“Water, Mr. Rango, water. Without it, there’s nothing but dust and decay. But with water, there’s life. Look at them. So desperate to live, they’ll follow it anywhere. That’s the immutable law of the ...

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, where "the drugs began to take hold" in the Johnny Depp adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." In the manic, ...

“There’s no place for the gunslinger anymore. We’re civilized now.” These words are spoken by the mayor of the town of Dirt to Rango, the town’s sheriff and film’s namesake (voiced by Johnny Depp).

If another stupid animated film with no message and gratuitous fart jokes is what audiences are looking for, they should stay far away from “Rango.” Without trying too hard, “Rango,” voiced by Johnny ...

Opening Friday is Rango, Industrial Light and Magic’s first fully animated film. Written by John Logan, directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin and a slew ...

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, ...

Animation. Directed by Gore Verbinski. Starring the voice of Johnny Depp. (PG. 107 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Johnny Depp has always had a touch of the reptilian about him - one part stealth, two ...

Rango: The World is set a year after the Rango movie. Lars the chameleon has settled into his new name and role as sheriff of Dirt and players get to create a lizard in the style of Rango and Beans to ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. That old Western truism, ‘Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting ...