But first, Verbinski cleared up some plot details. Rango (Depp) is a pet chameleon who lives in a terrarium. “He’s a thespian in search of an audience,” says Verbinski.

Rango has the feel of a lark, of a film-lover’s spree in a playpen equipped with some of the world’s most expensive and expressive toys. Verbinski also enjoys the advantage of some highly ...

Conventional animation is, essentially, illustrations that move. Rango’s roots are in live action. “We treated it like any of our previous live-action collaborations with Gore,” says Knoll.

Paramount’s ‘Rango’ Has Lit Up a Smoking Controversy A Conversation With … Anti-smoking group questions whether animated critters in Johnny Depp PG-rated film should be lighting up on screen ...

Movies Oscars 2012: 'Rango' is deeply weird, and the most likely, most deserving, would-be winner Published: Feb. 07, 2012, 2:12 p.m.

Review: A delicious 'Rango'In this film publicity image released by Paramount Pictures, Spoons, left, voiced by Alex Manugian, and Rango, voiced by Johnny Depp are shown in a scene from the ...

Rango is an action/adventure game set in a gritty, pint-sized, Wild West world filled with off-colour characters, wild rides and frantic shoot-outs. Players of all ages will meet the residents of ...

The Johnny Depp-voiced movie "Rango" has won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. Directed by Gore Verbinski, Depp's director in the first three installments of "Pirates of the Caribbean," the ...

Rango is stuffed with allusions to other films. These aren't Shrek -like pop-culture references, but more Verbinski's homage to other filmmakers, which gives Rango an eccentric personal quality.

Movie Review: Gore Verbinski's 'Rango,' starring Johnny Depp, is a groundbreaking animated film as well as loads of fun.

With two eminently confusable animated movies hitting VOD, parents and animation buffs run the risk of bringing home lizards instead of birds—or vice versa. With tropicalia legend Sergio Mendes ...