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''Ralph Breaks the Internet'' is a 2018 American computer-animated
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produced by
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and distributed by
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. The 57th animated film produced by the studio and the
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to the 2012 film ''
Wreck-It Ralph ''Wreck-It Ralph'' is a 2012 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 52nd Disney animated feature film, it was directed by Rich Moore (in his feature director ...
'', it is directed by
Rich Moore Rich Moore is an American film and television animation director, screenwriter and voice actor. He has directed the films ''Wreck-It Ralph'' (2012) and co-directed ''Zootopia'' (2016) and ''Ralph Breaks the Internet'' (2018) for Walt Disney A ...
and Phil Johnston (in Johnston's directorial debut), written by Johnston and
Pamela Ribon Pamela Ribon (born April 4, 1975) is an Academy Award-nominated American screenwriter, author, television writer, blogger and actress. She created and wrote the short film '' My Year of Dicks'' (2022), which was nominated for the 95th Academy Awa ...
from a story by Moore, Johnston, Ribon, Josie Trinidad, and
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, produced by
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, and executive-produced by
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, Jennifer Lee, and Chris Williams.
John C. Reilly John Christopher Reilly (born May 24, 1965) is an American actor, comedian, musician, producer, and writer. After his film debut in ''Casualties of War'' (1989), he gained exposure through his supporting roles in '' Days of Thunder'' (1990), '' ...
,
Sarah Silverman Sarah Kate Silverman (born December 1, 1970) is an American comedian, actress, and writer. Silverman was a writer and performer on ''Saturday Night Live'', and she starred in and produced '' The Sarah Silverman Program'', which ran from 2007 to ...
,
Jack McBrayer Jack McBrayer (; born May 27, 1973) is an American actor and comedian, who gained national exposure for his portrayal of characters on ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' and as Kenneth Parcell in '' 30 Rock''. For his role in ''30 Rock'' he was ...
,
Jane Lynch Jane Marie Lynch (born July 14, 1960) is an American actress, comedian and author. She is known for starring as Sue Sylvester in the musical comedy series '' Glee'' (2009–2015), which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award. Lynch also gained recog ...
, and
Ed O'Neill Edward Leonard O'Neill (born April 12, 1946) is an American actor and comedian. His roles include Al Bundy on the Fox Network sitcom '' Married... with Children'', for which he was nominated for two Golden Globes, and Jay Pritchett on the a ...
reprise their character roles from the first film, and are joined by
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, Taraji P. Henson, and
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as part of the new cast, as well as
Alan Tudyk Alan Wray Tudyk ( ;; born March 16, 1971) is an American actor. His film work includes roles in '' 28 Days'' with Sandra Bullock (2000), ''A Knight's Tale'' with Heath Ledger (2001), '' Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story'' with Vince Vaughn (2004 ...
, who voiced new character in this film. In the film, Ralph (Reilly) and Vanellope von Schweetz (Silverman) must travel to the Internet to get a replacement for the ''Sugar Rush'' cabinet's broken steering wheel and prevent Mr. Litwak (O'Neill) from disposing of the game. The first discussions about a sequel to ''Wreck-It Ralph'' began in September 2012, and the new installment went through three different scripts before the filmmakers settled on the final plot. When the film was officially announced in June 2016 as ''Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2'', much of the original cast confirmed they had signed on, with new cast members added in 2018. It is Walt Disney Animation Studios' first computer-animated film sequel and is the first sequel from the studio to be created by the original film's creative team. ''Ralph Breaks the Internet'' premiered in Los Angeles on November 5, 2018, and was released in the United States on November 21. The film grossed over $529.3 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews from critics. The film was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the
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,
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,
46th Annie Awards The 46th Annual Annie Awards honoring excellence in the field of animation of 2018 took place on February 2, 2019, at the University of California, Los Angeles's Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California, and presented awards in 32 categories. Produ ...
, and
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, losing all four awards to '' Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse''.


