Amazing Animated Feature

Rating: 10/10 (27 August 2013)

Disney animation has been trying to capture the magic of Pixar movies for a while now. They normally produce quality pictures, but more often than not Pixar films are on a higher level than the computer animated Disney films. Even though Pixar is owned by Disney there is still the attempt to create non-Pixar computer animation that will be able to stand out for the entertainment monster that Disney is.
Wreck-It Ralph is the story of Ralph (John C. Reilly), the villain of an arcade game called "Fix-It Felix Jr." which it is clear draws influence from the original "Donkey Kong" game. Villains are never appreciated for being evil. The main point of most games is simply to take down the villain. How can one feel appreciated when everyone else only wants to beat them back? Ralph leaves his own game in an attempt to become a hero in the arcade. After earning a medal in a futuristic war game, "Hero's Duty", Ralph jumps to a candy themed racing game, "Sugar Rush". While in the game Ralph meets Vanellope (Sarah Silverman), a young girl whose only dream is to become a racer, but every other racer in the kingdom considers her a mistake. Even King Candy (Alan Tudyk) refuses to let a glitch race in the game. Fix-It Felix Jr. (Jack MacBrayer) and Calhoun (Jane Lynch) travel into the colorful racing world in search of Ralph and a rogue bug from Calhoun's game, "Hero's Duty". The story that develops involves an unlikely friendship, a sinister plot and a villain realizing what it truly means to be a hero.
A well thought out and well scripted story provide the back bone to this movie, video game references and cameos adds meat to the body and with great casting choices to wrap the characters up with fitting voices the movie becomes its own stand-alone entity. There are a few moments in which the script resorts to crude jokes and toilet humor, but the dialogue works with the characters to provide a humorous and entertaining movie. Continuity is one thing that is very easy to keep within a movie as long as the script is edited and thought through. There are a few minor inconsistencies in this movie and a few scenes left unexplained, but these minor inconsistencies do not make the movie confusing or difficult to follow.
Typically I prefer Pixar films over the Disney computer animation, however this year between Brave and Wreck-It Ralph I prefer the Disney computer animation.