Wreck-It Ralph is a ton of fun.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 24, 2022

Fizzy, colourful and intricately plotted, this 2012 pop meta-fiction from The Simpsons' Rich Moore does for vintage arcade games what Who Framed Roger Rabbit did for the Golden Age of Animation.

| Oct 19, 2018

Wreck-It Ralph is a must-see for anyone who grew up playing 1980s arcade games - and their kids will love it too.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2017

Wreck-It Ralph is one of those rare movies that's fun for a revisit yet is peppered with enough hidden references to make the rewatch worthwhile. After a second viewing this weekend, I still walked away impressed.

| May 10, 2016

The prospect of inevitable sequels is more than bearable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 17, 2013

The film is nicely animated but confusing enough to be almost impenetrable at times.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 8, 2013

I found the idea of teens laying down their coins to play arcade games in this present day a strange, semi-intentional archaism - nostalgic wish-fulfilment on the part of the middle-aged people creating the movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 7, 2013

Play an actual videogame instead.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 7, 2013

The chubby 3D animation, smart-alecky product placement and potty humour all capped my enthusiasm about halfway to total delight.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2013

Disney's found a lot to play with here, but you may find yourself itching to take the controls.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2013

A Who Framed Roger Rabbit for the joystick generation that, despite a mid-act dip into generic Disney territory, high-scores on laughs, invention and 8-bit affection.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 4, 2013

You'll either love it or you'll admire it, while wishing it would calm down and, I don't know, maybe pick up a book for a while.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 7, 2013

It's a cool game, to be sure, but watching someone else play it gets old after a while.

| Jan 7, 2013

The world created in the movie is so utterly fascinating that I desperately want to see what other kind of amazing, creative tales can be told within it.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 11, 2012

A manic children's film about the souls of video game avatars.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 5, 2012

A lot of kids are going to grow up with hopes of working in the game industry, and I mean *inside* the game industry.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 2, 2012

Unlike the Pixar films toward which it aspires-which marry sophisticated conceits to straightforward storylines-Wreck-It Ralph consistently gets lost in its own intricate plot mechanics.

| Nov 2, 2012

The movie's subversive sensibility and old-school/new-school feel are a total kick.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 2, 2012

It's impossible not to feel a strong sense of nostalgic amusement, if not sheer delight, at the comings and goings of all these characters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 2, 2012

It's fun for awhile, but it's not a video game you'll come back to once you set down the controller.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 2, 2012