First-time viewers react to the animated film's surprising depth, humor, and genuine emotional stakes.

For an animated film, Rango is anything but cute. And thank god for that. The characters are mostly eyesores and the landscape is harsh, even if beautifully rendered. In fact, we suspect it's secretly ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

If anyone was on the edge with Rango, this will definitely push you all the way over. Paramount debuted a new behind-the-scenes featurette on Yahoo for Gore Verbinski's upcoming animated movie Rango, ...

Johnny Depp voices the title character in a clever, witty movie from his "Pirates of the Caribbean" director, Gore Verbinski, that employs a technique the filmmakers call "emotion capture." By Todd ...

Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit Blind Wink Productions where director Gore Verbinski is hard at work on his latest film Rango. I expected to only see an early look at the film’s trailer and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a recent interview, director Gore Verbinski spoke about how Rango had been made on a budget that was typical for “big animated ...

"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 ...

In a step up for social gaming, Zynga, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies are announcing that the animated film Rango will be integrated into Zynga’s social game FrontierVille as part of a ...

Movies games have been duds since time immemorial. They come out too late to cash in on a film’s popularity, or they just don’t look good compared to the movie experience. But Funtactix hopes to ...