When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt.
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Film Cast:
- Rango (voice): Johnny Depp
- Beans (Voice): Isla Fisher
- Mayor Tortoise John (voice): Ned Beatty
- Rattlesnake Jake (voice): Bill Nighy
- Roadkill (voice): Alfred Molina
- Priscilla (voice): Abigail Breslin
- Angelique (voice): Claudia Black
- The Spirit of the West (voice): Timothy Olyphant
- Bad Bill (voice): Ray Winstone
- Doc / Merrimack / Mr. Snuggles (voice): Stephen Root
- Balthazar (voice): Harry Dean Stanton
- Ambrose (voice): Ian Abercrombie
- Wounded Bird (voice): Gil Birmingham
- Waffles / Gordy / Papa Joad / Cousin Murt / Curlie / Knife Attacker / Rodent Kid (voice): James Ward Byrkit
- Buford (voice): Blake Clark
- Sod Buster (voice): Keith Campbell
- Bonnie (voice): Beth Grant
- Elgin (voice): John Cothran, Jr.
- Delilah / Maybelle (voice): Patrika Darbo
- Señor Flan (voice): George DelHoyo
- Lucky (voice): Maile Flanagan
- Elbows (voice): Charles Fleischer
- Jedidiah (voice): Ryan Hurst
- Ezekiel / Lasso Rodent (voice): Vincent Kartheiser
- Chorizo (voice): Hemky Madera
- Spoons (voice): Alex Manugian
- Parsons (voice): Mark ‘Crash’ McCreery
- Rock-Eye (voice): Joe Nunez
- Hazel Moats / Kinski / Stump / Clinker / Lenny (voice): Christopher Lee Parson
- Furgus / Hitch (voice): Lew Temple
- Boo / Cletus / Fresca / Miss Daisy (voice): Alanna Ubach
- Sergeant Turley / Crevice / Slim / Lupe (voice): Gore Verbinski
- Melonee (voice): Kym Whitley
Film Crew:
- Story: Gore Verbinski
- Editor: Craig Wood
- Director of Photography: Roger Deakins
- Original Music Composer: Hans Zimmer
- Casting: Denise Chamian
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Christopher Boyes
- Story: John Logan
- Additional Casting: Ruth Lambert
- ADR Mixer: Doc Kane
- Supervising Dialogue Editor: Michael Silvers
- Sound Effects Editor: Shannon Mills
- Foley Artist: Dennie Thorpe
- Foley Artist: Jana Vance
- Foley Editor: Dee Selby
- Visual Effects Supervisor: Tim Alexander
- Color Timer: Jim Passon
- Stunt Coordinator: Keith Campbell
- Producer: Graham King
- Additional Music: Geoff Zanelli
- Visual Effects Producer: Jacqui Lopez
- Digital Compositor: Eddy Wong
- Musician: Ryeland Allison
- Producer: John B. Carls
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Paul Massey
- Conductor: Nick Glennie-Smith
- Musician: Heitor Pereira
- Colorist: Stefan Sonnenfeld
- ADR Voice Casting: Holly Dorff
- Orchestrator: Kevin Kaska
- Executive Producer: Tim Headington
- Choreographer: JoAnn Fregalette Jansen
- Orchestrator: Rick Giovinazzo
- Musician: Arturo Sandoval
- Supervising Sound Editor: Peter Miller
- Storyboard Artist: James Ward Byrkit
- Thanks: Rick Garcia
- Digital Supervisor: Michael Bauer
- Animation: Michael Lum
- Musician: Davey Johnstone
- Temp Music Editor: Brett Pierce
- Additional Music: Lorne Balfe
- Casting Associate: Angela Demo
- Musician: George Doering
- Additional Music: Adam Peters
- Music Arranger: William V. Malpede
- Additional Music: John Sponsler
