Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Me that Wreck-It Ralph Was Roger Rabbit With Video Games?

It’s not, it’s Tron starring the cast of Monsters, Inc.

I don’t consider that a bad thing.

Otherwise known as the best Street Fighter movie we’re ever going to get…

This has the potential to be extremely awesome, or extremely horrible. I’m hoping it’s the first. I wonder why, though, I haven’t heard of this movie yet? Disney’s marketing team is normally more proactive about this sort of thing.

It is still a ways out.  The movie won’t be out until November and this trailer won’t go up on screens for a couple weeks – in front of Brave.  Six months ahead is about right. Look at something super high profile with tons of buzz like….Prometheus for example.  That initial trailer came out end of December which would have been about 6 month ago.  

Disney animation has had a great track record so far so I’m not too worried (Tangled, Meet the Robinsons, Chicken Little, Bolt) plus ever since the merger Lassiter has been in charge of all animated films and has never really let us down (except cars 2, we should all forget about cars 2)

I saw the trailer for this today and my first reaction was Zangief isn’t a villain. If they’ve messed up a pretty key plot point in the first trailer, colour me skeptical.

I’m actually really looking forward to this. Sorta like a dream come true.Its two of my favorite things together, Disney and Video games! I would’ve gone absolutely nuts over this idea as a kid. You really wouldn’t believe how much I squealed when I saw Bowser on screen. That just made my day.

Yeah. Zangief is a lovable, boisterous Russian wrestler with a lot of pride in his country and a propensity for wrestling bears. He’s neutral, not a villain.

Looks to me more like the Toy Story of video games.

True, but he’s generally seen as a bad guy – remember, SF2 came out when American generally saw the Soviet Union as the enemy.  It’s unfortunate, really.  (Oh, and yeah, he was considered the ‘bad guy’ in the Van Damme SF movie too.  Oy, what a horrible movie…)

I am predisposed to love this movie. however, I worry that many of the jokes may go over the heads of many young kids – especially kids outside the US who do not have Arcades or the same longtime involvement with many of these games. My kids will recognise characters from Mario and maybe Pacman, but little else. And certainly not the more violent “grown-up” games. Wreck-It Ralph is totally unknown.
So the question is – will grown-up gamers love this movie more than kids…?

Haha you know what? As soon as I saw this trailer (on another site, mind), I thought “The Mary Sue is totally gonna call Jane Lynch ‘Femshep.’”

Eeeesh. I mean, I liked Bolt and Tangled, but you got Chicken Little in there? That was abominable. Granted, it was their first CG feature, and things have only gone uphill since then.

He’s like Ivan Drago: not essentially evil, but an antagonist nonetheless. 

I don’t think kids need to get the reference to, say, Qbert to find it funny. “Look, the little thing with the long nose is making silly sounds!” 

I see this being a hit only because people will go to see how many game characters they can find

 Probably, but when there are too many things dependent on understanding the premise, even kids tend to lose interest. I noticed that with Cars – kids outside the US had no idea what Nascar is, didn’t understand what a sponsor is etc. They failed to understand what much of the arc was about…

I was about to say this. Tangled was fantastic. It seems odd that a feminist blog would be down on a cartoon about performing gender.

HTTYD was also amazing. Maybe it was just that year.

My first thought was, “Did Disney buy ALL these properties!?” 

my co-worker’s sister got paid $21912 the previous week. she gets paid on the internet and got a $416800 house. All she did was get fortunate and put into action the steps given on this link

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The only time I ever get to go to the movies is if I can sell it to my kid (that’s how I got to watch the Avengers). I am SO going to start showing this to him. He’ll recognize many of the characters–yeah, we do the retro-gaming at home.

it really looks like this short movie done 5 years ago, in 2006/2007 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biX5iSBaCKo

disturbing don’t you think ?

Not directly related to the video itself but man – I’ll be honest, some of my favorite CG animated films aren’t Pixar. Albeit, Pixar is probably the most -consistent- in producing mediocre to very good product but to this day, How to Train Your Dragon and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs remain some of my favorites. Disney is definitely, however, Love it or Leave it. I honestly chalk up the success of Tangled to the fact that it was a Princess story and that’s essentially what they -do-.

But hey! This looks cool!

 Finally!  Femshep being used in promotional material!

Honestly, I don’t particularly care if this goes over the heads of children, considering that I despise the notion that animation is only for kids. I’m just really intrigued about the usage of all the awesome video game characters :)

You’re misinformed. Zangief does not oppose any of the protagonists of Street Fighter in any meaningful way, like Ivan Drago does in Rocky (especially since you are able to play as Zangief in Arcade mode, making him the protagonist in that case). He is a neutral character designed to provide comic relief.

The antagonists of Street Fighter II (the most well-known version of Street Fighter and the one this movie is most likely referencing) are Balrog, Vega, Sagat, and M. Bison.

Seen as a bad guy and being a bad guy are two different things. People who don’t know much about Street Fighter’s story-line might have that misconception, but it doesn’t make it true. Zangief is not a bad guy. He’s neutral. The true bad guy of Street Fighter is sitting right next to Zangief; M. Bison.

 I didn’t get most of the references (actually, until your comment I figured they had made up the Wreck-It Ralph game as, I dunno, a way to avoid getting in trouble with the property owners). I think the only ones I recognized were probably the Pac-man ghost and Q-bert. But I totally wanted to see the movie anyway, and still do. The themes, character relationships, etc. are all going to be created by Disney and so there’s no outside knowledge in that regard that is needed to understand what’s going on.

Knowing what a speak-and-spell is, or having owned a Mr Potato Head, wasn’t at all necessary to enjoy Toy Story, after all.

Seeing how the story is about Wreck-it Ralph and not the Street Fighter series, no “key plot point” was messed up, and supposedly the production team worked closely with the respective game companies so Capcom probably sees Zanqief as an antagonist aka “Bad Guy”.