Loading ...Rio (often promoted as Rio: The Movie) is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated comedy film and Blue Sky Studios’s sixth feature film under the distribution of 20th Century Fox. The title refers to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro,[3] in which the film is set. The film was released in the United States on [...]
Rio (often promoted as Rio: The Movie) is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated comedy film and Blue Sky Studios’s sixth feature film under the distribution of 20th Century Fox. The title refers to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro,[3] in which the film is set. The film was released in the United States on April 15, 2011.
When Blu, a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, meets the fiercely independent Jewel, he takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with this bird of his dreams.
A baby Spix’s Macaw who is unable to fly and several other birds are captured by smugglers and taken from Rio de Janeiro to Moose Lake, Minnesota. The box containing the macaw falls to the street and is found by a girl named Linda (Leslie Mann), who names him “Blu”. Fifteen years later, Linda lives in a bookstore with Blu (Jesse Eisenberg). Túlio (Rodrigo Santoro), an ornithologist, reveals that Blu is the last male of his species, and he needs to mate with a female to preserve it.
Linda takes Blu to Rio de Janeiro. While there, Blu meets Jewel (Anne Hathaway), a female macaw who only cares about escaping. The shelter is raided by smugglers, who are let in by their Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Nigel (Jemaine Clement), who was posing as a sickly bird. Among them is the smuggler’s assistant Fernando (Jake T. Austin), an impoverished and orphaned boy. Blu and Jewel are captured and Nigel explains that he used to be a performing bird on a television program, but was replaced by a parakeet. Out of hatred, Nigel assists smugglers in capturing exotic birds. Blu and Jewel escape, and get lost in the jungle.
While there, they meet a family of toucans. The toucans’ father, Rafael (George Lopez), offers to take them to see his bulldog friend Luiz (Tracy Morgan) in removing the chain. Rafael also unsuccessfully attempts to teach Blu to fly. The group meets a Red-crested Cardinal named Pedro (Will.i.am) and his canary friend Nico (Jamie Foxx). Meanwhile, Nigel enlists the aid of a group of thieving marmosets and their king Mauro (Brian Baumgartner), to find Blu and Jewel. Linda and Tulio also try to find Blu, assisted by the repentant Fernando. Pedro and Nico take Blu and Jewel to a bird’s samba club named Carnivale, where Blu starts to dance, ending in a duet with Jewel. They are attacked by the marmosets, but their bird friends, including a Roseate Spoonbill they met at the samba club named Kipo (Bernardo de Paula) fend them off long enough for the five to escape.
Director:
Carlos Saldanha
Writers:
Carlos Saldanha (story), Earl Richey Jones (story),
Stars:
Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway and George Lopez
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