Show-business trade-paper "Variety" said of this movie in its review, "Here comes Chances Are, and there goes Mr. Jordan", a reference to the earlier heavenly comedy Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), which had been remade as Heaven Can Wait (1978).
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Gore Verbinski's first animated film.
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Gore Verbinski had hoped to make something a bit low-key after the huge excesses of three super-budget Pirates of the Caribbean movies. He however had completely underestimated the rigors of a 3D computer animated feature.
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In the beginning of the movie, Rango says he "will become the greatest lover the world has ever known." In Don Juan DeMarco (1994), Johnny Depp played a mental patient who believes he is the world's greatest lover.
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Words of wisdom from the Spirit of the West: 1. Sometimes you have to dig deep to find what you're looking for. 2. Doesn't matter what they call you, it's the deeds that make the man. 3. Then be a hero! 4. It's not about you, it's about them. 5. No man can walk out of his own story.
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As well as holding the Dead Man's Hand, the image of a skull is visible as the shot pans across the Owl's glass of cactus juice.
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Voice acting debut for Alfred Molina. Later he'd go onto voice Professor Knight in Monsters University (2013), Double Dan in Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018), Baron Blackout in Henchmen (2018) and King Agnarr in Frozen II (2019).
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When Rango is talking to the Spirit of the West, Rango says " they used to call you the man with no name." This is how Clint Eastwood's western movie persona was often described.
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Characters who are never addressed by name: Roadkill the armadillo, Priscilla the desert mouse, and Balthazar the mole.
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This is Gore Verbinski's fourth film with Johnny Depp after the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies. They would go on to make The Lone Ranger (2013) together.
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The voice actors were given Wild West costumes to help them break into character.
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Roger Deakins consulted on the film's unique visual style.
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Rango (2011) is the first Nickelodeon Movies film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Film and the first Nickelodeon movie to be nominated for the award since Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001), which lost to Shrek (2001).
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In the beginning of the movie, Rango was almost run over by multiple cars passing by. One of these cars was a yellow De Tomaso Pantera, an Italian sports car from the 1970s sold in the U.S. at Lincoln-Mercury dealers.
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Following the success of the film, Paramount started to form its own animation studio.
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At the poker table in the saloon when Rango first enters, there is an owl in a top hat holding a pair of black aces and a pair of black eights. These were the cards held by notorious Wild West gunman 'Wild Bill' Hickok, the moment he was shot dead in a saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota. Bill's hand is since known as "The Dead Man's Hand".
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It is the 5th non-Disney/Pixar film to win Best Animated Film.
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One of the headstones in Dirt's graveyard reads, "He's Dead Jim", a repeated line of Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in Star Trek: The Original Series (1966).
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Tom Kenny had a deleted role of Chicken Craig.
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Ned Beatty (Tortoise John) and Alfred Molina (Roadkill) appear in films from Pixar Beatty was in Toy Story 3 (2010) as Lotso-Huggin-Bear and Molina was in Monsters University (2013) as Professor Knight.
Rango - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Rango - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Rango - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Rango - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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