He is evil and that is good

The final scene is touching. And at the beginning and again until the end, there are amusing scenes of 30 years of video game history are celebrated. Sonic, Mario, from racing games to Halo here a lot is ascended, the nostalgia raises with the parents of today that were large with Pac-Man, Q-Bert and Asteroids.

Ralph is a modification of Donkey Kong, the opponent of Super Mario. For its 30th anniversary, he plunges into a crisis of meaning, of the job as a villain no longer fills it. So from the support group and look into it sometimes in others, younger games that have become so dark and serious at once.

Over the Hedge, Shrek and other animated films are mass and suitable for families as Ralph. In places, it becomes a bit and the long linger in Sugar Land is visually rather bland. It's a movie for a more specific target group: probably mostly for fathers and sons with preference for games.