Review of Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) by Severedwing — 07 Dec 2018

So this sequel is a bit confusing in the message it tries to send about friendship, which I honestly find to be a bad message to send kids. The first movie was an endearing journey into finding your place in the world and making friends. The sequel seems to be about blaming a friend for wanting to spend time with you and getting upset when they go to extremes to make that reality happen.

Aside from the message about friendship it seems to convey (that its okay to snub and abandon a friend without a word as long as you can blame them later for being to needy), the actual movie itself is very entertaining. The meme references, inside jokes about the internet, and over all attention to detail about everything "cyber" was great. One of my favorite things was when they entered the online video game and the characters continued their run animations for several seconds after they stopped moving and how they turned left and right in choppy "frame-drop" fashions. The fact that Disney allowed them to poke fun at the Princesses and in general Disney's culture of the cult of personality as well was hilarious too. Some other nice touches were a small cameo of Stan Lee (gone but not forgotten) and the e-business tie ins that were not obnoxious like the Emoji Movie (the Google, Amazon, YouTube, and Twitter tie ins were all tastefully done).