What About Your Friends? Disney Explores the Complexities of Friendship in “Ralph Breaks the Internet”

Its been over 25 years since T-Boz, Left-Eye, and Chili (TLC) asked “What About Your Friends?”. Two decads later, a pair of beloved arcade game characters look to answer the question in Disney’s animated family comedy Ralph Breaks the Internet, a fun, fast-paced sequel to the 2012 hit, Wreck It Ralph. Vanellope and Ralph Ralph Breaks the Internet brings us back to Litwack’s Family Fun Center & Arcade six-and-a-half years after the first movie ended. Here Ralph (John C. Reilly), a muscle head with a heart-of-gold is happily content to spend his days hanging out with his BFF Vanellope (Sarah Silverman), the car racing princess from the neighboring Sugar Rush arcade game. While Ralph is happy to watch the sun come up in the real world day-in and day-out, Vanellope yearns for something more. When Ralph hops into her Sugar Rush to dig a new race track for one of Vanellope’s races, things go haywire and the game’s steering wheel breaks off. When Mr. Litwak decides not to buy a replacement wheel on eBay because its too expensive, Ralph and Vanellope travel through the newly installed Wi-Fi to the search the Internet for the part themselves to save the game from being permanently unplugged. And that’s when things get crazy. When Ralph and Vanellope go into the Internet, they find themselves in a futuristic, high-speed world reminiscent of “The Jetsons”, from the flying cars to the super-fast tech. No shade to country folk, but it’s like watching someone from the most rural parts …