Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)

Most people think so. 78% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 80%.

Video game bad guy Ralph and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz must risk it all by traveling to the World Wide Web in search of a replacement part to save Vanellope's video game, Sugar Rush. In way over their heads, Ralph and Vanellope rely on the citizens of the internet — the netizens — to help navigate their way, including an entrepreneur named Yesss, who is the head algorithm and the heart and soul of trend-making site BuzzzTube. Wikipedia ↗

Ralph Breaks the Internet is a 2018 American animated comedy produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, the sequel to Wreck-It Ralph. When the steering wheel controller for Sugar Rush breaks, Ralph and Vanellope must travel through a newly installed Wi-Fi router into the internet to find a replacement part on eBay. Their journey through the digital landscape takes them through search engines, social media platforms, the dark web, and a Disney website where Vanellope encounters all the Disney Princesses in a viral fan-favorite scene.

The film's depiction of the internet as a vast, commercialized cityscape — with pop-up ads as street hawkers, viruses as digital pathogens, and algorithms as invisible forces directing traffic — was inventive and visually stunning. The Disney Princess scene, in which the princesses bond with Vanellope in casual modern clothing and self-aware dialogue that poked fun at their own tropes, became the film's most discussed and merchandised element. Ralph Breaks the Internet earned $529 million worldwide.