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Director
  
Carlos Saldanha

Film series
  
Rio

Duration
  

Language
  
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7/10
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Genre
  
Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Music director
  
John Powell

Country
  
United States

The movie poster of RIO 2011, from left is Mauro a marmoset smiling, standing with his arm and legs in crossed pose with his left hand posing with two fingers and right hand in rock pose, has gray and black color fur, 2nd from left is Rafael standing behind blue (middle) smiling, has long orange with black end of the beak has black and white pattern of body and black feathers, in the middle is Blu a blue Spix’s macaw, is confused while standing with his feather down on the side and a brown leather case in his back has black beak, blue body and blue feathers and black feet and claws wearing a red bonet a blue with black dots headset and a yellow scarf, on top of Blu (middle) is Nico a yellow canary, is happy, beak is half open posing with her right wings holding her green hat a bottle cap of can, has yellow body and a white feather, 5th from left is Jewel a Spix’s macaw, is smiling on behind Blu (middle) has blue eyes and white pattern on her face, black beak and a pink flower on her right face, 6th from left is Pedro a red crested cardinal, is happy, standing behind Blu (middle) beak half mouth open, both feather over his chest has a red head, with a red bib and a short red crest and silver feather, at the right is Nigel Sulphur-crested cockatoo, is smiling with his grumpy eyes, has yellow crest, black beak white body and feathers, at the bottom right is Luiz a bulldog, is smiling wide, while standing in front, has brown pattern over his left eye to his ear has white and brown body and brown eyes, in the middle of a white sand beach with a crowded umbrella and people under it.
Release date
  
March 22, 2011 (2011-03-22) (World premiere)April 15, 2011 (2011-04-15) (North America)

Writer
  
Carlos Saldanha (story), Earl Richey Jones (story), Todd R. Jones (story), Don Rhymer (screenplay), Joshua Sternin (screenplay), Jennifer Ventimilia (screenplay), Sam Harper (screenplay)

Initial release
  
March 22, 2011 (Rio de Janeiro)

Songs
  
Real in Rio

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Tagline
  
1 out of every 8 Americans is afraid of flying. Most of them don't have feathers.

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Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel (Anne Hathaway), a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kidnap Blu and Jewel, but the pair soon escape and begin a perilous adventure back to freedom and Linda.

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The movie poster of RIO 2011, from left is Mauro a marmoset smiling, standing with his arm and legs in crossed pose with his left hand posing with two fingers and right hand in rock pose, has gray and black color fur, 2nd from left is Rafael standing behind blue (middle) smiling, has long orange with black end of the beak has black and white pattern of body and black feathers, in the middle is Blu a blue Spix’s macaw, is confused while standing with his feather down on the side and a brown leather case in his back has black beak, blue body and blue feathers and black feet and claws wearing a red bonet a blue with black dots headset and a yellow scarf, on top of Blu (middle) is Nico a yellow canary, is happy, beak is half open posing with her right wings holding her green hat a bottle cap of can, has yellow body and a white feather, 5th from left is Jewel a Spix’s macaw, is smiling on behind Blu (middle) has blue eyes and white pattern on her face, black beak and a pink flower on her right face, 6th from left is Pedro a red crested cardinal, is happy, standing behind Blu (middle) beak half mouth open, feathers both feather over his chest has a red head, with a red bib and a short red crest and silver feather, at the right is Nigel Sulphur-crested cockatoo, is smiling with his grumpy eyes, has yellow crest, black beak white body and feathers, at the bottom right is Luiz a bulldog, is smiling wide, while standing in front, has brown pattern over his left eye to his ear has white and brown body and brown eyes, in the middle of a white sand beach with a crowded umbrella and people under it.

Rio is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated musical adventure-comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and directed by Carlos Saldanha. The title refers to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, where the film is set. The film features the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, will.i.am, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez, Tracy Morgan, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro, and Jake T. Austin. It tells the story of Blu (Eisenberg), a male blue macaw who is taken to Rio de Janeiro to mate with a free-spirited female blue macaw, Jewel (Hathaway). The two eventually fall in love, and together they have to escape from being smuggled by Nigel (Clement), a cockatoo. The theme song, "Telling the World" was performed by Taio Cruz.

