Wreck-It Ralph

I watched Wreck-It Ralph, a Disney computer animated film, released in 2012, directed by Rich Moore, starring John C. Reilly as Ralph, Jack McBrayer as Fix-it Felix Jr., Sarah Silverman as Vanellope von Schweetz, and Jane Lynch as Sergeant Tamora Jean Calhoun. All of them are from video games. The story is that Ralph is sick of being a bad guy and wants to change that but inadvertently puts the whole arcade in danger by doing so.
I was wanting to see this film when it came out because I loved the idea of the game characters congregating, much in the same way TRON did years before. I didn’t get a chance to see it in theaters like I had hoped and everyone seemed to like it.
I watched it and was entertained throughout. It was cool seeing all those familiar characters, and spotting ones in the backgrounds or group scenes. The voice acting was quite superb and I was SHOCKED to see that Alan Tudyk had done the voice of King Candy, with a channeling of Ed Wynn, to boot. It was an interesting treatise of how we each have a job to do and though we may not like it, it is not just us that feel the effects if we decide to leave said job. That is quite a blatant oversimplification of the intricacies of the plot but initially, that is the take away I get from it. Basically, don’t be a self-centered douche. I was surprised at how much it moved me in the end and how everything works itself out. There were a few hiccups in the story here and there but overall, it was a fun little movie. I appreciate that it captures the video game culture across the board and though it would’ve been interesting to see them keep an 8-bit Ralph and other characters (they didn’t deeming that he would not be “relatable enough to audiences”, whatever that means), it comes off flashy but not saccharine like a lot of the animated fair coming out lately that is computer generated. Clearly, this film was not rushed out and I'm not sure if they will have sequel but if it does, I will certainly give it a chance.
I think it is worth it to see because it actually has heart and a pretty good message that isnt preachy and is really at the heart of the issue of being a friend.