The posse tracks the robbers to their hideout, where they fight Balthazar's bat-riding clan over the stolen water bottle before discovering it to be empty. Merrimack, dead in the middle of the desert. Rango organizes a posse that later finds the banker, Mr. With the town desperate for water during a drought, Beans demands that Rango investigates where the water has gone and in doing so, he inadvertently helps a gang of bank robbers, led by a mole named Balthazar, to steal the water supply.

Meanwhile, the townsfolk worry that with the hawk dead, the infamous gunslinger Rattlesnake Jake will return. Believing he did so intentionally, the townsfolk praise Rango, who is appointed as the new sheriff by Dirt's desert tortoise Mayor John. The hawk interrupts the duel and chases Rango, who accidentally knocks over an empty water tower and crushes the hawk to death. Seeing no other options, the chameleon heads out into the desert, where he narrowly avoids being eaten by a vicious red-tailed hawk before meeting Beans, a desert iguana rancher, who takes him to Dirt.Īsked about his identity, the chameleon presents himself to the townsfolk as a tough drifter named 'Rango' and quickly runs afoul of Gila monster Bad Bill, who challenges him to a duel. Seeking shelter, he learns from a nine-banded armadillo named Roadkill, who is seeking the mystical 'Spirit of the West', and tells the chameleon of an Old West desert town called Dirt, where water comes in through a mysterious rite on Wednesdays. Plot Ī theatrically-minded pet chameleon becomes stranded in the Mojave Desert of Nevada after his terrarium accidentally falls out of his owners' car. At the 84th Academy Awards, the film won Best Animated Feature, making it the first non- Disney or Pixar film to win since 2006's Happy Feet, and the last one to win until 2018's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The film was both a major critical and commercial success, grossing $357.2 million against a budget of $135 million. Rango premiered at Westwood on February 14, 2011, and was released in the United States on March 4, 2011.

Rango was produced by Nickelodeon Movies, Verbinski's Blind Wink Productions, and King's GK Films, and distributed by Paramount Pictures, with the animation provided by Industrial Light & Magic. The film's plot centers on Rango (Depp), a pet chameleon who accidentally ends up in the town of Dirt, an outpost that is in desperate need of a new sheriff. Carls, the film stars the voices of Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Ned Beatty, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, Stephen Root, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone, and Timothy Olyphant. Co-produced by Verbinski with Graham King and John B. Rango is a 2011 American computer-animated Western comedy film directed by Gore Verbinski from a screenplay by John Logan.

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