- First Assistant Director: Adam Somner
- Additional Editor: Wyatt Jones
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Karen Kelly
- Additional Music: Tom Gire
- Animation: Johnny Spinelli
- Layout Supervisor: Nick Walker
- Storyboard Artist: Anthony Leonardi III
- Story Artist: David Feiss
- Character Designer: Joe Murray
- Musician: David Hidalgo
- Visual Effects: Emile Edwin Smith
- Visual Effects: Mark ‘Crash’ McCreery
- Consulting Producer: Mark Bakshi
- Musician: Bryce Jacobs
- Music Editor: Peter Oso Snell
- ADR Mixer: Robert Edwards
- Title Designer: Henry Hobson
- Supervising Sound Editor: Addison Teague
- Boom Operator: Jeffrey A. Humphreys
- Sound Recordist: Clint Smith
- Sound Effects Editor: David C. Hughes
- Visual Effects Supervisor: John Knoll
- CG Supervisor: Nigel Sumner
- Additional Music: Dominic Lewis
- Score Engineer: Sebastian Zuleta
- Camera Operator: Martin Schaer
- Legal Services: Laura Caulfield
- Visual Effects Producer: Amy Beresford
- Digital Compositor: Tau Gerber
- Lighting Technician: Juan Morse
- Set Costumer: Marina Marit
- Construction Coordinator: Michael Diersing
- Set Dresser: Eric Ramirez
- Sound Effects Editor: J.R. Grubbs
- Concept Artist: Christian Alzmann
- Sound Editor: Adam Kopald
- Animation: Jeremy Cantor
- Video Assist Operator: Samuel R. Harrison III
- Dialect Coach: Jessica Drake
- Animation Supervisor: Hal T. Hickel
- Stand In: Kevin Collins
- Animation: Delio Tramontozzi
- Sequence Supervisor: Jeff Wozniak
- Creature Technical Director: Frederick Fowles
- Compositor: Cristin Pescosolido
- Production Supervisor: Gary Kout
- Animation: Marco Foglia
- Additional Editor: Tom Barrett
- Gaffer: Patrick Hoeschen
- Animation: Jason Malinowsky
- Storyboard Artist: Tom De Rosier
- Animation: Chuck Duke
- Animation: Nick Fredin
- Visual Effects: Michael Gaiser
- Storyboard Artist: Jurgen Gross
- Animation: Jess Morris
- Animation: Miles Southan
- Orchestrator: Walt Fowler
- Production Accountant: Patrick R. Siembieda
- Animation: Travis Tohill
- Creature Technical Director: Dave Logan
- Layout: Adam Schnitzer
- Production Illustrator: Jim Martin
- Sequence Supervisor: Jeff Grebe
- Animation Coordinator: Flannery Huntley
- Lead Animator: Shawn Kelly
- Creature Technical Director: Laura Killmaster
- Animation: Stephen King
- Visual Effects Production Assistant: Pei’an Lau
- Creature Technical Director: Mike Marcuzzi
- Creature Technical Director: Christian Saenz
- Transportation Coordinator: Michael Sean Ryan
- Assistant Camera: James Goldman
- Musician: Satnam Ramgotra
- Musician: Peter G. Adams
- ADR Mixer: Beauxregard Neylon
- Co-Producer: Shari Hanson
- Additional Casting: Robert McGee
- Property Master: Kris Peck
- Sound Mixer: Lee Orloff
- Animation: Tim Harrington
- Animation: Atsushi Kojima
- Digital Intermediate Editor: Alex Romano
- Foley Supervisor: Steve Slanec
- Foley Mixer: Frank Rinella
- Post Production Supervisor: Richard Stirling
- Set Medic: B.J. Smith
- Supervising Art Director: John Bell