In the movie scene of Rio 2011, from left, Rio, a blue Spix's macaw is happy, looking down on top of a green pole high up above with clouds at the back and a statue at the right looking down arms wide open, hands open, has long hair wearing a long sleeve coat and scarf on his shoulder, has a black beak and blue body and feathers. At the right is Jewel, a female Spix's macaw. She is happy looking down on top of a green pole, has light blue body and feathers.

Saldanha developed his first story concept of Rio in 1995, in which a penguin is washed up in Rio. Saldanha learned of the production of the films Happy Feet (2006) and Surfs Up (2007), and changed the concept to involve macaws and their environments in Rio. He proposed his idea to Chris Wedge in 2006, and the project was set up at Blue Sky. The main voice actors were approached in 2009. During production, the crew visited Rio de Janeiro and also consulted with an expert on macaws at the Bronx Zoo to study their movements.

In the movie scene of Rio 2011, in the middle is the title of the movie RIO, from left is Luiz a bulldog, is smiling wide, while standing in the back of the letter R in blue color, has brown pattern over his left eye to his ear has white and brown body and brown eye, 2nd from left Pedro a red crested cardinal, is happy, standing behind the letter R, beak half mouth open, both feather over his chest has a red head, with a red bib and a short red crest and silver feather, 3rd from left, Nico a yellow canary, is happy, beak is half open posing with her right wings holding her green hat a bottle cap of can behind the letter R, has yellow body and a white feather, in the middle is Blu a blue spix’s macaw is smiling, standing with his left wing open, on top of the letter I in yellow color, has black beak, blue body and feather, 2nd from right is Jewel a Spix’s macaw, is smiling on behind the letter O in orange color, has blue eyes and white pattern on her face, black beak blue body and feathers, at the right Rafael is smiling standing behind Letter O with his wings over his chest, has long orange with black end of the beak has black and white pattern of body and black feathers.

20th Century Fox released the film on March 22, 2011 in Brazil, and on April 15, 2011 in the United States. The film received generally positive reviews from film critics. Observers praised the visuals, voice acting, and music. The film was also a box office success, grossing over $143 million in the United States and $484 million worldwide. The film was nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "Real in Rio", but lost to the other nominee, "Man or Muppet" from The Muppets.

A sequel, Rio 2, was released on April 11, 2014.

In the movie scene of Rio 2011, Tulio is surprised, mouth half open standing in the middle with fireworks at the back, has brown hair, brown eyes, wearing a spix’s macaw costume on top of his head, black eyeglasses a and blue costume with round pendant on his neck.

From the makers of the hit "Ice Age" series comes "Rio," a comedy adventure about taking a walk on the wild side. 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.

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Plot

In the movie scene of Rio 2011, Linda is smiling, while standing in the middle, has short brown hair, wearing eyeglasses, a shiny blue dress, and a spix’s macaw costume on top of her head with blue wings.

In Brazil, various exotic birds are smuggled out of the country. In Moose Lake, Minnesota, a crate with a male Spixs macaw hatchling falls out of a truck and is found by a little girl named Linda Gunderson, who names him Blu. Over the next 15 years, Linda owns a bookstore. Highly domesticated and unable to fly, Blu is ridiculed frequently by the Canada Geese that come by outside of Lindas bookstore.

In the movie scene of Rio 2011, from left, Rio, a blue Spix's macaw is happy, looking down on top of a green pole high up above with clouds at the back and a statue at the right looking down arms wide open, hands open, has long hair wearing a long sleeve coat and scarf on his shoulder, has a black beak and blue body and feathers. At the right is Jewel, a female Spix's macaw. She is happy looking down on top of a green pole, has light blue body and feathers.

