# Wreck-it Ralph - The "I saw it" thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 1, 2012, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540 "2012-11-01T08:38:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2012, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540/1 "2012-11-01T08:38:20Z")
Wreck-it Ralph opens tonight! I was lucky enough to see a screening a couple weeks ago and had a really good time. I’ll avoid specific spoilers until the movie is out, but in short, it’s often hilarious, has a great visual style, and is actually pretty touching at points. The first half of the movie is brilliant, as it sets everything up, but then the pacing changes abruptly in the final half and it at times feels like a different movie.
Because of it, it’s a really good film instead of a great one. But I do want to see it again, if only for the first half. Oh, and the whole Game Central Station actually gave me chills–brilliant idea with a brilliant set of rules governing the universe.
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### Author:  [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540/2 "2012-11-01T15:32:01Z")
[USA Today](http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2012/10/31/wreckitralph-disney-movie-animation/1667373/) says: ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ is a Disney animation game-changer.
The article gives it a really positive review. I was on the fence about seeing until reading the article.
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540/3 "2012-11-01T15:40:48Z")
> [@Enright3](#):
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> game-changer
I see what they did there.
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### Author:  [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540/4 "2012-11-02T17:59:15Z")
So no one saw the midnight showing I take it? Any going this weekend?
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### Author:  [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540/5 "2012-11-02T18:07:34Z")
My kids really want me to take them. Maybe we’ll try to go on Sunday.
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### Author:  [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540/6 "2012-11-02T23:19:14Z")
I’ll be seeing it this weekend. My six year old likes the commercials, and I’m a gamer since the Pong era, so this movie was made for me.
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### Author:  [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2012, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540/7 "2012-11-03T08:46:13Z")
I just saw it! I thought it was absolutely awesome. All the little details they threw in there, both from known games and the ones they made up, really made it! The games they made up I really want to play, by the way. So full of awesome little things, and not just stuck in willy-nilly either! Everything worked by rules, everything had thought behind it, and it’s one of my pet peeves when 3D food doesn’t look appetizing, but theirs did 🙂
What I also really love is that the story felt true to the movie. Unlike other movies aimed at kids that sort of jam in the run-of-the-mill “I need to find myself and get away from my controlling parents and fall in love with a awkwardly charming teen boy/girl” meme, the story was really rooted in the world this movie built. Sure, they did stick in the popular anti-bullying thing and facets of finding oneself, but they really did engage me with an interesting story once it all came out; it wasn’t JUST an expression of movie plot clichés.
All in all an awesome movie; the most fun I remember having watching a movie this year. The only thing I didn’t like was about half the music (that one in-movie cameo was cute, though, without wanting to spoil anything). I think they could have done even more with a video-game inspired soundtrack (though they did do some, which was nice).
I’m gonna have to freeze-frame on that big station panorama scene so I can properly squeal at all the game nods (once I buy this on 3d blu-ray, which seems inevitable)!
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### Author:  [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2012, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540/8 "2012-11-03T12:43:17Z")
I liked it a lot too, though I didn’t love it. The plot really is pretty typical. But it was a lot of fun and the world they built was interesting. I can see potential for sequels.
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### Author:  [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540/9 "2012-11-03T19:02:52Z")
Liked it, but didn’t love it. As others have said, the plot was pretty paint-by-numbers (thankfully, all the stuff in the previews makes up the first part of the movie, and the rest is unspoiled… though not surprising).
I have the feeling if it wasn’t about video games, I wouldn’t have really given the movie a second thought.
I’m curious as to what people thought about the use of all the “real” video game characters that make cameos in the first half of the movie. Does it lend credibility? Or did it feel shoehorned in? Personally I felt a bit weird seeing characters like Zangief and Sonic show up, only to have the rest of the movie be all about the Ersatzs of Donkey Kong and Mario Kart. I guess it’s comparable to Toy Story - the only “real” toys in the first movie were Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog, and the Army Men, but they remained integral characters throughout the whole movie as opposed to just a cameo here and there.
