I really like Felix's journey. First, he starts off as polite but distant to Ralph. Then, when he's arrested, he's calling him his friend and misses him.
fr they easily could have made us hate Felix going the stereotypical route were the hero’s actually obnoxious but i’m so glad they didn’t it makes all the characters feel real. I also really think they came up with a genius video game. fix it felix was fun when it was made into a real game
Big agree! It's been foreshadowed so well but the reveal is still worth the surprise. Like, you KNOW King Candy is off and he is an antagonist, but the movie has enough plots that you may forget a detail or two on the first watch, but it all hits in retrospect.
It works so well because he was ALWAYS the villain regardless. Turbo’s character haunting the narrative from 6 minutes into the movie until the end means that the reveal is payoff! Flawless voice acting performance, especially when Turbo has a very subtle lisp and when he’s King Candy he accentuates it! Stunning designs, good comedy, actually frightening and proves that a classic Disney villain CAN be recreated today!
I think I always tear up when Ralph is falling, repeating the mantra with sincerity for the first time, and clutching the medal Vanellope gave him. It is such an effective emotional payoff.
A small clarification: the bugs became what they ate. If in Hero's Duty they ate metal, their shells became metal too, and in Sugar Rush, they ate sweets and became much more vulnerable because of it. And the one which ate Turbo/King Candy, became a copy of him
It has always been an overlooked yet deeply terrifying aspect introduced by Wreck it Raph. This is also another reason why Sergeant Calhoun's backstory is considered "the most tragic one ever" : The cybug ate her soon-to-be husband. Following the same logic you explained as to what happened when one of those things ate King Candy, the cybug killed by Calhoun on her wedding day *took the likeliness of her deceased fiance* as she gunned it down.
Pretty much embodying the you are what you eat thing that basically is most of the Kirby games I mean I know there are some games where he doesn't like suck up enemies and then take their powers but...
@@spinningtornado4543 That really is something that was overlooked. I never thought about that. The bug that ate King Candy/Turbo became him, so following the same logic and script, obviously the bug that ate Calhoun's husband would also become him. Her backstory really is tragic, but they won't outright display something so tragic in a show directed towards children.
one thing I realized after watching this movie again is that it's hinted quite early that maybe King Candy is the one that doesn't belong in Sugar Rush. When Ralph is brought to see him while still in the giant cupcake, King Candy immediately recognizes who he is and also knows what "going turbo" means. Hero's Duty and Sugar Rush were both newer games plugged in around the same time, but Calhoun and Vanellope had no idea who Ralph was, and Calhoun didn't know what "going turbo meant," something only older game characters would know at the time
I will point out that Sugar Rush has been in the arcade for roughly 15 years (and was immediately taken over according to one of the creators), but yeah the racers still don't know much since I imagine King Candy keeps Sugar Rush relatively isolated
@@EChacon I figured he was more cartoonish, because he was an NPC character, not meant to be playable...like all the candy citizens but Turbo hollowed out his code, and used him as a skin it would explain why players didn't think something was off seeing this mysterious character not from any of the other consoles of the game, but thought it was normal because he existed in the game prior to Turbo, but he wasn't playable...so the Litwack Sugar Rush would be considered a special one, with access to this special "King Candy player"
Lol I feel lucky cuz I was the only one in my friends group who knew that. They all thought they just legit swore in a kids film. I'm like no, that's the legendary Shrek "swearing without swearing" technique. Like in Spy Kids when Carmen said "you're so full of Shit....take mushrooms"
The cybug that ate Calhoun's husband became him. She had to kill her husband on their wedding day. Also, I imagine that when Vanellope told Taffetta that she has Pixlexia, that was the game developer's intention. King Candy made the citizens think it was a glitch instead.
I'd like to believe this, but I don't think it aligns with the fact that she can't leave the game 🤔... unless that's a symptom of Pixlexia lol. I think her "block" being detached from the rest of the code is what made her a glitch, so it being reconnected at the end should've prevented her from ever glitching again. Just an oversight or a concession on the part of the writers, unfortunately.
I always thought the glitch, or Pixlexia, was due to King Candy deleting part of her file so she wasn't t the Princess anymore. But that does make sense too
Hm I think Ralph and Felix move different from the nice-landers because they have more complicated code and possibly models/pixel art. Felix has to jump, Ralph has to climb and break the windows. And for the sake of the movie, of course, they move more frames per second.
Fun fact: there were Flash games for Fix it Felix, Sugar Rush and Hero's Duty! You can still find them in Flash game collections of people who saved them.
A nice little touch I just noticed is that at the start at the bad-anon meeting Ralph doesn't say the little self-affirming chant, then at the end he chants it. Having accepted that he is the bad guy of his game, but a good guy at heart.
Ngl I actually learned a lot about introspection and self reflection because of this movie. Just because some people may not like me doesn't mean I'm a bad person. And just because I accept myself that doesn't mean I deserve EVERYONES praise. The only people that matter are the people I love. And if they love me that's all I care about. But that all stems from me being able to love myself.
41:30 it's because of the association. Like, at the beginning of the film his figurine was placed in a chocolate puddle on a birthday cake, and now chocolate is associated with the dirt into which he is constantly thrown, with his life as a "bad guy" that he doesn't like. And in the end he accepted his role, and now he loves himself, and the chocolate, and the dirt near the penthouse.
As I saw recently in a lore video, there is a ton of foreshadowing. The throne room has a tiara motif, but the coins have a king's crown that matches King Candy. the second part means the whole pay-to-win coins scheme was created by King Candy, likely to keep Vanellope locked out of racing.
