I am so looking forward to Rango (and I will say that the list of Animated Films I Have Ever Actively Wanted To See is about two, maybe). Here’s the latest trailer, which has only increased my Glee Quotient for the movie.
And as a special holiday treat, here is a brief look at the “Making of” process. I love that the film wasn’t made with actors trapped in a booth voicing to existing animation. I would imagine that can be pretty frustrating — all talk, no action, as they say. But Rango was made with actors creating the roles physically as well as vocally. Actors doing and being. And they look like they’re having so much fun, don’t they?
Fun is Good. I like it a lot. I hope you’ll have some the next day or two. Happy holidays.
I was driving in Everett a couple of weeks ago, and saw a Santa on the sidewalk holding a big sign. “20% off Reptiles!” it said. Because nothing says Christmas like something cold-blooded.
Eeek! Sorry about the typos.
@Astrid, Funny! People are so wacky. And no worries about typos, I fixed ’em. Oh, the power (*evil laugh*)….
This looks like fun to me, too, but every time I hear the name I flash back to my childhood. There was shortlived sitcom, the first show, I think, with Tim Conway, called Rango—-he played a bumbling Texas Ranger and it was an absolute stitch. As good as Tim Conway is anyway, imagine him dressed all in black and failing spectacularly to draw his guns correctly.
@Mark, this sounds so familiar…. I adore Conway, still miss the incredible team dynamic on the Carol Burnett Show with Burnett, Conway, Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman and Lyle Waggoner. Such funny people, and the way they worked together and cracked each other up all the time made me imagine that they must be really lovely people too…
That was fun. I like fun, too.
Rango reminds me of a night spent in a low-life bar in the wilds outside of Tampa, Florida back in the 1960s … Rocky Creek Fish Camp. A (non) reptile who probably still is nameless cleared out the entire bar crowd when he pulled out his loooooooong black whip and started cracking it over the heads of witless drunks. Your dad and I learned just how fast a person can move when motivated. Grin.
First the saguaros made me hoot, then the playfulness with frontier swagger…thanks.