Good, funny story, a very entertaining animated feature.

Rating: Null/10 (14 May 2013)

I am always leery when any movie gets lots of praise, and this one has had its share. But it deserves all of it. The story is very interesting, reminding me a lot of "Monsters, Inc" in that the characters in arcade games had lives of their own when the arcade was closed and they were not being "played." And the voice-acting is some of the best I have ever had the pleasure of enjoying. Plus the animation makes the characters' expressions so interesting. With all the mediocre animated features out now, this one shines as one of the best.
The feature arcade game is "Wreck-It Ralph", where Ralph wreaks havoc and Felix the repairman with the magic hammer has to go behind him and repair things. That is the object of the game, players need to manipulate Felix to repair Ralph's messes. But Ralph after 30 years has become tired of being the bad guy, he wants to be a hero, to be liked.
John C. Reilly is the voice of Ralph, doing a good job. But the real star is Sarah Silverman voicing Vanellope, the little girl in a different arcade game that Ralph enters. When you put her voice acting together with inventive animation, she is as much fun to watch as "Wall-E".
The visual design is very clever. In the arcade all the various machines (games) are plugged into a common power strip. Since characters in arcade games are just electrical signals, in their miniature world they travel within wires and circuits. So the inside of the power strip is made to look similar to the concourse of a train station, with the several tunnels off to each side leading towards the power cord of a different arcade game. So, even though they are not supposed to leave their own game and enter another, they are able to do so and in fact do enter other games. All very interestingly done.
The overall story and its conclusion is a bit intricate to summarize easily, but is straightforward and easy to follow. Good, entertaining movie.