Not to mention his love for wordplay. Turbo and King Candy (at least from what we did see of Turbo) they like making new words or combining other words to be silly
One thing that I never see anyone remark on is that when the other racers are breaking Vanellope's car, Ralph doesn't intervene until she gets pushed into the mud, and he sees that she's being treated in her game exactly the way he's being treated in his.
I appreciate that the characters from the more simplistic retro games like Ralph have a more limited viewpoint of what makes a hero vs a villain. It makes Ralph's starting point in the story believable, because his game is quite literally just "fix the broken stuff, win the medal, you won".
i am obsessed with the turbo storyline he’s genuinely the best modern villain disney has made cuz of all the subtle foreshadowing but we do NOT talk about the 2nd movie that thing fumbled the bag
Unfortunately the undoing of Ralph's entire character arc in the second makes it unwatchable for me. He goes from understanding his place in life to being even more desperate and needy than he was trying to get that medal, over someone who's already established trust with him. Just feels like there was someone who really didn't like Ralph in the writers room for the second one.
@reaper6047 I really don't think that happened at all. Just because someone learns something it doesn't mean they don't make other mistakes. Him being so clingy is actually very realistic and happens to a lot of people. That didn't undo his character arc from before. He was still Ralph, who has always been insecure and that didn't change in the first movie entirely
What's kinda interesting is that Ralph says at the party he's never had cake and it's only after he hears that his mud section is chocolate flavored that he decides he doesn't like chocolate--mirroring how he doesn't like how he's treated by being yeeted off the building every day. It was never about the chocolate, if the mud had been any other flavor he probably would have changed his dislike to that. I love that the writers chose to include that detail so you can follow Ralph's character growth just by such a simple sentiment.
the movie just starts "It's like an AA meeting!" funny you should say that... and FYI, years ago when I started my stage acting career, I was chosen to play the bad guy in most of those productions... and you could say that I had my "Wreck-It Ralph" moment, years before the movie came out. I really related to it in that sense, and in the last few years of that career, I played more comical roles while younger actors started taking the heavy rolls.
I love this movie!!! Even Felix’s character development… When he is talking about/with Ralph… He went from colleague (11:52), to friend (29:43), to brother (42:59) Subtle, but it’s there… 🥰
I have never clicked on a notification faster! Vanellope's Code was restored after passing over the finish line, but, she chose not to restore defaults and instead, keep the thing that she was told defined her as evil and bad. She "loaded her previous save state", and has overwritten her Save File. So now she is the Glitchy Version, and she couldn't imagine life without this cool power. She's a Glitch and that's all she'll ever be...
I thought it was never actually a glitch, it was always meant as her racer's gimmick/special ability. Explaining why it didn't go away. Turbo just created the narrative that it was a glitch and something to be feared. That's what I've heard anyway.
It's not a cybug, it's a feature... and it's called Pixlexia. Turbo just weave it as a glitch. At least that's what I read from one speculative comment.
I don't think the idea of King Candy coming up with the glitch narrative as a cover works with the fact that she couldn't leave the game - I think her "block" being detached from the code really just made her a "glitch." If the "overwritten her Save File" idea is the right interpretation, I wish the movie would've made that clear. As it's presented, it looks like she just somehow keeps the glitching abilities despite no longer being a glitch.
I think one of the cool facts of this movie is that I heard they originally wanted to make it about mario and donkey kong, but nintendo said no, so they chose a different prexisting game, Fix it Felix. The coolest part about that is the original Donkey Kong game was actually originally supposed to use the cartoon character Popeye, so they created the character of jumpman and donkey kong. So in a way, the Disney animated character of fix it Felix is the copyright grandson of Popeye the sailor, through Jumpman, or Mario, as we call him now.
Fix it Felix was actually made up for this movie, but Disney made some real arcade cabinets as part of its marketing. They are definitely meant to parody Mario and Donkey Kong tho so the rest is accurate :)
I totally forget that Bowser, Sonic characters and a few other characters make cameos in this. I wonder how they got permission to use them. Sonic makes sense, but Bowser from Nintendo is hard to believe
The thing is, nobody would even ask Nintendo permission, it is not their business. Who told you those are those characters? None of them was explicitly named, except one: Zangiev, who is actually a real person, not dumb shit IP.
I remember when it came out, it was a copyright nightmare. One particularly funny demand by Sega was that Eggman must have equal screentime with Bowser.
@@yaroslavpanych2067 what kinda argument is that? they are clearly the characters. eggman, bowser, M. Bison, Kano, etc. they are all recognizeable characters with an IP. and mario was literally stated to exist in universe, but it looks like he was not allowed to really show up due to legal reasons. eggman shows up again in the credits, i believe. zangief is from street fighter, and so is M. Bison. what is your argument that is against the "dumb shit" ip characters?
There's a screenshot of the bad-anon meeting from before the movie came out that has Dr. Wily in the meeting where a generic ninja is in the final version. _That's_ the real mystery I want solved. Justice for my man Albert!
This is a really great movie for managing to weave all these plot threads around a central theme. If you think about it Turbo is the inverse to Ralph. Turbo was a "hero" in his game but couldn't stand when he lost the spotlight. He left his game, destryed two games with no regard for the others in those games, found Sugar Rush and took it over to be the "hero" again. He ultimately falls due to being unable to let go of what he thought he had to be. Of course we don't talk about the sequel movie which took all this development for the character and chucked in the bin to make room for internet culture memes years out of date and Disney basically patting themselves on the back for their previous creations. Seriously, if you watch the sequel go in with the lowest expectations possible. You might get a bump or two of enjoyment then. If you go in with high hopes you will likely be very dissapointed.
