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"Rango" is a 2011 animated film about a chameleon who becomes the sheriff of a desert town. The movie is notable for its distinctive visual style and comedic take on classic Western movie tropes.
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6.9When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed sheriff. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt and uncover the truth behind a looming water crisis—before his act catches up with him.
Cast
- Johnny Depp as Rango / Lars (voice)
- Isla Fisher as Beans (voice)
- Ned Beatty as Mayor (voice)
- Bill Nighy as Rattlesnake Jake (voice)
- Abigail Breslin as Priscilla (voice)
- Alfred Molina as Roadkill (voice)
Themes
- hero
- gunslinger
- sheriff
- suicide attempt
- nevada
- mayor
- pet
- native american
- water supply
- outlaw
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- animated film
- Genre
- adventure film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- water
- Depicts
- kiss
- Director
- Gore Verbinski
- Screenwriter
- John Logan
- Voice actor
- Stephen Root
- Composer
- Hans Zimmer
- Producer
- Graham King
- Cinematographer
- Roger Deakins
- Duration
- 107
- FilmAffinity ID
- 126636
- Performer
- Hans Zimmer
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.rangomovie.com
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- distributed by
- Netflix
- fabrication method
- computer animation
- title
- Rango
- publication date
- 2011-03-04
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
- film editor
- Craig Wood
- Commons category
- Rango (2011 film)
- box office
- 123477607
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- set in environment
- desert
- review score
- 88%
- capital cost
- 135000000
- form of creative work
- feature film
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Encyclopedic overview
Rango is a 2011 American animated Western comedy film directed by Gore Verbinski and written by John Logan. The film stars Johnny Depp as the titular protagonist, with Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone and Timothy Olyphant in supporting roles. In the film, an anthropomorphic pet chameleon ends up in the town of Dirt, an outpost in the Mojave Desert that is in desperate need of a new sheriff.
The film contains a number of references to various other films, including The Shakiest Gun in the West, A Fistful of Dollars, Chinatown, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Cat Ballou, Raising Arizona and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Verbinski has also cited El Topo as an influence on the film. Visual effects and animation for the film were outsourced to Industrial Light & Magic.
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