For me the start of the 2011 Film Season usually kicks off around March. March is the earliest time that anything even remotely resembling a good movie will come out (with a few exceptions here and there - most recently Shutter Island last year) and Oscar Season is usually over by at least the end of the month. The first film I chose to see this year was Gore Verbinski's Rango. I must confess that the early trailers for the film did very little for me though I did recognize that at the very least it would be an interesting looking film. I went into the theater a little hesitant because the thought that wouldn't escape my mind was - how many talking animal animated films do we really need? And worse yet, how many of them are actually any good? Rango itself starts out a little hesitant. The jokes land flat, Johnny Depp seems completely out of place in his lizard body, and the pace seems very off. After these first ten minutes though I began to realize that this was all part of the point of our hero's journey. Rango quickly becomes an artistic triumph and loving ode to the western genre and the art of filmmaking itself. Full Review after the jump.
