![]() ![]() Too obsolete to replace, it looks like it’s the end of the road for “Sugar Rush”. Ralph Breaks the Internet, despite the years of evident brainstorming and conceptualizing behind the scenes, is an overly designed mess.īut then, due to an ill-hatched scheme by Ralph to make Vanellope’s game more exciting for her, the steering wheel on the real-world “Sugar Rush” console is broken. A cheap security guard appears at the new tunnel entrance, stringing up some caution tape and giving all the game characters a stern warning not to cross it. ![]() Hello, what’s this…? A “modem…?” It seems the owner of the arcade, a kindly old behind-the-times kinda guy, has decided to try out this thing called “the Internet”. Then one day, a new plug is engaged, opening a new avenue to whatever lies beyond. Vanellope, a racer at heart, is pretty bored with her own video game, “Sugar Rush”, these days, and all the hanging around in between rounds, but she also enjoys Ralph’s doofy company. Reilly) and Princess Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) have been loafing around the arcade game terminal (a power strip, same as it ever was) doing nothing in particular. ![]() All this time, Ralph (the voice of John C. Which, if nothing else, is at least often true of real-world internet experience. But, Ralph Breaks the Internet is too many things, amounting to not enough. (As both apply to the main characters, in this case). It’s something about insecurities, be they digital or personal. This long-awaited theatrical sequel, by contrast, isn’t ever sure what it’s about. The fact that it’s about video game characters (Ralph being a fictionalized retro arcade game bad guy who didn’t want to be the bad guy any more) was the novel hook that everything hung comfortably upon. The first film, 2012’s Wreck-It Ralph, proved to be a refreshingly layered and consistently hilarious look at belonging and fitting in. It doesn’t require a degreed act of reverse engineering to wreck something, but Disney’s new sequel, Ralph Breaks the Internet, does a pretty systematic job of it. Disney’s Web-addled Sequel Fails to ClickĭIRECTED BY PHIL JOHNSTON & RICH MOORE/2018 ![]()
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