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, this movie was added to the AMW due to negative reviews.

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.

Why Is It Wrecked (In A Bad Way):
One of the biggest issues with this movie is that it overuses way too much dated pop culture references and product placement, and even some of the most shameless self promotion for the company that made this movie themselves. such as how Ralph was shown to be fortnite dancing in one scene and to make matters worse, the use of social media websites such as Instagram, Facebook, IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, and even Twitter.

Development Hell: Disney announced the movie in March 2016, but was pushed due to the release of Zootopia during that time, In June 2016, Walt Disney Animation Studios announced that the sequel would be released on March 9, 2018, but also pushed due to the making of The Incredibles 2 during that time, just giving it five months to mature, However, the movie was indiscriminately pushed to a random release date, which turned out to be around late November 2018, after when the movie came out in theaters, the moviemakers ignored to fix its issues after all, with the result of an feature length Disney movie, it’s more of a two hour eBay commercial.

The whole plot of the movie is bland, one dimensional, cliche as it’s about someone making a mistake and everyone has to go to the other side of the world to fix it before anything bad happens.

Unlike other animated movies such as Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, Rumble, Hotel Transylvania 4, and The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, another problem with the movie is the pacing is way too fast, even for 112 minutes long runtime, the pacing feels more like 53 minutes long runtime, the whole plot makes it so hard to follow at times which makes the pacing awful, In fact, the movie is overdosed with a lot of unnecessary filler every now and then, which makes the whole plot mediocre and pretty minimal.

One of the biggest issues is that most characters are extremely flanderized and are extremely poorly written as well: False Advertising for two reasons: The infamous Oh My Disney scene gets carried for way too long, as it simply serves as shameless self-promotion and useless filler for Disney themselves, and an excuse to sell more Disney Princess merch but with this movie’s outfits, making this look like a shameless 2-hour ad for Disney. Some unquestionable song choices, such as “Let it Go” by Demi Lovato, and “Zero” by Imagine Dragons in the end credits, to the point where it’s put in the wrong context.
 * Ralph is pretty much the worst character in the movie as it has been seriously dumbed down here making him the Crash & Eddie version of Disney, being made into a one-dimensional oaf that behaves like a child, and some of his dialogue is absolutely horrendous and even out of character. In fact, his actions against Vanellope’s character development in this film got even worse than what he did in the first film. However, he was right about Vanellope going Turbo. His obsessiveness towards Vanellope was so bad some viewers even made unfair comparisons between him and pedophiles.
 * The thing with his personality switch is that his relationship with Vanellope could’ve worked had Ralph acted more like an overprotective father just like with Manny in Ice Age: Collision Course.
 * While still likable, Felix and Calhoun are pretty much reduced to cameo appearances and only get about five minutes of screen time in the movie and are basically forgotten about, which was just like with Dennis and Winnie in Hotel Transylvania 4, which is weird since the movie did hint at a subplot with the two raising the Sugar Rush racers. There were to be more scenes featuring them, however, which were sadly cut.
 * Shank, despite the advertising and likability, doesn't have any development or much of a role beyond furthering Vanellope's subplot. There's a strong argument that it would have made much more sense for her and her crew to be the ones to rescue Ralph at the climax, she would see that Ralph was willing to fix his mistakes, and he would see that she and her friends are good people he can trust to take care of Vanellope.
 * Vanellope comes off as extremely selfish with very little concerns about her actions facing consequences and completely ignores how Ralph feels and by far one of the worst!, 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 movie, there was an arcade character named Turbo (currently King Candy) that tried to take over another game and ended up crashing it, putting both games out of order).
 * On topic with Turbo, he is never seen or mentioned once in this movie, nor is the term "going turbo" ever mentioned at all in this movie. In fact, Ralph leaves his game again and it's very likely that during the course of the film, the arcade was open, so it's like he learned nothing from what happened in the first movie.
 * Yesss, while likable, can get pretty annoying at times.
 * The USA dvd cover features Felix and Calhoun as one of main protagonists of the movie, but they only have a small amount of screen time.
 * Even the front cover of the US dvd cover claims it as “The best animated movie of the year” and it’s not.
 * In fact, this issue would later be seen in Space Jam: A New Legacy, where the self-advertising that obviously hogs almost the whole movie, unlike here, where only two scenes were dedicated to such a thing. As of recently, Disney did it again with The Simpsons in Plusaversary, where it's literally one giant pointless three minute self-promotion advertisement for Disney+.
 * On the topic of shameless advertising, the whole plot revolves around eBay, making this feel like a feature-length eBay commercial more than an official Disney movie.
 * As of 2022, most parts of this movie have been extremely outdated particularly due to Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox in 2019, The launch of Disney+ the same year & two new princesses were introduced in 2021 (Raya & Mirabel), plus a princess was acquired as part of Disney’s acquisition of Fox, Anastasia.

