Review of Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) by Eludiumq36 — 28 Feb 2019
This is mostly for the kids, pretty dumbed down, they even define Wifi and "the internet", but I continued watching because I wanted to see how they represented the internet. Would Facebook dominate? Would all the big names - Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Netflix - be represented, parodied? As it turns out, the internet was depicted as a space-age cityscape.
It looks like Ebay bought the biggest sponsorship since they figured prominently in the story, though later, Disney got its play, mainly in the Disney Princess realm, so let me just say it now, this film seems really aimed at the daddy-daughter set.
Google was represented as a high-rise office bldg where Ralph thought you got goggles. And I'm sure, much to Google's chagrin, "The Search Bar" was powered by fictional KnowsMore, and they used BuzzzTube vs YouTube (though the latter was referenced), so it looks like you only see a real-world representation if they paid the movie's production company for the ad-space, and the big names mentioned before were barely seen in the background if at all.
Back to the story or rather the theme. As noted before, the key demographic for this is daddy-daughter and the prominent theme was the vicissitudes of kiddie friendship. A letdown for me.
This review of Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) was written by Eludiumq36 on 28 February 2019.
Ralph Breaks the Internet has generally received positive reviews.
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