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Rio, often promoted as Rio: The Movie, is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated musical comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and directed by Carlos Saldanha. The title refers to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro,[3] in which the film is set. The film features the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez, Jemaine Clement and Jake T. Austin.[4] The film tells the story of Blu (Eisenberg), a spix's macaw who is taken to Rio de Janeiro to mate with a female. He eventually falls in love with Jewel (Hathaway), a free spirited macaw, and together they have to escape from being smuggled by Nigel (Clement), a cockatoo.
Saldanha developed his first story concept of Rio in 1995, in which a penguin is washed up in Rio. However, Saldanha learned of the production of the films Happy Feet and Surf's Up, 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.
20th Century Fox released the film on March 22, 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, and was later released in the United States on April 15, 2011. The film received positive reviews from film critics. Observers praised the visuals, voice acting and music. The film was also a box office success, grossing over $445 million worldwide.
Saldanha developed his first story concept of Rio in 1995, in which a penguin is washed up in Rio. However, Saldanha learned of the production of the films Happy Feet and Surf's Up, 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.
20th Century Fox released the film on March 22, 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, and was later released in the United States on April 15, 2011. The film received positive reviews from film critics. Observers praised the visuals, voice acting and music. The film was also a box office success, grossing over $445 million worldwide.
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Rio, often promoted as Rio: The Movie, is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated musical comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and directed by Carlos Saldanha. The title refers to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro,[3] in which the film is set. The film features the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez, Jemaine Clement and Jake T. Austin. The film tells the story of Blu (Eisenberg), a spix's macaw who is taken to Rio de Janeiro to mate with a female. He eventually falls in love with Jewel (Hathaway), a free spirited macaw, and together they have to escape from being smuggled by Nigel (Clement), a cockatoo.
Saldanha developed his first story concept of Rio in 1995, in which a penguin is washed up in Rio. However, Saldanha learned of the production of the films Happy Feet and Surf's Up, 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.
20th Century Fox released the film on March 22, 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, and was later released in the United States on April 15, 2011. The film received positive reviews from film critics. Observers praised the visuals, voice acting and music. The film was also a box office success, grossing over $445 million worldwide.Blu (Jesse Eisenberg), a young Spix's Macaw who is unable to fly, is smuggled from Rio de Janeiro to Moose Lake, Minnesota. Linda (Sofia Scarpa Saldanha), a young girl, finds a box containing Blu on the street and adopts him as her pet. Fifteen years later, Blu is living with Linda (Leslie Mann), who is now an adult, in her bookstore. One day, Túlio (Rodrigo Santoro), a Brazilian ornithologist, reveals that Blu is the last male of his species, and he needs to mate with a female to preserve it.
After Linda takes Blu to Túlio's aviary in Rio, he falls in love with Jewel (Anne Hathaway), a female Spix's Macaw who longs to escape. The aviary is raided by a group of smugglers led by Marcel (Carlos Ponce), who has Blu and Jewel chained to each other. His Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Nigel (Jemaine Clement) reveals his career as a performer on a television program, but he was soon replaced by a parakeet. As a result, he specializes in the capture of exotic birds. Blu and Jewel escape from the smugglers, ending up in a jungle. The pair meets a family of toucans. Their father, Rafael (George Lopez), offers to take them to his bulldog friend Luiz (Tracy Morgan) in removing the chain and unsuccessfuly teaches Blu how to fly. The group meets the Red-crested Cardinal Pedro (will.i.am) and his Yellow Canary friend Nico (Jamie Foxx).
Meanwhile, Nigel recruits a horde of thieving marmosets led by Mauro (Brian Baumgartner) to help capture Blu and Jewel. Linda and Túlio, along with the smugglers' young assistant Fernando (Jake T. Austin), also try to find Blu. Pedro and Nico take Blu and Jewel to a bird's samba club, where they perform a duet and almost kiss, but are attacked by the marmosets. Their bird friends, including a Roseate Spoonbill named Kipo (Bernardo de Paula), fend them off long enough for the five to escape. Fernando eventually leads Linda and Túlio to the smugglers' hideout where the threesome learn Marcel's plan to use the Carnivale festival as a cover to smuggle Blu and Jewel.
Blu and the others meet Luiz, who inadvertently uses his drool to release Blu and Jewel from the chain, to Jewel's happiness. Realizing that Blu is too depressed to fly, Jewel parts ways with him.
