Wreck-it-Ralph 2's plot is not looking good. (Possible spoilers)

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Officially its called "Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2" and its coming November of next year and this is the synopsis I found in Wikipedia:

"Taking place six years following the events of the first film,[3] the story will center on Ralph's adventures in the Internet data space when a Wi-Fi router gets plugged into the arcade as he must find a replacement part to fix Sugar Rush. Along the way, Ralph and his best friend Vanellope von Schweetz encounter new customs, worlds, and characters, such as the trendy algorithm Yesss and even the Disney Princesses."

Yes Disney Princesses, and furthur reading also not only Disney Princesses, but Star Wars charcaters such as C-3PO and Princess Leia, and Marvel chararcters such as Iron Man and Gamora are also there.

But do you see the problem here? WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH VIDEO GAMES?!, this isn't Video Games this is just one big Disney Circle Jerk.

I remember they were gonna make a movie that will tackle console games, specifically the NES or SNES days and the rivalry with Sega? But nope lets have this premise of the internet and shoehorn in all these cameos that have nothing to do with Video Games.

Also the idea of seeing the classical Disney Princesses like Snow White and Ariel in 3D CGI is gonna feel SO weird. Especially giving them realistic skin and hair.

 

[Hawki]

Sounds more like a Kingdom Hearts movie at this point.

Come to think of it, if Ralph does appear in KH, is that so meta it breaks the meta? 0_0

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Sounds more like a Kingdom Hearts movie at this point.

Come to think of it, if Ralph does appear in KH, is that so meta it breaks the meta? 0_0

Its not a Kingdom Hearts movie if it does not have Final Fantasy charcaters and the obligatory Sephiroth boss fight.

 

[Zhukov]

But do you see the problem here? WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH VIDEO GAMES?!, this isn't Video Games this is just one big Disney Circle Jerk.

I remember they were gonna make a movie that will tackle console games, specifically the NES or SNES days and the rivalry with Sega? But nope lets have this premise of the internet and shoehorn in all these cameos that have nothing to do with Video Games.

Okaaaay...

Why exactly does it have to have something to do with video games? Didn't they already have video game cameos in the first one?

I think I'll reserve judgment until I see some trailers or something rather than take the word of the guy who was frantically shilling for the Warcraft movie.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

But do you see the problem here? WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH VIDEO GAMES?!, this isn't Video Games this is just one big Disney Circle Jerk.

I remember they were gonna make a movie that will tackle console games, specifically the NES or SNES days and the rivalry with Sega? But nope lets have this premise of the internet and shoehorn in all these cameos that have nothing to do with Video Games.

Okaaaay...

Why exactly does it have to have something to do with video games? Didn't they already have video game cameos in the first one?

I think I'll reserve judgment until I see some trailers or something rather than take the word of the guy who was frantically shilling for the Warcraft movie.

I made a thread saying how it sucks and failed didn't I? And the lore in the movie is fucked because they made Garona Warchief in the end

And the whole first movie is about Video Games, and for some reason they don't follow that with its sequal.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Video games were nothing but the background for a sweet down to earth story of the first one

If the sequel can tell a good story too, why does it matter what nostalgic media is dancing around behind Ralph?

Than why have any of this Nostalgic Media Cameos at all if what they really want is to tell a Sweet Down to Earth Story than?

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Video games were nothing but the background for a sweet down to earth story of the first one

If the sequel can tell a good story too, why does it matter what nostalgic media is dancing around behind Ralph?

Than why have any of this Nostalgic Media Cameos at all if what they really want is to tell a Sweet Down to Earth Story than?

Why have sets and locations at all then

Let's put actors in featureless grey rooms

Its all expectations than, my expectations for the sequel is more adventures in Video Game Land. Heck even having Mario in there as a full fledged charcater, but no I get adventures in Dinsey Circlejerk land.

 

[TrulyBritish]

Video games were nothing but the background for a sweet down to earth story of the first one

If the sequel can tell a good story too, why does it matter what nostalgic media is dancing around behind Ralph?

Than why have any of this Nostalgic Media Cameos at all if what they really want is to tell a Sweet Down to Earth Story than?

Why have sets and locations at all then

Let's put actors in featureless grey rooms

Its all expectations than, my expectations for the sequel is more adventures in Video Game Land. Heck even having Mario in there as a full fledged charcater, but no I get adventures in Dinsey Circlejerk land.

Wasn't Mario not in the first Wreck it Wralph because Nintendo were asking a ridiculous amount of money for the rights for him to be in it?
This just looks like good business sense to me, why pay extra money for other people's characters on top of the films budget when you can just use the characters you already have rights to?

 

[cathou]

i think the plot is more about internet than video games this time, but, why not disney princess ? show me one disney princess that doesnt have her game anyway ?