This movie is still so good. And man. King Candy is so well done. Like. You know he is probably bad. But then they crank it up with the turbo reveal that like. EXPLAINS the bad things. So much! Without needing to monologue! AND THEN HE BECOMES THE MONSTROSITY BUG EVEN. Also, one of the few Disney movies where they explicitely say "die" and "kill".
"Wreck-It Ralph": The Bad-Anon motto sums up the hero's journey of the characters: "I'm Bad and that's Good. I will never be Good and that's not Bad. There's no one I'd rather be than Me." I am much too old to have been part of the video game arcade culture. It was the story that drew me in, and continues to be a favorite Pixar film that I watch when a TH-cam viewer discovers it.
Man what a great movie so glad there wasn't a sequel. 😂 Also since the bugs become what they eat, on her wedding day she also had to gun down her husband.
This is why i love wreck it ralph imagine what your videogame avatars do when your not playing the game do they have their own live do think they even like the way you made them look?
Awesome, super excited to watch this tonight. I went for a drive through Northern Nevada this morning. It was gorgeous. It reminds me of you. How you mentioned in your car video. 😊
I saw this movie in theater 2 days after it came out and the theater was packed. At the end of the movie everybody clapped, it was the first that I went to a movie and everyone clapped. I was around 10 at the time.
10:35 they should have treated Ralph better, like it's not his fault he the wrecker bad guy of the game but it doesn't mean he a bad guy and he has every right to get angry when he treated horribly by people snobby people who think they are good when in reality they are the real bad ones
Very true. In the logic of the movie, Ralph is a good guy by heart, but his role as the "bad guy" is the same as someone acting the role of a villain in a live-action movie/series
This is another great review of a great movie, and once again, your critiques were on point! This might be a nit-pick for me storywise, but I was always bothered by Ralph getting the big "you messed up" speech from Gene, a.k.a. the same guy who criticized Ralph for being nothing more than the "bad guy" while literally slapping his cake figure down into the mud, essentially saying "That's where you belong, in the mud." Because of that, I never could get behind Gene being the one to rebuke Ralph for going turbo, at least without an apology, as you mentioned. Anyway, good review once again, and I hope we still have lots more to come!
This is a favorite around our household. And the sequel is too. And it makes me feel old having to explain our technology from my childhood to my children. Cant wait for you to see the next one! Ps: The reason he didnt like chocolate was because he had never had it (because no one ever throws it out so it never ends up in the dump for him). Which is also why hes never tried cake
It also may very well be because when the nicelanders made the cake at the beginning, his mud puddle was chocolate flavored, which could have been the first time he’d heard of it 🤷♀️
I love this movie, really is amazing. Love the world, the characters, so much love in this movie. I remember wanting to play Candy Crush so bad, I know that there was a flash game, but I wanted something like Mario Kart really.
21:48 - No one ever hears the similar voice of Turbo to King Candy during his backstory and the fact he was a racer. If you have ever seen Dodgeball, King Candy was voiced by the actor that plays Steve the pirate. He also is in a really good comedy horror movie if you want to watch it for October called Tucker & Dale vs. Evil.
I don't know if anyone said it but Vanellope is voiced by comic Sarah Silverman... and that's the way she sounds naturally ... Animated... (the movie sound team may have squeeked her up a little, but i doubt it was much)
not to mention the fact that he considered himself a king when Vanellope, who's the OG ruler, is only a princess. it's a detail but it's one more thing that shows how power hungry and egotistical he is
@@isurehopeitdoes ni kidding but hilariously turbo tried to resist the light from cola mountain but the cybug instincts kicked and were to strong and he couldn't fight it but if you think about it turbo was as ugly as a villain can get pale skin white jumpsuit yellow eyes and teeth that's not natural for a racer to look like that not to mention he's a corrupt racer and the idea falsely identifying himself as a character that wasn't ment to exist in a game that was not part of his programming it's clear all the key clues that king candy was turbo and was trying to save his own existence from disappearing altogether which was vain. Plus we don't know how long turbo was impersonating a king like how long has he been ruling sugar rush and tormenting vanelope it's like a long manipulation stripping a princess of her birth right and what she was programmed to do so in truth turbo is racer turned criminal its a wonder the surge protector officer didn't detect him and detain him he's a regular criminal turbo the creepy jerk.
@@isurehopeitdoes the program to disguise himself as king was a glitch in itself to hide himself and his existence was practically fading away so if he had an injury or anything he be done can't regenerate outside of your game that no longer is plugged in pretty much in a tight situation when you're out of place in a game where you don't belong or were programmed to belong at all in this turbo was the real glitch not vanelope he just twisted the truth to hide and keep his existence intact by pinning a false blame claim on vanelope that she was ment to exist .
Love the friendship between Ralph and venelope and the racing, the song like in that one of my fave scenes the montage of teaching venelope how to drive,the storyline plotline the twist at the end love it all.
Please start reacting to bluey. I promise it is worth it. I love your reactions more than anyone else, because you pick up on themes and character arcs, and SEE things that most reactors miss. keeping doing what you are doing, love your channel
Everyone should check out a video made by Randomalistic about how King Candy/Turbo is a GOATed villain. Made me appreciate this movie I already loved even more.
