Wreck - It Ralph star drollery brain John C. Reilly as the bad hombre in an sure-enough , 8 - flake video biz who daydream of proving he ’s really a hero . This movie might just do for video games what Toy Story did for toy .
At yesterday ’s D23 presentation , Disney animation capitulum honcho John Lasseter introduced the first four minutes from Disney ’s upcoming estimator animated picture . What we come across was very much a workplace - in - progress – while some of the animation appear more or less done , it was mostly a hodgepodge of storyboards , animatics , and unfinished animation . But what the footage did feature was a lengthy monologue from Wreck - It Ralph explaining his world and how he meet into it .
That means the footage was mostly just John C. Reilly talking , and that ’s passably much insistent comedy gold as far as I ’m concerned . From Boogie Nights to Walk firmly to his work as Dr. Steve Brule , Reilly is a master of lovably off - kilter line readings and comic intonations . While the footage had plenty of good laughs on its own merit , Reilly elevated the material from merely comic to downright hilarious just from the way he take the lines .
As Reilly ’s voiceover explains , Wreck - It Ralph is a 9 - foot - tall , 600 - pound goliath who is pretty much a working case of structural price . He be inside the colonnade game Fix - It Felix , and his job is to wreck the biz ’s one high - rise building while Fix - It Felix , Jr. fixes it . Like most Reilly quality , Ralph is a big sweetheart , and he ’s got nothing against Felix – he says he ’s a perfectly nice guy wire and fixes things well , though he does designate out that ’s not quite so impressive when you study Felix ’s dad gave him a witching cock .
But such details do n’t matter – the point of the plot is to fix the construction , not wreck it , so that imply Felix is the paladin and Ralph is the bad guy . Ralph observes , “ I ask you , are there any medals for the sweet science of ruin ? Hah ! No . ” ( This is one of those lines where Reilly ’s manner of speaking urinate it about 200 % funnier than it would be otherwise . ) Ralph is philosophical though , and he realizes he ’s prosperous to have a steady gig for the last thirty years . He knows others have n’t been so rosy – he mentions “ all those guy cable in Asteroids ” as an example of devolve comrade .
The Toy Story comparability feels particularly apt when we see the arcade shut down for the Nox , and the “ off - duty ” video biz characters are left to their own devices . The resident of the mellow - rise building rain shower Fix - It Felix with thanks and adulation , while Ralph is left to slink away to his bed , a raft of garbage in the dump with a blanket of bricks . Reilly mix in the funny with the tragic when he assures us his lifetime is n’t so risky , even if he is living in “ a filthy cesspool of despair at the edge of mankind . ”
The scene then cut down to a meeting of Bad - Anon , an Alcoholics Anonymous trend gathering for villains in picture game where the shibboleth is “ One game at a time . ” Ralph ’s monologue has actually been his computer address to the group , and we next hear from Tigor , a fighter from a Mortal Kombat type game who relates how he once found himself beating a guy with his own pegleg , which was the percentage point that he accept his destiny as a unfit guy – but , as Tigor puts it , just because he ’s a defective guy does n’t have to intend he ’s a bad cat .
Ralph replies that he has no idea what Tigor is talking about , but it ’s at that stage where the session ends with the bad bozo assertion : “ I am bad , and that ’s secure . I will never be good and that ’s not defective . There ’s nothing I would rather be . ” But it ’s clear that Ralph is n’t content with that , which is where the footage ends .
The movie is direct by Rich Moore , a stalwart director for both The Simpsons and Futurama . He directed such all - time Graeco-Roman episodes as “ Marge vs. the Monorail ” , “ Itchy & Scratchy : The Movie ” , “ flame Moe ’s ” , “ Cape Feare ” , “ Hell Is Other golem ” , and the greatest Futurama of them all , “ Roswell That Ends Well . ” ( He ’s also a reliably dry witticism on the DVD comment , assuming you ’re the type of obsessional sports fan who listens to commentaries often enough to tell apart distinct personality … which , uh , is totally not what I am . )
Moore explained that Ralph is indeed no longer content with his living , and so he leaves his 8 - bit game to find a new game where he can become a hero . To that end , he arrives at Game Central Station – which to us humans would just be the colonnade ’s power strip – which dish up as a portal and gateway to all the other games in the colonnade . He judge to join a raw , res publica - of - the - art first soul shooter game where futurist marine are tasked with fight back merciless aliens on a faraway planet … basically , he survive to Halo , which a brief glimpse of the game ’s optical intent very much confirmed .
alas , Ralph prove to be in agency over his school principal , and so he rather tries his deal at Sugar Rush , a apparently more destitute , kiddie - point racing game fructify in a Candyland - similar reality . However , this humankind holds a dangerous mystery that threatens the entire colonnade . That ’s all we nonplus to learn from the introduction , but here ’s guessing that this last gives Ralph his chance to demonstrate his valorousness … and it looks like he ’ll have plentitude of opportunity to interact with iconic video game characters ( or their legally approved stand - ins ) along the way .
This would n’t be the first prison term in recent storage an animated moving-picture show has revealed the heroic side of a deport villain – that ’s pretty much the precise premise of the blemished but now and again capital Dreamworks movie Megamind . The difference of opinion here is that Wreck - It Ralph is far more a lovable victim of setting than a monster in motive of redemption , and that for certain fit well with Reilly ’s performance .
unite him in the voice cast are 30 Rock ’s Jack MacBrayer as Fix - It Felix , Jane Lynch as the knotty - as - nail space Marine Sergeant Calhoun , and Sarah Silverman as Ralph ’s new protagonist in Sugar Rush , the untried would - be racer Vanellope von Schweetz .
Obviously , it ’s impossible to pass judgment an total film from four proceedings of bare footage , but this was easily the most pleasant surprise for me of D23 . A movie like this could probably just coast on John C. Reilly ’s talents and try at least gently entertaining , and I ’m affirmative about what Rich Moore , who has make for so many first-class half - hours of The Simpsons and Futurama to lifespan , can do with his first solo feature directing effort .
Here ’s a newly let go of official description from Disney , which offer a few more key item on the plot :
Wreck - It Ralph ( voice of John C. Reilly ) longs to be as beloved as his secret plan ’s everlasting Good Guy , Fix - It Felix ( interpreter of Jack McBrayer ) . Problem is , nobody fuck a Bad Guy . But they do making love heroes … so when a modern , first - person shooter game arrives boast tough - as - nail Sergeant Calhoun ( voice of Jane Lynch ) , Ralph sees it as his ticket to valor and happiness . He mouse into the game with a simple design - win a ribbon - but before long bust up everything , and accidently unleashes a deadly enemy that threatens every biz in the arcade . Ralph ’s only hope ? Vanellope von Schweetz ( voice of Sarah Silverman ) , a young troublemaking “ glitch ” from a confect - coated cart racing game who might just be the one to learn Ralph what it mean to be a Good Guy . But will he realize he is secure enough to become a hero before it ’s “ Game Over ” for the entire arcade ?
D23 photos viaAnimatie .
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