LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - If you've suffered through "Super Mario Bros." or "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li" or almost anything from the oeuvre of Uwe Boll, you know that videogames have had a hard time transitioning to the big screen. What's exciting and interactive on your home system somehow turns stiff and unengaging when adapted to a single-path narrative.
Perhaps realizing that the problem with videogame movies is that the characters are stuck in an overly proscribed scenario, the new Disney animated feature "Wreck-It Ralph" shakes out its characters and lets them interact, so that the heroes of various different arcade faves can meet over root beers in the Tapper machine while a Pac-Man ghost moderates a 12-step group for villains.
If you've suffered through "Super Mario Bros." or "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li" or almost anything from the oeuvre of Uwe Boll, you know that videogames have had a hard time transitioning to the big screen. What's exciting and interactive on your home system somehow turns stiff and unengaging when adapted to a single-path narrative.
Perhaps realizing that the problem with videogame movies is that the characters are stuck in an overly proscribed scenario, the new Disney animated feature "Wreck-It Ralph" shakes out its characters and lets them interact, so that the heroes of various different arcade faves can meet over root beers in the Tapper machine while a Pac-Man ghost moderates a 12-step group for villains.
It's not unlike the situation with "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," another film in which disparate animated characters crossed paths with each other for the first time: It certainly helped if you knew who Betty Boop was, but if you didn't, there was still plenty to enjoy.
Director Rich Moore (a vet of "Futurama" and "The Simpsons," making his film debut) takes full visual advantage of the game setting, creating a number of eye-popping worlds (ranging from a grim post-apocalyptic terrain to a candy-colored wonderland), even transitioning the Fix-It Felix world from the old-school, 8-bit graphics that the players see to the more three-dimensional look of the world as perceived by the characters who live in it.
Even if you've never had Pac-Man Fever (and kudos to whoever decided to hire novelty tunesmiths Buckner and Garcia to write a song for the closing credits), "Wreck-It Ralph" is a sweet and often hilarious animated adventure that will charm Generations Pong and X-Box alike.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wreck-ralph-review-arcade-generation-roger-rabbit-worth-231753300.html
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