Wreck-It Ralph

I love great animated movies, so it's not that I can't appreciate kid shows at all. I do find it odd that Wreck it Ralph could score anywhere near something like Rise of the Guardians as it has. Even more odd, being a Disney film, I actually found while it was far more immature in terms of writing than its competing Dreamworks release, it was oddly far more mean spirited. I took a four year old boy to both. During this movie he had a lot of trouble remaining interested while he was riveted at Rise of the Guardians. A week later he could name all 5 main characters from Guardians, yet right after, he could only name Ralph tonight. He had no idea who the bad guy even was. All these things strike me as odd while the audience did indeed seem to enjoy themselves. What I mean by mean spirited is that several characters behave quite poorly, setting terrible examples for young kids, whom I have to presume this is aimed at based on the effort in writing. The good guys tease and taunt, pick on others somewhat nastily and most annoying of all were the disguised bad words used throughout the movie suggesting then that foul mouths are funny even if we have to make up new foul language. As an adult with no issues regarding adults using foul language, I still didn't get any added entertainment value from this concept because frankly, I'm not simple enough to be amused by it. Most of all, the movie felt disjointed or patched together. Saving graces were some nice visuals and fine voice acting. I went to the comparisons between two movies because we saw them back to back and because I find it a tragedy that Rise of the Guardians isn't just killing it at the box office compared to this pedestrian effort.