- Sequence Supervisor: Tom Martinek
- Boom Operator: Brian Robinson
- Production Assistant: Tien Nguyen
- First Assistant Editor: Simon Morgan
- Musician: Craig Eastman
- Compositing Lead: Tory Mercer
- Concept Artist: James Carson
- Sequence Supervisor: Steve Braggs
- First Assistant “B” Camera: Peter Geraghty
- Animation: Maria Goodale
- Animation: Bradley Lorimer
- Storyboard Artist: David Gosman
- Production Manager: Carol Norton
- Layout Supervisor: Colin Benoit
- Stand In: Bryant Powell
- Creature Technical Director: John Teska
- Creature Technical Director: Kenneth Bailey
- Sequence Supervisor: Robert Hoffmeister
- Executive In Charge Of Post Production: Ben Rosenblatt
- Post Production Technical Engineer: David Michael Green
- Compositing Supervisor: Nelson Sepulveda
- Musician: James Thatcher
- Best Boy Grip: John D. Miller
- Catering: Robert Lamkin
- Production Assistant: John Bartnicki
- Visual Effects Assistant Editor: Scott Wesley Ross
- Electrician: Greg Etheredge
- Lead Animator: Cedric Lo
- Second Assistant Director: Ian Calip
- Title Designer: Eunha Choi
- Animation: Frédéric Côté
- Musician: Tina Guo
- Production Assistant: Brandon Loomis
- Digital Compositor: Zameer Hussain
- Utility Sound: Mike Anderson
- Animation: Shawn Miller
- Creature Technical Director: Gary Wu
- Creature Technical Director: Maurizio Giglioli
- Lighting Technician: Alejandro J. Castillo
- Digital Intermediate Assistant: Dan Goslee
- Executive Visual Effects Producer: Janet Lewin
- Sequence Supervisor: Matt Brumit
- Assistant Editor: Joel Griffen
- Assistant Property Master: Bradley Good
- Assistant Dialogue Editor: Coya Elliott
- Foley Recordist: Chris Barron
- Digital Compositor: Ben O’Brien
- Character Modelling Supervisor: Geoff Campbell
- Production Manager: Jenna Grigg Thomas
- VFX Artist: Tracy Nicole Irwin
- VFX Artist: Erik Shepherd
- Digital Compositor: Marcel Martinez
- Casting Assistant: Krysti Baxter
- Animation: Mickael Coedel
- VFX Artist: Katharine Evans
- CG Artist: Tu Le
- Animation: Alexander K. Lee
- Score Engineer: Daniel Kresco
- Modeling: Richard Matsushita
- Animation: Jason Ho
- Sequence Supervisor: François Lambert
- Production Supervisor: Christine Altomari
- Creature Technical Director: Gem Ronn Cadiz
- Visual Effects: Bastiaan Koch
- Animation: Geoff Hemphill
- Animation: Erik Morgansen
- Animation: Steve Rawlins
- Animation: Greg Towner
- Animation: Chi Chung Tse
- Animation: Tim Waddy
- Lead Animator: Andy Wong
- Creature Technical Director: Renita Taylor
- Compositing Lead: Jen Howard
- Compositing Lead: Chad Taylor
- Sequence Supervisor: Todd Vaziri
- VFX Artist: John Walker
- CG Supervisor: Leandro Estebecorena
- Production Coordinator: Melanie Cussac
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Rachel Galbraith
- Visual Effects Technical Director: Dan Bornstein
- Digital Compositor: Abishek Nair
- Production Coordinator: Chrysta Marie Burton
- Grip: Steven Serna
- Payroll Accountant: David Hickey
- Animation: Michael Midlock
- Digital Compositor: Alex Tropiec Jr.
