Rango

Rango est davantage une suite de bonbons épisodes qu'une histoire complète. Mais ces bonbons sont des tonnes d'idées rendant hommage à tous les westerns célèbre, aux films de Rodriguez et même à Pulp Fiction. Les personnages de lézards poilus crachant sur des hommes sont graphiquement plus détaillés et plus vivants que CLU dans Tron, un régal pour les amateurs du genre. La composition post-Sherlock Homes de Zimmer, coupée au couteau, accentue les inserts comiques et ajoute de la finesse aux scènes d'action, qui sont « tournées et montées » mieux que tout ce que vous avez vu dans les meilleurs films d'action. Et attention, l'humour pour adultes dépasse largement celui pour enfants. (08/03/2011)

Typical Verbinski. The ideas are pressurized to burst, in a matter of minutes it's able to pulverize Leone, Coppola and Bay together, and it just burps lightly. It's much more functional as a Western ensemble than as a film. The scattering of the individual parts is even surreally generous, so the resulting impression is somewhat restless. With the addition of Czech dubbing, I will have to take away the fifth star, which does not change the fact that it is probably the animated highlight of the season. (01/03/2011)

For the passage where this was a not holds barred spaghetti western that in each camera angle and every tone nods to its roots, Verbinski can dig Leone up from his grave and shake him be the hand as equals. The only snag is that this constantly oscillates between surrealist animated adventure for adults, packed full of references to movies that are rarely nodded at (kicking off right at the beginning with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, for instance), through ingenious, slapstick inspired situations in Pirates of the Caribbean style, to spaghetti western. And all of these passages separately are gems, but they don’t work together, getting in the way of each other, because each of these approaches alone are enough make (and deserve) a feature length movie of their own. So on one hand it resuscitates several dying genres (not just western or surrealist, but also intelligent, non-ridiculing parodies or pastiches and CGI animation works as such), on the other it rather wastes the potential. And you must watch it in the English language version, not so much for Depp as for Nighy and Olyphant, and the Czech subtitles are playful and inventive (although very loose) for a change OST score: 5/5 (11/03/2011)

The film features excellent individual elements that stand out on their own (Clint), underlined by spectacular visuals (Deakins), playful music, and a horde of allusions, quotes, and parodies. Unfortunately, the result of the aforementioned is a rather incoherent patchwork, whose issue is not so much that it dabbles in multiple genres, but rather that it lacks the real wit that might have brought (paradoxically!) a bit of childishness in Verbinski's writing, the absence of which, on the other hand, I can quite understand after the Pirates trilogy. (03/08/2011)

Heap of nice moments, beautiful and original characters, but that's about it. With Ranga, I missed something that makes five-star animations specific for me. It had humor, although a bit too mature. The animation was flawless and the storytelling was also nice. The story is perhaps the Achilles' heel. Despite the beauty of the animation, it can be ignored, but if it doesn't compel you to continue watching the movie, something is probably wrong. (07/05/2012)