dir. Gore Verbinski (Mousehunt, 1997)
VOICES
Ned Beatty (Back to School, 1986)
Gil Birmingham (Eclipse, 2010)
Abigail Breslin (Zombieland, 2009)
Johnny Depp (Dead Man, 1995)
Gil Birmingham (Eclipse, 2010)
Abigail Breslin (Zombieland, 2009)
Johnny Depp (Dead Man, 1995)
Isla Fisher (I Heart Huckabees, 2004)
Charles Fleischer (Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (voice), 1988)
Beth Grant (Flatliners, 1990)
Alfred Molina (Dead Man, 1995)
Beth Grant (Flatliners, 1990)
Alfred Molina (Dead Man, 1995)
Bill Nighy (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow Part 1, 2010)
Harry Dean Stanton (Alien, 1979)
Ray Winstone (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, 2005)
Good Lord! Finally I see a computer animated movie that I actually like! I feel that Rango had an interesting and compelling plot that was both intensely amusing as well as attaining a level of emotional depth that I thought was appropriate for the material. The character development was tangible and neither the thematic element nor the humor insulted my intelligence. Kiefer was so pleased when we chose this off the On Demand that he gave me a long tight hug, so clearly it was a hit with the younger audience as well, proving my long-standing assertion that you don't need to dumb down the material to make kids happy. Let's treat children like clever and insightful individuals and, God willing, they may become such.
This was fun for me last time, so I thought I'd do another brief interview with my little brother, Kiefer.
P: Can you tell me what Rango was about?
K: Well, it started out from a lizard, or should I say, whatever you want to call it, a chameleon. Is that right?
P: Yep.
K: The chameleon, also known as Rango, who's told from a armadillo that he found outside of Rango's little box in the car--he didn't have any real friends until that armadillo showed up with little tire marks on him...
P: Hang on, Kief, you don't need to give a whole play-by-play, you can just sort of sum it all up.
K: It's kind of hard to tell because it's a long story. I don't really remember most of it but I do think it's a good movie.
P: Did you like Rango better than Gnomeo & Juliet or Tangled?
K: It's kind of hard to say 'cause they're all animated, which is equal. And they're all different kind of comedies, that's equal. I can't really compare it because they're almost the same and equally divided, and they're all comedies. So I don't really know what would be better, because they're only movies and they're all animated and they're comedies and they're all, like, journeys.
P: I don't know if Gnomeo & Juliet was really a journey.
K: I said sort of like a journey.
P: OK, sorry. Did you like the way the characters talked in Rango?
K: Yeah, you could say, but I don't understand why that would be a question because different people talk in different ways. But I also wonder if all the voices are done by the same person like Looney Tunes.
P: Did you think it was harder to understand than Gnomeo & Juliet?
K: No, not really.
P: OK, one last question. What do you think is the most important thing for a really good movie?
K: Most of the time I think it would be the thrill or a journey that takes place. Or something happens to someone really poor or really alone with no friends and ends up to be in a journey for life and death, just like Jane Eyre.
Last night Kiefer and I and our Mom watched Jane Eyre On Demand. So I guess that's why he stuck it in there at the end. I guess if you think of it that way, Rango is a little bit like Jane Eyre, minus the madwoman locked in the attic. I suppose what we could glean from this is that kids don't really know what they're watching, so there's no reason the adults have to be utterly bored and maybe some of those big words are penetrating the subconscious. In conclusion: Rango = more like this please.
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