Plot

Six years after the events of
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, Ralph and Vanellope have stayed best friends, hanging out after work in Litwak's Arcade. Ralph is content with their life, but Vanellope longs for excitement and expresses how bored she has become of ''Sugar Rush'' predictability. To please her, Ralph sneaks into her game and makes a secret road. The next day, when Vanellope fights the arcade player's control to test the track, the cabinet's steering wheel breaks. As the company that made ''Sugar Rush'' is defunct, and the cost of a replacement wheel on
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is too high, Litwak decides to scrap ''Sugar Rush'' and unplugs the game, leaving its citizens homeless. The Surge Protector finds homes for all ''Sugar Rush'' citizens as a short-term measure as they figure out how to save the game, with Felix and Calhoun adopting the racers. Remembering eBay, Ralph and Vanellope travel through Litwak's new Wi-Fi router to the Internet, a place where websites are represented as buildings in a sprawling city,
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s represent users, and
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s are people. The search engine KnowsMore directs them to eBay, where they win the auction for the steering wheel by unintentionally spiking the price to only to find they have just 24 hours to raise the funds, or they will forfeit the bid and lose the wheel. On the way out, they run into
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salesman J. P. Spamley, who brokers items obtained from video games and offers them a lucrative job of stealing a car from Shank, the lead character in the popular racing-centered
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''Slaughter Race''. They steal Shank's car, but she stops them before they can leave the game with it. Suggesting another way to make money on the Internet, she proceeds to make a
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of Ralph and uploads it to video-sharing site BuzzzTube. She directs them to BuzzzTube's head
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, Yesss, who capitalizes on Ralph's video popularity. They decide to make more videos, which will earn them the money for the wheel if they attract enough
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. Vanellope offers to help advertise the videos, and Ralph has Yesss send her to Oh My Disney. There, while being chased by Stormtroopers for advertising on the site, Vanellope befriends the Disney Princesses as well as
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and Elsa, being encouraged by them to discuss her sense of un-fulfillment and reaching an epiphany in the form of an
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on the subject. Ralph makes enough money to buy the wheel but finds Vanellope talking with Shank about staying in ''Slaughter Race'', having felt at home there due to its relative novelty and unpredictability compared to ''Sugar Rush''. Worried of losing his friend forever, Ralph asks Spamley for a way to draw Vanellope out of the game and is brought to the dark web vendor Double Dan, who provides Ralph with a
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, Arthur, that feeds off insecurities and replicates them. When Ralph unleashes Arthur into ''Slaughter Race'', it replicates Vanellope's glitch, triggering a server reboot. Ralph, Shank, and the others help Vanellope escape before the game resets. Vanellope blames herself for the crash, but Ralph confesses to her that the crash was actually his fault. Outraged, Vanellope throws away his hero cookie medal and runs off. As a guilt-ridden Ralph finds his now-cracked-in-half medal, Arthur copies Ralph's insecurities and makes duplicates of Ralph. The clones 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. This also causes the giant Ralph monster and the clones to disappear, and Ralph and Vanellope reconcile. Ralph gives half of the broken medal to Vanellope and they bid each other a heartfelt farewell as Shank has arranged for Vanellope to respawn in ''Slaughter Race''. Back in the arcade, ''Sugar Rush'' is 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 newfound ability to be independent.


