RANGO

I'm always a sucker for a film with Johnny Depp in it, and this was no exception. Rango (PG; 2011) is a very humorous look at what happens to a pet chameleon after he's been accidentally lost in the desert. Suffering heat and thirst, he finds the town of Dirt, which is a lawless old west town inhabited by all sorts of other animals.

The animation is superb in this film. I really liked how they took things like ordinary hand held gardening tools and turned them into items small animals might need and use if they were, indeed, running a town. The animators paid close attention to every detail so that the movement of the characters was almost life like.

The chameleon bluffs his way through dangerous situations to become the town sheriff, and leads the town in their quest for water.

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