There just isn't enough heart in the characters or the story to make Wreck-It Ralph more than just a passing enjoyment.
So maybe if we're lucky enough to actually get the chance to make Wreck-It Ralph 2, Ralph and Vanellope can then take a trip to Extreme Easy Living 2. And audiences can then get to see all of the social gaming gags that we came up with".
Ticket prices are rising, but Nascar and driving teams seem aware that dangerous thrills are part of the package; recent safety measures have concentrated on making wrecks less fatal, not ending them.
But this very notion, the idea of a movie where all of the Disney Princess characters interact with each other in the same physical space, makes Wreck-It Ralph Breaks the Internet into a minor event flick when it opens this November.
In the late 50's MGM assigned Alfred Hitchcock and the screenwriter Ernest Lehman to make "The Wreck of the Mary Deare," a project of zero interest to either of them.
Yet other than the contemporary setting, it is very much of a piece with "Roses," with twists piled atop twists, and well-intentioned characters who seem to make a wreck of things.
Salvage crews and divers are working around the clock to prepare for hoisting the 114,000-ton ship upright in September, before winter storms make the wreck, with its sodden mattresses, scattered deck chairs and rotten food, even more unstable.
He said afterward that he was still forming his opinion about the Raelians, but he liked that they "are trying to build something, not just make money, wreck things and line their pockets like everybody else here".
So John and Sarah have told me that -- if Disney ever wants to make a Wreck-It Ralph 2 -- they're in.
"The Salvator Mundi is a heavily made-over wreck of a work with no history before 1900," said Daley.
With the butts of their muskets they dashed in the plate glass of the store doors, and entering, made a wreck of everything with the celerity of magic.
