Haha, I know right? After I watched one of the special features on the DVD, I now know what animals they are.
Got the dvd a month ago, I truly like this film, so far my second favorite animated film of the year
… impatient to watch Arthur Christmas and TinTin, to share my top 5 animated films of 2011
What’s your favorite?
the one that everybody hates, which was released by the best animation studio in the world… more clues?
Hehe, Cars 2 
Rango I think has a very good chance of winning Best Animated Feature imo. With Cars 2 and Happy Feet 2being badly recieved, Winnie The Pooh being a bit too “lowly”, with Dreamworks suffering from sequel syndrome and with The Adventures of Tintin being at great risk being thrown out for be mocap…looks like we have a winner. 
But we shall see.
And for the record, I loved Rango, although it was quite similar to A Bugs Life in places.
Cars 2, which is also my favorite of this year.
you are in my league !
I agree with this statement, that is the fact I’ve always thought, but still, I like Rango
Cars 2, TinTin or Rango, I’ll be fine if one of them won the Oscar
I liked it, but it’s not my favorite. I didn’t like that the villain just had to be a snake. Why do snakes have to be bad so much?
In my view, he wasn’t the villain of the film.
Who was? It’s been awhile since I’ve seen it, but do you mean the mayor?
Well I thought the Mayor was the villain. I didn’t really view the Snake as the villain.
I got the DVD for Christmas and hope to watch it soon.
Same, the mayor was defintely the main villain.
I was thinking of buying Rango DVD today, but got Toy Story instead because it’s the only one I need for the Toy Story films on DVD.
Exactly. [spoil]The Mayor[/spoil]was the main antagonist…
Some thoughts on Rango after multiple DVD viewings, of which the movie is eminently worthy…
The Good
Right off the bat, Rango was impressive for its design, animation, intelligent script and dialogue, humor, and voice performances. The opening scene and attendant “ironic, unexpected event” are all first-rate, beautifully setting up the spiritual quest of an as-yet-unnamed chameleon. It’s interesting that adaptability goes well beyond the lizard’s use of changing color–its flip side is amorphousness of identity. The journey by which Rango finds his story and his identity is very rewarding, with all the above listed cinematic elements firing on all cylinders…most of the time.
The Bad
The Aerial Bat-tle Sequence
While in keeping with the recurring use of cinematic references throughout the film, the bats are, sadly, misused in a fit of typical Hollywood-style Wretched Excess. It’s almost like the filmmakers decided that the film was sagging and needed a grandiose action-setpiece to punch it up. Never mind that bats don’t fly as depicted and don’t come out in daylight…it’s BIG! And bigger must be better, right? Nope. Not in a Zen-like Western-homage spiritual-quest movie.
The Ratling Gun
While Jake’s armament is visually impressive, it entails a wagonload of logical conundrums and makes Jake a cyborg–and outside of Yul Brynner in Westworld, what’s a cyborg doing in a Western? Imagining how the gun works (neuro-mechanical trigger?), how Jake reloads, and how he came to have his gun installed/grafted raises more than enough questions to pull a viewer out of the picture.
The Misused Cacti
It’s pardonable that the variety of cactus depicted doesn’t grow in the desert outside Las Vegas. It’s fitting that the cacti are used as totems, mournful reference points for Rango during his spiritual quest in the desert. And it stretches credulity near but not quite to the breaking point when the cacti walk, which could be the figurative result of desert mirage. But when the cacti actually offer a mechanical contribution to a key element of climactic action in the physical world, it’s time to cry foul.
The Ugly
Or not! More than a few Internet commentators suggest that the character designs overall are ugly in Rango. Beans in particular is singled out for supposed lack of appeal. Personal opinion: the character design is beautifully rich and detailed, and Beans is a cutie, lizard lips and all. Facial hair, teeth, and all the physiological extras are part of the anthropomorphic territory. What’s bothersome is the inconsistent scale and role of various animals. Some birds are smaller and represent regular townsfolk, fully functional and verbal as “people.” Then there is the hawk, which is much larger and doesn’t speak. Further inconsistencies are the depiction of wild pigs as both beasts of burden and, in one case, the town blacksmith. Bugs are also depicted in various roles and relative sizes. A housefly (or is that a barfly?) drinks spilled cactus juice and passes out, a dragonfly becomes Rango’s pre-fight snack, and pillbugs are used as golfballs. Yet the caretaker is a spider and a beetle struts across town like a swaggering gunfighter. Bottom line, no consistent rules are followed, presenting logical questions that, again, can pull a viewer out of the movie.
Overall, though, Rango is a worthwhile effort and at least a very good film. It deserves its place on the DVD shelf at home and is a standout among the animated offerings of 2011. Yee-hah!
Well, this is sure to win the Oscar.
I want it too.
Not my favorite film, but at least I think it¿s better than the others that got nominated.
I want Chico and Rita to win but it probably won’t happen
I’m odd in the sense that I preferred KFP2 but hopes that Rango will win.
I actually haven’t seen the other three nominations yet all the same, so who knows, their chances might be good. (Well I don’t think Puss will win but anyway.) Hope to see the three of them in any case.