I literally just finished watching a 2 hour video essay on this movie, go to the home page to find something new to watch, and see this! Love your reactions 😄
My favorite Disney movie To this day I still found a new hidden cameo, reference or deeper meaning to something They went INSANE on this. No need for a sequel
To me, it's a movie based on ableism. Like when I was the first and only kid at my school had epilepsy, the kids not only made fun of me, but the teachers were scared of my seizures and kicked me out of their classes so I wouldn't cause problems.
Reminder that bugs mimic what they eat so it wasnt Turbo at the end but rather a cybug with his memories, personality, and aspects of his appearance Also, a bug ate Calhoun's fiance which means she had to kill a monster that stole her love's face. No wonder she's dealing with shit
I’ve seen the 2nd one a lot, but I can’t remember the last time I saw the first. Edit: just watched the first and I LOVED it!!! Honestly it feels like this and brave swapped studios.
The bad guy who ripped Cyril the Zombie's heart out is based on Kano from Mortal Kombat who does the heart ripping as his Fatalaty. He's credited as Cyborg as Warner Bros., who owns Netherrealm Studios, wouldn't let Disney use Kano directly.
I love video games but I’m glad the majority of the movie wasn’t dedicated to video game references. It gets those sight gags out of the way at the start and quickly moves on to the plot.
Disney films predominately adapt Fairy Tales; Pixar does more original What if scenerious (i.e what if toys were actually sentient, what if a rat was a better chef than most pros, etc) this is why i love classic disney stuff (Renaissance era and back) and am all over most Pixar properties. I see these two departments as separate entities because of their typical choice in subject matter
22:06 Omg the level of detail lol. In one of the frames you can see map 256, AKA the last level of pacman. On the right side of the screen when this glitches, it replicates the exact pac man level error bug!
The nostalgia that this movie brings to me is amazing because I remember going to arcades all the time and how you had to put a quarter on the game when you wanted to play next game and then nostalgia and all the old games. This was such a clever movie and Disney did so well with it. They were so creative. And good detail on calling out the double stripe when they fell into the nest quicksand
I remember watching this for the first time, it took me too many years to get round to watching it because I did not think i would like it. I was wrong!
Ralph wrecking Vanellope's kart will always be hard to watch for me. Her voice actress absolutely nailed it.
I didn't remember how impactful her screaming and crying was, I actually teared up at that scene watching this reaction
It invokes the same emotions as powder crying in episode 3 of Arcane just absolutely gut wrenching.
@@ShortThe1st Yes, definitely!! Very talented young voice actresses
Me too
Sarah Silverman is a grown woman (and was when she did this movie) who is most known for her R rated stand up comedy.@@Jimins__Pookie
"You hit a guy WITH glasses. That's funny."
I'll never forget it.
A simple joke but quite effective.
I love "he just glazed me.~" myself. Lol
I really like Felix's journey. First, he starts off as polite but distant to Ralph. Then, when he's arrested, he's calling him his friend and misses him.
fr they easily could have made us hate Felix going the stereotypical route were the hero’s actually obnoxious but i’m so glad they didn’t it makes all the characters feel real.
I also really think they came up with a genius video game. fix it felix was fun when it was made into a real game
@@jinxysaberk yeah instead they put all those obnoxious traits into that mf Gene
Ever since this movie came out, “No cuts, no buts, no coconuts” has become a common phrase in my house.
You too?
Same, my mom says it all the time
It was a normal phrase even before wreck it ralph in my house 😂
real...me too man i get you my family does the same thing
As it should
And this movie has THE best twist villain Disney's ever done (at least in modern Disney).
I think Zootopia is a contender, but Turbo here is amazing too. Also Alan Tudyk
He was honestly the best by miles. The twist villain trope has become so tired nowadays, yet this one still stands solid.
This and Ernesto De La Cruz from Coco.
Big agree! It's been foreshadowed so well but the reveal is still worth the surprise. Like, you KNOW King Candy is off and he is an antagonist, but the movie has enough plots that you may forget a detail or two on the first watch, but it all hits in retrospect.
It works so well because he was ALWAYS the villain regardless. Turbo’s character haunting the narrative from 6 minutes into the movie until the end means that the reveal is payoff!
Flawless voice acting performance, especially when Turbo has a very subtle lisp and when he’s King Candy he accentuates it! Stunning designs, good comedy, actually frightening and proves that a classic Disney villain CAN be recreated today!
I think I always tear up when Ralph is falling, repeating the mantra with sincerity for the first time, and clutching the medal Vanellope gave him. It is such an effective emotional payoff.
A small clarification: the bugs became what they ate. If in Hero's Duty they ate metal, their shells became metal too, and in Sugar Rush, they ate sweets and became much more vulnerable because of it. And the one which ate Turbo/King Candy, became a copy of him
It has always been an overlooked yet deeply terrifying aspect introduced by Wreck it Raph.
This is also another reason why Sergeant Calhoun's backstory is considered "the most tragic one ever" : The cybug ate her soon-to-be husband.
Following the same logic you explained as to what happened when one of those things ate King Candy, the cybug killed by Calhoun on her wedding day *took the likeliness of her deceased fiance* as she gunned it down.
Pretty much embodying the you are what you eat thing that basically is most of the Kirby games I mean I know there are some games where he doesn't like suck up enemies and then take their powers but...
Don't they eat the Jawbreakers which make them stronger, which is why they're harder to kill?
@@someslothcheese I mean maybe, but jawbreakers are still candy, which easily melt with heat.
