Johnny Depp gets unanimated in 'Rango' ad

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That adorable Johnny Depp can really sell a movie, right? Well, not so much for The Tourist, but some thought he was the only reason Alice in Wonderland made such a boatload of money. Now, it’s time for Rango, an animated flick in which the ageless heartthrob plays a bug-eyed lizard who becomes sheriff of a dusty desert town. Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Films have pulled out the advertising equivalent of the big gun—Depp himself, that is—in commercials that just started airing.

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