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Rio
Theatrical release poster
Directed byCarlos Saldanha
Screenplay byDon Rhymer
Joshua Sternin
Jeffrey Ventimilia
Todd R.Jones
Earl Richey Jones
Story byCarlos Saldanha
Produced byJohn C. Donkin
Bruce Anderson
Chris Wedge
StarringJesse Eisenberg
Anne Hathaway
George Lopez
CinematographyRenato Falcão
Edited byHarry Hitner
Music byJohn Powell
Production
company
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release dates
  • March 22, 2011 (2011-03-22) (Rio de Janeiro)
  • April 15, 2011 (2011-04-15) (United States)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish
Portuguese
Budget$90 million[1]
Box office$429,244,302[2]

Rio (often promoted as Rio: The Movie) is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated musical comedy film directed by Carlos Saldanha. It is Blue Sky Studios's sixth film to be produced under the distribution of 20th Century Fox. 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. However, he is caught up in the middle of smugglers who want to capture exotic birds.

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. The film premiered on March 22, 2011 in Rio de Janiero, 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 $429 million worldwide.

Plot

Blu (Jesse Eisenberg), a young Spix's Macaw who is unable to fly, is smuggled from Rio de Janeiro to Moose Lake, Minnesota. Linda (Leslie Mann), a young girl, finds Blu on the street and adopts him as her pet.

Fifteen years later, Blu is living with Linda 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 a shelter in Rio, he falls in love with Jewel (Anne Hathaway), a female Spix's Macaw who longs to escape. The shelter is raided by smugglers, who are let in by their Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Nigel (Jemaine Clement). As Blu and Jewel are chained to each other, Nigel explains that he used to be a performing bird on a television program. However, Nigel has hated exotic birds since he was replaced by a parakeet. The duo flee from Nigel and the smugglers and meet a family of toucans in the jungle. Their father Rafael (George Lopez) offers to take them to his bulldog friend Luiz (Tracy Morgan) in removing the chain, and also attempts to train Blu 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 their king Mauro (Brian Baumgartner) to 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, 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 Tulio to the smugglers' hideout where the threesome learn their plan to use the Carnavale festival as a cover to steal Blu and Jewel. Blu and the others meet Luiz, who inadvertently uses his drool to release Blu and Jewel from the chain. Despite Jewel's amazement, Blu is depressed since he is unable to fly, and the two part ways. Nigel eventually captures Jewel and Blu initiates a rescue mission. Linda and Túlio infiltrate Carnivale by posing as dancers, but Nigel captures Blu, Rafael, Nico and Pedro and taken to the smugglers' cargo plane. Blu breaks out of his cage and frees Rafael, Nico and Pedro. However, Nigel severely injures Jewel's wing, and Blu uses a fire extinguisher to blast Nigel into the plane's propellor, seemingly killing him. Blu rescues Jewel, kissing as they fall, and begins to fly. The duo reunites with Linda and Túlio, who tends to Jewel's wing.

Some time later, Linda and Túlio organize and run the "Blu Bird Sanctuary", a part of Rio's jungle protected from smugglers. Blu and Linda remain close friends, and Linda has a relationship with Túlio. Blu and Jewel happily live in the jungle with their friends, and are the parents of three chicks. Nigel survives his encounter, though he is now featherless and the marmosets humiliate him, while the smugglers are sent to jail.

Voice cast

  • Jesse Eisenberg as Blu, a socially awkward, domesticated, and clumsy Spix's Macaw who is unable to fly. He was smuggled from Rio de Janeiro to Moose Lake and was adopted by Linda, who lived with her for 15 years. While he can log on a computer and shred on a skateboard, he can't fly. But when he finds himself halfway across the world caught up in a wild adventure in the forests and streets of Rio de Janeiro, he's forced to step out of his cage and find out if he really has was it takes to soar.
  • Anne Hathaway as Jewel, a free-spirited Spix's Macaw who longs to escape from being smuggled. She is not impressed when she first meets Blu, but later on, she starts to warm up to him. Near the end, when Blu jumps out of the smugglers' plane after her, she realizes she loves him.
  • George Lopez as Rafael, a Toco Toucan.
  • Jemaine Clement as Nigel, a sadistic Sulphur-crested Cockatoo owned by Marcel, who is a former television actor. After he was replaced by a parakeet, he suffers a hatred of exotic birds and specializes in capturing them.
  • Jake T. Austin as Fernando, a Brazilian boy who works as the smugglers' assistant.
  • Bernardo de Paula as Sylvio, an obese man who is one of the poacher's henchmen. Paula also plays Kipo, a Roseate Spoonbill at a samba club.
  • Leslie Mann as Linda, Blu's human owner who found Blu after being taken from Rio de Janeiro and adopted him for 15 years.
  • Tracy Morgan as Luiz, a bulldog and a chainsaw expert who has a medical condition of drooling.
  • Will.i.am as Pedro, a rapping Red-crested Cardinal.
  • Jamie Foxx as Nico, a close friend of Pedro. He is a Yellow Canary with a green and purple striped bottlecap as a hat that loves to samba.
  • Rodrigo Santoro as Túlio, a Brazilian bird scientist who finds that Blu is the last male of his species. Santoro also voices a soccer announcer.
  • Davi Vieira as Armando, a smuggler.
  • Wanda Sykes as Chloe, a Canada Goose from Moose Lake.
  • Chavo Vaynér as a Woodpecker
  • Jane Lynch as Alice, another Canada goose.
  • Bebel Gilberto as Eva, a Keel-billed Toucan and Rafael's wife.
  • Carlos Ponce as Marcel, the lead smuggler and Nigel's owner.
  • Brian Baumgartner as Mauro, a 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.

