Forum - View topicDisney Reveals Wreck-It Ralph Sequel Planned for March 2018
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AnimeLordLuis
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I really liked Wreck-It Ralph and look forward to watching the sequel. Also hopefully the rest of the cast returns for the sequel as well it would be the same without Vanellope or Fix It Felix Jr.
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Enturax
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Main character meets annoying girl who later becomes his friend. Turns out that the girl has a bigger importance to the movie. Side characters: tsundere woman and sissy male who is being constantly hit by the said woman for the sake of a joke. Cliche as hell. Also, events happening there were very cliche too and the jokes were already used in many other 3D cartoons, so what's so great about it?? Past the 1st 30-50 minutes of the movie: over 90% of the audience have no idea what kind of games are shown up, even people in their 20's+. The movie is done for children, but wait, wait! No, it isn't - it's done for the people who played those games in 80's? Oh, no, wait, cliche jokes again that only children would laugh from. The fact that this movie is considered good makes me sad. |
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Key
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I was a big fan of the first movie, so I am looking forward to the sequel.
(Admittedly, though, as someone who spent a lot of free time and money in arcades in the '80s, I was probably precisely the target audience for the movie.) |
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CANimeFan88
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If they do decide to bring in Super Mario for the sequel, they should get his official voice actor in the games, Charles Martinet.
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Hiroki not Takuya
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Thanks for proving you aren't one of the (many?) trolls lurking ANN. What keeps WreckItRalph from actually being cliche' is that no one ever put all these elements together to my knowledge and what made this "good" is that it produced a story where people could identify with the characters and the trouble they were facing with a plot that wasn't entirely predictable and so was entertaining. Besides, I don't think Ralph and Vanellope are character types that are overused anyway. I'm not sure about the 90%, the target audience are those like myself and Key and our children who know some of the games referenced and games like Hero's Duty (Call to Duty?) are definitely familiar to thousands of online and game system gamers of the younger set. And even if one didn't know the actual games, it is obvious they are similar to many arcade/computer games that have existed for the last 10-20 years that younger viewers would have seen or played. The show was a large success and that alone means that in these days it "deserves" a sequel. I look forward to it and hope they take their time to develop the story so it truly "deserved to be made" in retrospect. [Edit]: removed unnecessary nested quotes. Please read the quoting guidelines. Errinundra. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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I liked the first half of Wrekkit Ralph, but the second half lost me because I could not muster enough fuggs for Sarah Silverman's annoying avatar or her story. If she's totally removed from this sequel, I may really enjoy it.
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EricJ2
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I usually loathe Sarah Silverman outside of the context of the story, to an even greater degree than David Spade outside of "Emperor's New Groove", or Roseanne outside of "Home on the Range", but...she just made the bratty little girl work, somehow. Must be something Disney puts in the water. (Can't remember where the character's humor-of-immaturity finally won me over, but think it was during the scene where they're building the car: "Okay, decoration--First we need the wheels:" "How many wheels?" "Four, doyyy...") 
Most non-core fans were afraid to go to the movie (like Oscar screeners, who just guessed "Well, Brave was Pixar, so, y'know...") just because Disney was pitching their story as the Sonic the Hedgehog Movie, and anyone who didn't think they were an 80's videogame buff didn't think they needed apply. That's probably why we also get so many saying "I don't like happy singing ice princesses, but I liked this one!"--Because this story was...not what you expected, and if it broke whatever own personal stereotyped ideas you had about it going in, well, that must have been genius! The "mysterious" ingredient about why Dory and Zootopia, etc., have been so unstoppable compared to their competition is that John Lasseter brought the Pixar style to WDFA of actually trying to find some emotional connection to the characters-- Consider how Ralph would have been treated in a Dreamworks movie, where every hero is a picked-on self-delusional loser dreaming not to be picked on...Or how Vanellope would have come off in an Illumination movie, where the characters are just eccentric for the sake of over-the-top eccentricity, and the little psycho-toddler shows up to steal the movie. Here, everyone compares the big climax where Ralph saves the day to "Oh, they totally stole that from Iron Giant!", and when animation fans invoke the Holy Bird... 
