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You know what makes Venom enjoyable as a movie? Well I suppose not the Buddy comedy per se but the fact that it's fun if not necessarily good? I'd say that's what Wreck It Ralph 2 is like. Mind you it's still better overall in quality but it's real appeal is going to be the fact that you get that joke or you understand that internet phenomena. And of course we get to meet up with the characters and see how things have advanced over the years

Also okay I think I'm going to have to add spoilers But ultimately I don't think you need to see this immediately but I think it will be a fun theater experience.

Spoilers

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No twist villain or I suppose technically there is one but it’s not what we expect. And ultimately I say that’s the best part of the movie. It very much knows how to curate and play to audience expectations. Whether it’s the after credits scene and how it’s framed. Or the various characters in the plot. I mean the moment and I mean the exact moment that I saw that blue girl I thought she was going to be the twist villain. And then her next major scene she’s in full military get up addressing a bunch of peons?

But no both who she is and what she represents ultimately turns out to be a good thing. she is a bit odd but for the most part she’s actually personable. I mean she’s definitely focus on business but she’s surprisingly caring even when she doesn’t have to be. In fact that’s what’s the big twist. the movie it goes out of its way to both show some of the a lot of a good (and Commercial) aand -well hinting more than showing -some of the bad of the internet. But the number one focus is always on the human factor and how it makes things go bad in the plot. It’s not necessarily the internet itself that’s bad it’s how it can enable 

well

 our insecurities

The development between Ralph and Vanellope sweet is actually interesting. though it does get a little too on-the-nose after the big third-act break up. I mean I guess technically a search engine would be able to point that out but still. And then of course we have Shank really drive it home just in case you didn’t catch  what’s going on with Ralph and Vanellope at the stairs. Or more accurately much like Fusion in Steven Universe it’s a multi-level metaphor. Ralph’s in the last movie finally found a sense of family and purpose. So VVanellopein many ways is much like with a certain animated series that concluded this year's lead is sort of goddess for him. All the same time being his buddy

So basically we are going to take on nice guy syndrome but at the exact same time it doesn’t go for any of the cheap shots of this. Even though it literally end with Ralph trying to slowly and completely possess Vanellope while arguably in a funk pile of himself

Basically we legitimize Ralph’s insecurities but we also attack it as it needs to be. Also they actually managed to make me tolerate the Disney Princess scene. Actually going for better deep Cuts then the billion 'n one "I took gender studies 101 class" articles that have flooded the internet for the last 10 years. How many people have pointed out the whole water thing? And more importantly it reiterated why the princesses are always going to be a thing:

Representing raw potential and emotional vulnerability turning into strengths while also allowing for self-reflection and determination. Well I think this is a little uundermined with their appearance at the end the moral that they deliver is a bit better even as it is appropriate. Also of course we end up with Ralph in a dress

Liked Ralph turning to ddemonizing the internet and the Very game that has enabled Vanellope in order to fulfill her goals and dreams or at the very least awakened a desire in her in order to expand

The fact that Ralph is both simultaneously her friend and kind of starting to become her friendzone friend and her well father get to be pointed out and then we realize looking back. This is been seeded throughout the entire movie.

Of course there’s not just two Shadows of Ralph in this movie I mean okay technically there’s like Millions I think at the end. But before we run into the pile of clones there’s also of course the guy who gives him the insecurity virus. A man with a white face slovenly disposition balding hair that’s brown and later somehow turns up in green overalls or at the very least one of those apron things. Who is characterized by both insecurity and a well conjoined connection to a little person who he ends up acting on behalf of but never Lets act on their own

By the way if you have a problem with the resolution of Vanellope and Ralph it’s pointed out by Calhoun and Felix that there really is no way to road to the perfect child or be the perfect parent there’s going to be mistakes and failures. It really says something with a friendship can overcome those and I like the fact that it’s the blue girl who kind of points out hey turning an interpersonal relationship into who’s the bad guy contest kind of stupid

Okay let’s see we’ve got Airbender Pocahontas

Oh nevermind I’m sure everyone else will get to that. So when Disney commits to taking the piss out of itself holyfuck does ot commit.

 an entire Allen Mankey Musical number on a GTA, well I guess it’s kind of more Saints Row though with a little fortnite thrown in nowadays, with rainbow colors, pageantry, explosions, sharks, dogs, license plates, and everything. Which kind of helps to poke just a little bit at the haters. No you are not not a princess you just have a different aesthetic. Or at the very least Vanellope ascends to proper Disney princessness with her own crazy gamer girl I want song.

Which is a big part of this movie

It knows it’s dealing with the media Savvy consumer. it knows part of its stuff is already memes and it literally is about trying to chase internet thing but it avoids a lot of the various plot  detoure that you think that this could go. the closest is a liar revealed plot. But even then Ralph's confession pretty much comes naturally when he realizes that his behavior has hurt Vanellope way more then his intention.

and of course the more quiet aspect of the positivity of the internet is taken advantage of in that ending scene which honestly kind of reminds me of a half dozen anime either by hosoda or others

It’s because of multimedia connectivity that even though VVanellope becomes so far apart that she can have more challenges more content and more of the world to herself while at the exact same time connect to Ralph.

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