Film Preview: Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)

Page Revisions:

(Jun. 10, 2018) Original
(September 23, 2018) New Trailer (#2) / New Posters (#5-#8)
(November 18, 2018) New Posters (#9-#20) / New Title (changed from “Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2”)

Release Date:

November 21, 2018

Synopsis:

From IMDb: “Six years after the events of “Wreck-It Ralph,” Ralph and Vanellope, now friends, discover a wi-fi router in their arcade, leading them into a new adventure.”

Poster Rating: D / C- / C- / B- / C / C+ / C- / C+ / B- / C (2) / C+ / C+ / C+ / C- (3) / C / D+ (2)

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Review: (#1) It’s a lightly clever play off the internet, but it’s largely just a bunch of white space, which isn’t appealing. (#2) Trade the white for black and you have a similar problem with this design. The slightly clever breaking of the wifi symbol is only bolstered by the lack of title. (#3) This is targeted at a different market, one that has internet icons that aren’t familiar to the rest of the world. It’s busy, but not particularly engaging. (#4) This is incredibly busy, just like the internet, and it has plenty of background symbols that look familiar. It has a nice balance and quite a few interesting in-jokes for the internet savvy.

(#5) Would “Wifi Ralph” be a better title? Perhaps, but this poster doesn’t make a good case for that, especially with so few interesting details. (#6) The detail here is far more interesting than prior designs, but it feels somehow sparse. (#7) This play off a prior design works well enough, though the blank white spaces is distracting. (#8) To an extent, I like how all of this is segmented, but overall it’s a relatively weak design without much interesting outside the central image.

(#9) More of the same. There isn’t much new here except for distinctive Disney princesses intended perhaps to bring girls to the theater. (#10-#11) This pair of secondary character posters aren’t that interesting, especially with no appealing background. (#12) This is quite similar to prior designs and doesn’t deserve much attention. (#13) More of the same with nothing truly compelling in the background. (#14) See previous. (#15-#17) This trio of thematically-linked posters are interesting, but fettered with an awful, blank white background. (#18) The same artless backdrop doesn’t make for a more interesting design even if it is the most thematically appropriate design they may have yet created. (#19-#20) Nothing to see here as the attempt to make distinctive character posters doesn’t quite work out.

Trailer Rating: B+ / B+

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Review: (#1) The scene featuring the Disney princesses may be worth the price of admission; however, the rest of the trailer works well, presenting a film that has a lot of promise even if it doesn’t appear to have a lot of plot.

(#2) Ignoring the Disney Princess bit almost entirely, and getting more in depth with the film’s plot, this trailer does a fine job giving the audience the idea that there’s a lot to the film that we haven’t seen yet.

Oscar Prospects:

The first film should have won the Oscar. In its second outing, it will struggle to earn the nomination for Best Animated Feature and after that, it has stiff competition for the win from fellow Disney/Pixar offering The Incredibles 2.