One day, ornithologist Tulio Monteiro invites Blu and Linda to Rio de Janeiro on the condition that Blu, who is the last male of his species, mates with a female macaw. Linda accepts and they fly to Rio, where Blu meets a Red-crested Cardinal named Pedro and his Yellow Canary friend Nico. At Tulios aviary, Blu meets Jewel, a fiercely independent blue macaw longing to flee into the wilderness. The macaws are captured by Fernando, an orphaned boy, and a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo named Nigel, both of whom work for a group of smugglers led by Marcel, who wants to leave the country as soon as possible to secure a black market deal regarding Blu and Jewel. While Fernando has second thoughts about his actions, Nigel tells the macaws that he desires to exact revenge on "pretty birds" after his role on a television program had been ruined by one. However, because of Blus familiarity with cages, they flee into the jungle. Fernando meets Linda and Tulio and helps them find the birds, while Blu and Jewel meet Rafael, a Toco Toucan, who offers to take them to his bulldog friend, Luiz, to remove their leg chain. He attempts to teach Blu how to fly, before they meet up with Pedro and Nico. Meanwhile, Nigel hires a horde of thieving marmosets led by Mauro to capture Blu and Jewel. Pedro and Nico then take the two birds to a Rio-style dance party, where they perform a duet and begin to fall in love, but encounter the marmosets in the process. The birds fight them off while the five escape on a tram. Fernando takes Linda and Tulio to the smugglers hideout, where they discover that the birds have already been moved out. Marcel explains that he will use the Rio Carnival parade to smuggle the birds to the airport, as the other streets have been blocked off for the festivities. Meanwhile, Blu and the others meet Luiz, who releases the chain holding Blu and Jewel. After the two get into a heated argument, they decide to go their separate ways.

In the movie scene of Rio 2011, from the left Rafael a toco toucan is happy, flying, wings wide open in the sky view of an island, mountains covered in sea and sun at the right, and city buildings at the bottom left and right while looking at Blu has long orange with the black end of the beak has a black and white pattern of body and black feathers, in the middle Blue is scared, flying using a green and yellow air glider holding the triangular control bars with both wings, has a black beak, blue body, and feathers, at the right is Jewel a blue Spix's macaw is happy, flying with her wings wide open has black beak light blue body and feathers.

Pedro and Nico then witness Nigel capturing Jewel. When Blu and Rafael learn of it, they rush to the carnival to rescue her. Meanwhile, Linda and Tulio have spotted the smugglers parade float and organize a rescue attempt for the birds. As Linda and Tulio pose as dancers in blue macaw costumes, Nigel captures Blu and the group. Linda and Tulio are unable to stop the smugglers in time and Marcels group takes off in a Short SC.7 Skyvan. During the flight, Blu destroys his cage using a fire extinguisher and releases the other captive birds. However, Nigel attacks the macaws, injuring Jewel. Blu sends Nigel flying into the planes engine using the fire extinguisher, causing the plane to fall. The smugglers flee the plane. Unable to fly, Jewel falls out of the planes open cargo hatch towards the ocean. Jumping out of the plane to rescue her, Jewel and Blu share a kiss and Blu finally discovers that he is able to fly and carries her to Linda and Tulio for help. Later, they adopt Fernando and organize a sanctuary to protect the jungle from smugglers. Blu and Jewel eventually raise three children together, and celebrate with their friends. Meanwhile, Nigel (who actually survived the plane accident) is ridiculed for his loss of feathers, and the smugglers are sent to jail.

Voice cast

  • Jesse Eisenberg as Blu, a male Spixs Macaw who was born in Rio de Janeiro but raised in Moose Lake, Minnesota
  • Anne Hathaway as Jewel, a female Spixs Macaw from Rio de Janeiro.
  • Leslie Mann as Linda Gunderson, a girl who discovered Blu after he was taken from Rio de Janeiro to Moose Lake and adopted him for 15 years.
  • Rodrigo Santoro as Tulio Monteiro, a Brazilian ornithologist/Soccer Announcer.
  • Jemaine Clement as Nigel, a sadistic Sulphur-crested Cockatoo.
  • George Lopez as Rafael, a romantic Toco Toucan fond of Carnaval.
  • will.i.am as Pedro, a Red-crested Cardinal who is Nicos best friend.
  • Jamie Foxx as Nico, a Yellow Canary who loves to samba, and whose bottlecap hat functions as a tambourine.
  • Jake T. Austin as Fernando, Marcels impoverished young assistant.
  • Tracy Morgan as Luiz, a bulldog who is Rafaels friend and a chainsaw expert who has a medical condition of drooling.
  • Carlos Ponce as Marcel, Nigels owner and the leader of a group of exotic bird smugglers.
  • Jeffrey Garcia as Tipa/Bat
  • Davi Vieira as Armando.
  • Bebel Gilberto as Eva, a Keel-billed Toucan and Rafaels wife.
  • Bernardo de Paula as Kipo, a Roseate Spoonbill, and Sylvio, the security guard at Tulios aviary.
  • Francisco Ramos as Mauro, the leader of the marmosets.
  • Wanda Sykes as Chloe, a Canada Goose who is Alices sister
  • Jane Lynch as Alice, a Canada Goose who is Chloes sister.

