Rango

Overview:  Spending too much time in a cage can do something to lizards, and that's what happened with our buddy Rango.  Together with his bath-toy-fish Mr. Tibbs, their lives are full-blown INSANE.  After Rango lands in a bunch of crap after a car crash, he finds himself stranded in a desert, thirsty and all alone.  After walking deeper into the desert he stumbles upon what looks like the "Chipmunks" adaptation of the "True Grit" movie.  Pretty soon Rango talks himself up like the second coming of Christ and gains some respect... but will it last?

The Good:  I hope the Johnney Depp/Tim Burton marriage is ok, because it seems like he may be cheating on him with Gore Verbinski. Now I aint no Marriage counselor, but this fling with Verbinski is an affair that I can be ok with.  Rango is definityly a feast for the eyes, and you don't even need the story.  Johnney Depp dishes out his hickish non-British humor and wins the show, right alongside Depp is one of my red-haired peeps Isla Fisher, who plays one heck of a good ADHD lizard.  Practically every animated movie out there is dominated by computer, and it seems like it's getting a bit boring, but Rango provides a new twist on the genre with its combination of "Animal Farm" with "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly".  The movie was actually pretty clever at times, and it fulfilled my awkward dream of seeing a bunch of disgusting rodents talk with the hickiest of Hickerbilly accents.

The Bad:  It's not that the story of the movie was completely horrendus, but I couldn't have cared less.  The animation was original, but the storyline wasn't.  Just like any other hero story, the hero goes into a town full of animals and falls in love with an ADHD lizard... Seriously! I'm sick and tired of seeing hero's make out with other lizards.... freaks.  Now with Wolves it's OK, as we were obviously shown in "Red Riding Hood".  One last bad thing has to do with the whole "talking animals" films. They're driving me insane!  If one more movie about talking animals comes out then i'll have to do something wreckless... like mooning an entire gang of skinheads.  The only time talking-animal movies should be allowed (from now on) is if it's another "Narnia" flick, or a film about a talking Platypus.

The Ugly:  It's not the funniest, nor the most original animated movie I've ever seen, but it is very artistic.  It's a good family movie that will provide good lessons to young-bloods (kids), hickish animals for adults to laugh at, and for pet lizards who can relate to Rango's story.

2 1/2 out of 5