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"Ralph Breaks the Internet" truly surprised me. I was resistant to watching it during its theatrical run, despite being a big fan of its predecessor and knowing the pedigree of Walt Disney Animation. The marketing for this movie, which focused heavily on its new internet elements gave me more "Emoji Movie" vibes than classic Disney. "Look, we have Twitter references! Snapchat! Oh, and Star Wars and Disney princesses!" While I'm sure this strategy successfully got the butts of a lot of kids in theaters, it kept the butt of this cynical-but-otherwise-Disney-loving adult, firmly out. So, when I gave "Ralph Breaks the Internet" a watch recently, I was pleasantly surprised to find it contained all the consistent world-building, charming characters, and genuine heart of the original.

The sequel finds Ralph, and his best friend Vanellope living a charmed but otherwise stagnant life after the events of the first movie. While this stagnancy doesn't bother Ralph in the slightest, Vanellope (in true Disney princess fashion), makes it clear she wants more, and it's this tension that forms the root of the struggle of the story, including causing the catalyst that sends them on their journey to the internet.

I found myself as charmed by the movie's handling of the physical manifestation of the internet as I did by the original's handling of the lives of video game characters. (Side note: although the focus isn't nearly as high on video games as the original, there are still some fun elements there, such as musings on the grooming habits of a certain "Street Fighter" character.) The internet is a living world here, and the filmmakers clearly thought about all the ways they could have its well-known quirks inhabit themselves in the form of characters. Standouts for me were the pop-up street salesmen that aggressively touted their click-bait articles, and the search-engine worm character whose auto-fill was "a tad aggressive."

More than the handling of the world though, what I found truly surprising and compelling about this movie were its themes and the way it handled them. "Wreck-It Ralph" was a movie about identity and self-acceptance. "Ralph Breaks the Internet," far from being the cheap cash grab I thought it would be, actually continues those themes in ways I didn't expect, ways that I even think might even be new and challenging for kids.

Overall, "Ralph Breaks the Internet" was a much more worthy successor to the original film than I anticipated. If you're looking for a fun, humorous, imaginative movie that you can turn your brain off for, it provides all the necessary thrills. But it rarely loses sight of the characters and the heart that make these particular thrills so special.

Someone says that this "Ralph Breaks the Internet" is the worst Disney film. I cannot agree because it is not even a film. There is no plot at all. The first half displays some of the Internet products like eBay, YouTube, instagram, etc. The second half shows off the asset of Disney, such as Marvel, Star Wars and Disney princesses. In some sense, this is just a advertisement rather than a film. I do not know how much eBay, Google or Facebook pay Disney, but it is awful to see commercials all through the film.

I'll avoid spoilers here and keep it simple. The original movie is one of my favorites, it stands up to repeated viewing, was excellent in pace and composition. It flowed well, consistently, didn't try to do too much at once. The story was excellent, the voice acting was outstanding.

The sequel here - some of the best parts unfortunately were what we saw in trailers, as it often is. That's not to say there aren't other funny parts - there are. But overall it just left me, and my son, with the impression of them trying to cram far too many bits into the movie. It really stuttered along in parts.

We had a lot of eye rolling at the deluge of Disney when they first got to "the internet" and began looking around. This was the first part for us that started to detract from the story, which is, at it's core, actually an EXCELLENT story.

I wish they had focused more on what made the story flow well, what brought it out the best, rather than just try to cram as many bit part cameos as they could from other Disney franchises.

Voice acting was again well done. I think this would have been a much better movie had more things ended up on the cutting room floor, but it's at least worth seeing once. I'm sure we'll get it on blu-ray when it comes out, but we won't watch it nearly as much as we did the original.

I liked Wreck-It Ralph (2012), I found it charming and original with lashings of vocal talent to assist it but a sequel? Had big shoes to fill, and it didn't manage it.

It tells the story of our heroes venturing from the arcade to the internet to save one of their games and *Sigh* does a plot really matter here? Ultimately that's not what its about.

Full of goofy humor, the occasional adult-ish joke to keep the parents happy and lots and lots of product placement. A lot of people looking at the reviews clearly have issue with this but truth be told it would have been very difficult to show the internet in that fashion without showing off the big names. I'm sure a lot of money passed hands because of this, but I don't see why it's such an issue.

The voice cast once again are fantastic including newcomers such as Gal Gadot. The trailers "Princesses" weren't as obnoxious as I expected and quite frankly the whole thing is passable enough stuff but nothing more than that. Somehow a lot of the original charm seems to be missing, the novelty value has diminished and the whole thing felt more like a cashgrab than a loyal sequel.

That being said Ralph Breaks the Internet isn't bad, it's just not living up to expectations.

The Good:

Excellent voice talent

A couple of nice ideas

The Bad:

Pales in comparison to the first

Lacks charm

The satire really spotlights how pathetic much of the internet community are with "Trends" and viewing habits.

