Wreck-It Ralph
I was outnumbered on this one. In my opinion, Wreck-It Ralph is a cool idea with messy execution. Its early scenes, like a group therapy session showing the titular arcade game baddy working it out alongside video game icons like Mario’s Bowser, Street FIghter’s Zangief, and Sonic’s Eggman, feel like vignettes from a more focused movie. Wreck-It Ralph is a pretty good Disney movie but a half-hearted video game tribute. It starts strong with a bunch of really good cameos in the beginning, but loses its grip on its premise as the movie goes on. That being said, Ralph and Vanellope’s respective journeys to self-actualization in the face of pushback from society are still wonderful and heartfelt. The fact that the sequel loses the plot even more has retroactively soured me on Wreck-It Ralph, but others at Kotaku enjoy it more than I do, so it gets an upward nudge.