Voice cast

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John C. Reilly John Christopher Reilly (born May 24, 1965) is an American actor, comedian, musician, producer, and writer. After his film debut in ''Casualties of War'' (1989), he gained exposure through his supporting roles in '' Days of Thunder'' (1990), '' ...
as Ralph, a gigantic but soft-hearted man who is the antagonist of the arcade game ''Fix-It Felix Jr.'' *
Sarah Silverman Sarah Kate Silverman (born December 1, 1970) is an American comedian, actress, and writer. Silverman was a writer and performer on ''Saturday Night Live'', and she starred in and produced '' The Sarah Silverman Program'', which ran from 2007 to ...
as Vanellope von Schweetz, a glitchy racer who is the main character and princess of ''Sugar Rush'' and Ralph's best friend. *
Gal Gadot Gal Gadot-Varsano ( he, גל גדות ; born 30 April 1985) is an Israeli actress and model. At age 18, she was crowned Miss Israel 2004. She then served in the Israel Defense Forces for two years as a combat fitness instructor, whereafter she ...
as Shank, a tough and talented NPC racer in ''Slaughter Race''. * Taraji P. Henson as Yesss, an algorithm that determines the trending videos on BuzzzTube (a portmanteau of
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and BuzzFeed). Parts of her character were modeled after
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, as both characters are seen as fashionable. *
Jack McBrayer Jack McBrayer (; born May 27, 1973) is an American actor and comedian, who gained national exposure for his portrayal of characters on ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' and as Kenneth Parcell in '' 30 Rock''. For his role in ''30 Rock'' he was ...
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 Jane Marie Lynch (born July 14, 1960) is an American actress, comedian and author. She is known for starring as Sue Sylvester in the musical comedy series '' Glee'' (2009–2015), which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award. Lynch also gained recog ...
as Sergeant Calhoun, the lead character of ''Hero's Duty'' and Felix's wife. *
Alan Tudyk Alan Wray Tudyk ( ;; born March 16, 1971) is an American actor. His film work includes roles in '' 28 Days'' with Sandra Bullock (2000), ''A Knight's Tale'' with Heath Ledger (2001), '' Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story'' with Vince Vaughn (2004 ...
as KnowsMore, a character representing a search engine of the same name, with an overly aggressive
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. The character design was mainly inspired by stylized character designs found in Disney shorts and TV specials done in the mid-1960s by
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and Marc Davis. Tudyk previously voiced King Candy in the first film. *
Alfred Molina Alfred Molina (born Alfredo Molina; 24 May 1953) is a British-American actor known for his work on the stage and screen. He first rose to prominence in the West End, earning a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Newcomer in a Pla ...
as Double Dan, a half-worm virus creator who inhabits the dark web. ** Molina also voices Double Dan's conjoined brother Little Dan. *
Ed O'Neill Edward Leonard O'Neill (born April 12, 1946) is an American actor and comedian. His roles include Al Bundy on the Fox Network sitcom '' Married... with Children'', for which he was nominated for two Golden Globes, and Jay Pritchett on the a ...
as Mr. Litwak, owner of ''Litwak's Family Fun Center & Arcade''. The first twelve characters in the Disney Princess line appear, along with
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and Elsa from '' Frozen''. All were voiced by the voice actresses who originated the roles, except for
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and
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, who were voiced by the voice actresses who currently portray them in Disney Princess material,
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and
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, respectively, as Cinderella's original voice actress,
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, died in 2010, and Aurora's original voice actress,
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, had retired, and
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, who was voiced by screenwriter
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, as Snow White's original voice actress,
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, had passed away in 1997. Additionally, Rajah ( Jasmine's pet tiger), Meeko (
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' pet raccoon), Cinderella's mice (including Jaq and Gus) and her bird companions, and Prince Naveen (in frog form, whom Ralph mistakes for
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) 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,
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as Tapper,
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as
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from ''
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'',
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as Grumpy from ''
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'',
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as
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from '' Star Wars'',
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as
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from the
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, and
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as
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from ''
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''. Additionally,
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voices Taffyta Muttonfudge, one of the ''Sugar Rush'' racers, replacing
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from the original film;
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provides the uncredited voice of J. P. Spamley, a personification of
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pop-up ads represented as a desperate salesman who cannot make a sale;
John DiMaggio John William DiMaggio (; born September 4, 1968) is an American actor. His various voice roles include Bender on ''Futurama'', Jake the Dog on ''Adventure Time'', Marcus Fenix in the ''Gears of War'' series, Dr. Drakken on ''Kim Possible'', H ...
voices Arthur, an insecurity virus; Sean Giambrone (English YouTuber Daniel Middleton/DanTDM in the UK version, but not on the UK home release) voices eBoy, an eBay employee who informs Ralph of the status on the eBay item deadline;
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voices Maybe, an algorithm who is an assistant to Yesss; and
Dianna Agron Dianna Elise Agron ( ; born April 30, 1986) is an American actress and singer. After primarily dancing and starring in small musical theater productions in her youth, Agron made her screen debut in 2006, and in 2007, she played recurring charac ...
voices the news anchor covering the virus in the real world.
Ali Wong Alexandra Dawn Ali Wong (born April 19, 1982) is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She is best known for her Netflix stand-up specials ''Baby Cobra'' (2016), ''Hard Knock Wife'' (2018), and ''Don Wong'' (2022). She starred in the film ' ...
,
Timothy Simons Timothy Charles Simons (born June 12, 1978) is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Jonah Ryan on the HBO television series ''Veep'', for which he has received five nominations and one win for the Screen Actors Guild Award ...
,
GloZell Green GloZell Lyneette Green (born July 30, 1972), better known as GloZell, is an American YouTube personality. GloZell established her YouTube channel in 2008, with video interviews, comedy about her life and song parodies. By 2015, the channel had ...
, and
Hamish Blake Hamish Donald Blake (born 11 December 1981) is an Australian comedian, television and radio presenter, actor and author. Since 2003, he has worked with Andy Lee as part of the comedy duo Hamish and Andy. The pair have performed live and on te ...
, respectively, voice Felony, Butcher Boy, Little Debbie, and Pyro, all of whom are other characters in ''Slaughter Race'' as Shank's racing crew. The film's directors
Rich Moore Rich Moore is an American film and television animation director, screenwriter and voice actor. He has directed the films ''Wreck-It Ralph'' (2012) and co-directed ''Zootopia'' (2016) and ''Ralph Breaks the Internet'' (2018) for Walt Disney A ...
and Phil Johnston reprise their roles as Sour Bill, Zangief (Moore), and the Surge Protector (Johnston), respectively. YouTube personalities
Colleen Ballinger Colleen Mae Ballinger (born November 21, 1986) is an American comedian, YouTuber, actress, singer and writer. She is best known for her Internet character Miranda Sings, posting videos of the character on YouTube, performing her one-woman come ...
, Dani Fernandez, and Tiffany Herrera also voice cameos, with
Nicole Scherzinger Nicole Scherzinger (; born Nicole Prascovia Elikolani Valiente, June 29, 1978) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and television personality. She is best known as the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls, one of the best-selling g ...
having a cameo voice role in a mid-credits scene, too.


