Finally, a Gore Verbinksi movie I like, and it's an animated Chinatown (1974)! This flick has exquisite animation and writing, and Johnny Depp is just right for the part. He deftly plays a metrosexual theatre-type of a chameleon living what he thinks is his best life until he is catapulted out of his comfy-cozy existence as a kept pet into the middle of the desert. In his quest to return he encounters a Carlos Casteneda armadillo who points out that perhaps his former caged existence wasn't worth returning to because, for instance, he had no friends. His "friends" were plastic toys. The armadillo directs him on his new quest: water. It's a delightful depiction of an engaging story with a scrillion movie references, maybe more.
Review of Rango
