I noticed that all the references disappeared about an hour in. They were an afterthought and served strictly to set up the mood, which amazes me even more that they bothered to get the original voices wherever possible for like one line each when they could just as easily have gotten bit part actors for those lines.

That said, I had a beef with the ending.
[SPOILER:97a2237d92]Was it ever explained why Vanellope winning the qualifying race would undo everything Turbo did? I get that she's the main character and therefore magical or whatever, but how exactly is a kinda-sorta-not-actually-a-glitch character winning an unattended race supposed to reverse what is essentially a ROM hack? Since her data was unlinked from the rest of the main loop, I would have sooner expected the game to crash as it would have inserted a non-existing object into a character slot.

Ignoring all of that, how exactly did Turbo manage to lay low for thirty years to infect a present-day game? Where was he all that time? Did I miss something while they were hauling the defective machines away in the flashback?[/SPOILER:97a2237d92]

Aside from all of that, Paperman was awesome. It's like the director watched way too many Makoto Shinkai films. It had a much better romance plot than the main movie did for sure.

Also, stay around for the last easter egg in the Walt Disney logo after the credits.

UsaSatsui wrote:

The-Excel wrote: [SPOILER:2d06fa4699]Was it ever explained why Vanellope winning the qualifying race would undo everything Turbo did? I get that she's the main character and therefore magical or whatever, but how exactly is a kinda-sorta-not-actually-a-glitch character winning an unattended race supposed to reverse what is essentially a ROM hack? Since her data was unlinked from the rest of the main loop, I would have sooner expected the game to crash as it would have inserted a non-existing object into a character slot. Ignoring all of that, how exactly did Turbo manage to lay low for thirty years to infect a present-day game? Where was he all that time? Did I miss something while they were hauling the defective machines away in the flashback?[/SPOILER:2d06fa4699] [SPOILER:2d06fa4699]The way I saw it, Turbo took Vanellope's "spot" in the game. By finishing the race, she effectively DID crash the game. The game automatically rebooted, loading up the default settings and undoing the changes, which effectively wrote Turbo out of the game. As for Turbo, I dunno, I figure he's just been hiding in other racing games all this time, hopping to a new one when an old one got pulled. [/SPOILER:2d06fa4699] I think the more confusing thing here is, what kind of arcade doesn't turn the power off at night? That's a fuckton of electricity being wasted.

[SPOILER:2d06fa4699]Turbo was already written out when he was destroyed by the beacon with the Cybugs. As for the arcade machines being left on overnight, I accepted it in the same way a lot of office buildings and stores leave a few lights on all the time. The plot would have ground to a halt otherwise.

I guess I'll accept that by finishing the race, NVRAM was corrupted which caused the game to load factory defaults on next boot or something. Games these days are stored on hard drives so it's not unreasonable that there would be data recovery routines built in; the virus disabled them as long as it was present in memory. I would have also complained that Turbo could have just deleted Vanellope as well as the memories wholesale, but he just wasn't able to so he locked them out instead. Although why the whole of the characters' memories are stored in a separate object from the objects themselves is still beyond me, but now I'm being a pedant.

As for Turbo hiding for 30 years and silently infecting other racing games before being confronted directly in Sugar Rush, I would have liked to have seen that detail. Surely it couldn't have been difficult to hint at his presence during all that time?[/SPOILER:2d06fa4699]

I have only one problem with all the references:
[SPOILER:2d06fa4699]Metal Gear Solid was never an arcade game. It was still funny the way it was implemented, but still. I'm sure David Hayter would have appreciated a one line cameo as well.[/SPOILER:2d06fa4699]

The game references were all part of a grand bait-and-switch to attract our age demographic. We get to enjoy them for the first act, then they're all brushed aside for a decent plot. It would have been chaos for the movie to jump from game to game frequently. Maybe a made-for-TV or direct-to-video movie could do that, but not a theatrical release where tight focus is more important.

lordsathien wrote:

The-Excel wrote: I have only one problem with all the references: [SPOILER:c255a475e6]Metal Gear Solid was never an arcade game. It was still funny the way it was implemented, but still. I'm sure David Hayter would have appreciated a one line cameo as well.[/SPOILER:c255a475e6] [SPOILER:c255a475e6]Neither was Lara Croft as far as I'm aware.[/SPOILER:c255a475e6]

[SPOILER:c255a475e6]I figured someone would bring that up, but namedrops are okay. Having an actual gameplay element from a non-arcade game threw me off for a moment. Come to think of it, as far as I know, the Konami code was never used in an arcade game, unless you count the Konami games in the PlayChoice-10, which I did.[/SPOILER:c255a475e6]