    • Production

    The movie poster of RIO 2011, from left is Mauro a marmoset smiling, standing with his arm and legs in crossed pose with his left hand posing with two fingers and right hand in rock pose, has gray and black color fur, 2nd from left is Rafael standing behind blue (middle) smiling, has long orange with black end of the beak has black and white pattern of body and black feathers, in the middle is Blu a blue Spix’s macaw, is confused while standing with his feather down on the side and a brown leather case in his back has black beak, blue body and blue feathers and black feet and claws wearing a red bonet a blue with black dots headset and a yellow scarf, on top of Blu (middle) is Nico a yellow canary, is happy, beak is half open posing with her right wings holding her green hat a bottle cap of can, has yellow body and a white feather, 5th from left is Jewel a Spix’s macaw, is smiling on behind Blu (middle) has blue eyes and white pattern on her face, black beak and a pink flower on her right face, 6th from left is Pedro a red crested cardinal, is happy, standing behind Blu (middle) beak half mouth open, feathers both feather over his chest has a red head, with a red bib and a short red crest and silver feather, at the right is Nigel Sulphur-crested cockatoo, is smiling with his grumpy eyes, has yellow crest, black beak white body and feathers, at the bottom right is Luiz a bulldog, is smiling wide, while standing in front, has brown pattern over his left eye to his ear has white and brown body and brown eyes, in the middle in the middle of a white sand beach with crowded umbrella and people under it and buildings at both sides.

    Saldanha first had the idea for the film in 1995, involving a penguin being washed up on the beaches of Ipanema; it was changed to the current story after he learned of Happy Feet and Surfs Up (two other films involving penguins) being produced. He pitched the idea to Chris Wedge at Blue Sky in 2006. Saldanha showed the animators maps and books with geographic landmarks and measurements, from which they built a digital version of Rio. Later, a group of artists from the company visited Rio to see the various story locations. The animators also met with an expert on macaws at the Bronx Zoo to gain insight into their movement and personalities. Saldanha himself is a Brazilian from Rio de Janeiro; such elements of Brazilian culture and landmarks were also influenced from Saldanha growing up in Brazil.

    The lead voice actors were approached in 2009. Jemaine Clement was approached to do the film after seeing test shots of his character Nigel doing a speech from Flight of the Conchords, which was done prior to a script being finalized. Neil Patrick Harris was supposed to voice Blu, but had other commitments outside production; he was later replaced by Jesse Eisenberg. Eisenberg was asked during the filming of The Social Network if he would do his voice recording on the weekends, and he agreed after reading the script, saying: "It was the perfect antidote to get out of the mindset of my character in Social Network who was so severe, and in some ways so joyless."

    In the movie scene of Rio 2011, from left Rafael a toco toucan is happy, flying wings wide open in the sky view of an island, mountains covered in sea and a sun at the right, and city buildings at the bottom left and right. while looking at Blu has long orange with black end of the beak has black and white pattern of body and black feathers, in the middle Blue is scared, flying using a green and yellow air glider holding the triangular control bars with both wings, has black beak, blue body and feathers, at the right is Jewel a blue spix’s macaw is happy, flying with her wings wide open has black beak light blue body and feathers.

    For music, they brought on board Sergio Mendes to act as music guru and online living library. He in turn was able to reach out to artists such as will.i.am and Carlinhos Brown to provide music for the film.

    Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway, who voiced Jewel, had acted together before when both were still teenagers, when they played siblings in the short-lived 1999 TV show Get Real. Hathaway stated in an interview that she didnt see Eisenberg during production of Rio except "socially throughout the process," but that she was "very happy for all of his success."

    Soundtrack

    On March 18, 2011, Brazilian-English singer-songwriter Taio Cruz released a music video and theme song named "Telling the World" on YouTube for the soundtrack.

    Rio: Music from the Motion Picture was released in the United States by 20th Century Fox on March 29, 2011, for digital download and by Interscope Records on April 5, 2011, in Audio CD format.

    In the Brazilian edition some songs gained a Portuguese version performed by famous Brazilian artists such Ivete Sangalo (replacing Ester Dean in "Take You to Rio (Remix)") and Carlinhos Brown (replacing Jamie Foxx in "Fly Love"). "Real in Rio" became "Favo de Mel" (Honeycomb) but it was performed by the same artists as the English version.

