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"It's not about you. It's about them."

Sometimes we're too worried about how to perfect our identities we already lose track of who we truly are. For Rango, it didn't matter at first for "he can be anybody", but not until the stage he stepped foot on in the form of Dirt Town made one for him.

Boxed in an aquarium. Co-starred with inanimate objects. A nameless thespian in his own small world. That was the life of a chameleon when fate decided to challenge his consistent role of being a protagonist and placed him in a desert town where lizards inevitably die, strangers don't last long and thespians are illegal.

But somehow with the help of a mysterious armadillo who spoke of destiny and metaphors, and a female lizard named Beans (Isla Fisher), he was able to reach Dirt Town to play his own role. Attempting to blend in with the townspeople, and once again realizing he can be anybody, he forged an intimidating reputation as Rango (Johnny Depp) "who killed them Jenkins Brothers with one bullet". With luck, he even killed the big hawk that embossed his heroism and was declared sheriff they could finally believe in.

But the water crisis continued to devour the town, and with Rango's thespian and hilarious orations and excitement on working with a " real-life" cast, led them to an unforgettable adventure along with a pack of town outlaws to find water, discover who's behind the crime and realize that "no man can walk out on his own story."

I especially liked the four musicale owls who narrated Rango's epic journey every now and then, and reminded me of the Muses, the mythical proclaimers of heroes in Disney's Hercules, except that Rango could demand the owls to set the rodeo music as he shouted "Now...we ride!"

Starring Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Ned Beatty, Alfred Molina, Billy Nighy, Stephen Root, Harry Stanton, Timothy Olyphant, Ray Winstone and Gil Birmingham, Rango (2011, directed by Gore Verbinski)  is one witty, laugh-off-your-seat movie sharing the true meaning of one's identity and how you choose it to be.