7/10 - very original and creative, but not quite as good as its predecessor

Ralph Breaks the Internet delivers a well-made film meant to entertain not only children but adults. I took my niece and had a blast seeing her smile non-stop during the whole film. I usually don't go for children's movies but I'm glad I did this time. I recommend this film

It was ok in my opinion. A lot of people hated it for obvious reasons, and I kind of hated it too at times, but at other times I was laughing my ass off! There were some really clever jokes in this movie, and I don't want to undermine any of them. Clearly there was some effort put into it, but the story definitely suffered (I did not like how it ended and both Vanellope and Ralph seemed as though their characters regressed in this film. Definitely NOT a good thing....). It did feel like a big advertisement too, but still better than the Emoji movie. At least the "advertisements" were used for something more in this movie.

Overall, it was an ok movie. Worth the watch if you aren't looking for anything incredible, but it's a big step down from the first movie. I don't recommend if you really enjoyed the first film.

I get that everyone felt that it was just one big advertisement. But its the Internet, all those things are literally on the Internet! I like the way they interpreted how the internet looks like if they were actual beings. My particular favourite part is the disney princesses, its Disney, I don't see why they can't use their own characters.

This movie is much more self-aware than I had expected. I wasn't quite sure how they'd handle the concept of the internet, based on how they handled the arcade in the first movie, but I think it was handled very well, and it feels much more original than most Disney movies lately. it's rather entertaining, even if it's quick to reach for a laugh before it handles anything else. I love how the movie handles more serious topics such as cyberbullying and the toxicity of dependency, but it handles it in a way children can understand as well. it may not be as great as the original, and it may be much more predictable, but it's still a decent movie, and good enough for a rewatch.

I am an internet technician. I deal with wifi and internet everyday of life and this movie had me in stitches. The attention to detail was out of this world and the online humor was just pure class.

I rated this a 9 out of 10. Not many movies get that from me let me tell you that but for the pure entertainment that it brought to me and my family when we watched it I just simply had to give it.

P.S. I have never seen the first movie and quite personally I hate when people rate movies based on the original. That's not what IMDB should be about.

Dont listen to all the negativity. This is cinema at it's best. Theres something it for everyone.

The part that everyone seems to be hating on (all the disney characters scene) I thought was excellent. I have a 3 year old daughter that is obsessed with all these characters and I known them all well. It was refreshing to see such a different take on all of them. Some of the the hashtags were brilliant.

People are lost in this world I think. Theres no way anyone could rate this lower than a 5. If so you dont deserve to be reviewing movies.

Hope you enjoy.

The highlight of this movie was the Disney Princesses and the Shank scenes

Ralph's insecurities and destructive neediness turning into a huge, raging monster made of Ralph copies was pretty great too

As a standalone film this was funny and nice to look at, but as a sequel it was terrible. Thus overall it was average. Wreck it Ralph is one of my favorite animated films - it managed to be an homage to retro gaming whilst telling a story about a misguided but loveable 'bad guy' finding out what really matters in life.

Ralph Breaks The Internet undoes all the good the first one did - Ralph is now an abusive (or should I say 'insecure') friend who has not one, but TWO cliche 'We were best friends and everything was perfect but now you did something that's upset me so I'm going to walk away and DON'T FOLLOW ME moments'. The film lacks any subtletly in dealing with its themes of toxic relationships (both personal and over the internet), and is far more comfortable in its amusing Internet references than it is in trying to make a statement.

There were so many missed opportunities to link it with the first film. For example, it is made clear that the allure of modern games is that they're constantly being updated and feel new. This was the perfect chance for the film to show that retro games, that always stay the same and live in our memory, have merit too. But nope, that didn't happen. To me, it feels like a Disney exec wanted to tell a story of the dangers / joys of the internet, and the dangers / joys of clingy friendships, but forced these messages into Wreck it Ralph where it just doesn't fit. It's used as a vehicle for this message, weaving its way around a bombardment of internet references in trying to do so.

I can understand why people enjoyed it - I laughed a lot during the first half, and one or two of the emotional moments were quite powerful. But in lacking any nuance or any reverence to the first film, I cannot recommend it to fans of the first.

In its funny and colourful shell, the movie reminded me 2 truths: a. "you can't keep a relationship without compromising your own dream or lifestyle"; b. the majority of people always enjoy watching others hurt or being stupid. So sad yet true.

It had its moments, but it wasn't as good and charming as the first movie.

The original Wreck it Ralph was a bit of a surprise home run for me. So, obviously when they announced the sequel I was full of nervous excitement and while it doesn't surpass the original, this is still a lot of fun.

The animation is still great to me, I even liked something near the end that seemed to bug a lot of people. The voice acting is superb. I could listen to Ralph and Vanellope volley back and forth at each other all day. The world building is still great, even if it's not a perfect representation of the Internet but, really, who wants a perfect representation of that?