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leafy sea dragon
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A lot of Disney's current writers and directors once worked on The Simpsons, and Wreck-It Ralph is one of those movies. The Simpsons was (and still is) famous for not playing to the animation-is-for-kids assumption, and they've taken that to Disney, though in a more restrained manner.
Well, when he comes back with the medal, he had been away for so long that his game was deemed crashed because people were attempting to play it without Ralph present. They seemed to be mad at him during that scene, or at least sad, that he had caused the crash. Only Gene really has it out for Ralph, which is probably because he's the one Ralph throws out of the building in Fix-It Felix, Jr.'s opening cutscene. Something else about that statement I feel is frequently misinterpreted is that Ralph does NOT jump from game to game, or at least doesn't do so rapidly. It caused some people to go in thinking this was going to be a journey movie, with each region being a different real arcade game. He only jumps games when he feels unwelcome there or if he's done everything he wanted to do within a game world and winds up spending most of his time in Sugar Rush because Vanellope cannot leave it.
Well, if you think about it, though Ralph has to go through a lot of mental pain, Felix has to go through just as much physical pain, if not more. Any time someone plays Fix-It Felix, Jr., Felix will die at least three times, and Ralph will be victorious. If we're using the actual arcade game as a reference point past the first stage (the movie never shows what happens if someone clears a stage other than the first one except that Felix gets medals only for clearing the first stage), Ralph is thrown off the apartment building only on the first stage. After that, Ralph runs away, the game just resets Felix back to the bottom, and Ralph grows stronger. Thus, Ralph is thrown off the building only once and gets to spend the rest of the game taking revenge on Felix, and Felix fights an unwinnable and endless battle (though it's never shown if he's aware of that).
I really enjoyed it too, but I had very limited arcade experience when I was younger. My father allowed me to hang out in an arcade but did not permit me to play the games there. His idea was that spectating is just as fun as playing them, only you don't need to spend money to do that.
They did that for every single voiced pre-existing game character in Wreck-It Ralph (with Zangief as a special exception), so I'm certain they'll do it for this. Disney even tracked down whoever voiced that girl in DDR who announced the arcade was closed. |
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BadNewsBlues
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Careful or you might wind up getting a Cars 2 situation. |
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Aura Ichadora
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I really liked the first movie, so I'm going to keep an open mind and look forward to this. I'm not surprised that they're wanting to take the characters towards the "internet" route, and I'm curious as to how far they're going to take that.
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publicenemy333
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Are you talking about the "LubHub" thing? Cause Im sure that's a reference to GrubHub 
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enurtsol
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Wait, this news was known a couple weeks ago!
Is this a delayed reaction or what?!
Whether or not this deserves a sequel is when enough people liked the first one enough. The first one has references for both casual gamers and veteran gamers. As I mentioned 4 years ago
No, that's StubHub: 
Zootopia is one of only 2 films to reach $1 Billion gross this year (the other is Captain America: Civil War) and the #1 film in Japan 2016, but a lot of people here probably didn't see because it's about animals. Finding Dory is likely on its way there too. |
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Enturax
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Just because it's rare to put everything into one bucket, it doesn't make it automatically original or not cliche. Many animated movies have characters with such a problems thanks to which normal people can identify with, Ralph is nothing special. But it was predicatble enough to me or anyone who saw enough of such a movies... They put popular games as cameos but old games as the main thing in it. And while it could be considered to be some kind of tribute to them, younger audience'd have no idea where are they from. Yes, they could resemble other titles which they could possibly see on the net or even play, but normal movies did that too, I think. Justin Bieber is also considered to be a great singer by many people. It proves nothing. Many films, books, cartoons and video games received awards even while were nothing special. Hype + nostalgia + knowing NOTHING about other products of the similar/same genre = makes most of the job, doesn't it? |
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leafy sea dragon
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Oh, I already knew about this for some time too. I subscribe to the Disney newsletter. But I take it not a lot of other people who frequent Anime News Network stays up to speed with Disney.
Oh, I love Zootopia. It's made by the same people as Wreck-It Ralph too. |
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Tenchi
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Yeah, it's pretty much the same for me, but the other Sarah Silverman role I like is her being half of the Pesto twins, Andy and Ollie, on Bob's Burgers along with her sister Laura. |
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