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Rango (2011)

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Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 207
Fresh: 182 | Rotten: 25

Rango is a smart, giddily creative burst of beautifully animated entertainment, and Johnny Depp gives a colorful vocal performance as a household pet in an unfamiliar world.

Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 5

Rango is a smart, giddily creative burst of beautifully animated entertainment, and Johnny Depp gives a colorful vocal performance as a household pet in an unfamiliar world.

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Rango is a sheltered chameleon living as an ordinary family pet, while facing a major identity crisis. After all, how high can you aim when your whole purpose in life is to blend in? When Rango accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt - a lawless outpost populated by the desert's most wily and whimsical creatures - the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his

PG, 1 hr. 47 min.

Action & Adventure, Animation, Kids & Family

Directed By: Gore Verbinski

Written By: John Logan

In Theaters: Mar 4, 2011 Wide

On DVD: Jul 15, 2011

Box Office:$123.2M

Paramount Pictures

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Cast

Abigail Breslin
Priscilla
Isla Fisher
Beans
Alfred Molina
Roadkill
Harry Dean Stanton
Balthazar
Ned Beatty
Mayor
Ray Winstone
Bad Bill
Timothy Olyphant
The Spirit of the West
Ian Abercrombie
Ambrose
Keith Campbell
Sod Buster
Blake Clark
Buford
John Cothran Jr.
Elgin
Patrika Darbo
Delilah, Maybelle
Johnny Depp
Lars, Rango
Charles Fleischer
Elbows
Beth Grant
Bonnie
Bill Nighy
Rattlesnake Jake
Stephen Root
Doc, Merrimack, Mr. Snu...
Gil Birmingham
Wounded Bird
Alanna Ubach
Boo Cletus, Daisy, Fres...
Vincent Kartheiser
Ezekiel, Lasso Rodent
Ryan Hurst
Jedidiah
Gore Verbinski
Crevice, Lupe - Mariach...
George Del Hoyo
Señor Flan - Mariachi ...
Kym E. Whitley
Melonee
Claudia Black
Angelique
Mark "Crash" McCreery
Parsons
Maile Flanagan
Lucky
Alex Manugian
Spoons
Lew Temple
Furgus, Hitch
Joseph A. Nu�ez
Rock-Eye
Chris Parson
Boseefus, Clinker, Dirt...
Hemky Madera
Chorizo
James Ward Byrkit
Cousin Murt, CurlieKnif...

Critic Reviews for Rango

All Critics (207) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (185) | Rotten (26) | DVD (9)

Just when you thought you'd seen everything, here comes Chinatown, the animated version.

March 25, 2011 Full Review Source: Newsday

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Rafer Guzman

Newsday

Top Critic

Though young children may enjoy it, the film is built for viewers of any age with a taste for joyful anarchy.

March 14, 2011 Full Review Source: New Yorker

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Bruce Diones

New Yorker

Top Critic

The first animated film from ILM is also the first memorable motion picture of 2011.

March 6, 2011 Full Review Source: ReelViews

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James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

Adults and slightly older children should have a great time.

March 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger

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Stephen Whitty

Newark Star-Ledger

Top Critic

A CGI western comedy populated by desert critters, Rango gives the film year a belated jump start with a passel of movie-wise fun and a knockout animation style.

March 4, 2011 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine

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Richard Corliss

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

With his first animated feature, Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski shows ambitions considerably beyond producing the usual standard of most children's fare. To put it plainly, Rango is one weird movie.

March 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail

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Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

Packed with in-jokes, great characters and an offbeat anti-hero, Rango is the perfect shake-up the animated genre needed.

January 29, 2012 Full Review Source: IGN DVD

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R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

At long last, a spaghetti Western for the kiddie set -- and one that doesn't sell older viewers short.

January 3, 2012 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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Jason Buchanan

TV Guide's Movie Guide

Oddball existential western animation.

December 29, 2011 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

An animated walk on the dry side

December 24, 2011 Full Review Source: JWR

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S. James Wegg

JWR

Unfocused and absolutely scattered...

December 17, 2011 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

... The best non-Pixar animated movie in recent memory ...

November 5, 2011 Full Review Source: Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

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Greg Maki

Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

Set in a surreally off-kilter version of the Wild West populated entirely by animals, computer-animated Western Rango is both a witty spoof and loving homage to the genre.

July 25, 2011 Full Review Source: Movie Talk

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Jason Best

Movie Talk Source: Movie Talk

Kudos to the director for making it as oddball as it could get away with.

July 20, 2011 Full Review Source: Window to the Movies

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Jeffrey Chen

Window to the Movies

An intriguing mess of a film with genres and templates colliding at every turn, Rango receives an excellent audio/visual treatment and some solid extras from Paramount.

July 20, 2011 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Chris Cabin

Slant Magazine

Fans of Johnny Depp will enjoy his voice work as the nutty Rango; he is obviously having a good time. Ned Beatty's voice is easily recognizable as the main villain, giving him a one-two punch after working as the nasty Lotso in Toy Story 3...

July 18, 2011 Full Review Source: indieWIRE

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Leonard Maltin

indieWIRE

... this southwestern goof is really for really big kids with a love of movies, a sense of whimsy and a soft spot for the hideously gorgeous creatures of the desert.

July 12, 2011 Full Review Source: MSN.com

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Sean Axmaker

MSN.com

It's one of those movies that will reveal more and more to youngsters as they rewatch it in years to come... and that's the best kind of film.

July 7, 2011 Full Review Source: The Standard

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Matt Neal

The Standard Source: The Standard

Mark it up as a good try and in order to succeed, it may have to grow on a person. (Blu-ray Combo edition)

July 7, 2011 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

For good or for bad, this is not your run-of-the-mill animated feature.

July 7, 2011 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Rango is Disney by way of Hunter S. Thompson, Chinatown recast with a lizard, Blazing Saddles with existential angst, Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns romanticallyspoofed. Rango is both weird and wonderful.

July 6, 2011 Full Review Source: BrandonFibbs.com

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Brandon Fibbs

BrandonFibbs.com

Inevitably, as seems to be the law with any modern animation, there's an intertextual dimension to the proceedings.

June 29, 2011 Full Review Source: The Ooh Tray

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Ed Whitfield

The Ooh Tray Source: The Ooh Tray

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Great fun amazing animation especially on blu ray. Loved the shout out to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas early on. A fun strange trip of a movie that had me just gleefully going along. Good times.

March 23, 2011

John Manard

Super Reviewer

Visuals are possibly the best I've seen from an animated movie. Unfortunately, Rango suffers from a very uninteresting character, plot, and setting. Doesn't bring enough to make it a very enjoyable experience.

October 24, 2011

Albert Kim

Super Reviewer

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1. Rock-Eye: YOU SON OF A.....
– Submitted by Justice S (54 days ago)
1. Se�or Flan - Mariachi Accordion: We are gathered here today to immortalize in song, the life and untimely death of a great legend. So sit back, relax, and enjoy your low calorie popcorn and assorted confections, while we tell you the strange and bewildering tale of a hero who has yet to enter his own story.
– Submitted by Amore N (55 days ago)
1. Spoons: I once found a human spinal column in my fecal matter.
– Submitted by Young K (2 months ago)
1. Beans: [hears coyote howl] Such a lonely sound.
– Submitted by Diego T (3 months ago)
1. Sergeant Turley: [back against Buford's] All this talk of that serpentine devil's puttin' my grill on edge!
2. Buford: I ain't sleeping tonight, no sir.
– Submitted by Diego T (3 months ago)

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