Skip This Movie

Rating: 4/10 (4 March 2011)

I did not enjoy this movie. Maybe I'm used to the wit of Shrek or the pure enjoyment of Cars but Rango was not like either of these (beyond some stunning visuals).
First, as others have said, do not bring your kids. Owls hanging from nooses, the same owls continually reassuring you the hero will die, at least one fairly realistic gunning down of a character and quite a bit of death overall. Combine that with the threats of "I want to watch your eyes as I kill you" and references to some adult topics (likely over a kids head, but still) and you have a non-kid movie. I would say the big thing is that they really do show death whereas typically it is only alluded to or the characters don't die.
Beyond the kid factor, I thought the movie was highly predictable and overall just awkward. At many times it just felt overly drawn out. I think if a person was a huge spaghetti western fan there may be some material here for you, but not for the typical movie goer.
In the world of bad westerns and parodies of the genre I feel like this landed more toward the former even if aiming for the latter.