Hot Trailer: ‘Wreck-It Ralph’

COMMENTS (21)

• John C. Reilly has poor comic timing. Bad casting for animation. Will Arnett, who was wasted in Ratatouille, would have been a better choice.

  Comment by Sorry — Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 11:24am PDT  Reply to this post

• And… another BOMB for Disney…

  Are kids today even aware of most of the video game references this film makes? I grew up in the 80′s, so I am…. but I really have no interest in seeing it, as much as I like JCR.

  Comment by A game called bomb — Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 11:27am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Yikes, as usual, Deadline is a tough crowd.

    I think it looks great. Seems like what they were going for is a film that kids will enjoy and their parents will be happy to take them to because they’ll get the period game references. The themes are spot-on targeted at that mixed audience: to kids, he’s a bully who wants to redeem himself; to parents, he’s an older guy who wants to re-invent himself (and naturally, parents will love the bully reforms theme too).

    But you’re right about one thing: In this day of iPad apps, some of the kids in the audience may be asking, “What’s a ‘video game’”?

    Comment by Chris — Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 12:01pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m actually really excited for it – a film that has an actual chance at doing some justice to video gaming and those that saw footage at Cinemacon spoke pretty highly of the film.

  Comment by John — Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 11:40am PDT  Reply to this post

• Yeah guys — c’mon. This actually looks kinda cool. A Roger Rabbit of video games! That’s an awesome idea. I’m gonna wait for reviews but if it gets good buzz, I’m going.

  Comment by Ben — Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 12:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The only thing this movie will wreck is Disney’s quarterly financial statement. It was very expensive and it’s going to flop.

  Comment by wreck it disney — Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 12:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • And you know this because you’ve seen the finished film, as well as the financial records for the movie, right?

    Comment by Justin — Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 3:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This actually looks good. Fun concept. They got me with the shots of Ralph continually being thrown over the building and asking why he can’t have something better in life. Liked the Talking Heads song used. If the movie is consistently funny, I could see this being a decent sized success for Disney.

  Comment by Jordan — Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 12:29pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I think this looks great. The Pixar influence is definitely there. Very clever idea.

  Comment by edward — Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 12:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This looks awesome! Cameo by Zangief!! DAHHHHH

  Comment by Dallas — Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 12:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Cute premise, colorful animation, but I have to agree with the comments above. Reilly’s comedic timing is awful, and 99% of the games being referenced in that trailer are only familiar to someone in their late 20′s or older. I know this was more of a teaser than a full trailer, so I’ll withhold judgement, but at this point this thing has “bomb” written all over it.

  Comment by NotQuiteRight — Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 12:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Disney can go f**k itself as far as I’m concerned, and Pixar too. That said, I think this looks like fun.

  Comment by Father Merrin — Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 1:17pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Yikes! Didn’t ‘MasterMind’ plum the ‘bad-guy-wants-to-be-good’ depths like five years ago? Not sure what Lasseter is doing with WDFA but with the exception of ‘Tangled’, it seems like the only constant thing about their films is that they shouldn’t get made.

  It may be time to hand WDFA off to someone else and let John just manage Pixar. Are you listening Alan & Bob? Let WDFA be the studio that makes Disney films and let Pixar do their thing (Brave looks great but feels more like it should be a Disney film rather than a Pixar movie). Having one person creatively responsible for both studios and both brands is only muddling them both…

  Comment by ToonerA — Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 1:25pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Home. Freekin’. Run! I call it right now based just on that trailer: Disney/Pixar makes a dumptruck full of cash on this movie. The tone seems fun; old school game references will be cross-generational; voice talent is OK if not spot on. Haterz gonna hate, but Disney is gonna win.

  Comment by Breathless — Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 2:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This is going to be a huge hit, just like SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD, because there are so many gamers out there to make this a $100M opening weekend…

  Oh wait, SPVTW bombed. Well, good luck Disney. Seems like you like repeats of JOHN CARTER business. Keep up the crappy work.

  Comment by Scott Pilgrim — Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 3:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Dafuq did I just watch?

  I miss the times Disney made “Mars Need Moms”.

  Comment by jkl — Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 3:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Trailer made me smile. A lot.

  Comment by Bruce — Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 5:15pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Honestly, people are complaining? This looks brilliant. Who cares if it flops? They’re giving us a film that looks worth watching. Unless you were fired by Disney or work with Illumination or something, I don’t see why you’d want this film to flop.
  It looks great. It’s still trending on twitter and everyone’s already wanting yo see this months before it comes out. I hardly doubt it would flop.

  Comment by val — Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 5:47pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Like

  Comment by KraziJoe — Thursday June 7, 2012 @ 4:55am PDT  Reply to this post

• this movie needs rated g

  Comment by chicago cubs fan — Tuesday July 3, 2012 @ 3:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

• in loving of memory Ernest Borgnine: 1917-2012

  Comment by chicago cubs fan — Sunday July 8, 2012 @ 5:34pm PDT  Reply to this post