Life inside the Video Arcade

Rating: 6/10 (8 February 2019)

There is basically two reasons why I ended up watching this film: the first being that my brother wanted to see the second film, and when I watched the second film there was so much about it that didn't make sense I really felt that I needed to watch this one to actually understand some of the subtleties that was going on in the second one, such as why some super-mario bros type of character was actually married to this character that looked like she had come straight out of Halo.
Well, things now make a lot more sense, and they certainly explain how this rather unusual relationship came about. You see, in the world of Wreck it Ralph, the characters are all characters in video games. During the day they simply play their parts, however at night, when the arcade shuts down, they all go about doing their own things. The problem is that because Ralph is a 'bad guy' he sort of gets left out, and he also lives in a garbage dump.
The problem is that Ralph actually isn't all that bad a guy. He's actually quite nice, it is just that not only is he somewhat misunderstood, but he is also quite lonely. However, it seems that nobody really wants to give him a chance, so he decides that he will go and get himself a medal, which he actually manages to do, namely by going into this Halo style game. The problem is that one of the bugs from this game escapes into a third game, and all hell breaks loose.
The thing is that there is a lot more going on behind the scenes besides Ralph wanting to get this medal and earn the respect of the other characters in his game. The problem is that characters aren't supposed to cross games, because if they do it is believed that the game is faulty, and the game is then unplugged and shipped off. Well, that is bad news for the characters in the game because when that happens, if they don't get out of the game then, well, they die. However, if they do get out, then they are basically homeless.
This was a rather fun movie, though a part of me felt that it did drag a little bit too much. In a way it is your typical Disney film, though it turns out that it also has a not too typical Disney princess (though Venelopee isn't an official princess so we probably can't actually call her one). As I mentioned, there is more going on than just the bug, and the medal. In fact, it turns out that there is a rather interesting twist in the film, and it does lead up to it quite well, with a few comments, and some explanations, going on in the lead up to the big reveal.
I guess this is one of the things I did like about this movie, and that is that it starts off going in one direction, and suddenly you find it moving towards a completely different ending with a completely different conclusion. However, there are also multiple plot lines as well, which all converge rather well. Yeah, it was somewhat slow to start, and a little annoying, but it did actually end quite well.