So as a general rule of thumb for the past decade, when asked who to go to when you want to see high quality animated movies in all facets of what makes good cinema, people would instantly point to Pixar. Certainly they have set the new standard in not only animated storytelling, but also animation itself, with massive breakthroughs in many technologies that have benefitted movies in general.

However, in the past few years, that rule of thumb has slowly faded away from a combination of decrease in quality of Pixar films such as Cars 2, and Brave, and also an increase of quality in films from other animation studios, such as Tangled and How To Train Your Dragon. So is the end of the Pixar reign? That depends if those two trends continue, and while we won't get to see Monsters University for some time, there are other films from other studios out that we can go and see. Including Wreck It Ralph.

So does Wreck It Ralph keep this new trend going with other studios? Does it rival Pixar? HELL YES!
Wreck It Ralph is fantastic movie, that I thought was much better then Brave. It has everything you want from a movie with the love and passion from clever filmmakers.

Admittedly the first time I saw the trailer for Ralph, I thought it looked like a movie being made out of a look upon a demographic of video-gamers. Thankfully watching the movie it doesn't feel like that all, and in fact quite the opposite, where it feels like people who love movies, storytelling and video-games made the movie. It has good characters with a good heros journey plot, and a good moral to the story. Things that are set up are paid off, nothing feels rushed or really forced, and the character growth feels natural without actions or dialog feeling manipulative.

Without really spoiling anything, the plot set up of Ralph is basically that Ralph has be doing the same thing for 30 years which is being the bad guy, and in the world of video games who you are is based on what what you do. So Ralph sets out (into other games) to prove that theory wrong and literally earn his metal of heroism. There are some twist and turns along the way that you have to see the movie to understand (which I highly recommend).

If this movie is a any kind of glimpse into what's going over at Disney's animation department, then I'm really excited to see what else is going on over there. Pixar clearly has had a influence in other studios in many ways, but I think their Monopoly of making good movies is over, but thankfully I think we don't have to worry about that to much, with Wreck It Ralph being the secret world of video-games, I think the seeds of Pixar are alive somewhere, perhaps in secret.