Overall very good movie

Rating: 9/10 (6 March 2011)

This is a great film for children and adults alike. Contrary to the bizarre moans of the (presumably American) commentators on here, there is nothing to disturb or distress children at all. Like all great comedy, this works on so many different levels so that adults and children get something from it.
The reason I have not given "Rango" the full ten stars is the very tedious opening scene, leading up to the accident that really begins the film. It could have been effectively trimmed to half the length, and I would still have known the same amount about the lead character.
I've seen other commentators on here going on about some "continuity errors" as if this is the only film that has them. I actually think that they are deliberate, and go hand-in-hand with the continuing narrative from the Mariachi Owls that the hero dies. Why? Well, it seemed obvious to me from the point that the road-killed Existential Aardvark (or whatever it was) started talking that the hero was already dying, and the whole film takes place in his head. The whole film was a sequence of references to other films, and given that our hero was clearly a film-buff (e.g. the Buster Keaton/Donald O'Connor dummy scene before the accident) that it is easy to see his last moments of life being played out in terms of the silver screen.
Whatever, ignore the nay-sayers unless you don't like animated films (in which case, what are you reading this for?) - go and see it and enjoy it.