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,
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films, '' Star Wars'',
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, and
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franchises. The band Imagine Dragons (whose song "
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" is featured in a trailer for the film, as well as its end credits and soundtrack) make a cameo appearance in the film, with the members voicing themselves. The video game ''
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'' is briefly shown, including the battle bus and the floss dance. Stan Lee, Marvel Comics' former writer, editor, and publisher, makes a cameo appearance in the film. The filmmakers revealed that the film originally featured a joke about
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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
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and
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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
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. The legion of Ralph clones, which forms a gigantic Ralph monster, resembles the
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character from various films. During production, the giant monster form was dubbed "Ralphzilla" after
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.


Production


Development

In September 2012,
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said that there were already ideas for a sequel, and in March 2013, Moore said that he and Disney had ideas about a sequel that would bring the characters up to date and explore online gaming and
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. Moore stated that many of the crew and voice cast were open to the sequel, believing that they have "barely scratched the surface" of the video game world they envisioned. He also stated that he planned to include
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in the sequel, which appears briefly in the film, where Ralph and Vanellope race at the beginning. In 2014, the first film's composer
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said that a story for the sequel was being written. In March 2016, Moore stated that a sequel was still being planned. In June 2016, Walt Disney Animation Studios announced that the sequel would be released on March 9, 2018, with Moore and Phil Johnston attached, and that its story would be one where "Ralph leaves the arcade and wrecks the Internet". In March 2017, the sequel's title was officially announced as ''Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2'', with Moore returning as director joined by the first film's co-writer, Johnston, and
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also returning as producer. In July 2018, Disney removed ''Wreck-It Ralph 2'' from the film's title.