However, Marcel and Nigel capture Jewel and Blu stages a rescue mission. Linda and Túlio infiltrate Carnivale by posing as dancers, but the smugglers capture the birds and are loaded on their cargo plane. When Blu uses a fire extinguisher to break out of his cage, he frees all the captive birds. Jewel, in a desperate attempt to stop Nigel from attacking Blu, ends up in a dangerous accident. Blu uses the fire extinguisher to blast Nigel into one of the plane's propellers. As Marcel and the others jump out of the plane, Jewel nearly falls to her death, but Blu jumps after her. As they fall, she kisses him, giving him the heart to finally fly. The duo reunites with Linda and Túlio, who tends to Jewel's injured wing.
Later, Linda and Túlio organize and run a sanctuary along with Fernando to protect a part of the jungle from smugglers. Linda releases Jewel and Blu into the jungle. During the credits, Blu and Jewel happily live in the jungle with their friends, and are the parents of three chicks. Meanwhile, Nigel is shown to have survived from the plane crash, and Mauro humiliates him for his loss of feathers.
Saldanha developed his first story concept of Rio in 1995, in which a penguin is washed up in Rio. However, Saldanha learned of the production of the films Happy Feet and Surf's Up, 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.
20th Century Fox released the film on March 22, 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, and was later released in the United States on April 15, 2011. The film received positive reviews from film critics. Observers praised the visuals, voice acting and music. The film was also a box office success, grossing over $445 million worldwide.Blu (Jesse Eisenberg), a young Spix's Macaw who is unable to fly, is smuggled from Rio de Janeiro to Moose Lake, Minnesota. Linda (Sofia Scarpa Saldanha), a young girl, finds a box containing Blu on the street and adopts him as her pet. Fifteen years later, Blu is living with Linda (Leslie Mann), who is now an adult, in her bookstore. One day, Túlio (Rodrigo Santoro), a Brazilian ornithologist, reveals that Blu is the last male of his species, and he needs to mate with a female to preserve it.
After Linda takes Blu to Túlio's aviary in Rio, he falls in love with Jewel (Anne Hathaway), a female Spix's Macaw who longs to escape. The aviary is raided by a group of smugglers led by Marcel (Carlos Ponce), who has Blu and Jewel chained to each other. His Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Nigel (Jemaine Clement) reveals his career as a performer on a television program, but he was soon replaced by a parakeet. As a result, he specializes in the capture of exotic birds. Blu and Jewel escape from the smugglers, ending up in a jungle. The pair meets a family of toucans. Their father, Rafael (George Lopez), offers to take them to his bulldog friend Luiz (Tracy Morgan) in removing the chain and unsuccessfuly teaches Blu how to fly. The group meets the Red-crested Cardinal Pedro (will.i.am) and his Yellow Canary friend Nico (Jamie Foxx).
Meanwhile, Nigel recruits a horde of thieving marmosets led by Mauro (Brian Baumgartner) to help capture Blu and Jewel. Linda and Túlio, along with the smugglers' young assistant Fernando (Jake T. Austin), also try to find Blu. Pedro and Nico take Blu and Jewel to a bird's samba club, where they perform a duet and almost kiss, but are attacked by the marmosets. Their bird friends, including a Roseate Spoonbill named Kipo (Bernardo de Paula), fend them off long enough for the five to escape. Fernando eventually leads Linda and Túlio to the smugglers' hideout where the threesome learn Marcel's plan to use the Carnivale festival as a cover to smuggle Blu and Jewel.
Blu and the others meet Luiz, who inadvertently uses his drool to release Blu and Jewel from the chain, to Jewel's happiness. Realizing that Blu is too depressed to fly, Jewel parts ways with him.
However, Marcel and Nigel capture Jewel and Blu stages a rescue mission. Linda and Túlio infiltrate Carnivale by posing as dancers, but the smugglers capture the birds and are loaded on their cargo plane. When Blu uses a fire extinguisher to break out of his cage, he frees all the captive birds. Jewel, in a desperate attempt to stop Nigel from attacking Blu, ends up in a dangerous accident. Blu uses the fire extinguisher to blast Nigel into one of the plane's propellers. As Marcel and the others jump out of the plane, Jewel nearly falls to her death, but Blu jumps after her. As they fall, she kisses him, giving him the heart to finally fly. The duo reunites with Linda and Túlio, who tends to Jewel's injured wing.
Later, Linda and Túlio organize and run a sanctuary along with Fernando to protect a part of the jungle from smugglers. Linda releases Jewel and Blu into the jungle. During the credits, Blu and Jewel happily live in the jungle with their friends, and are the parents of three chicks. Meanwhile, Nigel is shown to have survived from the plane crash, and Mauro humiliates him for his loss of feathers.
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