Wreck-It Ralph… yawn.

Took the Not So Small Child to see Wreck-It Ralph this afternoon.   It’s holidays and there’s plenty of fodder out for the kids so we tend to see a lot of movies at this time of year.  It’s just a bonus that we get to hide in the air con for a few hours too.

The trailer for this movie looked both fun and funny.  The premise of the story promised to be unusual and creative too.  The animation looked like it would be an interesting blend of 80s retro cool and top of the line digital animation and the voice cast sounded pretty solid too.  So what went wrong?  Cos quite frankly I thought this movie sucked arse.

Basically we’ve got Wreck-it Ralph (voiced by John C. Reilly) who’s suffering from situation depression due to his role as a ‘bad guy’ in his video game. Ralph then goes rogue, or in game parlance ‘goes turbo’, and decides he wants to be more accepted by the ‘good guys’ in his game by winning a medal to make him as popular as his game’s hero, Fix-it Felix (voiced by geeky and annoying, Jack McBrayer).

So Ralph goes off running amok in other games in hunt of validation in the form of some heroic medal, and starts off in Hero’s Duty where he’s thrown in the deep end of a modern first person shooter game and is way out of his element.  His guide here is a very sexy steel capped breastplate, ball bustin’, drill sergeant type called Calhoun (voiced by the fabulous, Jayne Lynch).  After finding the much coveted gold medal everything goes phenomenally pear shaped when he finds himself ejected from Hero’s Duty and into a sweet and puffy racing game called Sugar Rush.

Here he meets a very annoying, but I’m told ‘strangely attractive and arousing’ (don’t ask I wont reveal my sources), little kid who looks straight out of Despicable Me called Vanellope (voiced by the usually very saucy, Sarah Silverman which probably explains the strange comment from a friend who found her ‘attractive’ on some level).  Anyway, Vanellope steals his medal to buy her way into some race game and…. well any more than that I have no idea, because I pretty much fell asleep at this point.

I imagine that the story probably ended up in typical Disney fashion, with Ralph back in his game and enjoying a new found respect and admiration from his ‘colleagues’ in Wreck-It Ralph.  Order restored and all is well with the world… blah, blah, blah.  Apparently there was an interesting little back story with Vanellope and the dude that was in control of Candy Rush Land, but the whole thing escaped me because I was napping.

Basically I felt this movie was trite, boring and so predictable as to be unwatchable and fail to watch it I did.  Bit sad really, seeing the trailer showed quite a bit of novelty and promise… or maybe I’m just altogether too hard to please!