Drags Sometimes but Overall OK

Rating: 6/10 (24 September 2011)

"Rango", a new Dreamworks animation has some good moments for sure, but the movie drags in several places and is overall more boring than exciting on the whole. The dialog sometimes doesn't really engage or is silly. The animation itself is competent mostly, but spoiler the whole desert and western theme just wasn't very captivating. Johnny Depp is a likable actor, and he proves himself a capable voice actor here as well, but Rango is sort of devoid of personality. We see he enjoys play-acting in the beginning and is left to the same sorts of antics in the wild west town, but the movie seems kind of superficial in the dialog. The jokes are hit- and-miss. I liked the bats/wagon-chase scene as entertaining, but the western theme is sort of stale as a whole. I guess Rango can be mildly recommended as OK.