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movie review - Wreck-It Ralph

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2014.05.16

I watched this with my son for "movie night". It's about a video game character from the 8-bit days who longs to see the world outside his game (after forty-fifty years?). So he heads out to the other games in the store and has some adventures. And then he becomes involved in the strange case of a displaced royal lineage in one of the games.

It's an original idea and executed well. I liked the characters and found the voice acting appealing. John C Reilly is one of those actors who throws everything into his work, it's infectious.

Recommended. But beware: Sarah Silverman.

rand()m quote

On the endless saga of Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto; "It shouldn't have had to come to this. I'm so tired of getting up every morning and wondering, 'What will it be today?' I'm so tired of giving the benefit of the doubt again and again, only to be let down again and again.... Somewhere a responsible adult has to appear, draw a bright moral line, tell the truth and say unequivocally what won't be tolerated. Somebody has to do the right thing."

—Denzil Minnan-Wong