# Rango - seen it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rango-seen-it/573614 "2011-03-05T21:00:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rango-seen-it/573614/21 "2011-05-29T14:42:57Z")
Another borderline pair of lines was when Bad Bill threatened the turkey, “I’m going to slice your face off and use it to wipe my unmentionables” and one of his cronies told him to watch out for the beak. A question. According to the credits, Depp did two voices: Rango and Lars. Rango is obvious but which character was Lars? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rango-seen-it/573614/22 "2011-05-29T14:58:17Z")
It’s the same character. He was Lars at the beginning but then renamed himself Rango as part of his efforts to impress the rubes. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rango-seen-it/573614/23 "2011-05-29T21:40:10Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > It’s the same character. He was Lars at the beginning but then renamed himself Rango as part of his efforts to impress the rubes. Really? Because I thought it was a big plot point that he didn’t have a name in the beginning of the movie. When did he call himself Lars? ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rango-seen-it/573614/24 "2011-05-29T23:23:22Z")
That was Depp doing Hunter S. Thompson, right? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rango-seen-it/573614/25 "2011-05-30T03:10:14Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Really? Because I thought it was a big plot point that he didn’t have a name in the beginning of the movie. When did he call himself Lars? I can’t recall where specifically he was called Lars, but [this Google page](http://www.google.co.th/search?hl=th&source=hp&biw=999&bih=568&q=lars+rango+depp&oq=lars+rango+depp&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=2969l8031l0l16l16l0l9l9l0l438l1516l1.0.1.1.2) shows the beginning of various reviews where they all mention that he changed his name from Lars to Rango. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rango-seen-it/573614/26 "2011-06-01T19:38:28Z")
> [@MostlyClueless](#): > > The script is crammed full of wittyness and parental bonuses, and there were plenty of gutlaughs rippling through the audience. (You won’t believe what they’re getting away with. [Saying they pushed that PG rating as far as they could is an understatement.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Rango))\ +1. I really liked it, would give it a 4/5 or a 9/10. We saw it (24 and almost 22) last night at the late showing and there were a handful of young couples in the theater. I’ve become a fan of animation (other than anime) since Ratatouille. This definitely fit the bill. I was _amazed_ it was given a PG rating; PG-13 would have been much more applicable but again, it didn’t have sex or nudity (well, aside from the mannequin) which often matter more to the rating people. Definitely not okay for those under age 8 or so, also like others have said it had a very Western element. > [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > The movie is just packed with little moments that riff off other movies: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Chinatown, Apocalypse Now, High Plains Drifter, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, Paint Your Wagon, True Grit, etc. Sometimes it’s as subtle as copying a famous camera angle or a line reading. All good reasons to see it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rango-seen-it/573614/27 "2011-07-25T22:29:23Z")
Bumping this thread, because I just saw it on DVD. The plot was an obvious parody of Chinatown (in a spaghetti western setting) - the turtle/mayor wears the same hat as John Huston, and says at least one of the same lines (“The future, Mr Gittes/Rango…the future!”) And once I realized that … did anyone else think that Beans (the female lead lizard) was drawn to look like Faye Dunaway? And… “I once coughed up a whole tribe of pygmies. They was lookin’ at me funny” made my jaw drop open in bedazzled admiration. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2011, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rango-seen-it/573614/28 "2011-09-17T23:29:22Z")
Saw it last night, it is great, trippy fun. Sterling voice work, too: Rattlesnake Jake was _Bill Nighy?_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rango-seen-it/573614.md?page=1)