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2012, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540/10 "2012-11-03T19:14:28Z")
I had a lot of fun with it. I liked the way they wove the plots into each other and enjoyed the cameos. It also had an “old-school” feeling (to me.)
Glad I went.
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### Author:  [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540/11 "2012-11-03T19:27:29Z")
I’m having some cognitive dissonance here…didn’t this movie come out, like, MONTHS AGO? I remember reading about it, seeing clips and trailers, months ago. I thought it was coming out on DVD or something now.
ETA: OK…just did a search and found trailers posted in June. So I’m not entirely crazy.
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### Author:  [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540/12 "2012-11-03T20:55:22Z")
Saw it. It was good. I wish that I saw it in 3D.
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### Author:  [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540/13 "2012-11-03T22:25:37Z")
I took my son to see it today. I thought it was pretty good. I did like Game Central Station. I am finding that I don’t really recall the moments I found humorous, which to me means it was good but not great. Still, considering some of the stinkers that we have sat through for the kids, I’m happy we went to this one.
Did other theaters have the Paperman short just before? I was a little confused initially, thinking it was the start of Wreck-It Ralph. I loved the hand-drawn animation.
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### Author:  [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540/14 "2012-11-03T22:31:18Z")
> [@lorene](#):
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> I loved the hand-drawn animation.
Get this: it wasn’t. It was all CG made to look hand-drawn. Amazing, huh?
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### Author:  [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540/15 "2012-11-03T23:03:29Z")
Would Mr. singular & I enjoy it, despite never playing video games?
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### Author:  [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540/16 "2012-11-03T23:39:37Z")
> [@Red\_Barchetta](#):
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> Get this: it wasn’t. It was all CG made to look hand-drawn. Amazing, huh?
☹
I love the _look_ of hand-drawn animation, I guess.
**singular1** , I am not a video game player, either. I think that, while that is the setting for the story, there’s no required knowledge of video games in order to enjoy it.
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### Author:  [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2012, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540/17 "2012-11-04T01:09:21Z")
Just got back from it. It was entertaining with some good moments.
> [@lorene](#):
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> Did other theaters have the Paperman short just before? I was a little confused initially, thinking it was the start of Wreck-It Ralph. I loved the hand-drawn animation.
THIS, however, was the best part. That was a genuinely hilarious and moving piece of animation.
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### Author:  [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540/18 "2012-11-04T01:21:14Z")
> [@lorene](#):
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> **singular1** , I am not a video game player, either. I think that, while that is the setting for the story, there’s no required knowledge of video games in order to enjoy it.
That’s good to know. I’ve been looking forward to this a lot, but I was hoping it wasn’t just going to bank on nostalgia and forget about having an interesting story. I don’t think I could recognize a video game character outside of Sonic the Hedgehog.
I’m going to see it with my nephews next weekend, and I hope they’re okay with **Paperman**. They sort of squirmed throughout **La Luna** (the short in front of **Brave** ) this summer.
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540/19 "2012-11-04T20:32:02Z")
We just saw it and enjoyed it…it had enough puns and grown up jokes to keep me amused. I also came home wanting to play a game of “Sugar Rush”. 🙂
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wreck-it-ralph-the-i-saw-it-thread/639540/20 "2012-11-04T21:13:44Z")
> [@lorene](#):
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> I took my son to see it today. I thought it was pretty good. I did like Game Central Station. I am finding that I don’t really recall the moments I found humorous, which to me means it was good but not great. Still, considering some of the stinkers that we have sat through for the kids, I’m happy we went to this one.
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> Did other theaters have the Paperman short just before? I was a little confused initially, thinking it was the start of Wreck-It Ralph. I loved the hand-drawn animation.
> [@Red\_Barchetta](#):
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> Get this: it wasn’t. It was all CG made to look hand-drawn. Amazing, huh?
> [@lorene](#):
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> ☹
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> I love the _look_ of hand-drawn animation, I guess.
It is however CG that has hand-drawn elements, computers are doing amazing things with the hand made in-betweens, the animator lines made by hand were mapped to the 3D models.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/jsoiEpuvTeQ?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque
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