Author Archives: Brent Pearce

Movie night! And it is my weekly trip to the local cin­ema with tonight’s offer­ing the ani­mated flick Rango. I had seen the pro­mos for some time and found they gave no real indi­ca­tion of this movie at all. They are some­what mis­lead­ing, but in an unusual way in that Rango is far from just another ani­mated film.

The feel­ing you get from the pro­mos is that this is ani­ma­tion pri­mar­ily aimed a younger audi­ence but which adults would enjoy to. It is the norm with ani­mated films today. But this couldn’t be fur­ther from the truth. Rango is ani­ma­tion for adults and if adults take kid­dies along so be it. Bums on seats equates to more bucks so a film mak­ers aren’t going to cut out a poten­tial mar­ket by push­ing it as solely adult ori­en­tated. I have con­sis­tently stated through­out my movie watch­ing life that ani­ma­tion isn’t solely the domain of chil­dren and have tried hard in break­ing down this bar­rier of igno­rance within adults. If Rango doesn’t finally get through to adults then I sadly fail to won­der what ever will.