Rating of
3/4
Visually entertaining!
MovieAddict - wrote on 02/24/12
The story is about a bug-eyed lizard who has spent most of his life alone playing in an aquarium until one day it crashes on the highway. He wanders through the desert, evading hungry birds and heat exhaustion until he comes across a prim and proper lizard named Beans (Isla Fisher) who is struggling to keep her father's ranch. Lamenting the mysterious lack of water in her Small Wild West town of Dirt, she decides to bring Rango along where he quickly realizes that finally he has the chance to be somebody. When he walks into the local bar he is harassed by the locals but being the Thespian chameleon that he is he quickly comes up with a character and a name, Rango and decides to embellish certain facts about his life, starting with the fact that he's a talented gunslinger.
After a good deal of bluff and dumb luck, he is appointed sheriff but there is a new threat in the form of a new villain named RattleSnake Jake, voiced by Bill Nighy who intimidates the population of Dirt with an underlying purpose that only gradually becomes clear.
If you're a fan of the Western genre, you'll notice that the spirit is modeled after Clint Eastwood. If that wasn't enough, it turns out the spirit is called "The Man With No Name", a reference to "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", which also had Clint Eastwood in it.
Outrageously funny, smart and strikingly original! The one thing I found upsetting was the use of profanity which really spoils some of the scenes. I wish films wouldn’t promote this language to kids; we have enough of it in society as it is.
