So last night, my family went to see Disney's newest film Wreck-it Ralph. Let me tell you the film was awesome! But to make things interesting, I'm grading it like how StC used to reveiw games ont he Saturn and like the magazine Famitsu.
Animation:
The animation was very fluid for the main characters and was made intentionally choppy for Clyde, the Nicelanders, Pac-Man, and Tapper seeing that they are all 8-bit. The shots of the games from the player's PoV are really accurate, with Sugar Rush resembling Crusin' USA HD edition, DDR looking like DDR, Street Fighter Looking like Street Fighter, and Tapper looking like Tapper.
(10/10)
Sound:
The OST was done by Henry Jackman, Skrillex, Owl City, Buckner & Garcia, and the J-pop group エーケービー フォーティエイト (AKB48). Henry Provided the lushous scored that may even rival the scores by Wendy Carlos and Daft Punk for their works on the 90-year old TRON Franchise. Skrillex did the theme for Hero's Duty which somehow reminds me a bit of Halo, and AKB48 provided the theme for Sugar Rush, which is mainly in Japanese. As for Buckner and Garcia, they did a little salute to their Pac-Man Fever single from 1980 called Wreck-it, Wreck-it Ralph which I think was a very nice way to pay a trinute to teh Golden Age of Video Games.
(10/10)
Story:
While some of you reviewers out there may gripe about the film spending too much time in Sugar Rush, bear in mind that Vanellope cannot leave her game since she's a glitch. This gives Ralph motivation to win back the Medal of Heroes that he won in Hero's Duty. Likewise, the glitch that she has is also a bit of a Chekov's guns since it shows what happens when someone "goes Turbo." Also the story behind "going Turbo" is really well written, but I won't spoil who this Turbo fella is.
(10/10)
Voice Acting:
All of the characters have voices fitting their personallities. Ralph sounds like a tired man who still has some energy left in him, Felix sounds like the nedry boy next door, Vanellope sounds like a hyperactive schoolgirl, King Candy sounds a lot like Danny Mann as Thanatos from Kid Icarus Uprising, Calhoun sounds like, well Jane Lynch. I give Disney props for that. Along with them is the director, Rich Moore who voices Sour Bill and Street Fighter character Zangief. The game characters are also voiced by their current voices ie Kyle Hebert (Ryu Hoshi), Rueben Langdon (Ken Masters), Roger Craig Smith (Sonic), Software Automatic Mouth (Q*Bert), Jamie Sparer Roberts (Yuni Verse), Gerald C. Rivers (M. Bison/Dictator/Vega), and Maurice LaMarche (Tapper).
(10/10)
Final Score:
40/40
Raves: Possibly the best video game based film of all time.
Graves: Where's Mario?