@@spinningtornado4543 That really is something that was overlooked. I never thought about that. The bug that ate King Candy/Turbo became him, so following the same logic and script, obviously the bug that ate Calhoun's husband would also become him. Her backstory really is tragic, but they won't outright display something so tragic in a show directed towards children.
one thing I realized after watching this movie again is that it's hinted quite early that maybe King Candy is the one that doesn't belong in Sugar Rush. When Ralph is brought to see him while still in the giant cupcake, King Candy immediately recognizes who he is and also knows what "going turbo" means. Hero's Duty and Sugar Rush were both newer games plugged in around the same time, but Calhoun and Vanellope had no idea who Ralph was, and Calhoun didn't know what "going turbo meant," something only older game characters would know at the time
Not to mention he looks more cartoonish compared to Vanellope and the Sugar Rush Racers which have an Anime aesthetic look.
I will point out that Sugar Rush has been in the arcade for roughly 15 years (and was immediately taken over according to one of the creators), but yeah the racers still don't know much since I imagine King Candy keeps Sugar Rush relatively isolated
@@EChacon I figured he was more cartoonish, because he was an NPC character, not meant to be playable...like all the candy citizens
but Turbo hollowed out his code, and used him as a skin
it would explain why players didn't think something was off seeing this mysterious character not from any of the other consoles of the game, but thought it was normal
because he existed in the game prior to Turbo, but he wasn't playable...so the Litwack Sugar Rush would be considered a special one, with access to this special "King Candy player"
Another indication is that King Candy's throne room, and his car actually belong to Vanellope. _"I see you're a big fan of pink."_
@@djhutchison _"It’s Salmon.”_
I'd just like to clarify - pussywillows are an actual plant. My sisters and I would find them when we were kids. No one seems to know that 😂
Lol I feel lucky cuz I was the only one in my friends group who knew that. They all thought they just legit swore in a kids film. I'm like no, that's the legendary Shrek "swearing without swearing" technique. Like in Spy Kids when Carmen said "you're so full of Shit....take mushrooms"
The cybug that ate Calhoun's husband became him. She had to kill her husband on their wedding day. Also, I imagine that when Vanellope told Taffetta that she has Pixlexia, that was the game developer's intention. King Candy made the citizens think it was a glitch instead.
This comment should be on the top just for that Pixlexia explanation.
@@ultimaxkom8728 aw thanks.
I'd like to believe this, but I don't think it aligns with the fact that she can't leave the game 🤔... unless that's a symptom of Pixlexia lol. I think her "block" being detached from the rest of the code is what made her a glitch, so it being reconnected at the end should've prevented her from ever glitching again. Just an oversight or a concession on the part of the writers, unfortunately.
@joshuaholke well after her code was restored, she probably can leave the game. The sequel is awful, but it confirms that she can leave now.
I always thought the glitch, or Pixlexia, was due to King Candy deleting part of her file so she wasn't t the Princess anymore. But that does make sense too
Hm I think Ralph and Felix move different from the nice-landers because they have more complicated code and possibly models/pixel art.
Felix has to jump, Ralph has to climb and break the windows.
And for the sake of the movie, of course, they move more frames per second.
It makes so much sense !!
Yeah I thought this too! The nicelanders only need to move up and down and do limited animation cycles to throw Ralph off the building.
Fun fact: there were Flash games for Fix it Felix, Sugar Rush and Hero's Duty!
You can still find them in Flash game collections of people who saved them.
I remember playing them!
Fix it Felix is an actual arcade game. They have one at the museum of play.
@@tucker5274 the only thing I could find was the game that was only made for the movie and it's a flash game, not an arcade game
34:26 Felix's power is a gift and a curse😂
A nice little touch I just noticed is that at the start at the bad-anon meeting Ralph doesn't say the little self-affirming chant, then at the end he chants it. Having accepted that he is the bad guy of his game, but a good guy at heart.
Ngl I actually learned a lot about introspection and self reflection because of this movie. Just because some people may not like me doesn't mean I'm a bad person. And just because I accept myself that doesn't mean I deserve EVERYONES praise. The only people that matter are the people I love. And if they love me that's all I care about. But that all stems from me being able to love myself.
41:30 it's because of the association. Like, at the beginning of the film his figurine was placed in a chocolate puddle on a birthday cake, and now chocolate is associated with the dirt into which he is constantly thrown, with his life as a "bad guy" that he doesn't like. And in the end he accepted his role, and now he loves himself, and the chocolate, and the dirt near the penthouse.
As I saw recently in a lore video, there is a ton of foreshadowing. The throne room has a tiara motif, but the coins have a king's crown that matches King Candy. the second part means the whole pay-to-win coins scheme was created by King Candy, likely to keep Vanellope locked out of racing.
Not to mention his love for wordplay. Turbo and King Candy (at least from what we did see of Turbo) they like making new words or combining other words to be silly
One thing that I never see anyone remark on is that when the other racers are breaking Vanellope's car, Ralph doesn't intervene until she gets pushed into the mud, and he sees that she's being treated in her game exactly the way he's being treated in his.
I appreciate that the characters from the more simplistic retro games like Ralph have a more limited viewpoint of what makes a hero vs a villain. It makes Ralph's starting point in the story believable, because his game is quite literally just "fix the broken stuff, win the medal, you won".
43:56 "how ba-a-a-ad can I be? I'm just doing what comes naturally.." - the Once-ler
I sang this song in my head, too!
Fun fact, Ralph hates/hated chocolate because it reminds(reminded) him of the mud he’s always thrown into after every game
i am obsessed with the turbo storyline he’s genuinely the best modern villain disney has made cuz of all the subtle foreshadowing
but we do NOT talk about the 2nd movie that thing fumbled the bag
Have you seen Randomalistic's video on him? It's pretty new but sooooo damn good
I thought the second was good.