    Track listing
    Brazilian edition

    Score

    The film score of Rio was composed by John Powell and was released on April 19, 2011, by Varese Sarabande Records.

    Track listing

    All music composed by John Powell, except as noted.

    Release

    The world premiere of Rio took place on March 22, 2011, at a Cinepolis theater in Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro. The United States premiere was on April 10, 2011, at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California, and was released throughout the country five days later. Pixar Animation Studios cancelled the release of their planned 2012 film Newt because of the similarity of its plotline to Rio.

    Marketing

    In April 2011, Oreo announced its special edition Oreo cookies with blue cream in promotion of the film. The promotion included stickers inside each package of cookies. Two types of contest were also announced: first, by completing an album of stickers, consumers could win three movie passes and medium snack bar combos; second, by finding winning stickers in packages with prizes including a trip to Rio de Janeiro, backpacks, cinema passes for a year, and 3D glasses. The promotion ended on May 30, 2011. The promotion is available in Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia.

    On January 27, 2011, Rovio Mobile announced a partnership with 20th Century Fox to promote the film. The game Angry Birds Rio was released in March 2011 on the Android Market and the Apple App Store with 50 levels. Rovio released more levels throughout 2011. With the DVD and Blu-ray release, Rovio and 20th Century Fox announced that they were going to start selling Rio Plush Toys in the Angry Birds Online Store and the DVD and Blu-ray comes with a code for 15 Hidden Levels, along with 3 Angry Birds Rio Videos. Also, McDonalds ran a promotion with Rio toys in their Happy Meals.

    In February 2011, the MPAA gave the film a PG rating for "mild off-color humor". The producers, displeased by this rating, resubmitted an edited version of the film to the ratings board one month later, and the MPAA changed the film to a G rating.

    Home media

    As a tribute to the country where most of the story is set and where the director was born, Rio was first released for home video in Brazil, on both DVD and Blu-ray, on July 7, 2011. The North American release date was August 2, 2011, and the Australian release date was September 28, 2011. As of June 2014, a total of 12 million Blu-ray and DVD units had been sold worldwide.

    Rio is available in 4 different packages: a 4-disc "Party Edition" combination package (3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital Copy), a 3-disc "Party Edition" combination package (Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital Copy), a 2-disc "Party Edition" combination package (DVD and Digital Copy), and a single disc DVD. The "Digital Copy" included with the 3-disc combination package is a separate disc that allows users to download a copy of the film to a computer through iTunes or Windows Media Player software. The 3-disc combination package also comes with an hour of bonus features.

    Video games

    A video game based on the film was released on April 12, 2011, for the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, and the Xbox 360. It has a Party-genre similar to the Mario Party series. Another game, Angry Birds Rio, was released in March 2011 for various mobile and desktop systems.

    Rio: The 4-D Experience

    Rio: The 4-D Experience is a 12-minute 4D film shown at various 4-D theatres over the world. Produced by SimEx-Iwerks, it premiered on September 27, 2013 at the San Diego Zoo 4-D Theater. Since May 24, 2014, it is being shown at the 5D Cinema at the revived Kentucky Kingdom. Since July 2014, it is being shown at the 4D Special FX Theater at Moody Gardens. And since October 25, 2014, it is being shown at the Roxy Theatre at Warner Bros. Movie World.

    Box office

    Rio made $143,619,809 in North America, along with $341,015,951 in other territories for a total of $484,635,760 worldwide, becoming the 13th highest-grossing film of 2011 and the 107th highest-grossing film of all time. It was the first film of 2011 to pass the $400-million mark.

    North America

    Rio debuted with $39,225,962 during its opening weekend on approximately 6,400 screens at 3,826 theaters. It ranked No. 1 at the box office surpassing the other new wide release, Scream 4, which ranked #2. This was the highest-grossing opening weekend of 2011 that far, finishing the year at sixteenth. It also scored the largest opening weekend in April for an animated feature, and the sixth largest in April overall. On its second weekend (Easter weekend) it retained first place at the box office, dropping only 33% to $26.3 million, therefore surpassing that weekends releases, Tyler Perrys Madeas Big Happy Family ($25.1 million), Water for Elephants ($16.8 million), and African Cats ($6 million), which ranked second, third, and sixth, respectively. Rio???s income of $143.6 million made it Blue Skys second lowest box office result at the time, surpassing only Robots, and the 18th highest grossing film of the year in North America.

