Rio 2 (2014)

April 11, 2014

April 11, 2014

Rio 2 is a 2014 American animated musical comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox Animation. It was directed by Carlos Saldanha and written by Don Rhymer, Carlos Kotkin, Jenny Bicks, and Yoni Brenner. It is the second film of the Rio franchise. Set three years after the events of the first film, it follows Blu, Jewel, and their children leaving Rio for the Amazon rainforest to find other blue macaws, while Nigel the cockatoo pursues them to exact revenge. The film features the voices of Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Mann, George Lopez, Jamie Foxx, will.i.am, Tracy Morgan, and Rodrigo Santoro reprising their roles from the previous film, with Kristin Chenoweth, Bruno Mars, Rita Moreno, Miguel Ferrer, and Andy García joining the cast.

Rio 2 was released internationally on March 20, 2014, and on April 11 in American theaters by 20th Century Fox. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $498.7 million against a production budget of $103–130 million. The film is dedicated to the memory of screenwriter Don Rhymer, who died in 2012.

Storyline

Three years after defeating Nigel, Blu and Jewel raise their three children—Carla, Bia, and Tiago—in Rio de Janeiro, but Jewel is concerned over her children becoming too domesticated like their father. Meanwhile, Blu's owner Linda and her husband Túlio are on an expedition in the Amazon and, after falling down a waterfall, discover a blue Spix's macaw that loses a feather. When words about the encounter are broadcast through television, Jewel believes that they should go to the Amazon to help find the blue macaws. While the kids are ecstatic, Blu is uncertain but is pressured into going along. Rafael, Nico and Pedro also decide to come along to scout talent for their Carnival.

Big Boss, who leads a group of illegal loggers, discovers Linda and Túlio's expedition to find the macaws and orders his henchmen to hunt them down. Meanwhile, Nigel, who has become flightless after getting sent into an aircraft engine, plots to exact revenge on Blu with his new comrades, an anteater named Charlie and a poison dart frog named Gabi, the latter of whom is in love with Nigel. After arriving at the jungle, Blu, his family and their friends are taken to a flock of blue macaws that hide in an uncharted section of the Amazon. There, Jewel is reunited with her long-lost father, Eduardo, paternal aunt Mimi and childhood friend Roberto. Eduardo seems unimpressed at first with Blu but thanks him for returning Jewel home. Having lost their previous habitat to arson from the loggers, Eduardo distrusts humans, and brushes off Blu's suggestion to expose the sanctuary to Linda and Túlio to ensure their protection.

While searching for the macaws, Linda and Túlio are captured by the loggers. Meanwhile, Blu does his best to fit in with the flock as his family is doing, but his continued reliance on the tools he brought prevents him from connecting with anyone. In another attempt to get closer to him, a disguised Nigel wins a talent show to become a performer for a Carnival show that Rafael, Pedro, Nico and Carla are hosting. When Blu tries to pick a Brazilian nut for Jewel, he accidentally puts it in the territory of the Spix macaw's enemies, the scarlet macaws, led by the hostile Felipe. Blu inadvertently causes a war for food between the two tribes when he accidentally swats Felipe with a branch. The war turns out to be a football match, but Blu accidentally costs the flock their territory when he accidentally scores on his team's own goal.

Blu decides to leave Linda and his human roots behind him for his family's sake, but after witnessing the loggers' destruction of the forest, he returns and rallies the flock, reconciling with Jewel and Eduardo. With Blu's knowledge of human technology and help from the scarlet macaws, the flock, with the rest of the jungle animals, disable the loggers' machinery. In the chaos, Eduardo encounters a tractor but is rescued by Linda and Tulio. Big Boss tries blowing up the trees with dynamite, but Blu thwarts him. Nigel intervenes, leaving Big Boss to get eaten alive by an anaconda. Wanting Blu to himself, Nigel attacks Blu, but Gabi, while trying to help, accidentally knocks Nigel out with a porcupine's quill filled with her poison, but Bia reveals that Gabi is actually a tree frog. An overjoyed Gabi smothers Nigel with affection and drags him away, while Charlie leaves.

With the flock under Linda and Túlio's protection, Blu and Jewel decide to live in the Amazon with their kids, although they decide to spend their summers back in Rio. Eduardo drops his anti-human stance and proudly accepts Blu into the flock, and Nigel and Gabi are sent back to Rio for study.

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