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Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 leaves Litwak’s video arcade behind, venturing into the uncharted, expansive and thrilling world of the internet—which may or may not survive Ralph’s wrecking. Video game bad guy Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Sarah Silverman) must risk it all by traveling to the world wide web in search of a replacement part to save Vanellope’s video game, Sugar Rush. In way over their heads, Ralph and Vanellope rely on the citizens of the internet—the netizens—to help navigate their way, including a website entrepreneur named Yesss (voice of Taraji P. Henson), who is the head algorithm and the heart and soul of trend-making site “BuzzzTube.”The film will also include a team up of all the Disney Princesses including Auli‘i Cravalho (Moana), Kristen Bell (Anna in Frozen), Kelly Macdonald (Merida in Brave), Mandy Moore (Rapunzel in Tangled), Anika Noni Rose (Tiana in The Princess and the Frog), Irene Bedard (Pocahontas), Linda Larkin (Jasmine in Aladdin), Paige O’Hara (Belle in Beauty and the Beast) and Jodi Benson (Ariel in The Little Mermaid). (synopsis via Coming Soon)
The internet is euqual parts loved and reviled depending on what you need it for and whether it aids and enhances your life and fills it with sunshine and cat memes, or trolls the hell out of you leaving you a bruised and battered cyber mess.
You get a small taste of that when Wreck It Ralph 2 steps into the ‘net’s gaudy, busy environs and encounters all kinds of interesting offers including a chance to race in the Slaughter Race (sounds soooo safe, doesn’t it?) in which the Gal Gadot-voiced Shank has a pretty big stake!
All kinds of things could go wrong, and yet, you get the feeling that Disney princesses from the other side of the studio tracks – the Merida scene in a gem and worth the price of admission alone I think – notwithstanding, all kinds of things could go right and likely will in what looks like a gem of an animated film.
Wreck It Ralph 2 opens 21 November USA, 30 November UK and 26 December Australia.