Les mondes de Ralph

“Wreck-It Ralph” is the latest 3D animated film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and it also has become of my favorite films of the year. When I heard that Disney was making a film based on an 8-bit game, I was ecstatic.

"Wreck-It Ralph," a kid's version of "Tron," suggests all of the electronic characters in arcade video games have their own personal lives when no one's shoving quarters into the machine's slot.

Anyone who has ever possessed a weakness for candy and/or video games will want to jump inside “Wreck-It Ralph,” a sweet, colorful 3-D animated feature that finds Disney passing its stuck-in-a-rut partners at Pixar (“Cars 2,” “Brave”).

Falling behind Pixar Animation Studios as well as DreamWorks Animation and Blue Sky Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios has been a laggard in the computer-animation wars.

Wreck-It Ralph is pleasantly nostalgic for days when the most popular video games were proudly innocuous, not first-person virtual killing machines, when arcades sounded more like circus calliopes than battlefields, and collecting magic coins was more...

Wreck-It Ralph (the voice of John C. Reilly) is the villain in the arcade game of hero Fix-It Felix, Jr. (Jack McBrayer). Longing to be the good guy, Ralph heads out on a quest across the arcade through other video games to prove he has what it takes...

Whichever Disney employee said, “Let’s do ‘Toy Story,’ but with video game characters,” I hope he or she got a big fat raise, if only to compensate for the seething jealousy coming from co-workers kicking themselves for not thinking of it first.

"Wreck-It Ralph," the exhaustingly dazzling new Walt Disney Animation Studios feature, qualifies as the most manic baby sitter in town, clever and detailed in its kaleidoscopic depiction of the private lives, seething resentments and yearning dreams of...

Wreck-It Ralph lives in an arcade, and while that may be a longstanding fantasy for many of the children of the 80s, the shine has more than worn off for Ralph. He resides in a videogame called Fix-It Felix and has been executing the same program for...

I immediately want a sequel to Wreck-It Ralph. It’s not that it ends with a big cliffhanger, has unresolved storylines or too much story for one film – it’s that the world created in the movie is so utterly fascinating that I desperately want to see...

The villain in a classic 1980s videogame (voice by John C. Reilly) gets tired of being the bad guy, but his efforts to prove himself a good guy end up jeopardizing every game in the arcade. This animated feature has a lot going for it: clever writing...

For just a moment early on, Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph looks like it’s attempting to ape Pixar’s Toy Story. There are certainly superficial similarities: Both animated films initially focus on the relationship between children and their playthings.

With Wreck-It Ralph, the video game/movie synergy is complete. Here's a movie that isn't based on a video game; it literally takes place within the world of video games. The concept is a little like that of Toy Story: the characters in video games...

Wreck-It Ralph is built on licensing. Like Toy Story and Who Framed Roger Rabbit before it, Disney's latest non-Pixar computer animation aims for a kind of self-contained cartoony realism by acquiring the rights to use real-world properties...

Black-and-white Dorothy leaves black-and-white Kansas, the home she hates where nobody appreciates her, where people are always hassling her. But in colorful Oz she gets to reinvent herself, steal some shoes, join a gang of new friends and perfect the...

Nostalgia has been digitized. In Wreck-It Ralph's byte-size universe of arcade games, a pixelated panoply of characters (both copyrighted and made-up) commingle each day after the final quarter has been dropped.

When I have heard that Disney was going to make a new movie this time about a video game arcade with some of the 80s greatest video games ever made, I was really excited and wanted to see this with lots of expectations.

When the hero says, “I wreck things. Professionally,” I thought I had wandered into “The Barack Obama Story,” but the speaker in Disney’s visually dazzling, intermittently funny “Wreck-It Ralph” is a depressed video-game villain who yearns to be the...

Of course, the relationship between video games and movie would lead to this, an animated film that reads on paper like Toy Story for video games. But Wreck-It Ralph is much more than that. Strong characters married with perfect voice acting choices...

With Pixar co-founder John Lasseter in charge of the animation team at Disney, and his company’s “brain trust” of their creative leaders available to offer guidance, it was only a matter of time before a Disney film arrived that feels like a Pixar movie.

When it comes to the game of filmmaking, Wreck-It Ralph plays on the hardest difficulty. For this is a project - long-awaited, highly anticipated and highly ambitious - that could have gone spectacularly wrong.

I would have been content with Disney’s cameo-chaotic animated feature had it simply provided a crack-like fix of nostalgia for retro gamers as well as demonstrating vibrant imagination that will instantly hook their children.

Remember those great old video games of the 1980s -- the busy Marios and the hungry Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man, and that bar called Tapper where patrons had to be served in a hurry?

Disney's animators clearly had a great time mixing a wide variety of animation styles in this action comedy, which perhaps has too much energy for its own good. Kids won't mind the relentlessly frenetic pace, but the film sometimes feels...

This reviewer had his fair share of fun in his younger days, hanging out at arcade centers, thinking it was hip to tap furiously on buttons to kill video game villains. Then there was what he termed as “home entertainment” – video consoles which you...

Nobody loves the bad guy, everyone loves to see him beaten. That's the problem of Wreck-It Ralph, villain of an arcade game ruled by its saviour hero Fix-it Felix.

The titular protagonist is an ogre-like villain (dubbed by Reilly) from a fictional 1980s game, who regularly demolishes apartment blocks inhabited by the Nicelanders. But after three decades, Ralph is ready for a change.

Disney animated characters have been getting into mischief in the workplace since Mickey Mouse played up in his debut, 1928's Steamboat Willie, but they find a new angle, both enjoyable and clever, in the studio's latest release.

A film about video games gives you a certain degree of apprehension, particularly when at the heart of it lies a game about a 9-foot giant wrecking a building and a 4-ft nothing fixing the same.

Clever and touching in equal measure, this is a gorgeous film that unabashedly celebrates retro pop-culture. I’m going with three-and-a-half out of five for Wreck-It Ralph. Anyone who’s ever been to a video game arcade, or owned one of those...