A cannily "meta" western-comedy with off-the-charts good CG animation, Gore Verbinski's "Rango" nevertheless missed a chance for outright greatness in its failure to secure one ingredient: the voice ...

"Rango" is a visually stunning animated movie that proudly walks to the beat of its own drum. But is it as great as some critics have claimed? We don't think so -- but if the filmmakers had made these ...

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 ...

Gore Verbinski’s alternately overbearing and engaging “Rango” raises a chicken-or-egg question I associate with a lot of animated features. Did somebody decide, at the outset, that a movie with a ...

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