AIN'T IT COOL had this to say about a sequence I boarded
This becomes apparent after Verbinski screens an early-third-act sequence which finds Rango at the end of his tether, ready to end it all by forlornly walking across a perilously busy highway. There's ample opportunity to die, but Rango somehow avoids every tire that whizzes his way. When he reaches the other side of the road, he collapses into the desert dust. Perhaps now he'll perish of dehydration. But then, in a moment of peculiar beauty, he's carried off by a legion of just-awakened pill bugs. I don't mean to get too worked up over a single out-of-context sequence, but there's a spiritual quality to this that's worthy of Pixar at its best. It's a lovely moment of natural rebirth.
This becomes apparent after Verbinski screens an early-third-act sequence which finds Rango at the end of his tether, ready to end it all by forlornly walking across a perilously busy highway. There's ample opportunity to die, but Rango somehow avoids every tire that whizzes his way. When he reaches the other side of the road, he collapses into the desert dust. Perhaps now he'll perish of dehydration. But then, in a moment of peculiar beauty, he's carried off by a legion of just-awakened pill bugs. I don't mean to get too worked up over a single out-of-context sequence, but there's a spiritual quality to this that's worthy of Pixar at its best. It's a lovely moment of natural rebirth.
