Sweets of Life Thunderbolt Ralph, whom no one loves because of his profession, goes through the world of computer games, in one of which he was a key villain, to find new friends, discover his true capabilities and win a gold medal in order to become a real hero in the eyes of his neighbors and acquaintances.
Disney's "Ralph" turned out to be primarily an emotionally exciting adventure, it has a lot of touching moments, sincerity and humanity. The cartoon is skillfully able to play both tragedy to tears and real joyful delight, skillfully placing accents on the action and characters, really bright and memorable.
In addition to the charming thug, almost the entire cartoon is ready to steal the bellicose sergeant Calhoun, exterminating space bugs in the best traditions of Starship Troops, Starcraft and Aliens, and the charming girl-glitch Vanellope, cheerful and funny, who, even appearing only in the second half of the film, deftly becomes the key heroine of the plot, with whom Ralph side by side overcomes all kinds of difficulties, obstacles and insidious plans of enemies. The villains, by the way, also came out colorful - the king of the sweet country with his sour assistant their intrigues help make the plot of the cartoon much more twisted and interesting.
The rest of the secondary heroes in the spirit of a funny cyber-bird, Master Felix, rivals and rivals Vanellopa in the sugar races “Sweet Furious”, in general, turned out to be just a successful addition. But all of them are overshadowed by the stunning number of all sorts of game cameos - Zandgif, Dream, the ghost of Pacman, Kano with Smoak, and many, many others. Recognisable, fun, helping to expand the Ralph universe to a myriad of sequels, if Disney wanted to. And at best, you can generally collect Somnnik, Mario, Battle Toads, Felix and others in an analogue of "Avengers" for cult computer games.
The cartoon does not go meticulously into chewing the gameplay, but clearly shows the very life of life on the other side of the screen of computer toys. Sweets of life, sorrows of loneliness, friendship, thirst for adventure and much more, combining in a sensual cocktail frenzied energy and a very juicy graphic part. In terms of drawing, the “Sweet Afterburner” was especially successful, in which ice cream, chocolate, jelly and other sweets with lollipops look simply amazing!
But it is also interesting here that the design of the characters is completely not sharpened under one graphics engine, as in all other cartoons all over the place. Almost for the first time we got characters completely different in body proportions and face detail depending on the computer game where they live. So eight-bit Master Felix from the 80s can not admire the modern-painted Calhoun. The game characters “Mortal Kombat” and “Fighter Street” are as close as possible to the anthropomorphic structure, while the main enemy of Sonnik is hyperbolically cartoonish, but the characters of sweet races are completely distinguished by a special cute “animation” and a large head size.
In terms of the variety of animation and variations of human characters, Ralph is certainly a film-event that has no close analogues among modern cartoons. Well, in terms of the content of its own plot, it should also definitely appeal to any audience.
Its only drawback is some very strange political overtones, which opens somewhere at the end, when the princess declares the need for democracy, and the autocrat turns into the likeness of the Scorpion King, positioning the monarchy as a world evil. If you try to dig even deeper, you get almost an “official” doing a “job” for which the public hates him, like a message to all sorts of cabinet managers, executives, government officials and the like, saying that you too have a good heart, that you are not the destroyers that we see all of you. It already depends on what analogies to consider the situation of the main character. But a girl who does not dream of being a princess, but dreams of being president - this is something completely out of order.
On the other hand, you can simply not look for another bottom in the children's cartoon, at least if you close your eyes to the calls for democracy, "Ralph" teaches the ability to achieve your goal and perseverance, faith in the dream, despite the "parental" prohibitions and disapproval of older people, defending their own beliefs, desires, and the ability to rise again and again even after numerous falls, even when nothing works. “Ralph” is a very correct cartoon, very successfully contacting the viewer, and not just telling another fairy tale about good and evil. In general, it is much deeper and more fascinating than it may seem.
However, some important questions remain unanswered. For example, about why after the restoration of the character does not disappear his “glitch”, or why the beetle king retains the mind of the king, and not the beetle acquires abilities, as previously agreed. Various small flaws of varying degrees of materiality somehow interfere with the perception of a feature-animated film, but from all this saves wonderful humor and sparkling dialogue (most often between Ralph and Vanilope) and wildly funny secondary characters or just funny cameos.
"Ralph" entertains with an abundance of its entertainment, amazes with the quality and variety of animation and captures with its plot, sketching more and more new twists of history, remaining touching and emotionally strong, raising important and necessary values, not talking about them corny. And it turned out really grand! We require numerous continuations, the benefit of the world is open only 3 toys from a myriad of, both cult and famous, and possible to invent specifically for the cartoon.
9 OF 10
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