That's no ciggie (above), but RANGO is the first animated movie to include "Smoking" in its MPAA rating.
RANGO is the first full-scale animated feature from Industrial Light & Magic, the special effects company not only behind the STAR WARS films but AVATAR, TRANSFORMERS, JURASSIC PARK, TERMINATOR, and other powerhouse franchises. RANGO’s animation is truly awe-inspiring — perhaps the best I’ve ever seen. Add to this Gore Verbinski’s proven directorial track record and the superb cast he’s gathered, and you’ve got what should amount to a win-win movie-going experience on your hands. Yet despite these multiple advantages, RANGO is still quite flawed. The first half drags, and its overall storyline about a missing water supply seems lacking and – pardon the pun – a little dry. But what its creators do manage to get right, they get RIGHT – and for those successes I’ll gladly heap praise.
A pet chameleon slash aspiring actor named Rango (voiced by Johnny Depp) tumbles out of his owners’ station wagon and into the Mojave Desert. He comes across a creaky old Wild West town called Dirt: a collection of roadside trash a diverse community of desert critters happens to call home. It's there that Rango discovers he must fulfill the most challenging role of his life – the swashbuckling hero.
Perhaps the most spectacular element of RANGO is its close-ups of the dozens of weird, wonderful characters inhabiting Dirt. From the ever-shifting shades of green among the scales of Rango’s bulbous eyelids to the wizened face of Roadkill the armadillo (Alfred Molina, looking like a Mystic from THE DARK CRYSTAL) to the soft pink snout of the child mouse Priscilla (Abigail Breslin), the meticulous level detail exhibited by each actually makes them look real on the screen.
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