Rango - Images, reviews ( animated film Release Date: Mar 4, 2011 )

I love this film! The animation is stunning, the voice work was excellent, especially Johnny Depp, who has his best role since POTC, and Bill Nighy, who's insanely perfect as the bad guy snake who has a bad ass machine gun for a tail, the humor is good, the film references are hilarious, and the score is brilliant! But the best thing about this movie is that its so different. Instead of being a run of the mill animated movie, its so quirky and weird. This movie is destined to be a cult midnight hit. I actually recommend it to younger kids, around 6 years and younger. There's some scary parts, some cussing, and a lot of adult jokes. But overall, Rango is a good movie that's one of my favorite animated movies in years.

Directed by Gore Verbinski
Produced by Gore Verbinski, Graham King, John B. Carls
Screenplay by John Logan
Story by Gore Verbinski, John Logan, James Byrkit
Starring Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy
Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone, Timothy Olyphant
Music by Hans Zimmer
Editing by Craig Wood
Studio Nickelodeon Movies, Industrial Light & Magic
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) March 4, 2011 (2011-03-04)
Running time 107 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $135–$150 million


Cast

* Johnny Depp as Rango (a chameleon)
* Bill Nighy as Rattlesnake Jake (a western diamondback rattlesnake)
* Isla Fisher as Beans (a desert iguana)
* James Ward Byrkit as Waffles (a horned toad)
* Abigail Breslin as Priscilla (a mouse)
* Alfred Molina as Roadkill (a nine-banded armadillo)
* Harry Dean Stanton as Balthazar (a mole)
* Cameron Bleasdale as Boo
* Ray Winstone as Bad Bill (a gila monster)
* Nika Futterman as Akiano
* Claudia Black as Angelique (a red fox)
* Ned Beatty as Tortoise John (a desert tortoise)
* Timothy Olyphant as the Spirit of the West
* Abbie Coupe as Fresca
* Lew Temple as Furgus
* Ian Abercrombie as Ambrose (a burrowing owl)
* Stephen Root as Doc (a squirrel) and Merrimack (a rabbit)
* John Cothran, Jr. as Elgin (a bobcat)
* Beth Grant as Bonnie
* Gil Birmingham as Wounded Bird (a Chihuahuan raven)
* Blake Clark as Buford (a Sonoran Desert toad)
* Joe Nunez as Rockeye
* Daisy Eckersley as Melonee
* Alex Manugian as Spoons (a mouse)
* Steven Higginson as Lola

Plot

Rango is a chameleon vvho lives in a terrarium and constantly seeks to fit in vvith his surroundings. He finds himself removed from his contemporary American southwest surroundings and ends up in an 0ld West tovvn in the middle of the Mojave Desert called Dirt, vvhich is populated by various desert critters garbed like characters out of Western fiction. Thinking himself a hero, Rango establishes himself as the tovvn's sheriff, not knovving that people vvho have held that title do not fare very vvell in Dirt. In "an existential crisis", Rango comes to question everything about himself