I think the second one gets way too much hate
Unfortunately the undoing of Ralph's entire character arc in the second makes it unwatchable for me. He goes from understanding his place in life to being even more desperate and needy than he was trying to get that medal, over someone who's already established trust with him. Just feels like there was someone who really didn't like Ralph in the writers room for the second one.
@reaper6047 I really don't think that happened at all. Just because someone learns something it doesn't mean they don't make other mistakes. Him being so clingy is actually very realistic and happens to a lot of people. That didn't undo his character arc from before. He was still Ralph, who has always been insecure and that didn't change in the first movie entirely
"If that little kid loves me, how bad can I be ?" Hell it hits
Pretty bad if you know...
@@VexNovaYT ?
@@DemonicYami7449 It's a pedo joke.
The king's reveal at the end really shocked me as a kid as well😂
the way you kept making fun of the way king candy laughed was so funny😭🫶
What's kinda interesting is that Ralph says at the party he's never had cake and it's only after he hears that his mud section is chocolate flavored that he decides he doesn't like chocolate--mirroring how he doesn't like how he's treated by being yeeted off the building every day. It was never about the chocolate, if the mud had been any other flavor he probably would have changed his dislike to that. I love that the writers chose to include that detail so you can follow Ralph's character growth just by such a simple sentiment.
the movie just starts
"It's like an AA meeting!"
funny you should say that...
and FYI, years ago when I started my stage acting career, I was chosen to play the bad guy in most of those productions... and you could say that I had my "Wreck-It Ralph" moment, years before the movie came out. I really related to it in that sense, and in the last few years of that career, I played more comical roles while younger actors started taking the heavy rolls.
I love this movie!!! Even Felix’s character development… When he is talking about/with Ralph… He went from colleague (11:52), to friend (29:43), to brother (42:59)
Subtle, but it’s there… 🥰
The fact that so many people skipped the cart destroying scene is a testament to how raw it is, I didnt even want to watch it.
39:47 that face is what I loved the most👀. that Turbo-bug is a worthy final final boss🤯
I have never clicked on a notification faster!
Vanellope's Code was restored after passing over the finish line, but, she chose not to restore defaults and instead, keep the thing that she was told defined her as evil and bad. She "loaded her previous save state", and has overwritten her Save File.
So now she is the Glitchy Version, and she couldn't imagine life without this cool power. She's a Glitch and that's all she'll ever be...
I thought it was never actually a glitch, it was always meant as her racer's gimmick/special ability. Explaining why it didn't go away. Turbo just created the narrative that it was a glitch and something to be feared. That's what I've heard anyway.
It's not a cybug, it's a feature... and it's called Pixlexia. Turbo just weave it as a glitch. At least that's what I read from one speculative comment.
I don't think the idea of King Candy coming up with the glitch narrative as a cover works with the fact that she couldn't leave the game - I think her "block" being detached from the code really just made her a "glitch."
If the "overwritten her Save File" idea is the right interpretation, I wish the movie would've made that clear. As it's presented, it looks like she just somehow keeps the glitching abilities despite no longer being a glitch.
I'm glad someone said it @@RedCaio
"He's so clumsy" *immediately runs into a wall* LOL I loved this movie! Great reaction (I'm still abooout 10 minutes into it too :P)
I think one of the cool facts of this movie is that I heard they originally wanted to make it about mario and donkey kong, but nintendo said no, so they chose a different prexisting game, Fix it Felix.
The coolest part about that is the original Donkey Kong game was actually originally supposed to use the cartoon character Popeye, so they created the character of jumpman and donkey kong.
So in a way, the Disney animated character of fix it Felix is the copyright grandson of Popeye the sailor, through Jumpman, or Mario, as we call him now.
Actually a great fun fact.
@@ultimaxkom8728 thanks
Fix it Felix was actually made up for this movie, but Disney made some real arcade cabinets as part of its marketing. They are definitely meant to parody Mario and Donkey Kong tho so the rest is accurate :)
AWESOME! I've been waiting for this for MONTHS! Exactly what I need to unwind from work
This movie is even more fun for my generation that played these retro games. Nostalgia
I wish that Disney would make more movies like Wreck It Ralph. It's just phenomenal. 😊
Too bad the movie never got a sequel honestly!
It did it was Ralph Breaks the Internet but that movie has problems.
@@jarekvelchek802 there is no sequel in Ba Sing Se
@@PanGuy_ good one
@@jarekvelchek802as Ranier Wolfcastle once wisely observed, "That's the joke."
Yessss
I love this movie and I'm so glad more people are appreciating it these days.
Felix and Calhoun's little story bring me so much joy.
"Racing is in my code!" Man, I love this movie
Sergeant Calhoun: another animated character on my list of bisexual awakenings as a kid
Lol me too
you're truly comfort incarnate, every upload is such a cozy break from real life 💕
I totally forget that Bowser, Sonic characters and a few other characters make cameos in this. I wonder how they got permission to use them. Sonic makes sense, but Bowser from Nintendo is hard to believe
The thing is, nobody would even ask Nintendo permission, it is not their business. Who told you those are those characters? None of them was explicitly named, except one: Zangiev, who is actually a real person, not dumb shit IP.
Nintendo contacted the filmmakers themselves to instruct them on how Bowser holds his cup of tea (I'm not joking, look this up).
I remember when it came out, it was a copyright nightmare. One particularly funny demand by Sega was that Eggman must have equal screentime with Bowser.