Writing

Two working versions of the script had been scrapped before settling on the one used for the film, according to head writer Josie Trinidad. In one version, Vanellope had become self-absorbed by the Internet, gaining popularity and becoming a celebrity among the users. Ralph had been thrown in jail where he met the search engine Knowsmore, and they had partnered together to escape prison and help bring Vanellope back to her normal self. A second version had Ralph becoming an Internet-famous celebrity and would have been challenged by an anti-virus program named BEV that served as a super cop and would have been the story's villain.. Trinidad said neither of these versions captured what they felt was the centerpiece of the sequel, being how Ralph and Vanellope reacted to the new world of the Internet and realizing they have separate paths going forward. Producer Clark Spencer said that "the film is about change. Two best friends are about to realize that the world won't always be the same. The internet is the perfect setting, really, because it's all about change—things change by the second". Director of story Jim Reardon said that it was intimidating to set the film on the Internet, stating that "
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looked at how
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could make the internet relatable on a human level—like how Game Central Station aka the power strip mirrored a train station in the first movie." Reardon, however, said that Disney "didn't want to make the movie about the internet", instead focus on Ralph and Vanellope's friendship, and to treat the Internet as "the place where the movie takes place". Josie Trinidad claimed that the filmmakers "didn't want to just give the audience more of that friendship — eople hadto see that relationship grow." The designs of scenes within the Internet were based on tours made of
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in Los Angeles, as it is one of the world's largest telecommunications centers. The filmmakers did not approach any of the companies (outside of Disney) that are represented on the Internet and strove to include net branding from all across the world. They also had to explore various Internet memes, making sure to avoid those that lacked long-term presence on the Internet. While the film addresses many positive elements of the Internet, the filmmakers did not want to shy away from covering some of the more unpleasant aspects about it, in part fueled by the success of tackling racism indirectly within ''
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''. They wanted to follow the same approach as they had with Judy Hopps in ''Zootopia'', where she experienced, learned, and overcame the racism aspects, and have Ralph similarly learn and become a better person without having to actually solve the issue of hostility on the Internet. The scene where Vanellope is introduced to the Disney Princesses came from screenwriter
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. In 2014, Ribon was still working on '' Moana'' when Disney began internally pitching ideas for the sequel to ''Wreck-It Ralph'', Ribon recognized that like the title character of ''Moana'', Vanellope fits the definition of a Disney Princess. When work formally began on the sequel after the completion of ''Zootopia'', Ribon pitched the idea of Disney poking fun at itself by having Vanellope meet the other Disney Princesses in the green room of OhMyDisney.com, the Disney fan-driven website. Further inspiration came from a BuzzFeed online quiz that asked which Disney Princess the user was; Moore thought it would be interesting if Ralph had encountered that quiz and ended up in an argument with Vanellope over the result. The script was written by Ribon, which she wanted to include the various tropes of the Princesses, with them making in the final cut for the film. Moore and Johnston were satisfied with the script.


Casting

In July 2015,
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said he had signed on to reprise his role of Ralph in a projected sequel. In March 2017,
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,
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, and
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were reported as being set to reprise their roles. In December 2016,
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confirmed his return in the sequel as a different character, named KnowsMore, after previously voicing King Candy in the first film. In August 2018, actress
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joined the cast as Shank. The production team on the film was able to secure all the Disney Princesses' original voice actresses, except for
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as Snow White,
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as Cinderella, and
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as Aurora, due to the formers having both died in 1997 and 2010 respectively, while the latter retired from acting in 2000.
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and
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, the current voice actresses for Cinderella and Aurora, were hired for the film;
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, the film's co-screenwriter, performed Snow White's voice for temporary tracks, but the team considered it a good substitute, allowing Ribon to voice her in the final film.


