I say over expanded because clearly in the first
film none of this stuff had been intended, it was (I think) just a band of humans fighting aliens after crash landing.
Not exact matches
This
film drags on and on, becoming ever more boring, until you realize that
none of this
stuff really matters.
Aspects
of the
film weather Dimension's dubbing — for instance, I like Lam's lean approach to the cops»n' robbers» often - vicious shenanigans: the requisite wiretap is only as complex as Chow taping a cassette recorder to his belly, while the heists entail lots
of commotion and gunfire and
stuffing bags full with necklaces —
none of the sterile, gadget - assisted ballet we see in Robert De Niro movies.
Yet
none of this
stuff prepares us for Rango, Verbinski's first foray into animated filmmaking, and — frankly — the best animated
film I've seen since Coraline (and yes, that includes the Pixar
films).
Doesn't matter, as in the place
of all that
stuff about internment camps that so beautifully complicated the 1984 flick is the drama
of Mr. Han née Miyagi (Jackie Chan) losing control
of his car on a dark and stormy night (because just as every chink knows kung fu,
none of them can drive — Han totals a car in the
film while it's parked in his living room), thus opening the door for a ragamuffin to come calling like some funked - up changeling.