@@yaroslavpanych2067 what kinda argument is that? they are clearly the characters. eggman, bowser, M. Bison, Kano, etc. they are all recognizeable characters with an IP. and mario was literally stated to exist in universe, but it looks like he was not allowed to really show up due to legal reasons.
eggman shows up again in the credits, i believe. zangief is from street fighter, and so is M. Bison.
what is your argument that is against the "dumb shit" ip characters?
There's a screenshot of the bad-anon meeting from before the movie came out that has Dr. Wily in the meeting where a generic ninja is in the final version. _That's_ the real mystery I want solved. Justice for my man Albert!
This is a really great movie for managing to weave all these plot threads around a central theme. If you think about it Turbo is the inverse to Ralph. Turbo was a "hero" in his game but couldn't stand when he lost the spotlight. He left his game, destryed two games with no regard for the others in those games, found Sugar Rush and took it over to be the "hero" again. He ultimately falls due to being unable to let go of what he thought he had to be.
Of course we don't talk about the sequel movie which took all this development for the character and chucked in the bin to make room for internet culture memes years out of date and Disney basically patting themselves on the back for their previous creations. Seriously, if you watch the sequel go in with the lowest expectations possible. You might get a bump or two of enjoyment then. If you go in with high hopes you will likely be very dissapointed.
This movie is still so good. And man. King Candy is so well done. Like. You know he is probably bad. But then they crank it up with the turbo reveal that like. EXPLAINS the bad things. So much! Without needing to monologue!
AND THEN HE BECOMES THE MONSTROSITY BUG EVEN.
Also, one of the few Disney movies where they explicitely say "die" and "kill".
42:17 love your reaction to that 😂your laugh love it
Your face when Turbo becomes the alien monster was so funny hahahahahah
"Wreck-It Ralph": The Bad-Anon motto sums up the hero's journey of the characters: "I'm Bad and that's Good. I will never be Good and that's not Bad. There's no one I'd rather be than Me." I am much too old to have been part of the video game arcade culture. It was the story that drew me in, and continues to be a favorite Pixar film that I watch when a TH-cam viewer discovers it.
I love Alan Tudyk as King Candy, he is always great
41:28 in the beginning Ralph says that he's not a fan of chocolate regarding the cake. Here's why there's this line!
Man what a great movie so glad there wasn't a sequel. 😂
Also since the bugs become what they eat, on her wedding day she also had to gun down her husband.
This is why i love wreck it ralph imagine what your videogame avatars do when your not playing the game do they have their own live do think they even like the way you made them look?
If it wasn’t for Ralph there would be nothing to fix. Even the good guys should be thankful.
Awesome, super excited to watch this tonight. I went for a drive through Northern Nevada this morning. It was gorgeous. It reminds me of you. How you mentioned in your car video. 😊
She still glitches because that’s her special power. She is supposed to glitch
I saw this movie in theater 2 days after it came out and the theater was packed. At the end of the movie everybody clapped, it was the first that I went to a movie and everyone clapped. I was around 10 at the time.
Thank you so much for reacting to this! I'm going to watch the entire video right now!
Felix and Calhoun relationship reminds me to Krillin with Android 18, you know like... little guy, blonde girl 😅
10:35 they should have treated Ralph better, like it's not his fault he the wrecker bad guy of the game but it doesn't mean he a bad guy and he has every right to get angry when he treated horribly by people snobby people who think they are good when in reality they are the real bad ones
Very true. In the logic of the movie, Ralph is a good guy by heart, but his role as the "bad guy" is the same as someone acting the role of a villain in a live-action movie/series
"Whether it has as much heart as the other Pixar films..."
"Oh sweetheart ..."
One of my favorite things about this movie is how the main characters are all modeled after their voice actors.
This is another great review of a great movie, and once again, your critiques were on point!
This might be a nit-pick for me storywise, but I was always bothered by Ralph getting the big "you messed up" speech from Gene, a.k.a. the same guy who criticized Ralph for being nothing more than the "bad guy" while literally slapping his cake figure down into the mud, essentially saying "That's where you belong, in the mud." Because of that, I never could get behind Gene being the one to rebuke Ralph for going turbo, at least without an apology, as you mentioned.
Anyway, good review once again, and I hope we still have lots more to come!
This is a favorite around our household. And the sequel is too. And it makes me feel old having to explain our technology from my childhood to my children. Cant wait for you to see the next one!
Ps: The reason he didnt like chocolate was because he had never had it (because no one ever throws it out so it never ends up in the dump for him). Which is also why hes never tried cake
It also may very well be because when the nicelanders made the cake at the beginning, his mud puddle was chocolate flavored, which could have been the first time he’d heard of it 🤷♀️
I love this movie, really is amazing. Love the world, the characters, so much love in this movie. I remember wanting to play Candy Crush so bad, I know that there was a flash game, but I wanted something like Mario Kart really.
21:48 - No one ever hears the similar voice of Turbo to King Candy during his backstory and the fact he was a racer. If you have ever seen Dodgeball, King Candy was voiced by the actor that plays Steve the pirate. He also is in a really good comedy horror movie if you want to watch it for October called Tucker & Dale vs. Evil.
I don't know if anyone said it but Vanellope is voiced by comic Sarah Silverman...
and that's the way she sounds naturally ... Animated...
