'Rango' Review

Here's Bob Mondello on 'Rango':

Verbinski, meanwhile, is having a field day with riffs designed strictly for film buffs, and with dialogue so loopy it often sounds improvised. (He ignored industry convention and gathered his actors together in a sound studio rather than recording them in isolation.) There's hardly a big-sky stereotype he doesn't trick out with new tricks — wait'll you catch the man-with-no-name corker he's come up with — but he and co-screenwriters John Logan and James Ward Byrkit are cribbing their plot points not just from classic westerns, but from the likes of Chinatown, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Apocalypse Now.

I still can't get over how damn good this movie looks. Imagery is stunning.

The chameleon is a good-ass actor, too.