Like, OMG, the RANGO trailer actually made me laugh

Like, OMG, the RANGO trailer actually made me laugh

Jul 01

I had no idea what to expect. The only clues I had were that Rango was an animated film starring a silly-looking green lizard voiced by Johnny Depp. I mean, what else is there to know?

It is also voiced by Australia’s own Isla Fischer along with Bill Nighy, and directed by Gore Verbinski, the same man who brought us those Pirates of the Caribbean films– hey, they starred Johnny Depp, too!! … and Bill Nighy.

Anyhow. I was pleasantly surprised that the Rango trailer actually had me chuckle in a few spots. I was expecting to give it more of a pasting, but it seems too harmless at this point. The lizard has that “ZOMG he’s sooooo cute’ thing going on, which pre-teen girls will scoop up without question, and Johnny’s quirky-as-always voice is there for those who get excited hearing it because they know it’s attached to an (apparently) sexy man. Thankfully it’s an animation, because I doubt he could have pulled off the lizard-in-a-Hawaiian-shirt thing. It would have probably ended up a blend of Willy Wonka and/or Edward Scissorhands and/or Jack Sparrow and/or Sweeny Todd characters… again.

Rango is released 4 March 2011 in the US, 7 April 2011 in Australia