The series ran for 28 episodes over two seasons on CBS as part of The Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour. Visit Ben Kendrick's website for info on his fiction work, follow him on Twitter or check out what he's doing now over at Rise at Seven.The Lone Ranger is an American animated television series produced by Filmation in 1980.
Thanks to a background in fiction writing, Ben is drawn to films that make story and character a priority however, that doesn't stop him from enjoying a range of Hollywood offerings - from blockbuster action flicks to campy so-bad-they're-good B-movies. A graduate of the New School’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, Ben has been passionate about movies ever since standing in line for a midnight showing of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade when he was eight years-old. He is a member of the Denver Film Critics Society as well as the Online Film Critics Society - with work referenced, cited, or syndicated on CNN, Wikipedia, Huffington Post, Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB, Yahoo, and Business Insider, among others.
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If you’ve seen the movie and want to discuss details about the film without worrying about spoiling it for those who haven’t seen it, please head over to our The Lone Ranger Spoilers Discussion.īen Kendrick is the former Content Director (and current film critic) of Screen Rant, CBR, and Collider as well as host of the Screen Rant Underground and Total Geekall podcast. Let us know what you thought of the film in the comment section below. The Lone Ranger runs 149 minutes and is Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense action and violence, and some suggestive material. If you’re still on the fence about The Lone Ranger, check out the trailer below: No doubt, certain audience members will thoroughly enjoy the bangs and gags in this Lone Ranger story but it's still style over substance at nearly every turn, and fails to evolve or elevate the series canon in any meaningful (or particularly exciting) way. Unfortunately, the mixture of two likable leads and a cast of accomplished character actors, backed by highly-successful producers and a $200 million budget, based on a well-known pair of American heroes, doesn't necessarily deliver a quality moviegoing experience. Playing fast and loose with history is forgivable at the theater but The Lone Ranger relies on shallow caricature while at the same time introducing a lot of complicated and disturbing aspects of Western expansion to further the plot, and neither approach results in impactful character drama or meaningful thematic insight.Ī flawed but often entertaining summer blockbuster experience, The Lone Ranger falls short as a sum of its promising individual parts. The film is a surprisingly grim piece of storytelling, especially for viewers who aren't as easily distracted by big explosions and take time to think about what is actually being depicted (or not-so-subtly implied) moment to moment. While over-the-top camp has worked in other Depp movies, it's noticeably at odds with the tone of the Lone Ranger, which includes brutal scenes of cannibalism and mass genocide, among other challenging story beats. Like Depp's other fan-favorite creations, Tonto is unapologetic as a character that will pursue the most cartoonish and ridiculous course of action in order to delight a moviegoing audience - often at the expense of believability. Still, following his penchant for strange family-friendly characters, Depp delivers another enjoyable turn as Tonto though, the character is tinged by earlier oddball entries in the actor's resume (Jack Sparrow/the Mad Hatter/Willy Wonka/Sweeney Todd/Barnabas Collins/etc). It's a telling sign when scenes between Tonto and the Lone Ranger's "spirit horse," are more memorable than any moments between Depp and the titular masked hero. As mentioned, Johnny Depp is comfortable in the quirky moccasins of the Comanche sidekick and, for that reason, it's no surprise that Hammer's Lone Ranger is sidelined to vanilla everyman duty.
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