Animation

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, who was also the original supervising animator of princesses
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, Belle, Jasmine,
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, and Tiana.. Henn also served as the supervising animator for the film's background hand-drawn animated characters. Animators had to work out various techniques to take the different styles of animation into a single approach, and figure out the proportions of the characters using official figurines. Unlike their original film counterparts, the Disney Princesses in the film were rendered in a more cartoony style with bigger eyes and ears. In the initial trailer for the film, the
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princess character Tiana appeared to have a lighter skin tone, a narrower nose, and more European features than she did in the 2009 film ''
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''. This led to some backlashes on social media as these drew her appearance away from that expected of African-Americans. As a result, Disney contacted Tiana's voice actress,
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, and the advocacy group Color of Change to redesign Tiana for ''Ralph Breaks the Internet'' to make sure she resembles more closely to her 2009 appearance; the updated character model was revealed in the second trailer. The same treatment was given to
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, the titular character of the 1995 film, as many viewers had pointed out that she was also given a much lighter skin tone. A scene featured in the film's original teaser, released in March 2018, involving Ralph and Vanellope invading a children's game and feeding pancakes to a bunny to the point that it is implied to explode, was heavily discussed prior to the film's release; however, the scene was eventually cut from the film and instead placed halfway through the credits. The post-credits scene involves what starts as a teaser for ''
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'' but cuts to Ralph
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the audience by starting to sing
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's "
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". While producers Spencer and Moore had an idea of Ralph doing a "Wreck Roll" early on in the film's development, they never incorporated it into the story. As it was one of the last scenes added, the producers had gotten Reilly, who was on vacation with his family at the time, to come into a New York City studio to record for the day so that the animators could work from that.


Music and soundtrack

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", which plays during the end credits of the film. On October 23, 2018, the music video of "Zero" was posted on Imagine Dragons' YouTube channel. The film features an original song called "A Place Called Slaughter Race", performed by
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and
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, written by Tom MacDougall and the film's co-director Phil Johnston, and composed by Alan Menken; the song's pop version, "In This Place", was performed by
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. The film also features songs from various Disney Princess films, as well as Demi Lovato's cover of "
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" played in the beginning of the ''Oh My Disney'' scene. Ralph also rickrolls the tune "
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" by Rick Astley in a post-credits scene. The soundtrack was composed by
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, who also composed the score from the previous film. It was released digitally on November 16, 2018, and on CD on November 30, 2018.


Marketing

To coincide with the film's release, ''
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'' made a cameo appearance of Ralph via an "outdoor cinema screen" in the game's location "Risky Reels" and added the emote dance Hot Marat, which was available as a limited time offering. For "Wreck Urselfie", a mobile experience used to build scenarios with
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featured Ralph and Vanellope stuck inside users' smartphones, as Google BrandLab used
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experience that allowed fans to connect with Ralph and Vanellope while they navigated the Internet and ended up in WhatsApp.
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, which promoted the film with its products
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and the
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, and its subsidiary
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, announced the "Pre-Black Friday sale" through the "themed landing page," which was seen in the scene where Ralph "broke" its
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. Furthermore, fans had some Disney offers and continued to connect the purchase of the film's tickets.
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and Disney collaborated to promote the film's release throughout a multi-channel campaign. The film collaborated with the mobile in-cinema game Noovie Arcade, which tied the video game used in the film's teaser, the "pancake milkshake", causing audiences to have each other's challenges and gain scores and
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at least 21,100 theaters including
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, Cinemark, and
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. The
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experience based on the film, which was created in collaboration with ILMxLab and The Void, titled ''Ralph Breaks VR''. Aside from the film, it takes on a different plot. Additional marketing partners for the film included
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, eBay,
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,
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,
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, Netgear, and Purple. In the month of the release of the film, the world builder video game ''
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'' included a limited time Event focused on ''Ralph Breaks the Internet'' to promote it, with the characters involved in a new storyline unrelated to the events of the film, including Ralph, Vanellope, Yesss, Shank, Spamley, Fix-Felix, Jr. and Caulhoun as playable characters, some attractions based on locations of the film, and the Comfy Costumes that Cinderella, Ariel, Belle and Jasmine wear in the film.


Release


Theatrical

''Ralph Breaks the Internet'' premiered on November 5, 2018, at the
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in Los Angeles. The film was originally scheduled for general release on March 9, but it was pushed back to November 21. ''Ralph Breaks the Internet'' was also released in IMAX and 3D formats.


