Sunday, April 3, 2011

With Rio, Blue Sky studios is efficiently racking up impressive animated winners (The studio made the Ice Age series and Horton Hears A Who). This film about the last male blue macaw feeling out of place in his city of origin is a keeper.

Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) is brought from Moose Lake, Minnesota to Rio De Janeiro to preserve the blue macaw species. Along with his owner Linda (Leslie Mann), the trip to Brazil wasn't exactly a walk in the park when the other blue macaw (Anne Hathaway) would rather go back into the jungle than stay in captivity. Things get a little too interesting for the two birds when they are captured and chained together by poachers, but then escape. Against the festive backdrop of the Rio Carnival, they meet funny characters in their journey to get separated and go back to their respective homes.

The film mixes music into the story and the result is great. It also gets extra brownie points for getting Brazilian legend Sergio Mendes to contribute music to the soundtrack! On the downside, the 3D effects in the movie are not that impressive compared to other animated films, but it's forgivable.

Rio is a feathered gem that the whole family will surely like for its music and authentic Brazilian theme. 

16 comments:

  1. I have these weird memories of Ice age. They are connected to the first time I got my female cat for 20 dollars, true story. My friends and I were watching Ice age and someone had found a cat. She was gettting picked on, so I said I would buy her for twenty bucks... Six years later, she is a member of the family.

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  2. haha "feathered gem" i love movie puns!

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  3. They made an angry birds themed game of this

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  4. I've never even heard of this movie, I like 3D movies generally so I might look into this

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  5. oh i didn't realize it was jesse eisenberg.

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  6. I usually hate birds, but I think I'm gonna look into this :)

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  7. This looks interesting, I've never really heard of it.

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  8. This looks promosing! will check it out! :D

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  9. A movie with BRs in it? Pardon me if I was a little bit skeptic, though I'm sure I'll end up seeing it after reading this though. Thanks!

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  10. its sounds like a Ice age wanabee to just earn money..

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  11. Only reason I know about this is because of all the Angry Birds tie-in promos. A lot of times, the more the marketing blitz, the worse the flick...

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  12. 3D is so overdone nowadays. Sounds like a typical animal movie for kids.

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  13. I haven't seen even a commercial for this, I love these animated films. Great to enjoy when I was alot younger and then they still are awesome. Good review, once again man

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  14. really want to go see this it looks pretty good not going to go see it in 3D though

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  15. I wanna watch this movie so bad!

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  16. i bet this is gonna be a really cute movie i want to go see it

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