Whose idea was it to turn those latter-day Caribbean pirates Johnny Depp, Bill Nighy and director Gore Verbinski loose on a cartoon, ostensibly for kids? Because "Rango" requires some explanation. It ...

Imagine this: You are a nameless, Hawaiian shirt-toting pet chameleon who finds himself newly homeless and alone in the middle of the Nevada desert. After asking a passing armadillo for help, you are ...

The recent trend in animated movies has been to introduce more adult fare to blend with the childish elements in the plot. Pixar’s “Wall-E” was dense with themes aimed at the adults in the theater, ...

LITTLE ROCK — The animated movie Rango, opening Friday, requires some explanation. It is funny, inventive and downright daft, according to the review in Friday’s MovieStyle section. But who is it for, ...

This review was originally posted on March 3, 2011. It has been reposted for the film’s home video release. Calling “Rango” the best western comedy since “Blazing Saddles” isn’t saying a whole lot, I ...

Whose idea was it to turn those latter-day Caribbean pirates Johnny Depp, Bill Nighy and (director) Gore Verbinski loose on a cartoon, ostensibly for kids? Because “Rango” requires some explanation.

When Rango came out a few years ago, my friend Pam and I saw it independently and compared notes afterward. We were both surprised by... I don’t own too many Blu-Rays; unless I find them used/cheap, I ...

Pixar has run Toon Town for some time now. But as of this Friday, there’s a new gang in town: those badass sons-of-guns from George Lucas’s Industrial Light & Magic, with their Pirates of the ...

Johnny Depp teams up with the director of Pirates of the Caribbean again Isla Fisher has told Newsbeat about the "spiky humour" in new animated western Rango. Ex-Home and Away star Fisher plays a ...

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 ...