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" proves that Pixar has no monopoly on super-terrific animation. It's an exuberant, audacious love letter to spaghetti Westerns masquerading as a kiddie cartoon. And it delivers deliciously on ...

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 ...

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.

Gore Verbinski is one of the most versatile directors in Hollywood. Before he helmed the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, which includes two of the 10 highest-grossing films of all time, the former ...

Johnny Depp has always had a touch of the reptilian about him — one part stealth, two parts darting unpredictability — but in “Rango,” he goes a step further and actually plays a lizard. Not ...