Gore Verbinski story Johnny Depp Isla Fisher Abigail Breslin

Hawk >> shahin

No man can walk out on his

When a dramatic pet chameleon unwittingly finds himself in the middle of the Moh ave Desert with no glass of water in sight, the little guy has no clue what to d o. As fate has it, he meets a wise old armadillo, who has been run over by a car and is fittingly named, "Roadkill." The armadillo counsels the lizard to find t he "Spirit of the West," and points the chameleon toward a town in the desert ca lled Dirt. There, he claims, is the only chance for finding water. Before coming to Dirt, the chameleon meets one of the townsfolk, Beans, a female lizard who is trying to save her missing father's ranch. He then enters the Wil d West town to find an eclectic group of tough little critters who are in a bit of a crisis. All the water has mysteriously dried up, and the inhabitants of Dir t are in a bad way. His thespian talents kick in, and before he knows it, the sh eltered chameleon has passed himself off as a gunslinging hero named "Rango." The calculating tortoise who is the mayor of these parts makes Rango the sheriff , and Rango promises the townspeople that he will help them and protect them. Ra ngo has never had the chance to be a real hero before, but now he has a chance t o show his true colors. Is Rango for real, or is he really just an act?

Drugs and Alcohol (Extreme): Characters in Rango are shown smoking cigars and ci garettes, spitting tobacco, and drinking cactus juice (which makes them drunk an d starts on fire like alcohol). Beans' daddy was rumored to have gotten drunk an d fallen down a mine, but she attests to his sobriety.

Plot An unnamed pet chameleon (Johnny Depp) becomes stranded in the Mojave Desert aft er his terrarium falls from his owners' car by accident. He meets an armadillo n amed Roadkill (Alfred Molina), who is seeking the mystical Spirit of the West an d directs the parched chameleon to find water at a town called Dirt. While wande ring the desert, he narrowly avoids being eaten by a red-tailed hawk and has a s urreal nightmare before meeting the desert iguana Beans (Isla Fisher), a rancher 's daughter, who takes the chameleon to Dirt, an Old West town populated by dese rt animals. Using bravado and improvisation to fit in, the chameleon presents himself to the townsfolk as a tough drifter named Rango. He quickly runs afoul of outlaw Bad B ill (Ray Winstone), but narrowly avoids a shootout when Bill is scared off by th e hawk's return. Rango is chased by the hawk until he crushes the predator by ac cidentally knocking down an empty water tower. In response, the town mayor (Ned Beatty) appoints Rango the new sheriff. Meanwhile, the townsfolk worry that with the hawk dead, the gunslinger Rattlesnake Jake (Bill Nighy) will return to terr

orize them. After discovering Dirt's water reserves stored in the town bank inside a water c ooler bottle to be near empty, a skeptical Beans demands Rango investigate. That night, however, Rango inadvertently gives a trio of mole and prairie dog robber s access to the bank, mistaking them for prospectors. The townsfolk find their w ater bottle stolen the next day, so Rango organizes a posse to find it. They dis cover bank manager Merrimack (Stephen Root) dead in the desert from drowning, an d track the robbers to their mountain hideout. There they fight the robbers' cla n of subterranean animals over the stolen water bottle in a chase through the mo untains before discovering the bottle to be empty. Despite the robbers professin g they belatedly had discovered it was empty, the posse brings them to town for trial. Rango and Beans deduce that the mayor has been buying all the land around Dirt. Rango confronts the mayor, who denies any wrongdoing and shows Rango he is build ing a modern city with the purchased land. The mayor summons Rattlesnake Jake, w ho recognizes Rango as a fake and runs him out of town after humiliating him and making him admit that everything he told the town about himself is a lie. Asham ed and confused about his identity, Rango wanders the desert and, in a daze, mee ts the Spirit of the West (Timothy Olyphant), a cowboy whom Rango identifies as the Man with No Name. The Spirit inspires Rango, telling him, "No man can walk o ut on his own story". With the aid of Roadkill and mystical moving yuccas, Rango learns the mayor has shut off the water line leading to Dirt's source of water, Las Vegas. Recruiting the robbers' clan to aid him, Rango returns to Dirt to call out Jake for a duel with a single bullet, a diversion so the clan and yuccas can flood the town wit h water and free the falsely accused robbers. The mayor forces Rango to surrende r by threatening Beans' life, trapping them inside the glass bank vault to drown . He then tries to shoot Jake with Rango's gun, only to discover it empty. Rango has the bullet, which he uses to crack the glass and shatter the vault, freeing himself and Beans. Jake acknowledges Rango as a worthy opponent and drags the m ayor into the desert to take revenge for double-crossing him. The citizens of Di rt celebrate the return of the water and recognize Rango as their hero