Ralph Breaks the Internet

Ralph Breaks the Internet
Written by	Allen Estrin Cindy Marcus Flip Kobler
Produced by	Leslie Hough
Starring	John C. Reilly Sarah Silverman Gal Gadot Taraji P. Henson Jack McBrayer Jane Lynch Alan Tudyk Alfred Molina Ed O'Neill
Edited by	Jeremy Milton
Music by	Dominic Lewis
Production company	Walt Disney Pictures Disneytoon Studios
Distributed by	Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Release date	August 21, 2018 (2018-08-21)
Running time	112 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Ralph Breaks the Internet (also known as its working title, Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2) is a 2018 American computer-animated comedy film.It is the sequel to the 2012 film Wreck-It Ralph.

Plot

In the six years since the first film, Wreck-It Ralph and Vanellope von Schweetz have stayed best friends, hanging out after work in Litwak's Arcade. One day, Vanellope expresses how bored she has become of Sugar RushTemplate:'s tracks, so Ralph sneaks into the game and makes a new track for her. The arcade player fights Vanellope's control, causing the cabinet's steering wheel to pop off. Mr. Litwak attempts to reattach the wheel to the console, but accidentally breaks it in half. As the company that made Sugar Rush is defunct, and the cost of a replacement wheel on eBay is too high, Litwak decides to scrap Sugar Rush, and unplugs the game. With Fix-It Felix and Tamora Jean Calhoun's help, the Surge Protector finds homes for all its citizens as a short term measure as they figure out how to save the game. After talking with Felix, Ralph decides to grab Vanellope and travel to the Internet via Litwak's new Wi-Fi router. Inside the Internet, depicted as a place where websites are geographical locations, users are represented by traveling avatars and programs are people.

With the help of the search engine KnowsMore, they are directed to eBay. They end up winning the auction for the wheel, but they unintentionally spike the price to  This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of Agriculture., and only have 24 hours to come up with the funds or they will forfeit the bid and lose the wheel. On the way out, they run into clickbait salesman J.P. Spamley, who offers them a lucrative job of stealing a car from Shank, the lead character in the popular online GTA-style game Slaughter Race. They steal Shank's car, but she stops them before they can leave the game with it. Shank explains that there are better ways to make money on the Internet than stealing, and she then makes a viral video of Ralph and uploads it to video sharing site BuzzzTube, and tells them to check with BuzzzTube's head algorithm, Yesss, about getting money for it. At BuzzzTube, Yesss is elated by how popular Ralph's video is, and they come up with the idea of making more videos, which if given enough views, will earn them the money for the wheel in no time. Vanellope offers to help advertise the videos, and Ralph has Yesss send her to "Oh My Disney". There, Vanellope befriends the Disney Princesses, being encouraged by them to address her sense of un-fulfillment and reaching a musical epiphany.

Once Ralph makes enough money to purchase the wheel, he contacts Vanellope through a device Yesss had given them; he finds Vanellope talking with Shank about staying in Slaughter Race, having found her epiphany there due to its relative novelty compared to Sugar Rush. Ralph asks Spamley for a way to draw Vanellope out of the game, and he takes him to the deep web vendor Double Dan. Dan provides Ralph with a virus, Arthur, that feeds off insecurities and replicates them. When Ralph unleashes Arthur into Slaughter Race, it replicates Vanellope's glitch, triggering a server reboot. Shank and the others help Vanellope to escape before the game resets. Ralph confesses to her that the crash was his fault, and an outraged Vanellope ends her friendship with Ralph and throws away his hero cookie medal, causing it to break in half.

Arthur copies Ralph's insecurities and starts making duplicates of Ralph. The clones soon overrun the internet in a DOS attack, all chasing after Vanellope to keep her for themselves. Ralph saves her and attempts to lure the clones into a firewall, but they form a giant Ralph monster that seizes them both. Ralph comes to accept that Vanellope can make her own choices, letting go of his insecurities, and causing the giant Ralph monster and the clones to disappear. Ralph gives half of the broken medal to Vanellope and they bid each other a tearful farewell as Shank has arranged for Vanellope to respawn in Slaughter Race. Back in the arcade, Sugar Rush gets repaired, and Ralph partakes in social activities with the other arcade characters as he stays in touch with Vanellope over video chat, feeling content with his ability to be independent.

