Universal's mind-bending thriller "The Adjustment Bureau," starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt, debuted in the No. 2 spot with $20 million. CBS Films' fantasy tale "Beastly" with Alex Pettyfer and Vanessa Hudgens opened at No. 3 with $10.1 million, rounding out the weekend's top three films. It was another down weekend for Hollywood, with grosses coming in less than the corresponding weekend last year.
"Comparisons to a year ago are tough considering that's when 'Alice in Wonderland' opened with $116.1 million," said Hollywood.com analyst Paul Dergarabedian, referring to the Tim Burton film. "We're not even in that realm this year, so this is our second down weekend in a row. We've only had one up weekend at the box office versus a year ago. There's this malaise overtaking the marketplace."
The raunchy Warner Bros. comedy "Hall Pass" stayed committed in its second weekend in the No. 4 position with $9 million. The 3-D animated Walt Disney romance "Gnomeo and Juliet" also kept that loving feeling going in its fourth weekend with $6.9 million in the No. 5 spot, despite an animated showdown against "Rango," which was not released in 3-D.
To me, the only thing interesting about Rango is the question it poses about Westerns: Should people stop making them? The film makes a strong case for shutting down the genre completely, along with, well, pretty much every other type of movie; at least until the so-called "talent" behind them comes up with something new or interesting to watch. Bear in mind while reading this review that I'm the guy who couldn't stand True Grit.
Where are we, now? Oh, yes, thirty minutes into the run-time, and we've finally made it to the Western portion of our Western. Allow me to break down the rest of the story briefly, so as to spare you the gross hour-and-fifteen minutes to which the main paper-thin plot is stretched: Rango becomes sheriff after defeating the hawk. He goes up against the evil mayor (Ned Beatty), who schemes to siphon off the town's water supply for his own Las Vegas-style development deeper into the desert. Rango fights the mayor's goons and, through scenes too tedious to recount here, loses the trust of the townsfolk. He later regains confidence, returns to Dirt, and defeats the mayor while also restoring water to the town.
Occasionally, you'll get Joss Whedon transplanting the Old West to outer space in Serenity, or the Cohen Brothers delivering a modern take on the manly-men values of our lawless past in No Country for Old Men. But when it comes to straight-up Stranger-Rides-Into-Town-and-Orders-a-Sarsaparilla-Before-the-Big-Shootout-in-the-Middle-of-Town, how many more iterations must we endure before audiences say, "Enough, already?" If you doubt the formula will ever get old, imagine a third Tranformers sequel in which Shia LaBoeuf faces down a handkerchief-wearing Starscreamwith a six-shooter (actually, I'd probably pay to see that).
Nevertheless, most of the scenes were filmed in reality to make them seem authentic, and the film director Gore Verbinski convinced the actors involved in the project to perform their parts physically. Fisher once shared that she turned down filming an intimate scene with her co-star because she was sick that day.
Sonic: All right. Surly's first feats were constantly being able to hurt Buddy, be it by unknowingly knocking him off of a nut cart, push him down a power line, and knock him out with a metal spoon to where said utensil gets bent and messed up, all with ease or force. Buddy, his rat friend, can take hits from rat gangs, who should be able to have the natural strength of dirty rats.
Sonic: He can also survive being slammed onto the road, and live through being splashed down a huge waterfall. While this left him unconscious, he still woke up after a while like nothing happened.
Gumball: This guy found roadkill that was still alive, an old armadillo with a beard and stuff, who in which told him that to find water, that he had to find the town "Dirt". And so, he walked through the desert, where he encountered a ginormous hawk that chased him down. He's lucky that it took the dirty, cursing frog, or else his tail was screwed.
Sonic: His first two tools are a bottle of cactus juice and a cigar. He can resist cactus juice and drink it with no problem, and this liquid killed a fly instantly after it drank it. It's shown that after eating a cigarette and downing it with this can cause him to breathe fire. Once, and only once.
sans: anyways, this gun can shoot out what we guessed to be quick-firing and hard-hitting... pieces of corn. and while they don't have the piercing power of a normal bullet, it hits hard enough to knock down enemies.
"Fight?!", they both ask, as Surly comments, "Hold on, I didn't sign up for this!". "Join the club, amigo", Rango replies. Tired of waiting, the man above snapped his fingers and sent soldiers down to "motivate them". Sadly, this guy doesn't know the difference between motivation and forceful authority, as they forced them to brawl as they came out of their cages with spears. Afraid, the cocky reptile tries to negotiate with his rodent friend to escape.
