Rango: Movie Summary

Today we will dive deep into the popular heroic movie Rango from the year 2011.

Are you all set to hold back the comic and thriller actions of a heroic chameleon? Let’s not waste our time and get straight into the movie.

Rango, a pet chameleon with poppy eyes, a straight spleen, and nonetheless good fashion sense lives in his own world of drama and acting and spends his time with his fictional characters including toys such as a fish he named as Mr. timme.

He lives in an aquarium that has been placed in the trunk of his owner’s car, who is driving it to the Mojave Desert.

Rango’s wish to become ‘a hero in a conflict’ starts with a climatic scene when the aquarium in which  he lives in, miserably falls on the road during the car accident. 

Left alone in the middle of the road, Rango was in quest of water when he met an armadillo named Roadkill who told him that in order to find water he had to make his way to a town located across the desert.

On his way, Rango becomes the prey of a red hawk but manages to escape. The next morning, Rango wakes up from a surreal nightmare while he got flooded from a water pipe.  

Looking for some droplets of water that were soaking up in the heated sand, Rango meets a girl lizard and a rancher’s daughter, Beans. After a while of investigating him, Bean takes him to the old town of desert animals, Dirt. 

After mimicking the walk and making fun of other animals, Rango enters a salon where he quietly sits and asks for a glass of water.

Hearing his sweet demand, everybody shares a mystical laugh. While making fun of Rango, one of the creatures asked him if he forgot his place while finding his mommy. 

In chaos, Rango questions himself “who am i ”, and suddenly gets infuriated and shows off his dramatic personality by deceiving them that he is from the West, and introduces himself as a gangster, who killed Jenkin’s seven brothers with one bullet.

Meanwhile, Beans, worried about her ranch, discovers that the water-cooler bottle in the bank is desperately low. Mr. Merrimack, the bank manager, advises her to talk to the mayor as he is the only hope.

In the salon, Rango successfully builds his image as a hero and is also challenged in a fight by the Bad Bill, the real gangster of town. However, the return of the red hawk terrifies the bad bill to leave the ground.

Rango again became the prey of the red hawk but this time he killed him as when they were running into each other, the hawk accidentally came under a heavy empty water tower, causing its death. 

The event makes Rango the hero of town as everyone starts to believe that he fears no one.

As the news spreads in town, Rango gets a call from the handicapped turtle mayor who  discusses the difficulties due to water deprivation with Rango and further appoints him as the new sheriff to solve the water crisis. 

Meanwhile, after the death of Red hawk the townsfolk were fearing for the coming danger of a Rattlesnake, named Jake in town. 

To make the final announcements,  the mayor gathers townspeople and urges them to be hopeful in such difficult situations as they get Rango as the sheriff.

Following the event, Rango, counting upon the days of reserved water in the bank, asked townspeople that they have to work together to save this precious natural resource. 

At night, Rango was assigning duties in the bank, when he caught some mole and prairie dog robbers. He inadvertently reveals the location of the bank and the tools of the vault by misunderstanding them as townspeople.

The next day, the news of the water robbery led Rango to organize a posse to find the robbers. He makes his gang among the townspeople and with the increasing emotional rage, they all ride their way up to a place that none is aware of. 

Upon reaching somewhere in the desert, Rango assigned a huge bird as his deputy in charge of tracking and finding his villains and asked him about the robber’s location. He showed him the way into a tunnel.

While roaming around the tunnel, the sparkling sunlight from a small hole identified by Rango,  helps them to get out of the tunnel and enter a new side of the desert. 

On their way, they find Mr.Merrimack's dead body, who was surprisingly drowned to death. They also witnessed a wet shoe print near his body. 

While the whole team was finishing up performing a small prayer for Mr. Merrimack when one of the creatures pointed out the tracker deputy by calling him as ‘dadgum Indian.’

With the help of the big bird’s spirit skills, Rango and his team made their way up to the mountains to get back the water tank.

At night, while they were having a bonfire, one of the creatures asked Rango if he could confront Jake, as he is a snake. Rango manages to be funny about everything and tells him that his momma has an active social life. And he’s luckily immune to this rattlesnake’s venom. 

The next morning, while searching for robbers up from their mountain hideout, they found them riding the tank for their king, Balthazar.  

Rango and his team plan to deceive them by acting in a drama play and disguising their appearance and voice by stating themselves as ‘thespians.’

Calling for the attack, Rango and his gang reveal their identities. But were underwhelmed when they saw the thousands of warriors in support of the king.

Following the plan , one creature standing up in the mountains from the posse was successful enough to deceive their attention causing the remaining gang to flee with the water tank. 

Balthazar's army was running behind the Rango posse when suddenly the water tank fell off. As the scene got uncovered both sides discovered that the wagon water was empty. 

Seeing the robber’s surprising reaction, posse believed that they didn't empty the tank and decided to return to town for the further investigation. 

Upon reaching, Rango heads over to the mayor and gets shook while noticing the wet sand beneath the mayor's shoes. 

While playing golf with the mayor, he doubted him by stating that the water was already stolen by someone before the robbers. 

He indirectly accuses the mayor by making him remember what he said that by “controlling the water, one can control everything”. 

To lighten up the citation the mayor laughs off and showed Rango the constructive over land and told him that in future times they'll become civilized. He also invited him if he wanted to join them on this journey of leaving the town.

Uncovering the evil intentions of the mayor, Rango leaves and shuts him down with his rebellious behavior. This infuriates the mayor who orders Badbill to call Rattlesnake Jake against Rango.

While Rango was discussing the whole scenario with Mrs Bean, Rattlesnake Jake  arrives and eventually reveals his lies about being from the west and killing the jenkins brothers. 

The Rattlesnake throws Rango out of town and everyone who has no further trust on Rango persuades them to support Jake’s decision.

As Rango makes his way hopelessly roaming in the desert, in a daze he meets the spirit of the west, a cowboy. He inspires Rango and motivates him that no man can walk out on his own story. 

Now, with the help of Roadkill and mystical moving yuccas, Rango was successfully able to find out the source of water, Las Vegas. He learned that due to the mayor’s corruption, someone has shut down the waterline. 

With his planning, Rango returns to the town and calls out to Jake for a duel with a single bullet as previously challenged by him. This will divert his attention and will eventually aid the hill folk and the yuccas to provide water connections in the town. 

Meanwhile, the mayor enters the battleground and threatens Bean’s life, persuading Rango to surrender. He is then locked in a glass bottle in the bank vault when the mayor, in his betrayal action, tries to shoot Jake with Rango’s gun. While Rango following Heimlich Maneuve’s technique kisses Beans to spit the bullet, Rango hides in his mouth with ample force to crack the glass.

Jake acknowledges Rango as a legend, attacks the mayor and grabs him into the desert as revenge.

Finally, the Dirt’s townspeople declare Rango as their real Hero and celebrate the precious return of water.