Rango

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Title: Rango
Year: 2011
Length: 107 minutes
Director: Gore Verbinski
Writer: John Logan; story by Logan, Gore Verbinski & James Ward Byrkit
Starring: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Ned Beatty
Music: Hans Zimmer (and other songs and non-original music)
I saw it: in the theater, yesterday
Synopsis: a pet chameleon is thrust into life in the Mojave Desert; or, there's something suspicious about a western town's water shortage

My reaction
Concept: I'm not sure I even know what the concept is. What the hell is this movie?
Story: Starts out extremely promising, but devolves into the genre parody/homage bullshit that's become standard for non-Pixar animation.
Characters: My wife points out that these characters are "badly broken." They're as desperate and grim as you'd expect from a modern day Western, and then some.
Dialog: It's as if they took the stock children's movie self-discovery/adventure story, then gave it to a writer and said, "Here, make this weird. Make it really fucking weird."
Pacing:
Cinematography:
Special effects/design: Amazing.
Acting: The animators' acting is spectacularly great. The voice acting is just okay.
Music: Walks a fine line between parody and plagiarism, and I'm not sure which side it ends up on, but I like it anyway. It's ripping off all the right stuff.
Subjective Rating: 8/10 (Great, ). Wonderfully bizarre. If only the plot could have been half as wonderful and/or bizarre as the rest of the movie.
Objective Rating (Average):