Home media

''Ralph Breaks the Internet'' was released by
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on digital on February 12, 2019, and on
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and
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on February 26. Bonus features include a behind-the-scenes featurette, a short highlighting some of the
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hidden throughout the film, deleted scenes, and the music videos for "Zero" and "In This Place". A feature exclusive to the digital release is a featurette on the artists going to race car driving school to research all the driving in ''Slaughter Race''. In its first week, ''Ralph Breaks the Internet'' sold 225,099 DVDs and 816,890 Blu-rays as the most sold film on both formats in the United States. Overall, ''Ralph Breaks the Internet'' sold 616,387 DVDs and 1.4million Blu-rays, adding them up to get a total of 2million copies, and made $47.7million through home media releases.


Reception


Box office

''Ralph Breaks the Internet'' grossed $201.1million in the United States and Canada, and $328.2million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $529.3million, against a production budget of $175million. In the United States and Canada, ''Ralph Breaks the Internet'' was released alongside ''
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'' and ''
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'', as well as the wide expansion of '' Green Book'', and was originally projected to gross $67–77million from 3,900+ theaters in its five-day opening weekend. The film made $18.3million on its first day (including a pre-Thanksgiving record $3.8million from Tuesday previews) and another $10.2million on its second. It went on to debut to $55.7million in its opening weekend (a five-day total of $84.5million), finishing first at the box office and marking the second-best Thanksgiving opening behind Disney's '' Frozen'' ($93.6million). In its second weekend the film made $25.8million, dropping 54% but remaining in first. For the third weekend, it topped the box office once again with $16.1million, dropping 37%. In its second and third weekends the film finished ahead of ''
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'', marking the first time where animated films reached the top two spots at the box office for two consecutive weekends.


Critical response

Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale, down from the "A" earned by the first film, and those at
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gave the film four stars out of five.
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of ''
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'' gave the film a positive review, saying that "somewhere amid the film's ornate imagery and deliriously irreverent humor, we might begin to realize that we're watching a terrifying, incisive satire about the ways that a life lived online makes monsters of us all". Brian Lowry of
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said that "The colorful action should delight tykes, but the smart, media-savvy asides make it especially appealing to grownups". Kerry Lengel of ''
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'' gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of five, saying "what makes the movie compelling, despite the subdued dramatic payoff, is that it is a heightened reflection of our experience—our love affair, really—with our gadgets, our apps and, yes, our brands". Peter Hartlaub of the ''
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'' gave the film three stars out of four, stating that the film is "almost always inspired in the moment" and said that "the new characters are all pretty great", though he said that the film's first third "struggles to find its focus", and felt that Felix and Calhoun's subplot "would have worked better as a pre-movie animated short". Chris Bumbray of ''JoBlo's Movie Emporium'' said that the film "is just as solid" as the first film, and said it was compared to the science-fiction film ''
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''. Bryan Bishop of ''
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'' described the film as "''
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'' of Disney films", stating that it "soars when it sends up the studio's own films, but its portrayal of the internet feels a little optimistic for 2018." Oliver Jones of ''
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'' gave the film a two-and-a-half score, saying that "''Ralph Breaks the Internet'' is a candy coated, hard shined brick of postmodernism—a Vitamix smoothie of gags, nostalgia, product placement and Fruity Pebbles".
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of ''
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'' said that "Within a few years, the specifics of the viral-video gags in ''Ralph Breaks the Internet'' will be as dated as a
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joke".
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of ''
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'' said that the "sequel to the 2012 film is somewhere between ''Ready Player One'' and ''
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'', summoning up a zero-gravity spectacle of dazzling colours and vertiginous perspectives, a featureless and inert mashup of memes, brands, avatars, and jokes".


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Future

Directors Rich Moore and Phil Johnston said that a ''Ralph Breaks the Internet'' spin-off film focusing on the Disney Princesses could be made depending on the audience's response, and "if there's a good story to be told". Also, John C. Reilly says that he has an idea if a third film was to be made, he would consider seeing Ralph and Vanellope "beaming themselves right out into space".


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