    Other territories

    On its first weekend overseas (the weekend before its release in North America) it topped the box office with $54.9 million from 11,714 screens in 72 countries. On its second weekend it earned $55.4 million, still on top of the overseas box office and on its third weekend it remained at the summit of the box office, grossing an estimated $44.3 million. It therefore marked the second film that succeeded in topping the overseas box office three times in 2011, joining Tangled, although it is the only one that did it on three consecutive weekends.

    In Brazil, the films main setting and Saldanhas homeland, Rio was the largest release ever with over 1,000 screens. Its opening weekend gross of $8.4 million was the biggest ever for an American film (surpassed one year later by Madagascar 3: Europes Most Wanted). On its second weekend it earned $7.2 million, falling just 14% from its opening. It then delivered the highest-grossing third weekend in history with $6.3 million (a 12% decline). Rio finished 2011 with a final gross of $36.8 million (R$68.7 million), the second highest income of the year after The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1.

    In Russia and the CIS, it topped the box office with $11.3 million during its opening weekend (including weekday previews), surpassing Tangled for the largest all-time opening of a non-sequel animated feature. It earned $24.7 million in total, marking the fourth largest animated film of all time. In Venezuela, it has earned $8 million, marking the second-highest-grossing film of all time behind Ice Age 3 ($11.6 million). In Uruguay, it is the fourth highest-grossing film of all time with $754,820 after Titanic ($2.1 million), Avatar ($1.1 million), and Ice Age 3 ($1 million). In Peru, grossing $3.8 million, it is the third-largest animated feature behind Ice Age 3 and Shrek Forever After, and the fourth highest-grossing film of all time behind these two and Avatar. In India, it grossed ?10,000,000 in three weeks making the biggest animated opener ever.

    Critical response

    Rio received positive reviews from film critics. As of May 2015, review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes had scored a 72% rating, with an average rating of 6.4 out of 10, based on 145 reviews. The websites consensus is: "This straightforward movie hits great heights thanks to its colorful visual palette, catchy music, and perfect vocal performances." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has an average score of 63 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

    Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a mixed "C" rating. Gleiberman praised the animation in Rio and its music, and later went on to say that the film is "less a Pixar-level pleasure than a busy, frantic, and overstuffed dessert of a movie." Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times gave a positive review of the film. Sharkey said that the storyline is an "eco-sensitive variation of 101 Dalmatians with birds as prey", and praised the film for its comic action and the voices, as well as the visuals.

    Songs

  • Real in Rio (3:47)

  • Let Me Take You to Rio (Blus Arrival) (1:54)

  • Mas que nada (2011 Rio version) (2:44)

  • Hot Wings (I Wanna Party) (2:16)

  • Pretty Bird (2:03)

  • Fly Love (2:39)

  • Telling the World (3:33)

  • Funky Monkey (2:24)

  • Take You to Rio (3:26)

  • Balanco carioca (3:01)

  • Sapo cai (2:46)

  • Samba de Orly (2:49)

  • Valsa carioca (2:35)

  • Copacabana Dreams (2:20)

    • Sequel

    A sequel, titled Rio 2, was released on April 11, 2014. Carlos Saldanha, the creator and director of the first film, returned as director. All the main cast, including Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Jemaine Clement, Jamie Foxx, will.i.am, Tracy Morgan, George Lopez, Jake T. Austin, Leslie Mann, and Rodrigo Santoro, reprised their roles. New cast includes Andy Garcia, Bruno Mars, Kristin Chenoweth, Rita Moreno, Amandla Stenberg, Rachel Crow, Pierce Gagnon, and Natalie Morales. The sequel follows Blu, Jewel and their three kids on a venture into the Amazon where they try to live like real birds. Eventually, they find Jewels long-lost father Eduardo, who is in hiding with a tribe of other Spixs Macaws. At first everything seems perfect, but Blu is having trouble adapting to the wild. Eventually, they discover that the Amazon is under threat, and that Blu and Jewels old nemesis, Nigel the cockatoo, is back for revenge.

    References

    Rio (2011 film) Wikipedia
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