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Written by Selina Pearson |
Friday, 04 March 2011 08:50 |
![]() Director: Gore Verbinski From the director of Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (hurrah!) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (erm, perhaps not), Rango is an animated oddity. The trailers were cryptic to say the least - hello, clockwork fish - but Gore Verbinski's latest effort is an excellent existential Western. Sadly, there aren't more wind-up fish. Johnny Depp, in his best Hunter S Thompson, voices the titular chameleon who is thrown out of his cushy-but-dull tank into a story straight out of a Sergio Leone film. A bizarre conversation with a shamanistic armadillo about metaphorically crossing the road leads to the physical quest for water. Tripping across the desert though Dali-esque dreams, the lizard finds himself in Dirt, a one-horse town peopled by reptiles and small mammals (but no horse). A stranger, he adopts the tough-guy persona of Rango, constructed as a result of watching too many films. He is taken on as Sheriff by the mayor to tackle Dirt's many ills. And there are many ills.
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