Rio (2011 film)

Rio
Theatrical poster with brazilian release date
Directed by	Carlos Saldanha
Screenplay by	Don Rhymer Joshua Sternin Jeffrey Ventimilia
Story by	Carlos Saldanha
Produced by	John C. Donkin Bruce Anderson Chris Wedge
Starring	Jesse Eisenberg Anne Hathaway George Lopez
Cinematography	Renato Falcão
Edited by	Harry Hitner
Music by	John Powell
Production company	Blue Sky Studios
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	8 April 2011 (2011-04-08) (Brazil) 15 April 2011 (2011-04-15) (North America)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	English Portuguese
Budget	$90 million
Box office	$170,096,560

Rio (often promoted as Rio: The Movie) is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated film and Blue Sky Studios's sixth feature film. The title refers to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, in which the film is set.

It is directed by Carlos Saldanha. The characters are voiced by Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez, Jake T. Austin, Tracy Morgan, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Mann, will.i.am, and Jamie Foxx.

Background

Under development for years, Rio is considered "Brazilian-born Saldanha's dream project". Saldanha reported that the film would be more musical than his comedic Ice Age movies.

Plot

In a jungle near the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, birds fly and sing, while a baby Blue Macaw who cannot fly watches. Several of the birds, including the macaw, are caged by smugglers, and are taken to Moose Lake, Minnesota in the United States. The box containing the baby bird is accidentally left on the street, where it is found by a girl named Linda (Leslie Mann), who names him "Blu".

Fifteen years later, Linda now owns and lives in a bookstore with Blu (Jesse Eisenberg), who still has not learned how to fly. A scientist from Brazil, Túlio (Rodrigo Santoro), tells Linda that Blu is the last male of his species, and he needs to take him to Rio, so that Blu can mate with a female to preserve the species.

There, Blu meets the female macaw, Jewel (Anne Hathaway). Blu falls for her, but she is only interested in escaping. The shelter is then raided by smugglers, who are let in by the head smuggler's cockatoo, Nigel (Jemaine Clement), who was posing as a sickly bird. Among them is Fernando (Jake T. Austin), a poor boy with no family, who only helps the smugglers to earn some money. Blu and Jewel are captured and chained together. Nigel introduces himself to them through song, explaining that he used to be a performing bird on a TV show, but was replaced by a much more attractive parakeet. Because of this he developed a hatred of exotic birds like Jewel, which is why he assists the smugglers in capturing such birds. After he departs, Blu and Jewel manage to escape. As they flee, Nigel chases them through the slums of Rio, and after losing Nigel, Blu and Jewel get lost in the nearby jungle.

The next day they meet a family of toucans. The father, Rafael (George Lopez), offers to take them to see his friend Luiz, who could remove the chain. Rafael also tries to teach Blu to fly, telling him that he just needs to "feel the rhythm" of his heart. After Blu tries and fails to fly, the group head into town, where they meet a Red-crested Cardinal named Pedro (Will.i.am) and his canary friend Nico (Jamie Foxx), whom Blu met before meeting Jewel. Meanwhile, Nigel enlists the aid of a group of thieving marmosets and their king Mauro (Brian Baumgartner), to find Blu and Jewel. Linda and Tulio try and find Blu, assisted by the repentant Fernando. Pedro and Nico take Blu and Jewel to a bird's samba club, where Blu starts to dance, culminating in a duet with Jewel. They are then attacked by the marmosets, but their bird friends, including a Roseate Spoonbill they met at the samba club named Kipo (Bernardo de Paula) fend them off long enough for Blu and company to escape.

Fernando leads Linda and Tulio to the smugglers hideout, where they learn the criminals plan to use Carnivale as a cover to regain Blu and Jewel and escape with their stolen birds. The group finally meet the Bulldog Luiz (Tracy Morgan), a supposed chainsaw professional, who attempts to saw through the chain, but unintentionally uses his drool to lubricate Blu and Jewel's feet enough for them to slip through. Jewel is overjoyed at being able to fly again, but Blu isn't, knowing they will have to part ways. Unfortunately, Jewel is then captured by Nigel. When Pedro and Nico inform Blu of Jewel's capture, he decides to mount a rescue, using Luiz as a steed to follow Nigel.

