Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph {Review & Printable Activities for Kids}

Did you seen Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph this week­end? It opened in the­aters nation­wide on Fri­day (Nov. 2nd). A few days prior, I was able to screen the film with Mr. Mom Endeav­ors & Big Brother! Before we get into our thoughts, here’s a lit­tle info about the film in case you’re not up to speed yet:

{From the press release}

From Walt Dis­ney Ani­ma­tion Stu­dios and Emmy®-winning direc­tor Rich Moore comes “Wreck-It Ralph,” a hilar­i­ous, arcade-game-hopping adven­ture. For decades, Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) has been over­shad­owed by Fix-It Felix, Jr. (voice of Jack McBrayer), the good-guy star of their game who always gets to save the day. Tired of play­ing the role of a bad guy, Ralph takes mat­ters into his own mas­sive hands and sets off on a jour­ney across the arcade through mul­ti­ple gen­er­a­tions of video games to prove he’s got what it takes to be a hero.

On his quest, Ralph meets tough-as-nails Sergeant Cal­houn (voice of Jane Lynch) from the first-person action game Hero’s Duty, and feisty mis­fit Vanel­lope von Schweetz (voice of Sarah Sil­ver­man) from the candy-coated cart-racing game Sugar Rush, who may just be his first real friend. But every­thing changes when a deadly enemy is unleashed, threat­en­ing the entire arcade and Vanel­lope her­self. Ralph finally gets his chance to save the day—but can he do it in time? “Wreck-It Ralph” crashes onto the big screen on Novem­ber 2, 2012, in Dis­ney Dig­i­tal 3D™ in select the­aters.

Our thoughts:

Wreck-It Ralph is so dif­fer­ent than almost any other Dis­ney movie that comes to mind in terms of the plot-line and char­ac­ters. Yet, ein true Dis­ney fash­ion the atten­tion to detail is out-of-this world! From the old-school video games to the “glitch” and the lit­tle pix­e­la­tion of objects was awe­some. I think any­one with video gam­ing expe­ri­ence will get a kick out of this movie. But those “chil­dren of the late 70s & 80s” who grew up play­ing the likes of Cen­tipede, Pac­man, and then Mario Bros. will espe­cially love it (I even saw a Frog­ger ref­er­ence in there). In fact, I hon­estly think this might be one ani­mated film that many adults like as much as, if not more than, the kids.

At just 5, with almost no video game expe­ri­ence, there was A LOT of the movie that went right over Big Brother’s head. He of course didn’t get any of the video game ref­er­ences and because of that had a lit­tle more trou­ble under­stand­ing what was going on than in some other Dis­ney shows. There were a few intense scenes that scared/worried him just a bit and there were some moments of mature/crude humor that I per­son­ally could have done with­out. But, over­all it was a lot of fun and really well done.

Fun Activ­i­ties:

If you have kid­dos that are into the film, here are a few fun activ­i­ties. Just click on the link or pic­ture to down­load!

Col­or­ing page

Color by Num­ber 1

Color by Num­ber 2

Enjoy!

Dis­clo­sure: We saw this movie at a free press screen­ing at the invi­ta­tion of Dis­ney.  All opin­ions and expe­ri­ences are my own and your opin­ion of the movie may dif­fer from mine.