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Monday, March 14, 2011

Quick Review: Rango

I'm gonna keep this a bit shorter because I want to try and go to bed at a semi-decent hour, after having been up all of last night (until about 11:30 am, actually). Johnny Depp is clearly having lots of fun voicing the title character in "Rango." He's a pet chameleon whose cage is thrown from the back of the car it's in. He ends up lost in the desert, and makes his way to a town called Dirt (populated by various creatures), where water is in extremely short supply and events lead to his becoming the sheriff. It cribs from a lot of other movies -- mostly Westerns, of course, since that's what it is -- but it mixes it all up into a fun, quirky little package. By the way, although it's animated it's not the typical all-ages movie. The youngest moviegoers either will probably be bored or scared. My grade: B-plus.

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