Mediocre attempts at comedy (especially the Bob Ross reference), mostly when it comes to jokes such as in Ralph mistaking Google to get goggles and also a screaming goat is present in one scene, plus a lot of references regarding the internet. Which is extremely unacceptable even for a 2018 computer animated movie.


 * Some aspects of the humor may come off unfunny, such as the infamous Rick Rolling reference in the very end.


 * In fact, this was one of The Emoji Movie's biggest errors, aside from simply being a bad idea to begin with and having very little characterization. This makes this movie look like the Disney equivalent of The Emoji Movie. but it's still pretty bad to this day.
 * There is even a mediocre third act, which basically hinders on it all being a poor King Kong reference.


 * On topic, Ralphzilla is a bland and monotonous antagonist, as Ralphzilla is just a ripoff of King Kong, despite King Kong being a popular monster like antagonist, Ralphzilla is one of those antagonists that fail horribly, even for Disney standards.


 * The whole climax where the Ralph clones keep saying "Friend..." over and over again can get very annoying and disturbing for some as time goes on.

Similar to other animated movies such as Hotel Transylvania 4 and the last three Ice Age sequels, The movie uses clichés in a bad light, such as the misunderstanding and the liar revealed cliché in the climax, with the result being rather placed in the wrong context.

The movie sends a very unhealthy message on how safe clicking on ads are even though they are not always safe, which is a very bad moral to begin with.

Stunt Casting: Even YouTuber DanTDM (also known as Daniel Robert Middleton) started as a voice performance, he was drowned out performing other than three lines for Eboy in the UK home release, this is yet an another example of stunt casting or an miscast just to get people to watch it.

There are some dirty references such as a brief scene that mentions lingerie, which is extremely unacceptable, even for a Disney movie.

Most of the world building is uncreative and above the nose for a lot of people: This movie fails to be emotional at times, such as in the infamous comment section scene, and where Vanellope drops Ralph’s cookie medal into a black hole, making this the most pathetic scenes of all Disney movies.
 * One example is the whole internet world looks nothing but a generic city.
 * Slaughter Race is nothing but a poor man’s version of GTA V and Burnout Paradise.
 * Buzztube is just a generic video website with random stock footage of funny cat videos and nothing else.

While the animation is colorful and not bad in general, it may look uncanny in a few aspects, for example:
 * Buzz Lightyear (who makes a brief cameo in one scene) appears with a rather incomplete design that doesn't seem accurately translated to Pixar’s model and it completely looks more of a 2022’s Lightyear model.
 * Another example is Merida's round-faced and doe-eyed appearance, while a decent update, does feel very inaccurate because of her original design being jarringly different from the rest of the princesses.


 * The new character designs for the sequel are utterly ridiculous, especially with Spamley’s, whose design looks nothing but an Inside Out reject.

The infamous scene where Rapunzel makes a feminist preach to Vanellope who indiscriminately replies: "Do people assume all your problems get solved because a big strong man showed up?", Keep in mind, which unfortunately destroyed her character.


 * This also has the same feminist preach scene in the better received The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, which of course would not give kids or adults that very same idea.

The ending, instead of a good ending, it’s more of a bad ending as Vanellope goes turbo and game hops to Slaughter Race, leaving both Sugar Rush and Ralph behind. She gets away with it too, receiving zero consequences or any forms of repercussions whatsoever, apart from Ralph bringing this up to her once during their big argument they had earlier. In the previous, going turbo is heavily frowned upon and game hopping can put either their or other games in danger, but here, they simply flat out ignore the rules established there up until Shank’s assures that she has coded Vanellope into the game.

Most of the charm from the first movie is clearly absent.

Overall, This started the downfall of Disney’s reputation and its market position.

Good Qualities
The animation is an improvement from in the previous and mixes different styles in one:


 * The normally 2D designs for most of the Disney Princesses also translate pretty accurately into computer-animation.

Still good voice acting like usual, except for DanTDM as Eboy.

The scene in which Vanellope meets up with the Disney Princesses was the only funny scene in the movie.

Good soundtrack by Henry Jackson.

Stan Lee’s brief tribute in the end credits was a nice touch.

Box office
As of December 30, 2018, Ralph Breaks the Internet grossed $175.7 million in North America, 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 mixed reviews from critics and audiences, some people 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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