Jason KingRango (10/10)
March 9th 2011 08:24
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Best film of the year so far!
Category: Reviews
Salty Popcorn has its first film of the year so far and its first perfect 10 out of 10 score. I just loved this film to its and bitsy pieces. And I owe a whopping thanks to the fabulous people at Paramount that gave me 8 amazing tickets so I could take Karin and my two fave munchkins Stella and Finn plus the amazing Kelly and her triplets (ABC) I met at the start of the New Year at One Mile Beach. We all had such an amazing day and the Kelly and the triplets even travelled up from Wollongong for the movie and it was worth every billion dollars per km in petrol to get here.
Gore Verbinski brings us an amazing pastiche film that leads more towards a true spectacular western that is the best western I have seen since The Unforgiven. The kids will be loving this film for all the characters and visual spectacular that doesn't even need 3D to make it's point and the adults will be shoving their kids out of the way for the same thing and the fact the screenplay is so humorous for adults and packed with abundant intelligence.
Not only is it the true Best Western but it is definitely in my top 5 animations of all time with Wall E, Nemo, Happy Feet and The Incredibles. It is non stop entertainment from the get go and is so incredibly weird it is like the film is on the acid that Rango passed while bouncing through Hunter S Thomson's car at the start. The film has so many references in it that these alone will bring on more bouts of hysterics. There is references from Fear and Loathing, Star Wars, Apocalypse Now, The Three Amigos and a bunch of other films I have no doubt forgotten by now. I will be seeing this one again and buying it on Blu Ray when I can - in fact the kids were asking at the end if they could buy this one on DVD so they can watch it a few billion times.
This is probably one of Johnny Depp's performances. Ever since he went all commercial his characters have started melding into one Johhny Depp morphation (yes a new JK word meaning morphing manifestation
) His Jack Sparrow, Mad Hatter, Sweeney Todd and Willy Wonkas are all a slightly different version of the other and it has been starting to piss me off - I loathed Alice in Wonderland and besides Helena Bonham Carter I thought it was a waste of time. His Pirates films are amusing and with him and Gore Verbinski teaming up for this film they are coming across as a movie match made in heaven, is Tim Burton getting jealous? Depp's Rango is the perfect comedic chameleon that combines a superb balance of confidence, comedy and insecurity. He never backs down and never lets anyone down. The good part of watching the spectacularly animated Rango being voice by Depp is for the first time Depp's character becomes the character and you forget it's Depp - Rango lives people and it's brilliant.
While Rango is the central character nearly in every scene and never shutting up - the film is filled with so many unique and individual characters that all leap from the screen. I have never seen so many animated personalities that are all so interesting in their own ways. There is the love interest but ballzy woman with bouts of turning to stone, Beans, voiced by Isla Fisher, then there is little Abigail Breslin who voices the little creepy girl Priscilla who wouldn't be out of place in Deliverance. Ned Beatty is great as the turtle Mayor and Alfred Molina is hilarious as Road Kill. Then comes Bill Nighy who is just brilliant as Rattlesnake Jake - the animation of Jake just blew my mind and the voicing of him just made it even better. Jake is modelled on Lee Van Cleef and is very scary but not enough to make any of the kids upset so nice work Bill!
The winner of this is the animation - Pixar - watch out - Industrial Light and Magic doing its first animation being directed by Verbinski starring this amazing cast and with a screenplay by John Logan (Gladiator, The Last Samurai, The Aviator and the upcoming Bond 23) and you have a fierce force to be reckoned with. Some of the scenes look photo realistic and the lighting in darker scenes is just mouth agape stunning.
With all my gushing there is only one thing I didn't get in the whole film. something that still spins me out and I just keep putting it down to the film being on acid but why the giant orange eye when they are all underground? Is this just the film taking a dehydrating twist into mescaline fuelled surrealism? Anyone have an idea?