Surly would've been the one to throw the first hit, obviously, while Rango dodges and screams before being roundhouse kicked in the face to where his pupils circulate. After regaining his focus, he uppercuts the furry squirrel and throws a quick jab to knock him down, but didn't expect the fact that he'd backflip from the ground and land safely.
After that, he would've gulped as he tried to loose-punch him again, only for him to dodge and punch at his stomach, pushing him back as he dropkicks him to the wall. He grabbed his skinny throat to chokeslam him before the town sheriff throws Surly down with him to jump off of his stomach.
The purple squirrel got up and hiccupped with a groan as he joked, "Good thing I had a light lunch...", before getting kicked in the knee to fall down, not expecting a kick in the cheek to make him drool as he got on his hands to cough before getting up and front-flipping away, twirling in mid-air and landing on his feet.
Rango was down, but he wasn't out. He got right up to pull a punch-punch-kick combo on the mischievous opponent, following up with a hook right into his gut, causing him to be stunned. A perfect opening for an attack, but overconfidence consumed. "Give up now, hombre?", the cowboy animal says. "You have no chance of winning against Sheriff Rango."
As he was talking, an unexpected body-slam inflicted upon him, being crushed under the weight of Surly, who just got up, and was furious at him. "Wanna recheck that statement, ugly?", he teases, holding him down, which didn't last long as Rango got right back up to backhand his rodent foe, as he slides back and somersaults over to the side.
Surly shook his head in disregard as he tries to clip the golf club and swing him away, as Rango gets out a pill bug and throws it at him, causing him to yelp in pain and rub his eye, causing the scissors to let go. While he wasn't looking, the quirky cowboy caught the pill bug to put it on the ground and punt it over to the infamous squirrel, causing him to be knocked down.
May I remind you, a swing like that knocked down a bridge, but Surly faced worse. That son of a gun got right back up, and got out his scissors again. While that happened, the Mariachi birds appeared, perching somewhere and playing their instruments, being on-key with the song.
Cutting back to the main fight, Surly and Rango were wrestling, with the park-defender throwing his skinny foe around like a ragdoll so far, but it didn't last long when the hat-attired soldier slammed him down. After a while, the violet virtue got up to give his western foe the same treatment with his tail, but it backfired when the legendary gunslinger grabbed it to swing him at a wall.
"Enough of this nonsense!", the reptilian yells, pouncing onto him, with him shooting at the sky on accident since that move caused him to miss. He then begins to beat him down, and brags, "I am a tactical genius!", while simultaneously punching him in the face. After a while, he bit his hand again, causing him to yelp in pain before jumping to dropkick him into the wall.
"Yeesh, this guy is rough", Surly says in his mind. "If I wanna live another day, I need to think of something!" He decided to rush around him, causing him to shoot at him a few times, miss every shot, and get dizzy after trying to keep track of his much faster opponent. After a while, Surly took his chance to air kick him down and slam him onto the ground by his leg, causing him to almost get knocked out.
"Hey! A nut cart!", he gasps while pointing behind him, with the squirrel looking behind him, but back forward to find that his foe wasn't there. Luckily, he found Rango trying to climb up a wall, pleading the guards to set him free. "Let me out! This guy's a psychopath!", he cries, with the first guard replying, "Sorry, cowboy. Arena policy.", and kicking him down below in front of his furry enemy, who is visibly deadpan.
After that short moment, the cowboy's cowardly instincts activated as he ran like never before, with his rodent foe chasing him down around the arena in circles. "Whoa, whoa, he- hey, let's talk about this!", he pleads, as the angered violet rogue yells, "YOU'RE DEAD, COWARD!", not backing down.
At the moment he caught him, something fell out of Rango's pocket, and that was a pack of assorted snacks. As a last resort, and with Surly confused out of his mind, he splashed all of the snacks inside, with some nuts getting stuck in the squirrel's mouth. "Mmm...", he says. "Are these nuts?" While off guard, the cocky chameleon knocked him into the wall as he slid down.
While he was getting up, the purple rodent caught a metal spoon that fell from a guard's hand to attempt knocking the lime oaf down, failing as he dodges to scissor kick him back. After planning another kick, Surly would block with the steel-crafted utensil and knock his reptilian foe into the wall, only for him to rise in a dizzy mannerism.
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