo joke.
There are plenty of recognizable voices, but the typecasting is so meticulous, they might as well have named one of the characters "Sarah Silverman". Disney Animation is trying its best to blend the adult with the childish, but it hasn't quite graduated from elementary school.
6/10
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