Ralph Breaks the Internet

Ralph Breaks the Internet (originally Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 or with Wreck It Ralph 2) is a 2018 American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the sequel to the 2012 film mh:greatestmovies:Wreck-It Ralph as well as Disney's 57th feature-length animated film.

Plot
Video game bad guy Ralph and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz must risk it all by traveling to the World Wide Web in search of a replacement part to save Vanellope's video game, "Sugar Rush." In way over their heads, Ralph and Vanellope rely on the citizens of the internet -- the netizens -- to help navigate their way, including an entrepreneur named Yesss, who is the head algorithm and the heart and soul of trend-making site BuzzzTube.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The animation is an improvement from in the last film and mixes different styles in one; the normally 2D designs for most of the Disney Princesses also translate perfectly into computer-animation.
 * 2) *The Rick-roll post-credits scene is a stunning shot-for-shot remake of the original.
 * 3) *KnowsMore's eyes are also animated in a way that is impressive.
 * 4) *Even the backgrounds in the Internet world can be incredibly beautiful at times.
 * 5) Also similar to in the previous film, the voice acting and casting choices for the characters are spot-on for the most part.
 * 6) *Some of the voice actresses who played characters in prior Disney films have returned to reprise their roles as those characters in this film, including Paige O'Hara, who reprises her role as Belle, after having retired from the role seven years prior.
 * 7) Just like the first movie also, there are some of the places that aren't product placements, like a fictional online game called Slaughter Race, which is pretty cool to look at and could have given the film potential to focus more on Internet gaming being the future to the irrelevance of the arcade rather than the Internet in general.
 * 8) The scene in which Vanellope meets up with the Disney Princesses is very funny and original, pointing out many outdated clichés and making fun of some classic stereotypes, despite it being the main selling point of this movie.
 * 9) Despite the plot basically centering itself around eBay in an egregious way, there is a fun moment where Ralph and Vanellope spout random numbers in an auction, which arguably harkens back to how their relationship was in the first film.
 * 10) *For the most part, the beginning of the movie retains the charm of what made Wreck it Ralph good.
 * 11) Amazing score by Henry Jackman.
 * 12) *"A Place Called Slaughter Race" is a decent and jam packed song, and the number itself is a good sendup of the typical Disney musical number.
 * 13) Some of the new characters are actually decent, though not as good as the ones in the previous movie.
 * 14) Despite a majority of the attempts at humor being rather mediocre, there are at least some hilarious moments that are worth a laugh, such as one scene where Ralph is portraying as Bob Ross, the Disney Princess stereotypes satire and the above mentioned Rick-roll post-credits scene.
 * 15) Stan Lee's brief tribute cameo.
 * 16) Despite Ralph's flanderization, he does learn to stop being so clingy towards Vanellope by the end of the movie, with a somewhat decent moral to go along with it.
 * 17) Arthur/Ralphzilla (a series of Ralph's evil alter-ego clones) is a very threatening villain.
 * 18) Despite the quality of the third act, the way the climax ended was a nice surprise: Ralph gave Ralphzilla a therapy and made it fine with letting Vanellope go instead of tricking it into going into the gate and get destroyed.
 * 19) It teaches a good message (minus the mediocre execution) about knowing when to let friends go when the time has come for them to leave.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Mediocre third act, which basically hinders on it all being a King Kong reference.
 * 2) The main characters are either flanderized or not written as well as in the first film:
 * 3) *Ralph has been seriously dumbed down here, being made into a one-dimensional gentle giant that behaves like a child, and some of his dialogue is absolutely horrendous and even out of character. In fact, his actions against Vanellope in this film is even worse than what he did in the first film.
 * 4) *While still likable, Felix and Calhoun are pretty much reduced to cameo appearances and don't get that much screen time in the film and are basically forgotten about, which is weird since the film did hint at a subplot with the two raising the Sugar Rush racers. There were more scenes that were featuring them, however, which were sadly cut.
 * 5) *Vanellope comes off as extremely selfish with very little concerns about her actions facing consequences and completely ignores about how Ralph feels, and she literally goes Turbo in the ending, which is really annoying since Vanellope broke the rules of going Turbo (if you've never seen the first film, there was an arcade character named Turbo that tried to take over another game and ended up crashing it, putting both games out of order).
 * 6) *Speaking of Turbo, he is never seen or mentioned once in this movie. However, it is common than Turbo did die after he crashed into the loght
 * 7) Overuse of dated pop culture references and product placement. Such as how Ralph was shown to be flossing in one scene and the use of social media websites such as Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube, Google, Reddit, Pinterest, eBay, Yahoo!, Weibo.com, MySpace, LinkedIn, Yelp, Metacritic, Carvana, TripAdvisor, Amazon, Mailchimp, Kickstarter, Fandango, Skype, and even IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes.
 * 8) *In fact, this was one of The Emoji Movie's biggest problems, asides from simply being a bad idea to begin with and has poor characterization. Although the film at least tried to use the product placement well, unlike The Emoji Movie.
 * 9) *The Oh My Disney scene simply serves as shameless self promotion for Disney themselves, and an excuse to sell more Disney Princess merch but with this film's outfits, making this look like a shameless 2 hour ad for Disney. In fact, this issue would later be seen in Space Jam: A New Legacy, where the self-advertising takes up almost the whole movie, unlike here, where only two scenes were dedicated to such thing.
 * 10) *Speaking of shameless advertising, the whole plot revolves around eBay, making this feel like a feature length eBay commercial.
 * 11) While the animation is great, it tends to look uncanny. For example, Buzz Lightyear (who makes a brief cameo) appears with a rather unfinished design that doesn't seem accurately translated from Pixar's model of the character.
 * 12) The infamous scene where Rapunzel makes a feminist preach to Vanellope who says: "Do people assume all your problems got solved because a big strong man showed up?" which in fact, ultimately destroyed her character in the 2010 film Tangled. This also in has the feminist preach scene in mh:greatestmovies:The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part.
 * 13) The ending is downright awful, as Vanellope goes Turbo and game hops to Slaughter Race, leaving both Sugar Rush and Ralph behind. She gets away with it too with zero consequences whatsoever, apart from Ralph bringing this up to her once during their argument scene. In the first film, going Turbo is heavily frowned upon and game hopping can put either their or other character's games in danger, but here, they simply flat out ignore the rules established there.
 * 14) Mediocre comedy (aside of Bob Ross) mostly when it comes to jokes and references regarding the Internet.
 * 15) Yesss, while likable, can get pretty annoying.

Box office
As of December 30, 2018, Ralph Breaks the Internet has grossed $175.7 million in the United States and Canada, and $174.7 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $350.4 million, against a production budget of $175 million.

Critical response
Ralph Breaks the Internet received mostly positive reviews from critics and audiences, who called it a "worthy successor" and praised the animation, humor, characters, and plot, as well as the vocal performances of Reilly and Silverman, although some say it's not fresh as the first film. On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 88% based on 223 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Ralph Breaks the Internet levels up on its predecessor with a funny, heartwarming sequel that expands its colorful universe while focusing on core characters and relationships."

Sequel?
John C. Reilly (Ralph’s voice actor) says that he has an idea if a third film was to be made, he would like to see Ralph and Vanellope "beaming themselves right out into space".

Spin off?
Rich Moore and Phil Johnston said that the second film, would have a spin-off film focusing on the Disney Princesses could be made depending on the audience's response, and "If there's a good story to be told".

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