Rango is better than most real-life Hollywood comedies

10 April 2012

It may be a bit too long for the kids, but Gore Verbinski's animated feature knows its westerns and provides us with some deliciously drawn characters as Johnny Depp's chameleon Sheriff deals with the bad men plaguing a small pioneer township.

Bill Nighy voices Rattlesnake Jake, the villain of the piece, and Ray Winstone is Bad Bill, a nasty entrepreneur who wants all the water for a new township.

As animation, this is top class, and a mile away from the orthodox. Some of the detail is terrific, and the screenplay is sharply intelligent.

But for the fact that it all goes on too long, Rango is better than most real-life Hollywood comedies.

Rango
Cert: PG

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