(the movie sound team may have squeeked her up a little, but i doubt it was much)
What's also criminal is that turbo impersonated a king in sugar rush under the false identity as king candy that's just vile and disturbing.
vile
@@literatemax thanks for the correction 👍🙂
not to mention the fact that he considered himself a king when Vanellope, who's the OG ruler, is only a princess. it's a detail but it's one more thing that shows how power hungry and egotistical he is
@@isurehopeitdoes ni kidding but hilariously turbo tried to resist the light from cola mountain but the cybug instincts kicked and were to strong and he couldn't fight it but if you think about it turbo was as ugly as a villain can get pale skin white jumpsuit yellow eyes and teeth that's not natural for a racer to look like that not to mention he's a corrupt racer and the idea falsely identifying himself as a character that wasn't ment to exist in a game that was not part of his programming it's clear all the key clues that king candy was turbo and was trying to save his own existence from disappearing altogether which was vain.
Plus we don't know how long turbo was impersonating a king like how long has he been ruling sugar rush and tormenting vanelope it's like a long manipulation stripping a princess of her birth right and what she was programmed to do so in truth turbo is racer turned criminal its a wonder the surge protector officer didn't detect him and detain him he's a regular criminal turbo the creepy jerk.
@@isurehopeitdoes the program to disguise himself as king was a glitch in itself to hide himself and his existence was practically fading away so if he had an injury or anything he be done can't regenerate outside of your game that no longer is plugged in pretty much in a tight situation when you're out of place in a game where you don't belong or were programmed to belong at all in this turbo was the real glitch not vanelope he just twisted the truth to hide and keep his existence intact by pinning a false blame claim on vanelope that she was ment to exist .
Man, I've been seeing a lot of Wreck-it Ralph reactions lately.
same, they're fun to watch
Same
Love the friendship between Ralph and venelope and the racing, the song like in that one of my fave scenes the montage of teaching venelope how to drive,the storyline plotline the twist at the end love it all.
One of my favorites disney movies EvER!
Please start reacting to bluey. I promise it is worth it. I love your reactions more than anyone else, because you pick up on themes and character arcs, and SEE things that most reactors miss. keeping doing what you are doing, love your channel
Everyone should check out a video made by Randomalistic about how King Candy/Turbo is a GOATed villain.
Made me appreciate this movie I already loved even more.
Amazing you're watching this one... Keep the good job, greetings from Venezuela
I literally just finished watching a 2 hour video essay on this movie, go to the home page to find something new to watch, and see this! Love your reactions 😄
The secret code the King used is not just any secret code, it's THE secret code, called the Konami code
39:48 that expression is pure. Everyone had that during the reveal of that form
My favorite Disney movie
To this day I still found a new hidden cameo, reference or deeper meaning to something
They went INSANE on this.
No need for a sequel
a very underrated film of modern times...
Wreck-It Ralph was Disney's love letter to video games.
To me, it's a movie based on ableism. Like when I was the first and only kid at my school had epilepsy, the kids not only made fun of me, but the teachers were scared of my seizures and kicked me out of their classes so I wouldn't cause problems.
39:49 The face 🤣🤣
Reminder that bugs mimic what they eat so it wasnt Turbo at the end but rather a cybug with his memories, personality, and aspects of his appearance
Also, a bug ate Calhoun's fiance which means she had to kill a monster that stole her love's face. No wonder she's dealing with shit
I’ve seen the 2nd one a lot, but I can’t remember the last time I saw the first.
Edit: just watched the first and I LOVED it!!! Honestly it feels like this and brave swapped studios.
Suggestions: Fox and the Hound and Rescuers Down Under
🎉🎉 Greetings from Flensburg/Germany 🇩🇪🇩🇪 vielen lieben Dank das Du den Film endlich angesehen hast 😘. Ich liebe Deine Reaktionen
I love this movie
The bad guy who ripped Cyril the Zombie's heart out is based on Kano from Mortal Kombat who does the heart ripping as his Fatalaty. He's credited as Cyborg as Warner Bros., who owns Netherrealm Studios, wouldn't let Disney use Kano directly.
19:22 usually in shows, movies and dramas the cops are incompetent as well as any other high authorities
Sorry but 5:23 "just like Monica!". Lmao i love this reference!!!
I love video games but I’m glad the majority of the movie wasn’t dedicated to video game references. It gets those sight gags out of the way at the start and quickly moves on to the plot.
40:35 love this scene
Let's goo Wreck it Ralph! Been waiting for this one, can't wait! Thanks for the reaction
Disney films predominately adapt Fairy Tales; Pixar does more original What if scenerious (i.e what if toys were actually sentient, what if a rat was a better chef than most pros, etc)
this is why i love classic disney stuff (Renaissance era and back) and am all over most Pixar properties. I see these two departments as separate entities because of their typical choice in subject matter
Perfect breakdown at the end... you really nailed it!
your first reaction to king Candy is so funny 😂
This was my comfort film for so long! Used to put it on for background noise on repeat for a long time.
36:13 true it reminded me of mario cart as well like the different themed destinations the power ups you get from the floating magical cubes
22:06 Omg the level of detail lol. In one of the frames you can see map 256, AKA the last level of pacman. On the right side of the screen when this glitches, it replicates the exact pac man level error bug!
When I was a kid I never really understood the deep meaning in this movie. And now that I’m older, wow this hits
The nostalgia that this movie brings to me is amazing because I remember going to arcades all the time and how you had to put a quarter on the game when you wanted to play next game and then nostalgia and all the old games. This was such a clever movie and Disney did so well with it. They were so creative.
And good detail on calling out the double stripe when they fell into the nest quicksand
You're my favorite reactor. Your reactions are so thoughtful and generally wholesome. Thanks for everything you do!
I remember watching this for the first time, it took me too many years to get round to watching it because I did not think i would like it. I was wrong!
Fav disney animated movie
Good choice! :D