I first watched this movie about a month ago (I’ve gone back to it twice since then); it exceeded my expectations big time. It was hilarious (even if some of the humor was a bit “dirty” for my tastes), clever, visually astounding (the landscapes…
), and had some pretty awesome scenes. Seriously, is there another film in existence that has a chase scene involving a squadron of gophers riding bats after a peccary-drawn covered wagon while playing
Ride of the Valkyries on banjos?
If that’s not epic, I don’t know what is.
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I must say I found many of the anthropomorphic animal designs rather creepy (I’m tellin’ ya, the uncanny valley isn’t just for humans), and frankly I couldn’t tell for certain what species half of the characters were supposed to be (and coming from me that’s saying something :blink:).
Still, there were plenty of characters I liked, my top fave undoubtedly being Rattlesnake Jake*. Pretty much the instant he appeared onscreen, I knew this was going to be an
awesome villain. I think the fact that he’s a giant rattlesnake with a Gatling gun for a rattle was the tip-off.
And those eyes… :blink: those are the most hellish-looking peepers I’ve seen since Sauron in
The Lord of the Rings. As far as I’m concerned, Jake is right up there with Sharptooth in the rank of antagonists that are simultaneously terrifying and awe-inspiring to the highest degree.
Random comment: Did anyone else catch the stealth pun in the tortoise’s statement that he was mayor before the town was built? He’s literally “older than Dirt”!
*By the way, FlipperBoidSkua, somehow I wasn’t a bit surprised when I saw that you had an avatar of Rattlesnake Jake.
