Wreck it Ralph

[Firebat138]

What a great flick...  THere is enough in this movie for ANY video game fan...  LOVE the MSG reference....  My kids loved it

[Vigo]

First movie I took my kid to, he is just under 2. I have to say that It kept both his and my interest the whole way through. My wife even was very pleased with the movie and she went in thinking it would be stupid. Of course thanks to me she got a lot more of the humor hidden in there. She was feeling pretty good she got the Tapper and Q*bert references, and even more pleased that she understood what exactly happened after the credits ended.

 

[Well Fed Games]

Man, I am wrestling with it. My daughter is 4 but has never been to a movie and gets overwhelmed by lights and loud sounds, so I think I will have to experience it with her on the small screen in a couple of years. But my nieces and nephew (5, 7, 11) are totally into games, so I will try to take them over the Thanksgiving holiday if they haven't seen it yet.

[Nephasth]

Saw it yesterday with the family. Loved it. One of the few movies I'll buy a hard copy for.

[Vigo]

Man, I am wrestling with it. My daughter is 4 but has never been to a movie and gets overwhelmed by lights and loud sounds, so I think I will have to experience it with her on the small screen in a couple of years. But my nieces and nephew (5, 7, 11) are totally into games, so I will try to take them over the Thanksgiving holiday if they haven't seen it yet.

You know your daughter best, but I have to say that I was worried as well. A large ICEE and endless popcorn helped my son a lot. He was happy as a clam for the first hour just to be slurping down all the stuff he rarely gets to eat. when he got antsy, I set him back down with a bribe of candy. It was a special occasion. We also went at the matinee, and I think they didn't have the sound as loud, so that helped.

[Well Fed Games]

You know your daughter best, but I have to say that I was worried as well. A large ICEE and endless popcorn helped my son a lot. He was happy as a clam for the first hour just to be slurping down all the stuff he rarely gets to eat. when he got antsy, I set him back down with a bribe of candy. It was a special occasion. We also went at the matinee, and I think they didn't have the sound as loud, so that helped.

Yeah, it is really our fault for not doing more movies with her yet... I just don't want the first try to be a movie that I really want to enjoy! 

[shmokes]

I didn't think it was very good. I didn't think it was very bad, mind you. But the nostalgia capital was spent almost entirely in the first 20 minutes (and the references were very superficial), and the rest of the movie was just a pretty decent kid's flick (set entirely in three fictional videogames), about on par with Despicable Me. Not terrible, but . . . ya know . . . exactly the same movie I've seen a hundred times.

There were definitely some funny nods to classic games. But they could have gone much further with it, and used the characters they licensed to much greater effect. Mostly the properties were wasted, imo.

[SNAAKE]

LOVE the MSG reference.... 

sold

[shmokes]

To fan the flames, SNAAKE, there were some good Street Fighter references as well. But the Metal Gear one was especially well done.

[RyoriNoTetsujin]

I didn't think it was very good. I didn't think it was very bad, mind you. But the nostalgia capital was spent almost entirely in the first 20 minutes (and the references were very superficial), and the rest of the movie was just a pretty decent kid's flick (set entirely in three fictional videogames), about on par with Despicable Me. Not terrible, but . . . ya know . . . exactly the same movie I've seen a hundred times.

There were definitely some funny nods to classic games. But they could have gone much further with it, and used the characters they licensed to much greater effect. Mostly the properties were wasted, imo.

This.  On its' own merits, it was a good, if typical, coming-of-age/be-yourself/unlikely-buddies flick. I went in hoping for a movie that would do for video games what "Monsters Inc." did for the simple idea of 'monsters under the bed' ... and it certainly did not achieve that level of depth or polish.

I caught it at a Sunday morning matinee for $6/ticket with my gf. For that price, well worth the time.

Did anybody else catch Ralph make the Final Fight "HNGH!" grunt during the Boss Fight? 

[Firebat138]

MAN, I knew I should have waited till the credits edned...  YES SNAKKE...  the MSG was pretty awesome...  For someone who based his mame machine on it...  lol...  I was siked...  or psyched...  something like that

[RayB]

Wasn't too bad. Enjoyable enough and enough nods at classic gaming to keep me happy.

I didn't catch the Final Fight grunt but there were several other sound effects and even melodies mixed into the music score. I'm convinced I heard a Tron melody in part of it!

Oh and anyone else think Felix should just hammer-fix the glitch?

[TPA5]

I'm a huge sucker for animated/family movies, mostly because I grew up watching them with my family (and still do watch them with my family). I thought the movie was great, it had enough stuff to keep the nerds happy, and enough stuff to keep the younger folk I know entertained. In all I will definitely buy it when it comes out on Blu-Ray.

[yotsuya]

My daughter and I saw it again today for the second time.

[wp34]

My wife walked in the kitchen tonight and said that I had left the Asteroids Deluxe on in the basement.  My daughter immediately screamed "You can't turn it off they will all die!"   

Needless to say she loved Wreck It Ralph.

[CoryBee]

My wife walked in the kitchen tonight and said that I had left the Asteroids Deluxe on in the basement.  My daughter immediately screamed "You can't turn it off they will all die!"   

Needless to say she loved Wreck It Ralph.

 

[Dervacumen]

I liked it and felt like an insider the whole time.

[ChadTower]

I liked it.  It was awesome for the first ~25 mins but then turned into a regular kids' movie after that.  I was, probably like everybody else, hoping it would stay in the arcade.  Once it left the arcade it felt way too much like Shrek ("I'm big, ugly, smelly, live in the dump/swamp, nobody likes me and I feel badly about that, so I will go on a quest").

[Well Fed Games]

I liked it.  It was awesome for the first ~25 mins but then turned into a regular kids' movie after that.  I was, probably like everybody else, hoping it would stay in the arcade.  Once it left the arcade it felt way too much like Shrek ("I'm big, ugly, smelly, live in the dump/swamp, nobody likes me and I feel badly about that, so I will go on a quest").

Yep, I caught it last night with my nieces and nephew and had the same impression. Sugar Rush was a well-realized game world but definitely not the most interesting place to spend the majority of the movie.

I also wasn't a big fan of the "rules" of their world. The idea of a character dying permanently outside their game and the bugs' "becoming" whatever they ate seemed like maguffins to create tension, when they there was plenty of tension left to draw from the characters' decisions and development.

But, it was made by people who obviously have an affection for arcade culture, and that definitely showed. Worth a watch for sure.

[lilshawn]

I saw it this week end and it was pretty good.

the little details really make the movie for me.

even though the characters inside the game where "high res" they still retained their "gamey" quirkiness. (the abrupt movements...the way people only had 1 or 2 expressions)

I would have liked the characters to have stuck to their character actions (being programs and all) a little more. A character not being able to do something simple only because they weren't programmed to do it could have made for some pretty hilarious situations.