16 h 53 min, 19 juill. 2013 ans - DAILY MAIL Johnny Depp To be quite honest I couldn't give a rats

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His film The Lone Ranger cost $225 million to make, but made a disappointing $19.5 million during it's opening weekend.

Making matters worse, critics have also failed to embrace the movie.

But the film's star Johnny Depp says he doesn't care what the naysayers think as long as his own children enjoyed the Disney film.

Speaking ahead of the film's German premiere in Berlin, Depp told journalists he was not bothered by criticism from back home.

'To be quite honest I couldn't give a rats about U.S. journalists' opinions,' he said.

'What I do care about is my kids' opinions and they loved it, they loved the ride and maybe they are biased, slightly, but for all purposes my kids were able to forget that it was Daddy five or ten minutes into the film and they enjoyed the ride. The ride itself is incredible and unique, this film, so yeah I trust my kids' opinions more than the US critics.'

When the western television series The Lone Ranger first rode into U.S. homes in 1949, the masked man was the dashing, charming hero and the Native American Tonto his loyal sidekick.

But in Disney's new remake of the series, it is Tonto who takes centre stage.

Played by Depp with the same offbeat charm as his Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Tonto is the brains of the operation.

In an opening sequence - a breakneck fight scene on a runaway train - Tonto directs an escape from outlaws while a mask-less Lone Ranger, played by Armie Hammer, is the naive one, unsure at the outset that he was even in danger.

But critics have not embraced the movie, which performed below expectations its opening weekend in the US in early July, raising the possibility that the movie could saddle the media giant with a loss on the film.

The film, which cost an estimated $225 million to produce, wrangled just 19.5 million dollars in tickets sales in its first two full days at U.S. and Canadian movie theatres.

The film's poor opening is a black eye for producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Gore Verbinski and star Depp, the trio behind Disney's ultra-successful Pirates of the Caribbean series.

In the movie, audiences see through Tonto's eyes how former lawman John Reid, the Lone Ranger came to fight injustice in the Old West.

Some critics have said Depp's portrayal of Tonto, is too similar to Jack Sparrow, the character Depp made famous in the Pirates of the Caribbean.

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