Rango (2011– 107 Mins) J. Depp

The last ten years or so the quality of kids movies has gone up quite a bit. From Pixar to Dreamworks, they continue to get smart writers and top notch animators. “Rango” is one such success story. Like all true successful kids movies in the past, “Rango” throws a ton of adult jokes in there so that we can laugh out loud along with our kids, even tho they have no idea of the real meanings behind most of the jokes.

The plot is a typical fish out of water story paired with a zero to hero story. “Rango” (Depp) is accidentally dumped into the desert after the car carrying his pet tank hits a bump sending it crashing to the ground. He wanders into the sleepy disfunctional town of Dirt where the water is dried out and the inhabitants are being menaced by a bunch of forces beyond their control. He stumbles into Sheriff-hood and takes it upon himself to right the wrongs and do the right thing.

It all becomes a combo of an old school spaghetti western action movie animated and slapstick comedy with a talking chameleon. I loved it. It only takes about 5 mins before you are smiling and laughing out loud and it pretty much continues the whole movie. I think even people without kids can enjoy it and should watch it. I am really hoping for a Rango 2 as well… with it making over 100 million I bet it’s not too far fetched to foresee it coming.

Verdict—> A great kids movie… Heck it’s a great anyone movie parent or not. Go ahead and pick this one up this weekend at the Red Box. It’s a top recommendation (especially  b/c it’s quite the dry period right now in the box… not a whole lot of good new titles in there and it will be a few months before the summer ones will be hitting it as well) so go watch it now!

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