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Review: Wreck-It Ralph
Apr. 17th, 2013 08:21 pmConsidering some pretty horrific incidents such as the insane sexual harrassment of Anita Sarkeesian, who runs the video blog Feminist Frequency (major trigger warnings on that situation, by the way), it’s not surprising that some gamers have been responsible for cultivating a reputation for sexism and exclusiveness in the gaming community. But with this poor reputation, you might not expect an animated movie about video game characters—and produced by Disney on top of all that!—to be one of the best examples of gender equality done right that I’ve seen in quite a while—and definitely the best example I’ve seen in an animated movie in...possibly forever. And yet Wreck-It Ralph is just that.
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Added to all these surprising elements is a very moving storyline about self-acceptance and friendship filtered through fun video game elements (with several in-jokes), told with gorgeous animation and a soundtrack that included a Japanese theme song (*fangirls*). I was really, really not expecting this movie to be nearly as good as it was, and it was easily my favorite animated movie of last year.
( Cut for characterization spoilers )
Added to all these surprising elements is a very moving storyline about self-acceptance and friendship filtered through fun video game elements (with several in-jokes), told with gorgeous animation and a soundtrack that included a Japanese theme song (*fangirls*). I was really, really not expecting this movie to be nearly as good as it was, and it was easily my favorite animated movie of last year.
