Like many people people in the coments, I loved the first movie, like many people in the comments, I also was greatly dissapointed by the sequel. I'll be honest, I was worried when looking for info about the movie I read good descriptions of it in Polygon and Saloon, but I still wanted to believe that even liers would tell the truth sometimes, how wrong I was, for those not aware what those websites are, they are fake news websites that take things out of context to astounding levels, for example putting someone who hates videogames to make a note about a new videogame, and the guy expends all his time whining about how videogames are bad and his life is so superior to anyone who plays videogames instead of talking of the game he was making the note about, or taking a notice like '' One guy saved a drowning girl '' , and then saying that the patriarchy patronizes women for thinking that they need saving, THAT kind of website.
As a standalone movie, the plot may work, as a sequel, is horribly played out. And this is, objectively a sequel, thus I will judge it as a sequel and not a standalone movie. First of animation is pretty good, together with music, but, the most importatn thing for me, is the plot, and this is what I will deconstruct.
The movie commits a grave mistake, and that mistake is the one of adjusting the movie to a message, instead of adjusting the message to the movie, and thus, like any other movie who does the same, plot suffers because of it.
Let's start with the characters.
Ralph has become a scaredy cat, he never was this scared in the first movie, all for the reason of give more thunder to Vanellope, but depreciating one character is not a way to elevate another, you can't ponder things to the lowest common denominator and expect a higher quality. Ralph has become selfish and self centered, when that was never the point of the character, we are talking of a guy who continually putted himself into more problem than he should for the sake of others, the trope about Ralph is that he was a villain who was not a villain, the writers seem to have forgotten that in this movie, they also have seem forgotten that by the end of the first movie, Ralph was in pretty good terms with everybody, he was in good terms with Felix to the point of going to his wedding, he was in good terms with the other inhabitants fo his game, he was in good terms with the villain help group, but for the sake of the movie, all of them were cast aside for the sake of making Ralph a clingy loner, the character has becomed a shadow of what it once was.
Vanellope has become extremely selfish, as someone who has many distance friendships let me tell you something, one thing is wanting to pursue your dreams, other is leaving everyone behind for your own sake. The movie tried to paint this like a clingy relationship, but this again is a bad example of the movie adjusting to the message, instead of the other way around, the writers seem to have forgotten that outside their games, characters DIE PERMANENTLY, so what Vanellope is doing is not the equivalent of someone following his dreams, it's the equivalent of someone leaving all his family and friends behind , even when some of those needed her for sustenance, to go risk her life in deathmaches in the poor neighborhoods of France just cuz she needs a rush, if any friendship of mine were to do something like that I would criticize them nonstop, as one procer of my country once said ( Jose de San Martin ), A real friend critics my mistakes.
The New Character, the girl who's name I don't remember cuz I don't care, she had far too little time on screen, yet half of the Movie's plot goes through her, big mistake. She had potential to be either a good villain, or a good second character, but was wasted. The instant hero usually is used as a way to make a character realize that what they see it's not what they want, in this movie, that trope has been used to reinforce a character that the guy they meet five minutes ago is as important or even more than their entire life cuz it looks cool, and that's what they REALLY wanna do. They could have either made her a good villain, sub villain, or at the very least a good support character for the movie, yet, they completedy wasted her in shallow life guidance scenes.
The characters have been flanderized, made out of character, and worse of all, dennigrated. Which takes me to my next point, the Disney's ''Princesses'' , oh god what have they done with them .... I have loved MANY of the movies of those ''princesses'', and the only thing I can wonder when I saw them is, did the writers watched the same movies I did ? Or were they trying to push some dumb feminist extremist political agenda ? First of all many of them weren't princesses, Mulan is a goddam soldier for once, many of them weren't rescued by big strong men, they RESCUED big strong men, Mulan Saved the EMPEROR OF CHINA, and what's this nonsense of wear comfortable clothes cuz princess can wear something besides dresses ? Many of them wear dresses cuz they liked them over their ragged or servant clothes, Pocahontas and Mohana wear tribal clothes that had nothing to do with dresses, and I could go on and on, and the ending where they rescued Ralph ? God, I thought that only internet chanles of political extremists could make so much cringe, like the political correct raps of the white privilege or so, but dear god, this movie managed to be as cringey as them '' A big strong men that needs rescue ! '', well ... is that supposed to be a surprise for many of you ? Mulan ? I'm looking at you. They not only ruined Ralph and Vanellope in this movie ,that wasn't enough for them, nope, they had to ruin all Disney's Princesses too.
The movie seems lost, it looks like they had to make a two hours long movie and only thought a clear plot for half of it, it gives you shallow messages about criticism dividing critics in both praises and simply insults, which is not true, critic is the reason society advances, if it wasn't for critics, we would still be thinking that blood transfusion are against God's wishes and that thunders are Zeus's rage onto unworthy mortals. But the politically correct seems criticism as all wrong, you don't only find insults in the internet, some critics, that are against you, are actually useful, I've had many sane debates and arguments with people who had criticized my believes , and even when some of them insulted them , I looked behind that and grabbed the knowledge they were trying to impart me, and I growed as a person and recognized I was wrong. The movie tries to give too many shallow messages, and delivers them badly, as explained by trying to adjust the movie to the message.
Honestly it's a huge left down, I awaited this movie restlessly, since I finished watching the first movie for a third time, yes a third time, I awaited for a sequel, whelp, seems I got what I ''wanted'', careful with what you wish.
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