'Wreck-It Ralph' Review

Matt Singer — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:22:04 +0000

Movies allow us to experience life through another person's eyes. Video games allow us to experience life through another person's eyes -- and to control their decisions. We spend hours upon hours with these video game characters, until we feel like we know them; Mario, Sonic, Pac-Man, their adventures are so memorable, and their personalities so vivid that they almost seem alive. But of course their adventures and their personalities are all predetermined by programming, and they remain forever trapped by their unbreakable directives. If these characters weren't just a series of electronic impulses and computer code, it would be a tragic existence.

That, essentially, is the premise of 'Wreck-It Ralph,' a manic children's film about the souls of video game avatars. Made by Disney, it greatly resembles the premise of Disney's (and Pixar's) modern classic 'Toy Story,' in which toys are revealed to have lives and thoughts of their own when no one's around to play with them. Here we learn that when a suburban arcade shuts down for the night, the characters inside all the games cross over into each other's universes to socialize.

Not that there's anything wrong with that

slick — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:23:14 +0000

Funnyman Will Ferrell surprised Lakers fans -- not to mention friend John C. Reilly -- when he planted a kiss on his 'Step Brothers' co-star during last night's semi-final game against the Dallas Mavericks.

What prompted the man-on-man kiss? The Kiss Cam, of course.

Check out a larger photo of the lip-locked duo after the jump.

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'Wreck-It Ralph' Review

Not that there's anything wrong with that