- CG Supervisor: Kevin Sprout
- Senior Animator: Edward Zhou
- Production Accountant: Brenda T. Huey
- Co-Producer: Adam Cramer
- Consulting Producer: Nils Peyron
- Concept Artist: David Shannon
- Lighting Technician: Ffilip Bolton
- Post Production Assistant: Derrek Horn
- Assistant Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Galloway
- Dialect Coach: Sam Chwat
- Production Assistant: A.K. Hottman
- Production Assistant: Devin Toft
- Production Assistant: Richard Itskovich
- Production Secretary: Dan Urrutia
- Set Production Assistant: Lindsey Jayne Boyd
- Score Engineer: Chuck Choi
- Score Engineer: Phill Boucher
- Musician: Michael Hobe
- Musician: Brian Swartz
- ADR Recordist: Philip Young
- Matte Painter: Joe Ceballos
- CG Supervisor: Patrick T. Myers
- Concept Artist: John Giang
- Concept Artist: Melaina Mace
- Storyboard Artist: Devon Cutler
- Creature Technical Director: Adrian Watkins
- Creature Technical Director: Alexandra Weir
- Creature Technical Director: Chin Kok Tan
- Creature Technical Director: Karen Halliwell
- Creature Technical Director: Kelvin Chu
- Creature Technical Director: Shiv Sundar
- Creature Technical Director: Goh Kenny
- Creature Technical Director: Nikita McKinder
- Creature Technical Director: Chase Cooper
- Creature Technical Director: Gregory Weiner
- Creature Technical Director: Henri Tan
- Creature Technical Director: Jim Van Allen
- Creature Technical Director: Jing Cui
- Creature Technical Director: John Doublestein
- Creature Technical Director: John Van Der Zalm
- Creature Technical Director: Quentin Auger
- Creature Technical Director: S. Scott Parrish
- Creature Technical Director: Seung-Hun Lee
- Creature Technical Director: Sheen Wei Yap
- Creature Technical Director: Shih Ming Tay
- Creature Technical Director: Wanghua Huang
- Creature Technical Director: Attaporn Kanjanasahas
- Matte Painter: Chin Chee Cheah
- Matte Painter: Juan Pablo Monroy
- Matte Painter: Eric J. Dima-ala
- Modeling: Huai Yuan Teh
- Modeling: Ken Bryan
- Modeling: Yap Hon Wui
- Modeling: Chulev Marko
- Compositing Lead: Peter Chesloff
- Compositor: Can Chang
- Compositor: Jaymie Lam
- Digital Compositor: Christopher Balog
- Digital Compositor: Florian Strobl
- Digital Compositor: Jason Porter
- Digital Compositor: Justin Kosnikowski
- Digital Compositor: Myles Murphy
- Digital Compositor: Pascale Ville
- Digital Compositor: Sebastian Feldman
- Digital Compositor: Tia L. Marshall
- Layout: Lam Nguyen
- Layout: Romaine Coston
- Layout: Matt Neapolitan
- Pre-Visualization Supervisor: Alex Cannon
- Production Coordinator: Morgan Smith
- Sequence Supervisor: David Gottlieb
- Sequence Supervisor: Mathieu Boucher
- Sequence Supervisor: Scott Younkin
- Sequence Supervisor: Sean MacKenzie
- Software Engineer: André Mazzone
- VFX Artist: Adam Lee
- VFX Artist: Bekah Baik
- VFX Artist: Branko Grujcic
- VFX Artist: Dong Yeop Shin
- VFX Artist: Durant Schoon
- VFX Artist: Indira Guerrieri
- VFX Artist: Jean-Claude Langer
- VFX Artist: Mei Gangwen
- VFX Artist: Natasha Devaud
- VFX Artist: Scott Mease
- VFX Artist: Simeon Bassett
- Visual Effects: Chantell Brown
- Visual Effects: John Kilshaw
- Visual Effects: Shaun Stephenson
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Christopher Bannister
- Visual Effects Coordinator: Cynthia Crimmins
- Visual Effects Production Assistant: Hayley Nenadal
- Visual Effects Production Assistant: Jennifer Duncan
- Visual Effects Production Manager: Danielle Rubin
- Visual Effects Technical Director: Florian Witzel
- Animation: Alicia Kho
- Animation: Andre Tong
- Animation: Barry Lim
- Animation: Chun Wing Vincent Yu
- Animation: Edmund Wong
- Animation: Jay Rennie
- Animation: Jeff Vacanti
- Animation: John Zdankiewicz
- Animation: Josh Kent
- Animation: Kian Shyang Chong
- Animation: Marc Beaujeau
- Animation: Maureen Seng
- Animation: Neil Michka
- Animation: Roy Tan
- Animation: Samati Boonchitsitsak
- Animation: Tan Woei Hong
- Animation: Yee Sang Khet
- Animation: Zaini Jalani
- Animation: Zeng Lin
- Animation: Jackson Yeoh
- Animation: Chansoo Kim
- Animation: Simon Fillat
- Animation: J.D. Burditt
- Senior Animator: Eric Mun Fai Leong
- Lead Animator: Charles Alleneck
- Lead Animator: Derrick Carlin
- Lead Animator: Maia Kayser
- Character Designer: Eugene Yelchin
- Story Artist: Josh Hayes
Movie Reviews:
- ohlalipop: Honestly, I wasn’t excited to see this film. I know I’ll just catch this in dvd. But since there’s nothing to do and it’s my birthday and Mayi will treat me, okay!
