Rango Opens Today

Finally!!!
We love movies about animals!
Rango, staring the brazilliant Johnny Depp, is about a pet lizard that finds himself in a small western town far from home.
We weren’t 100% what to expect from this movie until we read celebrity film critic Roger Ebert‘s glowing review of the animated flick.
Ebert says:

“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.
This is an inspired comic Western, deserving comparison with “Blazing Saddles,” from which it borrows a lot of farts. The more movies you’ve seen, the more you may like it; it even enlists big bats to lampoon the helicopter attack in “Apocalypse Now.”
But let’s say you haven’t seen lots of movies. Let’s say you’re a kid. “Rango” may surprise you because it’s an animated film that plays like a real movie and really gets you involved.

After describing the plot Ebert closed with:

Rango is a splendid and great-looking entertainment with a strong story, limitless energy and a first-rate voice cast, also including Abigail Breslin, Ned Beatty as the disabled mayor, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, Stephen Root, Timothy Olyphant, Ray Winstone, and, yes, Harry Dean Stanton.

We hope Rango is as good as Ebert clams!