Christian Science Monitor
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9
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By Peter Rainer
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Dec 11, 2012
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The best of Rango is a lot like the best of the first Pirates movie -- crazily funny and rambunctious.
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Newsday
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1
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By Rafer Guzman
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May 20, 2011
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Just when you thought you'd seen everything, here comes Chinatown, the animated version.
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New Yorker
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0
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By Bruce Diones
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Mar 14, 2011
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Though young children may enjoy it, the film is built for viewers of any age with a taste for joyful anarchy.
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Seattle Movie Examiner
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8
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By Bethany Clough
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Mar 07, 2011
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Rango is not your ordinary cartoon. It is well-made, funny, developed, and grown-up. The latter being its largest downfall. This seemingly ‘kids’ film is really anything but. Rango is the story of a domesticated chameleon who is separated from his owners literally by a bump in the road. Lost in the Mohave Desert, the lonely lizard finds his way to a solitary town. Devastated by drought, the town of Dirt is a ...
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ReelViews
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9
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By James Berardinelli
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Mar 07, 2011
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The first animated film from ILM is also the first memorable motion picture of 2011.
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Globe and Mail
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8
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By Liam Lacey
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Mar 05, 2011
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With his first animated feature, Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski shows ambitions considerably beyond producing the usual standard of most children's fare. To put it plainly, Rango is one weird movie.
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Denver Post
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8
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By Lisa Kennedy
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Mar 05, 2011
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Yes, [there are] enough nods to other sources to make Rango a bobblehead. But the movie, and much of John Logan's writing, is still pretty durn clever.
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TIME Magazine
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0
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By Richard Corliss
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Mar 05, 2011
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A CGI western comedy populated by desert critters, Rango gives the film year a belated jump start with a passel of movie-wise fun and a knockout animation style.
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Newark Star-Ledger
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8
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By Stephen Whitty
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Mar 05, 2011
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Adults and slightly older children should have a great time.
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Orlando Movie Examiner
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8
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By Christopher Crespo
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Mar 05, 2011
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Every filmmaker borrows from their favorite movies and directors, but it's the good directors that take their influences and turn out interesting and unique films of their own. That's what separates average filmmakers from people like Quentin Tarantino, Brian de Palma and Martin Scorsese, people who wear their influences on their sleeves but also apply their own voice and personality to the work....
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Phoenix Movie Examiner
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10
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By Joseph Airdo
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Mar 05, 2011
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With 'Rango,' George Lucas' special effects company Industrial Light and Magic gives Pixar and Dreamworks a run for their money.The Gore Verbinski-directed motion picture is the studio's first foray into feature-length animation. And it makes quite the stellar impression....
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Boston Movie Examiner
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8
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By Tim Estiloz
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Mar 05, 2011
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You have to know that any animated film that makes a visual reference in it's first ten minutes to gonzo journalist Hunter S....
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USA Today
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0
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By Claudia Puig
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Mar 04, 2011
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Its strong suit is visual panache. It's too bad that consistent comedy and emotional resonance get lost amid the dust and cacti.
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Dallas Morning News
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9
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By Tom Maurstad
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Mar 04, 2011
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Every other week, it seems there is some new creation full of fantastically realized creatures engaging in eye-tricking action. The ironic effect of this... is a so-what-else-you-got state of jaded exhaustion. And then along comes Rango.
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Wall Street Journal
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0
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By Joe Morgenstern
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Mar 04, 2011
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I've made a good case for seeing "Rango," and why not; an eye feast is still a feast in this lean multiplex season.
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Toronto Star
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8
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By Peter Howell
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Mar 04, 2011
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The whole enterprise is redolent of past movies (and drug trips), yet it somehow whiffs fresh.
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Houston Chronicle
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9
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By Amy Biancolli
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Mar 04, 2011
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The film itself is a magically strange hybrid, a spoofy computer-animated Western acted out by anthropomorphic desert creatures.
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New York Times
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8
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By A.O. Scott
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Mar 04, 2011
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It is not self-conscious knowingness that drives Rango but rather a quirky and sincere enthusiasm for all the strange stuff that has piled up in the filmmakers' heads over the years.
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NPR
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9
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By Bob Mondello
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Mar 04, 2011
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Rango's not just a kiddie-flick (though it has enough silly slapstick to qualify as a pretty good one). It's a real movie lover's movie, conceived as a Blazing Saddles-like comic commentary on genre that's as back-lot savvy as it is light in the saddle.
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New York Post
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8
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By Lou Lumenick
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Mar 04, 2011
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An ultra-quirky animated Western with a vocal tour de force by Johnny Depp that's quite unlike anything I've ever seen.
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Washington Post
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8
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By Ann Hornaday
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Mar 04, 2011
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A sun-baked symphony of rust and dust, Rango has a spiky, unsentimental appeal, sending out slightly risque jokes to parents while staying safely out of the danger zone for kids.
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Chicago Reader
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0
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By Andrea Gronvall
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Mar 04, 2011
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What elevates it above a cheeky romp is the skilled CGI work, not only the wealth of tactile detail lavished on the parched townsfolk but also the painterly, sand-swept vistas they call home.
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LA Movie Examiner
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8
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By Michael Lee
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Mar 04, 2011
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A chameleon that can blend into any surrounding but cannot find out who he is or what his purporse is in life is ironic to say the least. But this is the question that Rango asks himself constantly as he does not know who he is or what his purpose is in life. Normally animated films like these has our protagonist go through a series of life changing events that eventually leads up to that climatic scene and ends with a mundane and tiresome third act. But with Rango,...
