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 ...

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 ...

Rango: A clever, cool-looking movie about… uh… water rights? Oh, Rango, I wanted to like you, I really did. Finally! An animated movie with anthropomorphic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Rango may well be one of the first mainstream animated films in the last few years that is hard to place in all the best ways. An animated Western, complete with menacing bandits, cowering townsfolk, ...

Since the first trailer debuted last year, Rango has been hyped as a different kind of movie. First it was promoted as a semi-silly action-comedy. Then it was promoted as an animated feature for ...

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 ...