The Disney Animation panel at Friday's D23 Expo included an exclusive sneak peek at a mixture of rough and more polished animation from Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2, the high point of which was an extended sequence showing Vanellope Von Schweetz (Sarah Silverman, who was on hand to help present the footage) encountering ALL the Disney animated princesses, from Snow White to Moana.
In the film, Ralph and Vanellope escape the arcade and enter the Internet so she can find a fix for her Sugar Rush game. During their journey, they encounter Yesss, an algorithm of a trending site called Buzzaholic voiced by Empire and Hidden Figures' Taraji P. Henson. She takes them to OhMyDisney.com, where nearly every Disney-owned intellectual property is represented, from Disney and Pixar Animation (we see a Buzz Lightyear toy in a Toy Story 4 product box) to Marvel (hey, look, it's Stan Lee!) and Lucasfilm.
"Yesss is a new character who owns the website Buzzaholic,” said Henson in a statement released after the presentation. “Yesss knows about everything cool and on trend. And she does spell her name with a triple ‘s.’ Yesss is very savvy, smart and sexy.”
The sequence shown starts with Vanellope wanting to mess with the Disney princesses -- described as "those perfect models of feminity" and who appear to be having a slumber party -- but soon finding them far rougher than she expected. The whole point of the scene is that Vannelope learns the Disney princesses are actually as messed up as she is and they accept her as a princess herself. And Vanellope also gets a costume change by the end of the scene.
There are jabs at Merida's thick Scottish accent ("She's from the other studio," one princess quips), the notion of a princess needing a big strong man to save her, and, of course, princesses bursting into song. There is not a Disney animation trope that isn't lovingly lampooned here in rapid-fire succession.
But the princesses weren't the only familiar Disney-owned IP who popped up in the sequence. The Disney princesses are guarded by Star Wars' stormtroopers and later C-3PO shows up as an assistant of sorts -- not that he gets any respect from the Princesses, who chide him as "BB-8" and "Artoo." He grumbles that he misses the old Solo days.
Disney brought back all the living voice actors behind the Disney princesses to voice their characters again, including Kristen Bell (Frozen's Anna), Ming-Na Wen (Mulan), Idina Menzel (Frozen's Elsa), Jodi Benson (Arial in Little Mermaid), Paige O'Hara (Beauty), Kelli MacDonald (Brave's Merida), Linda Larkin (Aladdin's Jasmine), Irene Bedard (Pocahontas), Anika Noni Rose (Tana from Princess and the Frog), Mandy Moore (Tangled's Rapunzel), and Auli'i Cravalho (Moana).
After the clip was shown, the actresses themselves took the stage at D23 Expo to the delight of the fans. With the voice cast assembled around him, John Lasseter observed, “What is really awesome about that sequence is that we got the actual actresses who played the princesses in the original film to voice their iconic characters for that scene. Isn’t that great?”
It sure was.
Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 opens November 21, 2018.
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