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SYNOPSIS
Blu is a domesticated macaw who never learned to fly, living a comfortable life with his owner and best friend Linda in the small-town of Moose Lake, Minnesota. Blu and Linda think he`s the last of his kind, but when they learn about another macaw who lives in Rio de Janeiro, they head to the faraway and exotic land to find Jewel, Blu`s female counterpart.
Not long after they arrive, Blu and Jewel are kidnapped by a group of bungling animal smugglers. With the help of street smart Jewel, and a group of wise-cracking and smooth-talking city birds, Blu escapes. Now, with his new friends by his side, Blu will have to find the courage to learn to fly, thwart the kidnappers who are hot on their trail, and return to Linda, the best friend a bird ever had.
CAST
Jesse Eisenberg
Voice
Anne Hathaway
Voice
Leslie Mann
Voice
Jamie Foxx
Voice
Rodrigo Santoro
Voice
Jake T. Austin
Voice
George Lopez
Voice
Don Rhymer
Voice
Jemaine Clement
Voice
Will i Am
Voice
Bernardo de Paula
Voice
CREW
Carlos Saldanha
Director|
Don Rhymer
Writer|
John Powell
Musician|
Chris Wedge
Executive Producer|
Harry J. Hitner
Editor|
Germaine Franco
Orchestrator|
Craig Anthony Grasso
Cinematographer|
Rajeev Masand
More colorful than an Asian Paints shade card, Rio will make you want to go straight to your travel agent and buy a flight ticket to the throbbing Brazilian city. This new animation film from the makers of Ice Age is a vibrant, feel-good adventure that follows a formulaic and familiar path, but its made with such affection, and voiced so charmingly that its hard not to enjoy.
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Christy Lemire
A lot of passion and personal feeling clearly went into `Rio,` the 3-D animated adventure from director Carlos Saldanha, who devised this story as a love letter to his Brazilian hometown.
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Philip French
During the second world war the Disney studio created an animated parrot called Jos Carioca, a street-wise, cigar-chomping citizen of Rio de Janeiro, to further the cause of President Roosevelt`s Good Neighbour policy towards Latin America by appearing in a series of movies and comic books, most famously The Three Caballeros, which had its world premiere in Mexico City in 1944.
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Peter Bradshaw
Carlos Saldhana has here created a sweet-natured animation. Jesse Eisenberg plays Blu, a rare blue macaw, kept as a much-loved pet in Minnesota but taken to his home territory of Rio in Brazil for breeding purposes with feisty female Jewel (Anne Hathaway).
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