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Baltimore Movie Examiner
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8
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By Tom Clocker
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Mar 04, 2011
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8.1 out of 10‘Rango’ is an animated movie about a domestic lizard that is thrust into the wild in a desert location and forced to learn how to survive. Oh yeah, and Johnny Depp is the voice of Rango ...
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West Palm Beach and Miami Movie Examiner
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8
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By Steven Lebowitz
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Mar 03, 2011
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You are reading a movie review by one of the few critics who did not care for the Coen Brother’s "True Grit" at all. It wasn’t that I thought they put together a poorly made film, I just don’t like Westerns. I never have. The genre does not do anything for me. I remember seeing "Stagecoach" in film school and the professor noting what a great movie it was, but the only part of it I liked...
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Entertainment Weekly
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6
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By Lisa Schwarzbaum
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Mar 03, 2011
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Neither Rango the mash-up movie nor Rango the lizard is particularly lovable. But there's no denying the intrigue in its combination of the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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10
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By Roger Ebert
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Mar 03, 2011
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"Rango" is some kind of a miracle: An animated comedy for smart moviegoers, wonderfully made, great to look at, wickedly satirical, and (gasp!) filmed in glorious 2-D.
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Salon.com
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0
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By Andrew O'Hehir
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Mar 03, 2011
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I'm honestly not sure whether or not it's a good movie, but it doesn't leave you much time to ponder that question.
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Chicago Tribune
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0
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By Michael Phillips
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Mar 03, 2011
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Rango never shuts up, but he never has anything funny or touching or clever to say.
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Houston Movie Examiner
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10
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By Chris Sawin
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Mar 03, 2011
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Director Gore Verbinski has put together quite the filmography over the years. His first feature film was the family comedy Mousehunt, which he followed up with the R-rated action comedy The Mexican. He also jumped on the successful remake bandwagon before the trend really took off with The Ring. It was the Pirates of the Caribbean films that teamed the director with the hottest actor in Hollywood today; Johnny Depp....
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NY Film Examiner
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8
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By Marcos Bernal-Salas
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Mar 03, 2011
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The animated American Old West is hilariously pixilated in Rango. Director Gore Verbinski, from the Pirates of the Caribbean saga, teams up with Johnny Depp in another hilarious and entertaining wild adventure for the entire family.Rango (voiced by Depp) is a chatty chameleon, who is trying to find himself in his lonely terrarium. But soon enough, he is thrown out of his comfort zone and into a Mojave dessert town called Dirt....
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Time Out
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6
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By Tom Huddleston
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Mar 02, 2011
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There are some wonderful things in 'Rango': the dialogue is witty, the animation is dizzying and the action is stunningly choreographed.
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Sky Movies
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8
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By Elliott Noble
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Mar 02, 2011
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Not many animated escapades aim to please such a broad audience. Even the poo jokes are sophisticated.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
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8
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By Emanuel Levy
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Mar 02, 2011
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Toplined by Johnny Depp in great form, Rango is thematically witty, visually striking animated Western, which could be enjoyed by both younger and mature viewers.
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Associated Press
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0
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By Jake Coyle
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Mar 02, 2011
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Perhaps a new classification has been born: the "SpaghettiOs Western."
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Village Voice
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By Nick Schager
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Mar 02, 2011
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A rollicking, surreal, and existential kids' Western that worships at the altars of Sergio Leone, Hunter S. Thompson, and Chinatown, Rango drowns under the weight of discordant objectives and influences.
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Arizona Republic
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8
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By Bill Goodykoontz
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Mar 02, 2011
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It's refreshing to see an animated movie that doesn't look as though the idea for the Happy Meal came first.
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Orlando Sentinel
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5
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By Roger Moore
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Mar 02, 2011
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It is funny, inventive and downright daft. But who is it for, what is it and most pointedly -- what is the point?
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Boxoffice Magazine
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9
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By Pam Grady
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Mar 01, 2011
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This reteaming of Depp with his Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski looks like a lock to emerge as the first genuine blockbuster of 2011.
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Slant Magazine
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8
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By Ed Gonzalez
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Mar 01, 2011
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Haunted by the ghosts of Leone, Peckinpah, and Dali, Gore Verbinski's wild animated romp Rango turns an assembly line of classic western themes and iconography into a bustlingly fresh genre ecosystem.
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ColeSmithey.com
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9
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By Cole Smithey
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Mar 01, 2011
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The folks at Pixar should be worried. In conjunction with Industrial Light and Magic, director Gore Verbinski has created a gorgeously animated western that doesn't need any stinking 3D effects to entertain or pump up its profit margin.
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Film4
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By Anton Bitel
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Mar 01, 2011
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state-of-the-art animation collides with postmodern pastiche on a busy road along which wayside legend will always count for more than supposed progress.
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MSN Movies
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8
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By Glenn Kenny
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Mar 01, 2011
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"...a fleet, quirky, computer-animated feature that I found ingenious, charming and almost entirely engaging."
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Variety
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By Peter Debruge
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Mar 01, 2011
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Johnny Depp isn't the sort of star to blend in, so it's saying something that his turn as the world's most conspicuous chameleon in Rango is so full-bodied, you forget the actor and focus on the character.
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Hollywood Reporter
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By Todd McCarthy
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Mar 01, 2011
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Madly clever animated sagebrush saga has style and wit to burn.
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Obsessed With Film
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6
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By Shaun Munro
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Feb 28, 2011
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It's ultimately a pastiche-by-numbers and doesn't live up to its full potential, but as a visual treat and one of Depp's better vehicles of recent years, it delivers the basic goods.
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News of the World
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6
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By Robbie Collin
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Feb 27, 2011
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Spoofs such kiddie favourites as Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, the mystical writings of Carlos Castaneda, and Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy.
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