It spoofs the internet, but it also speaks truth to toxic friendships that may have run their course.
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The emotional conflict between Ralph and Vannellope is where Ralph Breaks the Internet excels the most, and where the movie feels more relevant than in its jokes about Beyonce. To Vannellope, that means a life outside her game and inside Slaughter Race, a dangerous online racer that's like Death Race 2000 meets Fast & Furious (complete with franchise alum Gal Gadot voicing the leader of ragtag car thieves who call themselves "family"). But Vannellope, a daredevil by nature, wants the unexpected. Anything that differs from that is to be feared.
Unlike Vannellope, Ralph likes his same-old life. While Ralph believes he's trying to save her game, what he's really trying to save is the status quo. Disney/Kobal/Shutterstockīut Ralph Breaks the Internet does one thing well, and that's Ralph's - I'm quoting the movie here - “needy, clingy, self-destructive tendencies." Ralph has developed a severe attachment to Vannellope. 'Ralph Breaks the Internet' adds Gal Gadot as "Shank," in an homage to her roles in the 'Fast & Furious' movies. It's the internet by Disney, and it shows. The dark web, where Ralph goes to buy a virus in Act 2, is not an encrypted network where illegal drugs, weapons, and pornography are traded. Twitter is where birds chirp at cat pictures, not an endless feed of depressed journalists and celebrities canceling themselves. Places like YouTube are a portal to watch silly videos, not a platform run by algorithms that divert ad revenue to white supremacists. Tech giants like Facebook and Amazon manifest as gleaming skyscrapers users go to harmlessly - these are not nosy behemoths harvesting our data.
Surely that is to be expected as a family Disney movie, but even its approach feels insufficient and practically copy-pasted from HBO's Silicon Valley intro. Really, Ralph Breaks the Internet fails at its own premise with an eye-rolling, inoffensive depiction of the internet. Case in point: Oh My Disney, an official Disney blog that takes up prominence in the plot, is now semi-defunct and exists only as a Twitter and Instagram feed. And for what? The film feels dated even just two (admittedly long) years later. Throughout its near two hour running time, Ralph Breaks the Internet always feels like a trend-chaser hoping to satirize the cultural moment at the cost of betraying its own sense of self. The franchise had a gimme with "Ralph Wrecks the Internet." But attaching itself to the aging term "Break the Internet" (lest we forget, originates out of a 2014 Paper cover story with Kim Kardashian) encapsulates the film's misguided priorities. The first way the movie falls flat on its face is in its title. 'Ralph Breaks the Internet,' a 2018 sequel to 'Wreck-It Ralph,' will leave Netflix on December 10. The story quickly spirals out of control from there to the point where Ralph will, in fact, break the internet. But to pay for it, Ralph needs to go viral. When the arcade installs a wi-fi router, Ralph and Vanellope travel into the internet in the hopes of acquiring the steering wheel on eBay. Worse, the steering wheel controller on Vanellope's game just broke, and the cost to replace it is more than the old game makes in a year. Reilly) is content with his contained world at Litwak's Arcade, but his best friend Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) yearns for something more beyond her outdated racing game.
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Released in 2018 from Disney Animation, Ralph Breaks the Internet (which, for a brief period, had the full mouth jumble title Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2) picks up six years after 2012's Wreck-It Ralph. Ralph Breaks the Internet, co-directed by original Wreck-It Ralph director Rich Moore and screenwriter Phil Johnston, is the movie you need to watch on Netflix before it leaves on December 10.
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And while the film pales in comparison to its 2012 predecessor - and bends over backward in its rules on how the internet works - it's still a worthwhile watch, especially in a difficult year when our real, offline friendships and relationships have been tested. But in 2018, a Disney animated movie used the internet to shine a laser-focused light on interpersonal toxicity.