Think of a fine, tasty pastry, filled with a really meh custard. That’s Ralph Wrecks The Internet (2018), a sparkly, animated, name dropping exploration of the Internet that tries to warn about the dangers of growing too comfortable with your rut in life. The animation is gorgeous, the analogies to the entities inhabiting the Internet at least mildly amusing, good voices, inventive.
But not a whole lot in the custard. Sure, there’s a lesson to be learned, but it all seems too labored. Maybe I just didn’t much care for the characters, or the animation. Perhaps it’s aimed at a younger demographic than myself, and I see professional critics liked it – but, for us, it didn’t really click.
Your mileage may vary.
