Taglines: The story of a regular guy just looking for a little wreck-ognition.
When Litwak’s Family Fun Center & Arcade closes at night, the various video game characters leave their normal in-game roles and socialize in a power strip. Wreck-It Ralph, the antagonist of the game Fix-It Felix Jr., is ostracized by its other characters for being the game’s villain, while the titular hero Felix is praised and awarded medals.
After the game’s inhabitants exclude Ralph from their thirtieth anniversary party, he sets out to earn a medal for himself to gain his neighbors’ respect. Felix worries that Ralph has “gone Turbo” – a term coined when notorious racing game character Turbo attempted to take over RoadBlasters, another racing game, which resulted in both of their games being unplugged.
Ralph learns he can obtain a medal from the first-person shooter, Hero’s Duty. After disrupting a game session, Ralph scales the game’s central beacon and obtains a medal, only to hatch a Cy-Bug, a dangerous monster. Ralph and the Cy-Bug stumble into an escape pod, which is launched out of the game, and crash land in Sugar Rush, a candy-themed kart racing game. With Ralph missing, his game is labelled as malfunctioning and faces being unplugged. Felix ventures to Hero’s Duty and allies with the game’s heroine, Sergeant Calhoun, to retrieve Ralph and the Cy-Bug.
A little girl, Vanellope von Schweetz, steals Ralph’s medal to buy her way into the nightly race that determines which characters are playable the next day, but King Candy, the ruler of Sugar Rush, forbids her from racing because she has glitches that cause her to teleport erratically. Ralph and Vanellope agree to work together to retrieve his medal and help her win a race.
They build a kart and hide out at Diet Cola Mountain, an unfinished race track, where Ralph teaches her to drive. King Candy hacks the game’s code to obtain Ralph’s medal, and offers it to Ralph in exchange for preventing Vanellope from racing. He claims that if Vanellope wins and becomes playable, her glitches will lead to Sugar Rush being unplugged; unable to leave the game because of her glitch, Vanellope will be left to die while King Candy and his subjects become homeless in the arcade.
Ralph, foolishly believing King Candy, reluctantly agrees and destroys Vanellope’s kart. Heartbroken, she declares he “really is a bad guy” and runs off distraught. Upon returning to his game, which has been evacuated in anticipation of it being unplugged the next morning, Ralph notices Vanellope’s image on the side of the Sugar Rush cabinet and realizes she was meant to be a playable character until King Candy had apparently disconnected her code to render her a glitch, and erased all of the other characters’ memories of her, resulting in her becoming a hated outcast.
Wreck It Ralph (2012)
Directed by: Rich Moore
Starring: John C. Reilly, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Alan Tudyk, Sarah Silverman, Mindy Kaling, Joe Lo Truglio, Dennis Haysbert, Jess Harnell, Rachael Harris, Skylar Astin, Adam Carolla
Screenplay by: Phil Johnston, Jennifer Lee
Production Design by: Mike Gabriel
Cinematography by: Rob Dressel
Film Editing by: Tim Mertens
Art Direction by: Ian Gooding
Music by: Henry Jackman
MPAA Rating: PG for some rude humor and mild action / violence.
Distributed by: Walt Disney Pictures
Release Date: November 2, 2012
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