Rango (2011 movie)

Overview
Rango is an American computer-animated Western comedy-drama film. It was directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Graham King. Besides, it features the voices of actors Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Bill Nighy, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone, Timothy Olyphant and Ned Beatty.

Rango received critical compliments. The site's consensus says, "Rango is a smart, giddily creative burst of beautifully animated entertainment, and Johnny Depp gives a colorful vocal performance as a household pet in an unfamiliar world." A different review-aggregation website, Metacritic, reported that the film had been given an average review of 75 out of 100 (or 3 out of 4).

It's an actual movie lover's movie, conceived as a Blazing Saddles-like comic commentary on kind that's as back-lot savvy as it is light in the saddle. The movie compliments the custom of thoroughly drawn animated classics, and does appealing things with room and perspective with its untamed action sequences.

Castings

• Johnny Depp as Rango a chameleon
• Isla Fisher  as Beans, a desert iguana
• Stephen Root  as Doc, a rabbit; Mr. Johannes "Fluffy Joe" Merrimack III; Mr. Snuggles
• Abigail Breslin  as Priscilla, a cactus mouse
• Ray Winstone  as William "Bad Bill", a gila monster
• Ned Beatty  as Mayor Marion "Tortoise John" Lynch, Mayor of Dirt, a desert tortoise
• Harry Dean Stanton  as Balthazar
• Bill Nighy  as Rattlesnake Jake
• Alfred Molina  as Roadkill, an armadillo
• Gil Birmingham  as Wounded Bird
• Timothy Olyphant  as the Spirit of the West
• Ian Abercrombie  as Ambrose
• James Ward Byrkit  as: Waffles, a horned toad; Gordy; Papa Joad; Cousin Murt; Curlie knife attacker; Rodent Kid
• Maile Flanagan  as Lucky
• Claudia Black  as Angelique, a fox
• John Cothran, Jr.  as Elgin
• Blake Clark  as Buford, Gas Can Saloon bartender
• Patrika Darbo  as: Delilah; Maybelle
• George DelHoyo  as Señor Flan, the accordion player
• Charles Fleischer  as Elbows
• Ryan Hurst  as Jedidiah
• Vincent Kartheiser  as Ezekiel; Lasso rodent
• Beth Grant  as Bonnie
• Hemky Madera  as Chorizo
• Alex Manugian as Spoons
• Mark McCreery as Parsons
• Joe Nunez as Rock-Eye
• Chris Parson as: Hazel Moats, Kinski, Stump, Clinker, Lenny, Boseefus, Dirt Kid
• Lew Temple as: Furgus; Hitch
• Alanna Ubach as: Boo Cletus; Fresca; Miss Daisy
• Gore Verbinski as: Sergeant Turley; Crevice; Slim; Lupe, the violin player
• Kym Whitley as Melonee
• Keith Campbell as Sod Buster

Short Details of the Story
The chronicle follows the comical, transformative voyage of Rango (Depp), a sheltered chameleon living as a common family pet, while facing a main identity catastrophe. After all, how high can you aspire when your entire reason in life is to blend in? When Rango by chance winds up in the rough, gun-slinging town of Dirt - a unruly settlement occupied by the desert's most cunning and unusual creatures - the less-than-courageous lizard unexpectedly finds he stands out.

Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is required to play his new role to the hilt . . . until, in combustion of action-packed situations and encounters with disgraceful characters, Rango begins to turn out to be the hero he once only pretended to be. With a cast that includes Depp and other big casts, Rango brings an exciting new twirl on the typical Western legend of the stranger who saves a town - and himself in the process.