RANGO

Almost all my posts have been about things that entertain me. But today I feel the need to write about something that did not entertain me. At all! Ok that’s not true. It was fairly entertaining for the first 20-30 minutes. After that it was pure tedium. Yes I am talking about Rango!

We were hanging out with a couple of our friends and couldn’t decide which movie to watch. One of us wanted to watch Red Riding Hood, two of us wanted Battle LA and one wanted to watch Rango. I was one of the two who wanted to watch Battle LA. I have always been a fan of disaster action movies. I loved Independence Day as a kid and I am a little embarrassed to say that in recent times I also liked Day After Tomorrow and 2012. I know you are judging me but ‘To Each His Own’ is my motto in life.

So anyway, we finally decided to watch Rango after a throw of lots. No one really protested because who doesn’t like animation movies! And that too one with Johnny Depp as the main character!

Initially it was funny. The western soundtrack and the lizard (yes Rango is a lizard) swaggering to it was hilarious. The dialogues were funny as well. For those who haven’t seen the movie, let me summarize the story. Yes my summary might have spoilers, but seriously, if you go watch the movie after reading my post I don’t think I care about spoiling it for you. Oh dear, I am feeling so mean today L. So the story is something like this. Rango somehow ends up in a desert town where there is a shortage of water. He convinces the people that he is some kind of hero (of course it is all a lie). Eventually the villain figures this out and exposes him to the people. Obviously in the end, he finds a way to bring water to the town and that makes him a real true hero.

After a point the jokes got repetitive and boring. There are only so many times you can laugh to the same lizard swaggering to the same music. You know a movie is boring when you become increasingly aware of how cold the theatre is, the awesome smell of the popcorn the guy behind you is eating starts tempting you and you start fantasizing about what you will eat for dinner.

After a lot of retrospection and introspection, I think I understood the real reason I didn’t like the movie. I don’t like lizards. I am not really fond of reptiles in general but I am absolutely terrified of lizards. They make my skin crawl and even right now, the thought of accidently touching a lizard is making me feel fairly ill. I can handle cockroaches and the other day I even bravely caught a spider with a tissue and threw it out (something the husband was not willing to do). Anyway, back to Rango. In this movie, Rango is the best looking character. Well actually his girlfriend looks slightly better than him. The rest of the town is filled with a collection of hideous looking animals, most of them reptiles. A few people will think I am being really mean by calling the animals ugly and hideous because beauty is relative and all that. But I found them gross ok! And I did not like watching a movie filled with gross looking reptiles.

I conclude by saying that the rest of the group did not like it either. In fact, one of our friends said she would have preferred writing her PhD thesis to watching Rango. So I rest my case.