The animation was great. I really liked the animation. The story was alright too. But the pacing of the story was slow that I was close to snoozing off. I felt like there were some scenes in the movie that should’ve been cut off.
- DoryDarko: ‘Rango’ is typically one of those movies that can’t quite be categorized into this or that little genre of comedy. Obviously, it’s an animated film. Is it a kiddie movie? Well… kind of. Allow me to elaborate. The film starts off absolutely hilariously, with an accident, half a road kill and a journey through the desert turned into a maniacal chase as soon as a hungry hawk gets wind of Rango’s presence. After meeting a lovely lizard named Beans, he ends up in the small town of Dirt. Where, after a good deal of bluff and dumb luck, he is appointed sheriff. So far, no harm, no foul, just good comedy. In fact, nearly-wetting-my-pants-laughing-out-loud-comedy.
However, at this point is where it all turns just a little bit haywire. No real damage done, just a small sense of cluelessness as we go along. The story continues as though Gore Verbinski and John Logan were just trying to think of as many weird situations as they possibly could whilst forcibly trying to mash it up into one, cohesive storyline. Truth be told, seems like they were trying just a little bit too hard. It actually gets even a little bit boring here and there, where the pacing kind of sinks in up to the point where it all comes together and starts to make sense again. (Mind you – this could also be due to the fact that I was watching the extended version, not the theatrical one, but still.) But fear not, no real quality is lost, as ‘Rango’ provides some of the most excellent and funny characters I’ve ever seen in an animated movie. They also rounded up a perfect voice-cast, with Johnny Depp who doesn’t sound anything like Jack Sparrow, but still adds the same kind of awkward quirkiness to his character. Alfred Molina’s part is small but vital, and I’ll bet you’ve never heard an armadillo with a perfect Mexican twang before… Bill Nighy is awesome as Rattlesnake Jake, and you can even hear a little bit of Davy Jones coming through sometimes. One of the best parts however, is done by Ray Winstone as Bad Bill. Who would expect some Wild West bad guy to have a cockney accent? Brilliant.
Another thing I must mention is the superb animation. Without a doubt the best I’ve ever seen from a non-Pixar production. Heck, even if it was Pixar it would have been their absolute best so far, and that’s saying something. The animation parallels – or, dare I say, even surpasses – Finding Nemo. That’s right; I said it, so sue me. Yep, Industrial Lights & Magic made a fan out of me.
Now, back to the original question – is it a kiddie movie? Yes and no. Some parts are totally hilarious and will have your youngsters rolling over the floor with laughter. Other parts will sail right over their little heads as they are very much grown-up humour with references to classic films and jokes they simply won’t get. (Is it just me or did I catch a tiny reference to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in the beginning?) Another factor is that some of the humour is a little grim and quite mature for small children, with some of the creatures smoking, swearing and even getting shot and/or killed. Now, personally I don’t know any children who would be upset by any of this, they see things that are much worse on a daily basis on the Disney channel. But then again, I’m not American, and it is my understanding that some American parents are hugely bothered by some of the elements in this movie. So I would recommend that you simply watch it first and then decide if you would like your children to see it. But honestly, I would try not to be too sensitive about it, it doesn’t get scary anywhere and none of language or behaviour is really that bad.
All in all, ‘Rango’ is definitely a fun ride, and one of the few animated movies that will entertain as many adults as it will children.
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