While I do think it overall lacks a little of the predecessor's character developement, I do think it managed to pick itself up as the movie progressed. The beginning of the movie seemed like a cliched and predictable plot of finding something important to fix something.
BUT, like I said, the movie makes up for it as it progresses, because when Ralph and Venellope break through to the internet it really gets interesting. We get an amazing interpretation of the internet with everything from internet culture, personifications of well known web-sites, viruses and search engines of many kinds.
And you can say what you want about the cameos of the Disney Princesses, but I thought they were hilarious! They do help out getting Venellope's character a purpose of her own instead of just letting her be left with that tiresome plot of finding that important thing. Disney has in recent years done a lot of self-referencing comedy which sometimes work and other times doesn't, but this one works all the way.
And like Venellope, Ralph gets a very well handled character arc which comes into fruition the more the movie progresses, so as a sequel to Wreck-It-Ralph that focuses on the friendship between those two characters, I think it managed to keep that spirit while expanding on the world of video games.
It may be lacking in the writing in the beginning and some of the earlier characters don't have much to do, but it was a satisfying continuation with high entertainment value.
BUT, like I said, the movie makes up for it as it progresses, because when Ralph and Venellope break through to the internet it really gets interesting. We get an amazing interpretation of the internet with everything from internet culture, personifications of well known web-sites, viruses and search engines of many kinds.
And you can say what you want about the cameos of the Disney Princesses, but I thought they were hilarious! They do help out getting Venellope's character a purpose of her own instead of just letting her be left with that tiresome plot of finding that important thing. Disney has in recent years done a lot of self-referencing comedy which sometimes work and other times doesn't, but this one works all the way.
And like Venellope, Ralph gets a very well handled character arc which comes into fruition the more the movie progresses, so as a sequel to Wreck-It-Ralph that focuses on the friendship between those two characters, I think it managed to keep that spirit while expanding on the world of video games.
It may be lacking in the writing in the beginning and some of the earlier characters don't have much to do, but it was a satisfying continuation with high entertainment value.