An animated movie with breathtaking visuals, there are times when you forget that Rango is in fact, an animated movie. Sure, it was hailed as groundbreaking with its graphics, just like the latest Pixar movie of the year, but this movie is rich in just about everything.
A pet chameleon ( voiced by Johnny Depp) finds himself the vast Mojave Desert. After escaping death at the hands (talons, rather) of a hungry eagle, he quite literally walks into a Western - the seedy desert town of Dirt, populated by a host of talking horned lizards, toads and prairie dogs, most not as cute as they sound.
Calling himself Rango, he wastes no time at building up a fearsome reputation (seven gunslingers dead with one bullet is the rumor), and wins the respect of - well, all of Dirt. Dirt has a problem - its water supply is vanishing. Every sheriff who dares to solve the mystery vanishes.
Will Rango join their ranks, or become the hero of his own story? Adults will enjoy the movie’s incredible sequences as much as their kids: Rango landing on the windshield of a car driven by Hunter S. Thompson, making a rope of Twizzlers to escape a vending machine, or eluding a giant posse of hillbilly molerats in a sequence comparable to the final showdown in Star Wars. If I haven’t already mentioned - it’s a movie lover’s movie - with nods to classics like Chinatown, Apocalypse Now and High Noon.
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