Voice cast

• John C. Reilly as Wreck-It Ralph, a gigantic but soft-hearted man who is the antagonist of the arcade game Fix-It Felix Jr.
• Sarah Silverman as Vanellope von Schweetz, a glitchy racer who is the main character and princess of Sugar Rush and Ralph's best friend.
• Gal Gadot as Shank, a tough and talented NPC racer in Slaughter Race, a racing-centered MMORPG introduced in the film.
• Taraji P. Henson as Yesss, an algorithm that determines the trending videos on BuzzzTube (a portmanteau of YouTube and BuzzFeed). Parts of her character were modeled after Cruella de Vil, as both characters are seen as fashionable.
• Jack McBrayer as Felix, a repairman who is the protagonist and playable character of Fix-It Felix Jr., as well as the husband of Calhoun.
• Jane Lynch as Calhoun, the lead character of Hero's Duty and Felix's wife.
• Alan Tudyk as KnowsMore, a character representing a search engine of the same name, with an overly aggressive autofill. The character design was mainly inspired by that of the UPA "limited animation" films, as well as Professor Owl from the Ward Kimball-directed Adventures in Music shorts. Tudyk previously voiced King Candy in the first film.
• Alfred Molina as Double Dan, a half-worm virus creator who inhabits the deep web.
  • Molina also voices Double Dan's conjoined brother Little Dan.
• Ed O'Neill as Mr. Litwak, owner of Litwak's Family Fun Center & Arcade.
• Melissa Villaseñor as Taffyta Muttonfudge, a racer of Sugar Rush. She was voiced by Mindy Kaling in the first film.
• Bill Hader (uncredited) as J.P. Spamley, a personification of clickbait pop-up ads represented as a desperate salesman who can't make a sale.
• John DiMaggio as Arthur, an insecurity virus. DiMaggio previously voiced Beard Papa in the first film.

All of the characters in the Disney Princess line appear along with Anna and Elsa from Frozen. They were all voiced by their traditional voice actresses, except for Cinderella and Aurora, who were voiced by their current voice actresses Jennifer Hale and Kate Higgins, respectively, and Snow White, who was voiced by screenwriter Pamela Ribon as opposed to Katherine Von Till. Alongside the voice cast is actress Kelly Macdonald reprising her role as Merida, a role she had so far only voiced in the original feature Brave while Disney had used sound-alike Ruth Connell for any other appearance of the character. Additionally, Rajah (Jasmine's pet tiger), Meeko (Pocahontas' pet raccoon), Cinderella's mice (including Jaq and Gus) and her bird companions, and Prince Naveen (in frog form, whom Ralph mistakes for Frogger) also appear in the film.

Several characters from other films and media also cameo with their original or current voice actors, such as Roger Craig Smith as Sonic the Hedgehog, Maurice LaMarche as Tapper, Brad Garrett as Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh and Anthony Daniels as C-3PO from Star Wars, while recordings of Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear and Vin Diesel as Groot are respectively recycled from Toy Story and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

Additionally, Sean Giambrone (English YouTuber Daniel Middleton/DanTDM in the UK version, but not on the UK home release) voices the eboy, and Flula Borg voices Maybe, an algorithm who is an assistant to Yesss. Ali Wong, Timothy Simons, GloZell Green and Hamish Blake respectively voice Felony, Butcher Boy, Little Debbie, and Pyro, all of which are other characters in Slaughter Race as Shank's racing crew.

The film's directors Rich Moore and Phil Johnston voice bidders at an eBay auction, in addition to reprising their roles as Sour Bill, Zangief (Moore) and the Surge Protector (Johnston), respectively. YouTube personalities Colleen Ballinger, Dani Fernandez, and Tiffany Herrera also voice cameos.

Popular culture cameos and references

Similar to the first film, Ralph Breaks the Internet includes a number of cameos and references to video games and various Disney properties, including their own films, Pixar films, and the Star Wars, Marvel Comics, and The Muppets franchises.

The band Imagine Dragons (whose song "Zero" is featured in a trailer for the film, as well as its soundtrack) make a cameo appearance in the film, with the members voicing themselves. The video game Fortnite Battle Royale is briefly shown, including its battle bus, its Floss dance and Hot Marat emotes.

Stan Lee, Marvel Comics' former writer, editor and publisher, makes a cameo appearance in the film talking to Iron Man.

The filmmakers revealed that the film originally featured a joke about Kylo Ren being a "spoiled child", which was later cut from the film by request from Lucasfilm because it would undermine his role as a villain. Also cut from the film was C-3PO being mockingly called R2-D2 and BB-8 by the princesses. Additionally, the film would originally include The Golden Girls characters, but it was later cut because the directors felt it was a bizarre juxtaposition.

The legion of Ralph clones, which forms a gigantic Ralph monster, resembles the King Kong character from various films. During the production, the giant form was dubbed "Kong Ralph" (after King Kong) and "Ralphzilla" (after Godzilla).

Soundtrack

Main article: Ralph Breaks the Internet (soundtrack)

External links

• Ralph Breaks the Internet on IMDb