You’ll see a lot of movies about heroes struggling to find their place in the world this year. But only Rango, the movie starring Johnny Depp as an existentially challenged chameleon, really delves to ...

Gore Verbinski, best known for directing the first three “Pirates of the Caribbean” films, has earned the right to do make a film for himself--the result is “Rango,” the story of a chameleon suffering ...

Rango, you scaly devil — you had me at "smuh!" As delivered by Johnny Depp, Rango the pet thespian's opening lines, actually, become "Smuh-smuh-smuh-SMUH!" With all his terrarium's a stage, our ...

There isn't another film quite like Rango, an animated Western that holds a clear reverence for the genre it emulates while barely managing to remain a family-friendly animated picture. One of the ...