I don't like Frozen 2, but it doesn't completely destroy its characters (except Kristoff. Such a wuss). Both Ralph and Vanellopie were total, selfish assholes.
Why Ralph Breaks the Internet is a Cinematic Disaster (By Schaffrillas Productions)
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I don't like Frozen 2, but it doesn't completely destroy its characters (except Kristoff. Such a wuss). Both Ralph and Vanellopie were total, selfish assholes.
Looking at how much they tout their (easily removed) gay scenes, it fits Disney to the letter. It's actually a pretty common trend and criticism of Disney made by a lot of people in the left wing space. See Lindsey Ellis's video, Woke Disney.
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Having the movie centred around the Internet made it feel dated by default.
With that being said, the climax of the movie had a really smart metaphor.
With that being said, the climax of the movie had a really smart metaphor.
It's actually one of the more enjoyable Disney movies for me because it explains toxic friendship in a way that I can actually have a conversation with my children about. It's very pertinent to our times with all the machinations of the current internet so it won't age well in terms of references, but I'll still re-watch it ever couple years to dive deeper into the story.
I won't bother watching because I've already spent enough of my life on the movie, but I felt that the major difference, for me, was that the original celebrated an underdog culture, of early entrepreneurs, of Midway and Atari and Nintendo, and, you know, Donkey Kong(ish) and Q-Bert and Tapper.
Ralph 2 celebrated Ebay, and Google, and Facebook, and Youtube(ish). And obviously Disney themselves. Yay for the corporate overlords! Their mascots are such a joy to see come alive on the screen, oh wait. No, that only worked in the Disney segment and only because we're all nice little consumers.
Ralph 2 celebrated Ebay, and Google, and Facebook, and Youtube(ish). And obviously Disney themselves. Yay for the corporate overlords! Their mascots are such a joy to see come alive on the screen, oh wait. No, that only worked in the Disney segment and only because we're all nice little consumers.
Disney is a powerful international corporation that seems scared of actual progressive depictions at the risk of alienating their bottom line, so calling what they do pandering and pseudo-wokeness seems appropriate honestly.
"Check our our progressive gay romance!" is in reality two male characters dancing together for like 8 seconds in the corner of the frame. They're full of shit.
I agree with this completely. Maybe if they focused on like the early internet, they could've maybe captured the same spirit. However, applying these characters which are characters in arcade games to any internet setting always seemed like a stupid idea.
Yep. And the whole Oh My Disney scene reeked of "look how much stuff you like we own."
There was a tiny bit of this with the "discarded dark reaches of the internet" sequence which was another high point. But it's not like Mosaic or Netscape or Altavista were super interesting, inspiring entities either.
Ralph never had a genuine friend until Vanellope and the fact she was drifting away scared him. It was pretty reasonable in my opinion.
This character personifies everything wrong with Disney.
Serious question, what's wrong with this character? I had to reverse image search because I am not familiar with the character. The results were Christian news sites complaining about "indoctrination." :-|
I believe the character was the first official Disney gay character.
I liked it. Not as much as the first one, but still in the positive category for me. The princess stuff was great, the anti-princess song was amusing, and I'm always down for a "not-zombie but basically is zombie" apocalypse.
If anything, it was kind of refreshing watching a Disney film where characters weren't perfect angels with surface-level flaws inserted to make them feel deep. Ralph is truly flawed. He's a selfish and insecure person afraid of losing his first and best friend. While the movie as a whole is weak, I really enjoyed the ending. This final moment pulled at my heartstrings:
He definitely takes his insecurity a bit too far, though if you think on it it's a reflection on how his issues from the first film can't be merely solved by him finally making a friend. He's got a lot of shit to unpack.
So we should give kids movies a pass because of their target demographic? I'm not saying this isn't hyperbole but you and I both know quality kids movies exist.
It's like homeboy said in the video: It made sense for Ralph to become an older caregiver kind of dude to the first person who cared about him, especially as he was in the midst of figuring out his place in a hero/villain dichotomy. But in the sequel, his clinginess is both underdeveloped from his personality in the first and legitimately creepy considering he's a grown-ass man.
Took 9 posts till the obligatory kids deserve shit. We are slipping guys.
I 100 percent thought someone made a thread and linked that idiot's channel. The original creator showed up here and created a thread, that shit was something else.
It's got the same toxic title
I thought it was marginally better than that emoji movie (yes, I saw it, so what).
But I'm not watching a 40mins review of a movie I didn't really care for.
Didn't particularly like the first either, but it's not a Disney thing; I loved both Zootopia and Moana.
But I'm not watching a 40mins review of a movie I didn't really care for.
Didn't particularly like the first either, but it's not a Disney thing; I loved both Zootopia and Moana.
I agree with the video in general. With how successful TLK remake and this film were it's a bit of a bummer honestly. It's not the end of the world that a Wreck-it-Ralph sequel was mediocre but it does feel like Disney are too big to fail. To be fair TLK was more egregious in this way, that was just atrocious and it made all of the money predictably. But as a big video game fan I would really have preferred they leaned more into that than what we got. The Kingdom Hearts analogy was a good one too.
That's by far the best part of the movie. In fact it's probably the only good part of the movie alongside the player characters in the post-apocalyptic shooter being super wooden and turning in place like... well, like characters in an MMO.
I didn't say that. I just think going to these lengths is kind of dumb is all.
Technically these are characters that never age? Vanellope is only a child because in her game all the characters are children. Ralph is impulsive is In the first and second movie.
Movie is deeper than 99% of the stuff put out for kids though. It has a message no other kids movie has and is fun and entertaining on top of that.
Disney had the audacity to announce her existence and her sexuality before the movie even came out only for her to be an 8 seconds cameo that was conveniently cut from some international releases. It's lazy pandering at best.
I would say that's true for plenty of Disney/Pixar films and even some from Dreamworks.
Inside pool like that really makes me really pine for a Reboot, uh, reboot.