Rango

Rewatching Rango absolutely blew me away. I remembered it being a cool and quirky little film, but I’d completely forgotten just how bold, surreal, and visually inventive it actually is. This thing is a love letter to Westerns, but through a cracked, psychedelic lens, and what it does with that foundation is genuinely impressive.

From the very first scene, the animation is incredible: gritty, hyper-detailed, and packed with wild creativity. The cinematography (yes, in an animated film!) is genuinely top-tier, with some shots that rival live-action movies. Every character design is unique and bursting with personality, giving the whole world this dusty, sun-bleached weirdness that just works.

The humor’s surprisingly sharp, the action is slick, and the pacing is tight from beginning to end. It’s one of those rare animated films that feels like it was made by artists going completely unchained, layering in existential themes, meta moments, surreal imagery, and western myth in ways that kids might miss but adults will absolutely eat up.

Rango himself is a great character: neurotic, performative, funny, and flawed. His journey of identity, purpose, and myth-building plays out in this offbeat, almost Hunter S. Thompson-flavored desert opera. The supporting cast are all equally mad and memorable, and the entire thing just oozes with style.

Whether you’re into westerns or not (I’m normally not), this is a must-watch, especially if you’re into weird, stylized, and boundary-pushing animation. There’s really nothing else like Rango.

A gem of animation that completely slipped under the radar for most people. If you like Johnny Depps wierd quirky sense of humor and enjoyed his performance in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas than this is the movie for you. Despite the movie being 9 years old it still looks stunning, it manages to have a sense of styling to the characters while still being somewhat realistic, something the new complete farce of the Lion King could learn from. It's bizarre, interesting, surreal, complex and filled with subtle adult humor and if you have any interest in animation in general it needs to be watched. I stll enjoy watching today's animated movies but Rango really puts to light as to how much this genre of films has devolved over the years.

"The future, Mr. Rango! The future!" Love all of the references in this film from the Chinatown references to A Fistful of Dollars/The good the bad and the ugly. One of my favourites has to be the scene where Rango lands on the windshield of The Great Red Shark convertible from one of my all time favourite films Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas!

[spoiler] I will rate this movie Only One Bullet/10 [/spoiler]

we see what we need to see. beautiful. what a soundtrack.unexpected

This is a decent movie. There were a few times when this movie remembered me of some of the spagetti westerns that came out in the mid-1960s.

The Spirit of the West is off course without a doubt Clint Eastwood. Too bad he didn't also do the voice, that would have been nice.

I bet Daniel Bryan likes the 1:05 mark