SAN FRANCISCO--When he started making his new film "Rango," director Gore Verbinski knew he wanted it to look and feel much like many of the Westerns it evokes: gritty, dirty, and sweaty. "He wanted ...

In “”Rango,”” the newest genre-bending adventure from “”Pirates of the Caribbean”” director Gore Verbinski, a pampered pet lizard goes on a Wild West quest to bring water to the tortured town of Dirt.

The genre of the “children’s movie” has never really been fully and formally codified, but for our purposes here, we may assign it the quick-and-dirty definition of “any film produced for marketing to ...

SAN FRANCISCO--When he started making his new film "Rango," director Gore Verbinski knew he wanted it to look and feel much like many of the Westerns it evokes: gritty, dirty, and sweaty. "He wanted ...

Even in the whimsical world of animated movies, dusty frontier towns in the American West aren't a tropical chameleon's native habitat. So when a grandiloquent green lizard has managed to install ...

Paramount has debuted the first teaser trailer for Gore Verbinski's Rango on Apple today. Yesterday we unveiled the first poster and reveal of the chameleon Rango, as voiced by Johnny Depp. The voice ...

The $38 million debut of Johnny Depp’s animated film was below expectations, but the kid-friendly feature should ultimately gross $159 million domestically. By Paul Bond Rango might have opened a tad ...

A marvelous mash-up of Old West and newfangled, “Rango” rewrites the animation playbook with its eye-popping critters and varmints, and its hero’s tale (tail?) of a chameleon desperate for a SAG card ...

Image Credit: Paramount PicturesThe first proper trailer for the CG-animated film Rango was unleashed yesterday (and embedded below), and despite its peyote-infused imagery, it made a hell of a lot ...

Back in September, when we named Johnny Depp the highest paid actor in Hollywood, I wrote that his most intriguing upcoming film was the animated Rango about a domesticated chameleon who winds up in ...

Gore Verbinski's approach to the Western genre, with elements of the Hero's Journey and slapstick humour, makes this a great animated adventure movie.