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Rango (2011)
I saw Daniel M recommending this animated feature in a lot of his posts, so I decided to watch it this afternoon.
I was EXTREMELY entertained during the whole movie. This film is a gorgeous animated tribute (and spoof) to the Spaghetti Western genre and more specifically to Leone's western movies.
The other thing I really liked about it was the fact that it followed a plot line from one of my favorite movies of all time, Chinatown.
The film tells the story of a lonely chameleon who is 'accidentally' dropped on a road in the middle of the desert. He meets Roadkill, who tells him to follow his own shadow to find water.
After a long walk with some obstacles along the way, he meets a girl lizard, named Beans, who brings him to a typical western town. In a saloon, he tries to impress the residents of the town, by stating that he is Rango, a fearless cowboy, and making up stories about his supposed heroics. The town believes him and when he kills a hawk with luck, they worship him even more and the evil mayor of the town, who is modelled after Chinatown's Noah Cross, makes him the town sherrif, to give the inhabitants a false feeling of security.
The town has one big problem. Their water resources are shrinking and nobody knows why. When the bank is actually robbed and the town becomes officially waterless, Rango teams up with some of the bravest villagers and starts a search for water. During this quest, he comes across an army of underground animals, corrupt politics, one of the coolest villains in recent animation fillm memory, named Rattlesnake Jake, the spirit of the West and... Himself.
The story is great, the animation is stunning, the characters are colorful, the music is perfectly fitting and sometimes pleasantly unexpected, the humor is good and there are plenty of fun references for movie lovers! What's not to like? This movie is one of the best American animated films I've seen in a long time. I rate this film:
+
Rango (2011)
I saw Daniel M recommending this animated feature in a lot of his posts, so I decided to watch it this afternoon.
I was EXTREMELY entertained during the whole movie. This film is a gorgeous animated tribute (and spoof) to the Spaghetti Western genre and more specifically to Leone's western movies.
The other thing I really liked about it was the fact that it followed a plot line from one of my favorite movies of all time, Chinatown.
The film tells the story of a lonely chameleon who is 'accidentally' dropped on a road in the middle of the desert. He meets Roadkill, who tells him to follow his own shadow to find water.
After a long walk with some obstacles along the way, he meets a girl lizard, named Beans, who brings him to a typical western town. In a saloon, he tries to impress the residents of the town, by stating that he is Rango, a fearless cowboy, and making up stories about his supposed heroics. The town believes him and when he kills a hawk with luck, they worship him even more and the evil mayor of the town, who is modelled after Chinatown's Noah Cross, makes him the town sherrif, to give the inhabitants a false feeling of security.
The town has one big problem. Their water resources are shrinking and nobody knows why. When the bank is actually robbed and the town becomes officially waterless, Rango teams up with some of the bravest villagers and starts a search for water. During this quest, he comes across an army of underground animals, corrupt politics, one of the coolest villains in recent animation fillm memory, named Rattlesnake Jake, the spirit of the West and... Himself.
The story is great, the animation is stunning, the characters are colorful, the music is perfectly fitting and sometimes pleasantly unexpected, the humor is good and there are plenty of fun references for movie lovers! What's not to like? This movie is one of the best American animated films I've seen in a long time. I rate this film:
+