Another thing I enjoyed about the film is its subtle message about the environment - unlike Wall E and Happy Feet - films I still adore - this film does not preach to death about its environmental message - it just puts it in the story and allows it to speak for itself while the film is allowed to be what it is, an insane craziness saturated in comedic animation. Pure gold!
Everyone needs to watch this and I hope you get as much out of it as the 400 people I watched it with - I applaud this film and can't wait to see it again. Worth an easy 10 out of 10 for me.
Gore Verbinski brings us an amazing pastiche film that leads more towards a true spectacular western that is the best western I have seen since The Unforgiven. The kids will be loving this film for all the characters and visual spectacular that doesn't even need 3D to make it's point and the adults will be shoving their kids out of the way for the same thing and the fact the screenplay is so humorous for adults and packed with abundant intelligence.
Not only is it the true Best Western but it is definitely in my top 5 animations of all time with Wall E, Nemo, Happy Feet and The Incredibles. It is non stop entertainment from the get go and is so incredibly weird it is like the film is on the acid that Rango passed while bouncing through Hunter S Thomson's car at the start. The film has so many references in it that these alone will bring on more bouts of hysterics. There is references from Fear and Loathing, Star Wars, Apocalypse Now, The Three Amigos and a bunch of other films I have no doubt forgotten by now. I will be seeing this one again and buying it on Blu Ray when I can - in fact the kids were asking at the end if they could buy this one on DVD so they can watch it a few billion times.
This is probably one of Johnny Depp's performances. Ever since he went all commercial his characters have started melding into one Johhny Depp morphation (yes a new JK word meaning morphing manifestation
) His Jack Sparrow, Mad Hatter, Sweeney Todd and Willy Wonkas are all a slightly different version of the other and it has been starting to piss me off - I loathed Alice in Wonderland and besides Helena Bonham Carter I thought it was a waste of time. His Pirates films are amusing and with him and Gore Verbinski teaming up for this film they are coming across as a movie match made in heaven, is Tim Burton getting jealous? Depp's Rango is the perfect comedic chameleon that combines a superb balance of confidence, comedy and insecurity. He never backs down and never lets anyone down. The good part of watching the spectacularly animated Rango being voice by Depp is for the first time Depp's character becomes the character and you forget it's Depp - Rango lives people and it's brilliant.
While Rango is the central character nearly in every scene and never shutting up - the film is filled with so many unique and individual characters that all leap from the screen. I have never seen so many animated personalities that are all so interesting in their own ways. There is the love interest but ballzy woman with bouts of turning to stone, Beans, voiced by Isla Fisher, then there is little Abigail Breslin who voices the little creepy girl Priscilla who wouldn't be out of place in Deliverance. Ned Beatty is great as the turtle Mayor and Alfred Molina is hilarious as Road Kill. Then comes Bill Nighy who is just brilliant as Rattlesnake Jake - the animation of Jake just blew my mind and the voicing of him just made it even better. Jake is modelled on Lee Van Cleef and is very scary but not enough to make any of the kids upset so nice work Bill!
The winner of this is the animation - Pixar - watch out - Industrial Light and Magic doing its first animation being directed by Verbinski starring this amazing cast and with a screenplay by John Logan (Gladiator, The Last Samurai, The Aviator and the upcoming Bond 23) and you have a fierce force to be reckoned with. Some of the scenes look photo realistic and the lighting in darker scenes is just mouth agape stunning.
With all my gushing there is only one thing I didn't get in the whole film. something that still spins me out and I just keep putting it down to the film being on acid but why the giant orange eye when they are all underground? Is this just the film taking a dehydrating twist into mescaline fuelled surrealism? Anyone have an idea?
Another thing I enjoyed about the film is its subtle message about the environment - unlike Wall E and Happy Feet - films I still adore - this film does not preach to death about its environmental message - it just puts it in the story and allows it to speak for itself while the film is allowed to be what it is, an insane craziness saturated in comedic animation. Pure gold!
Everyone needs to watch this and I hope you get as much out of it as the 400 people I watched it with - I applaud this film and can't wait to see it again. Worth an easy 10 out of 10 for me.
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