6) Wreck-It Ralph
Being an ode to video games from years past, Wreck-It Ralph seemed committed to including as many arcade characters as possible in its world, which understandably resulted in a busy and crowded cast of recognizable animated stars. Its depiction of these separate game worlds being united by this singular universe is reminiscent of the recent Lego Movie’s terrific journey between its various realms. While it’s not as frantically paced as Lego or the other movies on this list, Wreck-It Ralph has just so much beautiful visual information to take in that it can almost be distracting from the actual story. It’s so great looking and brilliantly conceived that it would be enough just to hang out in this world a little bit longer and explore every part of it.
Stories are told in movies when simply telling them to someone verbally doesn’t capture the totality of whatever it is they’re meant to express. Sometimes, there is a multitude of ideas or feelings that are best expressed through the combination of image and sound, and even best expressed by blasting these images and sounds so loudly that your face hurts. It’s another kind of experience unique to cinema.
