The worst thing about WIR2 is how long the film takes to get us "online." One early plot line about Felix (voiced by Jack McBrayer) whizzes by so quickly that I wonder whether that chunk was originally longer-and thus edited to speed the film along. by day, then hang out with best friend Vanellope (voiced by Sarah Silverman) at night. Reilly) is still loving his predictable life: play the bad guy in the fictional arcade game Fix-It Felix Jr. (Sonic the Hedgehog, Q-Bert, the Tapper bartender, and a few Street Fighter characters have hung on to enjoy a few brief, funny cameos.) The original film's arcade is still pulling customers, and Ralph (voiced by John C.
Six years have passed since the events of Wreck-It Ralph, and many of that film's licensed video game characters have quietly vanished. You may not cry while watching this film, but in between its riotous laughs, Wreck-It Ralph 2 pulls some clever, unique, and touching heartstrings that other Disney films haven't done in a while. What's more, with a core friendship established by the source film, this sequel takes some really killer risks (at least, for a family-friendly cartoon) in exploring friendship and villainy in ways that viewers likely won't see coming. 2013's Wreck-It Ralph was in a similar boat: it looked like a gigantic gaming-satire feature at first, yet in the end, it focused on something arguably more important: a sweet-yet-weird take on friendship, complete with likable, fleshed-out characters. Figuratively, this film does nothing that equates to the "Internet-breaking" event that was Kim Kardashian-West's exposed rear end, and it doesn't turn in a best-in-class satire of Internet culture (either from a superficial level or a tech-savvy one).
Disney's tech-skewering 3D-animation series, Wreck-It Ralph, leans into a misleading subtitle for its first motion-picture sequel: Ralph Breaks the Internet.