Ralph Breaks the Internet is almost out in theaters, which means the movie`s review embargo has lifted. Check out our full review if you want to know what we thought, and keep reading to discover how the movie made the internet into a living, breathing city.Everyone, including Ralph Breaks the Internet`s new character Yesss, knows the first rule of the internet: Don`t read the comments. Yesss, played by Taraji P. Henson, dispenses that wisdom to Ralph when the big guy stumbles into the comments room in the upcoming sequel. The scene raises a question: If you`re not supposed to read the comments, why have a comments room at all? Because that`s just how the internet works, as envisioned by the minds at Disney Animation.Of course, Ralph (John C. Reilly) and his good pal Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) have to actually get to the internet before Ralph can break it. The original Wreck-It Ralph centered on the duo`s arcade, which was grounded in the real, offline world. But in Ralph 2, Mr. Litwak (Ed OŽNeill) buys a router, and that gives Ralph and Vanellope the fiber-optics highway they need to get online. With that concept in place, Disney had its work cut out: What is the internet like in the world of Wreck-It Ralph?For inspiration, they looked to a real world hub of the internet: 1 Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles. This building is apparently a crossroads for all the internet traffic in North America--it all passes through 1 Wilshire. `This building is literally filled from top to bottom with wires and boxes,` said Ralph Breaks the Internet co-director Rich Moore. `It was this research trip that began to inspire our version of what the internet might look like.`They took the look of 1 Wilshire, with all its multicolored wires, tubes, motherboards, and blinking servers, and combined it with the architecture and layout of a city, the endless screens of Times Square, and the signage and personality of an average street. The next step was natural: `If the internet was a city ...
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