Rango

Animated, Family
3.5 stars
Cute, but long and slow. Johnny Depp voices Rango, a dim-witted chameleon who rambles into a small desert town and unwittingly becomes a hero. As the newly minted sheriff he attempts to solve the town’s water shortage crisis. This is really a film for young boys, as there are no cutesy characters for girls to enjoy and the pace moves along as slowly as an old Western. There was a cameo that I was excited about, with the spot-on voice of the king of all Spaghetti Westerns, Clint Eastwood. This character even carted around a collection of golden statuettes. But alas, as the credits rolled, the voice was that of Timothy Olyphant, of I Am Number Four and TV’s “Justified”. What a disappointment! Overall, it was just OK.