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Wreck-It Ralph
Apr. 9th, 2022 04:07 pmI love all the characters in Wreck-It Ralph, but my heart is forever and always given to Sergeant Tamora Jean Calhoun, the hardass leader of a bunch of space marines fighting the scourge of evil space bugs. “She’s programmed with the most tragic backstory ever. The one day she didn’t do a perimeter check, her wedding day,” explains one of the troopers, and we leap into a cut scene of her wedding, where evil space bugs burst into the ceremony and killed her fiance and Sergeant Calhoun, just seconds too late! pulled out her space bug blaster and starts blazing away, roaring for vengeance.
The character is voice acted by Jane Lynch (and the character design is clearly based on Jane Lynch as well), who does the job to absolute perfection. Glorious. Beautiful. I love it.
But, as I said, I love everyone in this movie, and I love the movie’s loving mash-up and homage to arcade games - and I love the fact that it works perfectly well even if you, like me, know almost nothing about arcade games in particular or video games in general. More recent Disney movies, or rather MCU movies in particular, seem to be leaning harder on the idea that Easter eggs and multiverse connections in themselves make for a satisfying viewing experience. Wreck-It Ralph understands that these things are a lagniappe for viewers in the know, and that it can and should tell a story that is accessible to the uninitiated as well as the arcade fanatic.
The character is voice acted by Jane Lynch (and the character design is clearly based on Jane Lynch as well), who does the job to absolute perfection. Glorious. Beautiful. I love it.
But, as I said, I love everyone in this movie, and I love the movie’s loving mash-up and homage to arcade games - and I love the fact that it works perfectly well even if you, like me, know almost nothing about arcade games in particular or video games in general. More recent Disney movies, or rather MCU movies in particular, seem to be leaning harder on the idea that Easter eggs and multiverse connections in themselves make for a satisfying viewing experience. Wreck-It Ralph understands that these things are a lagniappe for viewers in the know, and that it can and should tell a story that is accessible to the uninitiated as well as the arcade fanatic.
