LOS ANGELES -- Walt Disney's video-game romp "Wreck-It Ralph" has won top animation honors at the Annie Awards.
The comedy hit about a video-game vil...
Professionally I'm a sculptor, and the director of a nonprofit that serves emerging LGBT artists. Tonight however, I'm a pissed off gay gamer sitting in front of a keyboard.
Wreck-It Ralph will definitely appeal to the "gamers" in the audience; however its overall appeal will be limited. There just isn't enough heart in the characters or the story to make Wreck-It Ralph more than just a passing enjoyment.
Anyone who has ever been caught up in the videogame revolution that exploded in the late 1970s and early 1980s -- which has all but consumed popular culture for kids and teens in the time since -- should have a ball with Wreck-It Ralph.
Not that you needed another reason to get excited for "Wreck-It Ralph," the animated movie that seems destined to do for video games what "Toy Story" ...