The biggest flaw the movie has is that it spreads itself too thin for me. It's trying to hit on too many of the Internet things, locals and jokes, leaving it feeling scattered and unfocused. Maybe if it was all focused on the search engine, or the streaming service, or the gaming, or the seedy portions, or shopping, or the Disney empire and its princesses. Not to mention keeping us up to speed with the adventures still happening in the original arcade.

If the movie could have focused on a few things instead of ALL THE THINGS it would have felt much better to me. Even still, it's great fun and worth the time.

No spoilers, don't worry. I'll make another review if I want to talk about those. I'll start this off by saying I'm a pretty big Disney fan- this, however, doesn't get in the way of how I take in their movies. They've had their fair share of blunders in the past. I walked into this movie with moderate expectations- it is a modern Disney movie, but that also means it's typically predictable. Not only this, but it's about the internet, and we all know how movies portray the internet. Memes are funny!!!!! Right kids? But this... this was something else. I'd also like to mention that I'm 18, and use Reddit and Twitter quite often.

The internet world they made was incredible. Any questions I had about it were answered, it all made sense. The jokes kept coming and landed every time, it was nonstop for me. Some adults may not get them, of course, since some were referencing actual internet culture- which surprised me. They obviously consulted some actual teenagers and people who knew about this kind of stuff, not just the typical "hey kids like X, Y, and Z right!?" Even the excuses given for sharing videos made sense- instead of "hey look at this funny meme!!! It's funny because it's a cat or goat!", the excuse given was nostalgia for a retro game.

The music was phenomenal, especially the song in the second half of the movie (you'll know the one), it utilizes older sounds with a modern spin (kind of hard to explain). There's plenty for both kids AND adults to enjoy, and for someone like me (an avid consumer of internet content), it hit all the right marks. I did like the first movie, but this one was so energetic and fun that it surpasses it. Will it be outdated in a few years? I don't think so, I do think it perfectly encapsulates the internet. Will it be outdated in 10+ years? Since the world is constantly changing, probably. Eventually sites we use today will be long gone and replaced. But for now, this movie gives a perfect representation of the internet and makes for an amazing movie. I give it a solid 10/10.

For anyone wanting an adults perspective, I went with my parents, cousins, and even my grandmother. My parents got most of the jokes (if not all) as they should have. My grandma thought it was fun and energetic, but did miss a few references (though she did get more then I assumed she would, as news stations like to report on "hip new internet trends"). Overall enjoyable for the whole family! Go see it!

While I do think it overall lacks a little of the predecessor's character developement, I do think it managed to pick itself up as the movie progressed. The beginning of the movie seemed like a cliched and predictable plot of finding something important to fix something.

BUT, like I said, the movie makes up for it as it progresses, because when Ralph and Venellope break through to the internet it really gets interesting. We get an amazing interpretation of the internet with everything from internet culture, personifications of well known web-sites, viruses and search engines of many kinds.

And you can say what you want about the cameos of the Disney Princesses, but I thought they were hilarious! They do help out getting Venellope's character a purpose of her own instead of just letting her be left with that tiresome plot of finding that important thing. Disney has in recent years done a lot of self-referencing comedy which sometimes work and other times doesn't, but this one works all the way.

And like Venellope, Ralph gets a very well handled character arc which comes into fruition the more the movie progresses, so as a sequel to Wreck-It-Ralph that focuses on the friendship between those two characters, I think it managed to keep that spirit while expanding on the world of video games.

It may be lacking in the writing in the beginning and some of the earlier characters don't have much to do, but it was a satisfying continuation with high entertainment value.

Ralph Breaks the Internet is such a wonderful, hilarious, creative movie with so much to enjoy. The same loveable characters are back with another adventure that is so enjoyable to watch. Nice play of emotions as well. A wonderful sequel to the equally wonderful original. Not at all dull or boring, but just as good as any excellently-made Disney movie. Those saying it was 'boring' have zero taste, because this was typically made like any Disney movie - fabulously. It was so refreshing and fun. Must watch for all.

If you have a young child, you've probably seen every animated movie ever made, and you know some of truly awful. Ralph Breaks the Internet thoughtfully interpreted the internet in a way that was clever and will be appreciated by adults.The feminist take on Disney Princesses was long overdue! It dragged a bit at the end, but overall there was enough here to make watching another kid's movie a little less of a chore.

"Ralph Breaks the Internet" seems like the poster child for "what could've been". I like the concept, and there are a couple of good laughs, but the execution is atrocious. I was really into the opening 30 minutes or so (everything inside the arcade is fun) but as soon as they actually make it onto the Internet, it's a downward tumble.

Not gonna lie, I'm disappointed on almost every level. What was heartwarming about the original "Wreck-It Ralph" is lost here. Yeah, it may be ambitious, but it's a waste of the Ralph/Vanellope relationship, the inherent humor of the arcade culture is gone and Disney hijacked the movie for their own (horrifying) studio marketing. Seriously, the Rodent's footprint is massive in this movie.