Reel Thursday: Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

Fix-It Felix Jr. game

Wreck-It Ralph is an animated film by Walt Disney, which was released last 2012. The concept of the story is much like Toy Story, only that it's set on an arcade. The idea is that in an arcade, every character in the games can interact with each other. Sometimes, they (the characters) can even go to another game when the arcade is closed. Each character has their own roles in their respective games. With that, the main character Wreck-It Ralph is an antagonist in the game Fix-It Felix Jr. He's sick of his life living in a garbage mountain and not being welcome in parties in their games, because he's the "bad guy" that no one likes. 

This is the arcade, the setting of the story of Wreck-It Ralph. Each games have characters that are being controlled by people, and if a certain game is not liked anymore, then it ends up being shut down, and those poor characters will become "homeless."

People can see the game through the monitor, but the characters in the game can also see the people playing the game through the monitor. On the screenshot above, the building is the one Ralph wrecks in every game, and we can notice that from the perspective from within the game, the arcade outside can be seen.

Finally, we have the Bad Anon support group. Every antagonist of the games in the arcade who are tired of being a bad guy comes to this support group to release their angst about being a bad guy. Ralph is among these bad guys who are lost and fed up with always being the bad guy in their games. They support each other by pledging to themselves that "I am a bad and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be, than me." I think that the message of what they're saying is really inspiring, because everyone of us has a bad side, and we should learn to accept that and be satisfied with it. 

This movie is not simply an animated film targeted for kids, but adults can also relate and even think twice about themselves on what they want to be versus what they are. I really liked this movie because of that theme. Apart from the candy goodness in the game Sugar Rush, the overall relationship of the main characters and the theme of the story is inspiring. There are still many things about the movie that I haven't discussed yet, like the character Vanellope von Schweetz. I apparently just provided an overview as to what this movie is about and I think it's much better to watch it than reading about what happens in the movie, since the animation is really good.

Wreck-It Ralph is unexpectedly good (for me) and I really recommend it to those adults around who also likes watching animated films, and of course those who don't. Just do. The animation is awesome.

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