Linda and Tulio make their way into Carnivale by posing as dancers, but Blu is captured by Nigel as well as Rafael, Nico, and Pedro. Linda and Tulio follow the smugglers, but are too late to stop them from taking off in their plane. During the flight, Blu manages to break out of his cage, and they all fly away except for Jewel, who knows Blu is afraid to because he still can't fly. Nigel then appears, holding down Blu and smashing a cage onto Jewel's wing, injuring her. Blu manages to blast Nigel out of the plane by attaching a fire extinguisher to his leg and is accidentally hit by the plane propeller.

Jewel, now flightless, is pushed out of the plane by a falling cage, and Blu jumps out after her. Jewel is surprised and touched that Blu went after her, and as they fall, she kisses him. Blu is then overcome by the rhythm of his heart, holds out his wings, and flies, saving himself and Jewel. They return to Linda and Tulio, who attempts to tend to Jewel's hurt wing. Jewel is reluctant at first, but Blu convinces her to accept Tulio's help.

Linda and Tulio later found the "Blu Bird Sanctuary", a part of Rio's jungle protected from smugglers. Blu and Linda remain very close, though she also has a relationship with Tulio now, and is now living in Rio to help run the Blu Bird Sanctuary along with Fernando whom the couple is hinted at taking on. Blu on the other hand, joins Jewel, whose wing is fully healed. The film ends portraying Blu in the jungle fathering three chicks (two boys and a girl) with Jewel, as well as lively sing and dance from their friends and family.

Nigel survives his encounter, but not without a loss of many feathers and humiliation from Mauro, who is seen taking pictures and laughing at him and the smugglers go to jail.

Cast

• Jesse Eisenberg as Blu, a socially awkward, domesticated, and clumsy Blue Macaw .
• Anne Hathaway as Jewel, a Blue Macaw and Blu's mate at the end of the movie.
• George Lopez as Rafael, a Toco Toucan.
• Jemaine Clement as Nigel, a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo.
• Jake T. Austin as Fernando, a Brazilian teenage boy who helps Linda find Blu.
• Bernardo de Paula as Sylvio, an obese man who is one of the poacher's henchmen./Kipo, a Roseate Spoonbill that helps Blu and Jewel escape the marmosets.
• Leslie Mann as Linda, Blu's human owner, like Blu she's not the type who gets out that much.
• Tracy Morgan as Luiz, a bulldog.
• Will.i.am as Pedro, a rapping Red-crested Cardinal.
• Jamie Foxx as Nico, a Yellow Canary with a green and purple striped bottlecap as a hat that loves to samba.
• Rodrigo Santoro as Túlio, a human bird scientist and Linda's love interest/Soccer Announcer.
• Davi Vieira as Armando, a tall smuggler with an afro.
• Wanda Sykes as Chloe, a Canada Goose from Moose Lake.
• Chavo Vaynér as Woodpecker
• Jane Lynch as Alice, another Canada Goose.
• Bebel Gilberto as Eva, a Keel-billed Toucan and Rafael's wife.
• Carlos Ponce as Marcel
• Brian Baumgartner as Mauro, a marmoset and the king of thieving Common marmosets. He wears a paper clip for a ponytail clip, four rings as bracelets on each of his wrists, and a man's gold watch as a belt.
• Jason Fricchione as Truck Driver (Uncredited)

Marketing

The teaser trailer of the film was released online on 20 May 2010 and then premiered a day after with the release of Shrek Forever After. It was also shown in cinemas with select screenings of Toy Story 3, Knight and Day, Despicable Me, Alpha and Omega, and Megamind. The first teaser poster for the film was released 4 months later. The new trailer was released online on 8 December 2010 and was also shown with Tron: Legacy, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Gulliver's Travels, Yogi Bear, and Gnomeo & Juliet. The final trailer was shown in front of Rango, Hop and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules and it will be released on 2 April 2011 on YouTube.

On 27 January 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 plans to release more levels throughout 2011. A sneak peek for Angry Birds Rio (a golden egg) was available on the original Angry Birds game if the viewers found the secret code in Super Bowl XLV's commercial for Rio which would only be visible upon pausing the commercial and advancing it frame by frame.

The film premiered on 22 March 2011, in a Cinépolis house in Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro, attended by director Carlos Saldanha, its main stars, and Sérgio Mendes, scorer of the film.

A video game based on the film was released on 12 April 2011 by THQ for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Nintendo DS. It has a Party-genre similar that of the Mario Party series.

