Perhaps I shouldn’t be too shocked by this project’s quality, given that Moore and Johnston also collaborated on Wreck-It Ralph and Zootopia, two similarly impressive feats of world building. Amazingly enough, the result is a witty, visually inventive, and fittingly sober story about the perils of the internet, told through the eyes of a video-game avatar with unusually large forearms. But Rich Moore and Phil Johnston’s follow-up movie, Ralph Breaks the Internet, somehow manages to wring a coherent narrative from a sequel premise as flimsy as The local arcade from Wreck-It Ralph gets a wi-fi router. That might seem like a tricky idea for a children’s film after all, the internet is a wild place, a rolling boil of discourse, content, and (possibly inaccurate) information. And now the sequel to 2012’s arcade-cabinet odyssey Wreck-It Ralph brings to life the most terrifying landscape of all: the internet. Inside Out explored the inner workings of a preteen girl’s brain. Cocoquested through the land of the dead. Zootopiapondered the effectiveness of the police state. These days, it seems Disney (and its partner Pixar) prefers instead to plumb the depths of worlds and systems that can be challenging or horrifying to comprehend.
A morality play like Pinocchio or a fairy tale like The Little Mermaid would become a colorful, song-filled hero’s journey, one in which lessons are learned, fun is had, and tears are shed.
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In the past, the magic of a good animated Disney movie lay in how it could spin a simple fable into a rich, textured piece of art.
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