Shota
Since: Oct, 2010
03/28/2011 00:00:00
I know! You tend to forget this film had a director who never worked in animation before!
KingNine
Since: Jan, 2011
07/23/2011 00:00:00
Yeah I agree with pretty much all of this. I didn't know where I was 'supposed to go' while watching this if you know what I mean. After the first dream sequence I was like "Ok, so is this going to be a trippy surreal movie?" I just didn't know what to make of the movie until it came to a close. I like all of its constituent parts, but it comes together in a very confusing way.
I liked it though, I'll totes watch it again. Graphics were AMAZING, and I thought some of the characters were really cool.
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Good, but confusing
"Rango" is definitely the kind of movie where the MST 3 K Mantra applies: don't think, just go with it. Because the moment you stop to think, you realize nothing makes sense (and not just for being a Funny Animal story).
For example: some animals were "people" talking and using clothes, etc; while other animals (the roadrunners) were not; and some just are not defined (the Hawk). The plot itself wasn't terribly clear: why were the citizens of Dirt so out of touch with the rest of the world? Who was the Big Bad going to sell the land to after everyone was gone? Where did things like their (diminute) guns come from?
Then there's also the surrealism of the movie: there's at least two "dream sequences" that 'did not really happen' (three if you count Rango's talk with the Spirit Of The West). Oh and The Mariachi Owls, while fun, were too 'meta'- sometimes part of the story, sometimes not. There's so much surrealism in the film, in fact, that when the cacti started moving, I thought it was just another hallucination. (That part was never explained, btw.)
Yes, I know; Rule Of Funny. Thing is, the story gets SO serious at some points, it's easy to forget it's a comedy then. Or Is It?
Frankly, while I think the CGI effects were incredible, I think the movie would have worked better if it had used more traditional animation; in fact the sequence with the Hawk in the desert was almost like something out of a Looney Tunes cartoon. Its easier not to question things when they look less realistic. The characters would have looked cuter, too.
Despite my comments above, Rango is still a great movie; it's original, it's funny, it's full of action and it's almost unpredictable (oh you can tell what's going to happen next, just not exactly *how*.)
So overall, Rango is a great movie experience, thought it could have been written a little better.