Review Singkat

Rating: 9/10 (13 June 2013)

WRECK-IT RALPH is Disney's latest animated movie about the world of arcade game characters. It's a delightful, morally uplifting family movie.
Litwak's Family Fun Center is full of arcade games for all ages to enjoy; but, when the lights go off and the doors close, the characters inside the arcade games live a life of their own. The characters are made of programmed code and can travel between different arcade games through what they call Game Central Station, which in reality is the power strip into which the games are plugged. We are introduced to Ralph, a character in the 8-Bit arcade game Fix-It Felix Jr.
Ralph is a big man in the world of arcade games. Nine feet tall and 600 pounds, he's a formidable force. His job is to wreck the apartment building of the locals who are called "Nicelanders." As he wrecks the building, Fix-It Felix, Jr. comes in to fix the building. If Felix fixes the building without getting hit by the bricks that Ralph throws at him, he (and the game player) wins, and the Nicelanders then proceed to throw Ralph off the building and into the mud. The Nicelanders then celebrate with Felix and award him a medal as Ralph goes to live in a pile of bricks. This is Ralph's job. After all, he's the bad guy in the Fix-It Felix Jr game.
Because of his destructive nature and his social inept-ability, the people of Niceland ostracize Ralph even when the game isn't being played. Ralph even attends a Bad Guys "Anonymous" group where one member tells Ralph that just because he's a "Bad Guy" doesn't mean that he's a bad guy. However, Ralph is tired of being the one that is never appreciated and always has to lose. Ralph says he would like to earn a medal for once, but he's told that "Bad Guys" can't win medals. Finally fed up, Ralph angrily tells Felix and the Nicelanders he's going to go get a shiny medal and that when he does, they will have to accept him.
Ralph leaves the world of Niceland to find a game where he can find a shiny medal to award himself. As he travels between different games, he meets a young girl named Vanellope who's even more alone than Ralph is. Through Venellope, Ralph learns an important lesson of helping others instead of himself.
WRECK-IT RALPH is highly entertaining. The story is genuinely fun and moving. Also, characters are each unique with their own little quirks and personalities. Children will enjoy the great animation and adults will love the jokes about the games from the 1980s and 90s. Best of all, WRECK-IT RALPH has a strong moral world view of loving your neighbor as yourself, literally "your neighbor" in Ralph's case. The movie appears to have a Christian, redemptive definition of loving your neighbor and being a true friend.
WRECK-IT RALPH does have a slight ambiguity. Ralph is programmed to be the "Bad Guy" in the arcade game and, according to the movie, that's not bad. Even so, in the end, even though Ralph is still the "Bad Guy" in the game, the people around him choose to accept him because he chose to act selflessly. Thus, younger children could be confused about Ralph in the end being a "Good Bad Guy." There's also some light action violence and some scatological humor in WRECK-IT RALPH, so caution is advised.