A pet chameleon who has lived his entire life in the confines of a cozy glass terrarium discovers adventure beyond his wildest imagination in this animated Western adventure from Pirates of the Caribb...

A pet chameleon who has lived his entire life in the confines of a
cozy glass terrarium discovers adventure beyond his wildest
imagination in this animated Western adventure from Pirates of the
Caribbean director Gore Verbinski. When we first meet Rango (voice
of Johnny Depp), the sheltered pet chameleon is safe in his
terrarium, and embarking on epic adventures through the power of
imagination. Then, suddenly, his safe existence is irrevocably
upended thanks to a bump in the road that sends him soaring out of a
car window and right onto the searing-hot asphalt of a desert
highway. On the advice of a wise armadillo who relays the story of
the Spirit of the West, our conical-eyed hero sets out in search of
a town called Dirt, narrowly escaping a hungry hawk and encountering
a self-sufficient pioneer named Beans (voice of Isla Fisher) along
the way. Upon arriving in the dusty desert town, Rango wanders
into
the local bar and convinces the townspeople that hes a
notorious gunslinger with a lightning-fast trigger finger. When one
of the locals challenges Rango to a showdown on Main Street, the
hawk that menaced our hero on his way to town shows up looking for a
rematch, and ends up beak-down in the dirt. Convinced that Rango is
the real deal, the Mayor (voice of Ned Beatty) decides to name the
brave chameleon their new sheriff. But Rangos honeymoon in Dirt is
short-lived when bandits steal the towns entire supply of water, and
the newly christened sheriff forms a posse in order to get it back.
Little do they realize they were all being manipulated by one greedy
power-monger whos determined to keep the people of Dirt under his
thumb with the help of a diabolical villain named Rattlesnake Jake
(voice of Bill Nighy) whose Gatling-gun tail makes Swiss cheese of
all challengers. Now, if Rango can just locate the Spirit of the
West (voice of Timothy Olyphant) and summon the courage to realize
his true potential, perhaps he can finally free the people of Dirt
from the tyranny that binds them, and discover his true destiny
under the scorching desert sun.