The film also includes a Regular Show short, Ringtoneers, shown in some prints of the film in theaters.

Music

On March 18, 2011, English singer-songwriter Taio Cruz released a music video and theme song named "Telling The World" on YouTube for the soundtrack. The soundtrack for the film was released in the US by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation on 29 March 2011 for digital download and by Interscope Records on 5 April 2011 in Audio CD format.

Track list

1. "Real in Rio" – Jesse Eisenberg, Jamie Foxx, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez, will.i.am & The Rio Singers
2. "Let Me Take You to Rio (Blu’s Arrival)" – Ester Dean & Carlinhos Brown
3. "Mas que Nada (2011 Rio Version)" – Sérgio Mendes featuring Gracinha Leporace
4. "Hot Wings (I Wanna Party)" – will.i.am, Foxx, and Hathaway
5. "Pretty Bird" – Jemaine Clement
6. "Fly Love" – Foxx
7. "Telling the World" – Taio Cruz
8. "Funky Monkey" – Siedah Garrett, Brown, Mikael Mutti & Davi Vieira
9. "Take You to Rio (Remix)" – Dean
10. "Balanço Carioca" – Mutti
11. "Sapo Cai" – Brown & Mutti
12. "Samba De Orly" – Bebel Gilberto
13. "Valsa Carioca" – Mendes
14. "Forró da Fruta" (Bonus track) – Brown & Mutti

And For The Original Motion Picture Score Composed By John Powell Will Be Avilable On June 19th, 2011 By Varese Sarabande And Fox Music

Track List

1. Morning Routine* (2:23)

2. Meet Tulio* (2:55)

3. Great Big Momma Bird* (2:47)

4. Paradise Concern (1:59)

5. Bagged and Missing (2:09)

6. Locked Up (2:10)

7. Chained Chase* (2:35)

8. Bedtime Flyers* (2:58)

9. Idiot Glider* (1:56)

10. Juicy Little Mango (2:27)

11. Umbrellas of Rio* (2:27)

12. Motorbike‡ (1:23)

13. Bird Fight (1:03)

14. Birds Moved* (2:33)

15. Heimlich†* (2:31)

16. Birdnapped (3:37)

17. Rio Airport (4:24)

18. Flying* (2:43)

19. Market Forro (2:11)

Reception

Rio has generally received positive reviews from film critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has scored at 72% on the Tomatometer, with an average rating of 6.4 out of 10, based on 111 reviews, with 80 of them being "Fresh" and 31 marked as "Rotten". The consensus given by the website reads "This straightforward movie hits great heights thanks to its colorful visual palette, catchy music, and perfect vocal performances." Most fresh reviews have obtained a score of 3/5 by reviewers. On Metacritic, another review aggregation site, the film has an average score of 65 out of 100, indicating "generally positive reviews".

Entertainment Weekly gives the movie a "mixed" C rating.

Box-office performance

Rio has made $39,225,962 in North America, as of April 17, 2011, along with an estimated $130,200,000 in other territories, as of April 17, 2011, which totals up to $170,096,560 worldwide.

North America

Rio debuted with $39.2 million during its opening weekend, topping the box office, on approximately 6,400 screens at 3,826 theaters. This was the highest-grossing opening weekend so far for a 2011 film. It also scored the largest opening weekend in April for an animated feature, and the fifth largest in April overall.

Other territories

In Russia, it topped the box office with $11,305,530 during its opening weekend (including weekday previews), surpassing Tangled for the largest all-time opening of a non-sequel animated movie. In Brazil, it grossed a record-breaking $8,349,383, the largest opening weekend of all time in the territory.

MPAA issue

In February 2011, the MPAA gave the film a PG rating for "mild off-color humor". After hearing this, it was reported that some of the producers of the film and executives at 20th Century Fox were apparently unhappy with this rating. Fox resubmitted an edited version of the film to the ratings board one month later, and the MPAA changed the film to a G rating. This is only the third time in history this occurrence has happened, after Babe: Pig in the City and Air Bud: Golden Receiver. The reason for the rating change has yet to be stated. Rio is the second Blue Sky film to get a G rating, after Horton Hears a Who!.

External links

• Official website
• Rio at IMDb
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• Rio at AllMovie
• Rio at Rotten Tomatoes
• Rio at Metacritic
• Rio at Box Office Mojo