Just when you thought you'd seen everything, here comes Chinatown, the animated version. full review

Though young children may enjoy it, the film is built for viewers of any age with a taste for joyful anarchy. full review

The first animated film from ILM is also the first memorable motion picture of 2011. full review

Adults and slightly older children should have a great time. full review

A CGI western comedy populated by desert critters, Rango gives the film year a belated jump start with a passel of movie-wise fun and a knockout animation style. full review

With his first animated feature, Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski shows ambitions considerably beyond producing the usual standard of most children's fare. To put it plainly, Rango is one weird movie. full review

Yes, [there are] enough nods to other sources to make Rango a bobblehead. But the movie, and much of John Logan's writing, is still pretty durn clever. full review

The best of Rango is a lot like the best of the first Pirates movie -- crazily funny and rambunctious. full review

What elevates it above a cheeky romp is the skilled CGI work, not only the wealth of tactile detail lavished on the parched townsfolk but also the painterly, sand-swept vistas they call home. full review

Rango's not just a kiddie-flick (though it has enough silly slapstick to qualify as a pretty good one). It's a real movie lover's movie, conceived as a Blazing Saddles-like comic commentary on genre that's as back-lot savvy as it is light in the saddle. full review

An ultra-quirky animated Western with a vocal tour de force by Johnny Depp that's quite unlike anything I've ever seen. full review

A sun-baked symphony of rust and dust, Rango has a spiky, unsentimental appeal, sending out slightly risque jokes to parents while staying safely out of the danger zone for kids. full review

The whole enterprise is redolent of past movies (and drug trips), yet it somehow whiffs fresh. full review

The film itself is a magically strange hybrid, a spoofy computer-animated Western acted out by anthropomorphic desert creatures. full review

It is not self-conscious knowingness that drives Rango but rather a quirky and sincere enthusiasm for all the strange stuff that has piled up in the filmmakers' heads over the years. full review

Every other week, it seems there is some new creation full of fantastically realized creatures engaging in eye-tricking action. The ironic effect of this... is a so-what-else-you-got state of jaded exhaustion. And then along comes Rango. full review

I've made a good case for seeing "Rango," and why not; an eye feast is still a feast in this lean multiplex season. full review

Its strong suit is visual panache. It's too bad that consistent comedy and emotional resonance get lost amid the dust and cacti. full review

Say what you will about 'Rango,' the computer-animated Western riding hard on Johnny Depp doing the voice of a lizard - just don't call it business as usual. full review

Sharp-edged, surreal, and often astonishing in its giddy creativity. full review