A lost family pet becomes a whimsical, darkly comic sheriff in a gritty, surreal Western town.
Pulpy and campy, with absurdist humor. A family watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Kanopy (free), Hoopla (free) and YouTube (free).
It stays inside its PG, with mild language and nothing scary.
Our estimate: fine from about 7. Rated PG.
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When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed sheriff. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt and uncover the truth behind a looming water crisis—before his act catches up with him.
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
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