{"id":32793,"date":"2013-03-10T20:08:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T02:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/10\/movie-review-wreck-it-ralph-2012.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T15:22:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T22:22:15","slug":"movie-review-wreck-it-ralph-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/10\/movie-review-wreck-it-ralph-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "Wreck-It Ralph" (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"
This movie could have been a 5-star classic if they had just figured out what they wanted to do with it. But as muddled as it tends to get, the fun factor keeps it enjoyable.<\/div>\n

\n

\n \n <\/div>\n

Dave Hill\u2019s \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 review of Wreck-It Ralph (2012) on Letterboxd.com<\/a>
\n There’s so much to love about this movie that I’m actually sorry I don’t like it better. WIR does for old school video games what Roger Rabbit did for classic cartoons — mash ’em up, play with the tr…\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This movie could have been a 5-star classic if they had just figured out what they wanted to do with it. But as muddled as it tends to get, the fun factor keeps it enjoyable. Dave Hill\u2019s \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 review of Wreck-It Ralph (2012) on Letterboxd.com There’s so much to love about this movie that I’m … Continue reading “Movie Review: "Wreck-It Ralph" (2012)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,45,263,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-cartoons","category-disney","category-gaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49585,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/15\/father-daughter-movie-week-in-review.html","url_meta":{"origin":32793,"position":0},"title":"Father-Daughter Movie Week in Review","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 15-Feb-15 3:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"+Margie Kleerup was off on mostly-business last week, so +Kay Hill and I got to watch a lot of movie -- though not as many as I wanted, as it was a fairly busy week in other ways. So here's what we watched, with links to my Letterboxd reviews.1984 (1984)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Movie%2BTheater%2BAudience.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Movie%2BTheater%2BAudience.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Movie%2BTheater%2BAudience.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":37945,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/29\/movie-review-dogma-1999.html","url_meta":{"origin":32793,"position":1},"title":"Movie Review: "Dogma" (1999)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 29-Jun-13 10:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I really love this movie. A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 review of Dogma (1999) It's easy to dismiss \"Dogma\" as a foul-mouthed, irreverent, anti-religious diatribe. Easy, and wrong. Except for the foul-mouthed part. And maybe the irreverent part (though there's a goodly amount of reverence involved), and possibly the religious part (if by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32756,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/17\/movie-review-indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade.html","url_meta":{"origin":32793,"position":2},"title":"Movie Review: "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 17-Mar-13 9:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Quite entertaining, after all these years. Plus, a slew of quotable lines. Dave Hill\u2019s \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) on Letterboxd.com Twenty-four years ... crikey. \"Last Crusade\" is just a damned fine movie. It rivals the first Indy movie, \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41905,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/01\/movie-review-the-magnificent-seven-1960.html","url_meta":{"origin":32793,"position":3},"title":"Movie Review: "The Magnificent Seven" (1960)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 1-May-14 10:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"When +Kay Hill\u00a0had this in tonight's stack of Father\/Daughter Movie Week offerings, I jumped at the opportunity. \u00a0(And, yes, I am slipping The Seven Samurai in there for next week.)\ufeff A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 review of The Magnificent Seven (1960) Both a great Western and a great adaptation of the classic Seven\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":33026,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/03\/movie-review-lincoln-2012.html","url_meta":{"origin":32793,"position":4},"title":"Movie Review: "Lincoln" (2012)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-Apr-13 7:04am","format":false,"excerpt":"I saw this on my flight to the UK last week. Even on a tiny little LCD screen, it was of mammoth proportions and weight. Dave Hill\u2019s \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of Lincoln (2012) on Letterboxd.com On the one hand, Lincoln practically defines grand, even epic, historic drama. The production values are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32214,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/15\/movie-review-beauty-and-the-beast-1991.html","url_meta":{"origin":32793,"position":5},"title":"Movie Review: "Beauty and the Beast" (1991)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Jan-13 9:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Holy Moley. 1991?! 22 years ago? \u00a0KAY: \"You know, this is a movie I'd like to see them do a modern version of.\"DADDY: \"!!??!!\" Embedded Link Dave Hill\u2019s \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of Beauty and the Beast (1991) on Letterboxd.com The second of the \"modern\" Disney animation revolution (after \"The Little Mermaid\"),\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47783,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32793\/revisions\/47783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}