 

[Scarim Coral]

Meh, considering that the first film setting went with their own created IP game than to used the existed one and aswell they created a whole bunch of OC background game characters to fill in the crowd (like people mistaken this character to be kid Link but it was a bear) doesn't suprised me.
Clearly they cared more about creating their own thing especially when the video game characters were literally cameo at best like Sonic which I guess was kinda reasonable in that they didn't want to pay them more then they should. I mean I felt like the very first trailer was to bait us which worked (the film wasn't like Who Frame Rogar Rabbit at all).

Spoiler: Even then I can tell from the direction they were going from the teaser poster

Still, I am still puzzle on why you would plug a Wifi route to that nexus socket thing in the first place?

 

[McMarbles]

Sounds like Disney decided to turn something original into a commercial for Disney.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

Will withold judgement until reviews come in. I adored the first one, and was veerrry cautious about any expectations from the sequel already.

 

[bluegate]

Still, I am still puzzle on why you would plug a Wifi route to that nexus socket thing in the first place?

All characters connected with each other through the electrical cables on their machines plugging into an extension cable, didn't they?

Doesn't seem that hard to dream up possible reasons as to why a wifi router would be installed in an arcade, does it?

 

[Scarim Coral]

Still, I am still puzzle on why you would plug a Wifi route to that nexus socket thing in the first place?

All characters connected with each other through the electrical cables on their machines plugging into an extension cable, didn't they?

Doesn't seem that hard to dream up possible reasons as to why a wifi router would be installed in an arcade, does it?

It does. Last time I've check, none of the arcades needs an wifi/ online thing unless staff want to used it or the arcade place added "free wifi" to their place. Even then the amount of plugs it had was already unsafe and adding that wouldn't help either.

 

[bluegate]

Still, I am still puzzle on why you would plug a Wifi route to that nexus socket thing in the first place?

All characters connected with each other through the electrical cables on their machines plugging into an extension cable, didn't they?

Doesn't seem that hard to dream up possible reasons as to why a wifi router would be installed in an arcade, does it?

It does. Last time I've check, none of the arcades needs an wifi/ online thing unless staff want to used it or the arcade place added "free wifi" to their place. Even then the amount of plugs it had was already unsafe and adding that wouldn't help either.

You've already mentioned two reasons as to why they could possibly add a WiFi router to the place and they are quite plausible reasons. Especially the "Free WiFi" reason as that is something that a lot of places offer in the real world, making it not implausible to happen in the fictional universe of Wreck it Ralph.

And there are modern arcade machines that benefit from having an internet connection, for example for sharing and displaying national or international rankings, it could be possible that such a machine was installed in the fictional arcade in that universe.

Staff wanting to use WiFi, new arcade machines needing WiFi or the arcade offering a "Free WiFi" service all sound like pretty plausible reasons as to why a WiFi router could be hooked up in the Arcade.

As for the number of things plugged into the electrical cord, does that really matter? 😜

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

Do you know why Zootopia is one of the the only Disney movies I like? There are no princesses in it. And I have nothing against princesses, not on a general level at least, but, like, every other Disney movie is about some living Barbie doll prancing around some variety of fairytale kingdom and singing songs that, let's be reasonable here, all sound the same. Now, to be fair, another of the select few Disney movies I like is Atlantis: The Lost Empire which does technically have a princess in it but there was very little prancing around involved so I'm willing to give it a pass.

Now Wreck-It Ralph was an... alright movie. By no means a revelation but I don't wanna be too harsh on it because for all the criticisms I might have against it, at least it's not fucking Frozen. Wreck-It Ralph 2... you know, I never felt that was something that needed to exist but fine, whatever, at least it's not fucking Frozen 2. But all of this sounds like shameless self promotion with a thin layer of self awareness and that vaguely annoys me. Now, obviously I'm not the target audience for this movie so I'm not gonna waste too much time being angry at it that I could waste being angry at things that are actually targetted at me (And seriously, what the hell is that Ready, Player One nonsense even supposed to be? Someone once posted an excerpt of the book it's based on on 4chan and it read like Neal Stephenson's vomit) but at least I can throw a snarky post on a forum its way and feel a little better about myself.

Also "the trendy algorithm Yesss"? What's her full name? "Yesss Q. Sleigh"? Does she have a brother named Jack Y. Privilege?

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

I will miss the video game theme but this parodying of internet companies and brands is very topical and popular right now. Mixing that element with popular Disney characters makes a lot of sense from a business perspective. Is the whole thing rather commercial? Yeah, but that doesn't mean it can't still be a good movie. Plus, you can't just keep doing the same ideas over and over. They did the retro video game thing and it's reasonable for the sequel to have a different identity.

 

[DeliveryGodNoah_v1legacy]

It depends on how they do it. If they do with the explicit purpose of blatant pandering, it will suck. But if they still tell an interesting and well-produced story, I think it could work.