Production

Saldanha first had the idea for the movie back 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 Surf's Up (two other films involving penguins) being produced. He pitched the idea to Chris Wedge at Blue Sky in 2006.[5] 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.[6] The animators also met with an expert on macaws at the Bronx Zoo to gain insight into their movement and personalities.[7]

The lead voice actors were approached in 2009.[5] Jemaine Clement was approached to do the film after seeing test shots of his character Nigel doing a speech from Flight of the Conchords,[8] which was done prior to a script being finalized.[9] Eisenberg was asked during the filming of The Social Network if he would do his voice recording on the weekends; 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."[10]

For music, they brought on board Sérgio Mendes to act as music guru and online living library.[7] He in turn was able to reach out to artists such as will.i.am and Carlinhos Brown to provide music for it.[11]

In an interview, Anne Hathaway, who voiced Jewel, said that she didn't see her former Get Real co-star, except for "socially throughout the process. Interestingly, for those of you that are avid IMDB surfers, Jesse and I played brother and sister on a television series, a Fox Television series in 1999 called Get Real. I was his older sister Meghan Green and he was Kenny Green. I’m very happy for all of his success."[12]

Marketing

The teaser trailer of the film was released online on May 20, 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 four months later. The new trailer was released online on December 8, 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 was released on April 2, 2011 on YouTube.[citation needed]

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 plans to release more levels throughout 2011.[13] 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.[citation needed]

The film premiered on March 22, 2011, in a Cinépolis house in Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro, attended by director Carlos Saldanha, its main stars, and musician Sérgio Mendes.[14]

Like African Cats, the film also includes a Regular Show short, Mordecai and Rigby: Ringtoneers, shown in some prints of the film in theaters and the Ice Age short, Scrat's Continental Crack-up.

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 contests 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 ends May 30, 2011, or until stock is exhausted.[15] The promotion is available in Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia.[16]

Video game

A video game based on the film was released on April 12, 2011 for the Wii, DS, PS3, and the Xbox 360. It has a Party-genre similar to the Mario Party series.

MPAA rating controversy

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.[17]

Release

Box office

Rio has made $125,644,302 in North America, as of May 15, 2011, along with $303,600,000 in other territories, which totals up to $429,244,302 worldwide, becoming the second highest grossing film of 2011, behind Fast Five and the first film of 2011 to pass the $400-million mark.[2]

North America

Rio debuted with $39,225,962 during its opening weekend on approximately 6,400 screens at 3,826 theaters. It ranked number one at the box office surpassing the other new wide release, Scream 4, which ranked second.[18] This was the highest-grossing opening weekend so far for a 2011 film.[19] It also scored the largest opening weekend in April for an animated feature, and the fifth largest in April overall.[20] On its second weekend (Easter weekend) it retained first place at the box office, dropping only 33% to $26.3 million, therefore surpassing that weekend's releases, Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family ($25.1 million), Water for Elephants ($16.8 million) and African Cats ($6.0 million), which ranked second, third and sixth respectively.[21]

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.[22] On its second weekend it earned $55.4 million, still on top of the overseas box office[23] 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 movie 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.[24]

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.[25] 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 $6,356,031 (a 12% decline)[26] and as of May 1, 2011 it has earned $35,264,594.[27]

Reception

Rio has received generally positive reviews; critics have cited the film's animation, voice acting, music and 3D effects as its strengths, whilst highlighting character development and a lack of original humour as its main flaws. 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 130 reviews, with 94 of them being "Fresh" and 36 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.[28] On Metacritic, another review aggregation site, the film has an average score of 63 out of 100, indicating "generally positive reviews".[29]

Entertainment Weekly gives the movie a "mixed" C rating.[30]

Music

Soundtrack

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 March 29, 2011 for digital download[31] and by Interscope Records on April 5, 2011 in Audio CD format.[32]

Track listing
  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. "Pretty Bird" – Jemaine Clement
  4. "Mas que Nada (2011 Rio Version)" – Sérgio Mendes featuring Gracinha Leporace
  5. "Hot Wings (I Wanna Party)" – will.i.am, Jamie Foxx, Anne Hathaway
  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

Score

The film score of Rio was composed by John Powell. The soundtrack is scheduled to be released on June 24, 2011 by Varèse Sarabande Records.[33][34]

All tracks are written by John Powell

No.TitleLength
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
Total length:47:04

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