Rango Review

Rango:

*** (out of four).

Includes the voices of Johnny Depp,

Ned Beatty, Isla Fisher, Abigail

Breslin, Alfred Molina and

Bill Nighy. Directed by

Gore Verbinski. Rated PG.

Approximately 107 minutes.

Last summer, I watched a preview for the upcoming animated movie ``Rango''. I read that it was going to be including the voice acting of Johnny Depp. I watched the trailer. I have to say, it looked like such a dumb movie. I hardly laughed when I was supposed to laugh in the trailer.

Then, you fast forward to March 2011 and I am reading positive reviews of this movie. Roger Ebert is giving it four stars out of four, The Toronto Star is giving it three stars out of four and so is The Globe and Mail. Plus, RottenTomatoes gave it 89% on its TomatoMeter.

Now, here I am, giving this movie a positive review, too. Now, for those of you readers who have no idea what this movie is about, I shall give you a quick summary. ``Rango'' is the story of a chameleon (voiced by Johnny Depp) who doesn't know who he is. One day, he is in the back of a car inside a terrarium acting out skits when all of a sudden, the car hits a bump and his terrarium is thrown out of the back of the car, leaving him behind. After this, he travels to a town called Dirt. There, he makes up a character named Rango and pretends he is so tough. Then, after killing a scary hawk, he becomes sheriff of the town.

In Dirt, they have water problems. Every Wednesday, they wait for water to come, but lately, the water has not come. So, Rango decides to form a posse and tries to find the water.

This is a pretty good movie. I laughed quite a bit during the movie. The dialogue was really good in the movie. I've heard some people say that this movie is scary and not for children. This movie is not bad for children, unless you have a severe fear of snakes because there is an evil snake named Rattlesnake Jake (voiced by Bill Nighy). If you don't have a severe fear of snakes, then there's nothing to fear. It is very funny and I think kids will like it because it's not only funny, there is also a pretty cool action scene with flying hawks and gunfire.

I think the movie could have been a bit shorter, but I didn't care that much. I had fun.