With 'Ralph Breaks the Internet,' Walt Disney Animation Studios enters a new chapter in its history

When Rich Moore and Phil Johnston first began developing the 2012 Disney animated feature "Wreck-It Ralph," they had one overriding goal: to make a genuinely funny movie.

Not cute. Not chuckling-quietly-to-yourself pleasant. Just flat-out funny.

Having come from outside the Disney fold - Moore had cut his teeth on "The Simpsons," and Johnston had scripted the R-rated indie comedy "Cedar Rapids" - the two were initially cautioned by some not to get their hopes up.

"I remember people saying, 'It's impossible - Disney animation is clever and amusing and sweet, but it's not built to be funny,'" Moore said recently at the Walt Disney Animation Studios headquarters in Burbank. "But we came in here with the dream of proving that you