Rio 2 is a 2014 American computer-animated adventure musical comedy film that is directed by Carlos Saldanha from a screenplay by Don Rhymer, Carlos Kotkin, Jenny Bicks, and Yoni Brenner and a story by Saldanha. Based on the characters made by Saldanha, it is a sequel to the 2011 film Rio and second installment of the Rio film series. It is follows a city of Rio de Janeiro in the Brazilian country, take place to the moment in the trees of Amazon rainforest. It stars an ensemble cast such as Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez, Andy García, Bruno Mars, will.i.am, Jamie Foxx, Rita Moreno, Jemaine Clement, Kristin Chenoweth, Jake T. Austin, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro, Miguel Ferrer, and Tracy Morgan. It was released on April 11, 2014 in the United States by 20th Century Fox. Despite received mixed reviews from film critics, it was a financial success, grossing $498 million worldwide against its $103-130 million budget.
Plot[]
Three years after the events of the first movie, Spix's Macaws Blu, Jewel and their three children — Carla, Bia, and Tiago — are living in the city but Jewel is disappointed to see her children becoming too domesticated like their father. Meanwhile, Blu's owner and best friend, Linda Gunderson and her ornithologist husband Tulio are on an expedition in the Amazon and, after a fall down a waterfall, discover a Spix's macaw that loses one of its feathers. Jewel believes that they should go to the Amazon to help find the blue macaws. While the kids are ecstatic, Blu is uncertain, but he is pressured into going along. Blu brings a fanny pack full of supplies, including a GPS, much to Jewel's chagrin.
Big Boss, the leader of a group of illegal loggers, discovers Linda and Tulio's expedition to find the macaws and orders his henchmen to hunt them down. At the same time, the sulphur-crested cockatoo Nigel plots to exact revenge on Blu along with his new comrades, an anteater named Charlie and a poison dart frog named Gabi. After they arrive at the jungle, Blu, his family, and their friends, Rafael the toucan, Pedro the cardinal, and Nico the canary initially find nothing. However, they are eventually taken to a flock of blue macaws that are hiding 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 with Blu, but thanks him for bringing Jewel back home. Having lost their previous habitat to arson from the illegal loggers Eduardo is anti-human, and brushes off Blu's suggestion to expose the sanctuary to Linda and Tulio to ensure their protection.
While searching for the macaws, Linda and Tulio are eventually captured by the loggers. Meanwhile, Blu does his best to fit in with the flock, as his family are doing, but his continued reliance on human tools prevent him from connecting with anyone. Meanwhile, in another attempt to get closer to Blu, Nigel wins a talent show to become a performer for a Carnival show that Rafael, Pedro, Nico and Blu's daughter Carla are hosting. When Blu tries to pick a Brazilian nut for Jewel, he accidentally tries to get it in the territory of the Spix macaw's enemies, the scarlet macaws, led by the hostile Felipe. Blu inadvertently causes war between the two tribes for food when he accidentally swats Felipe with a branch. The war turns out to be a football (soccer) match, but Blu accidentally costs the flock their territory when he scores his team's own goal.
Blu ultimately decides that he will leave Linda and his human roots behind him for the sake of his family, but when he witnesses the loggers’ destruction of the forest, he returns to the flock and rallies them, finally gaining Eduardo's trust. With Blu's knowledge of human technology and help from the scarlet macaws, the flock disable the loggers' machinery. During the fight, Eduardo flies into a tractor and gets knocked onto the ground. As the tractor attempts to kill him, Linda tackles the machine in another tractor and wins. As Eduardo is on the ground between the tractors, Tulio picks him up and lets him fly away. Big Boss tries blowing up the trees with dynamite instead, but Blu thwarts him. Big Boss tries to stop Blu, but Nigel intervenes, wanting Blu to himself, leaving Big Boss to encounter an anaconda. Nigel then attacks Blu in a final attempt to get revenge, but Gabi, while trying to help, accidentally knocks Nigel out with a porcupine's quill filled with her poison. However, Bia reveals that Gabi isn't a poison dart frog at all, but a species of tree frog, and an overjoyed Gabi lovingly smothers a dismayed Nigel and drags him away, while Charlie leaves. The anaconda is shown with a bloated belly, wearing Big Boss’s hat and spitting out his signature lollipop.
With the flock now under Linda and Tulio's protection, Blu and Jewel decide to live in the Amazon with their kids, though still agreeing to visit Rio in the summer. Eduardo drops his anti-human stance by wearing a fanny pack of his own, and accepts Blu into the flock. Nigel and Gabi are sent to Rio for study, Nico and Pedro's Carnival show called Amazon Untamed goes on, and Luiz the bulldog arrives at the Amazon for a visit.
Cast[]
- Jesse Eisenberg as Blu
- Anne Hathaway as Jewel
- Pierce Gagnon as Tiago
- Rachel Crow as Carla
- Amandla Stenberg as Bia
- Andy García as Eduardo
- Rodrigo Santoro as Tulio
- Leslie Mann as Linda
- Jake T. Austin as Fernando
- Miguel Ferrer as Big Boss
- will.i.am as Pedro
- Jamie Foxx as Nico
- George Lopez as Rafael
- Tracy Morgan as Luiz
- Bruno Mars as Roberto
- Rita Moreno as Aunt Mimi
- Jemaine Clement as Nigel
- Kristin Chenoweth as Gabi
- Janelle Monáe as herself (known as Dr Monae)
- Natalie Morales as the News Anchor
- Bebel Gilberto as Eva
- Philip Lawrence as Felipe
- Randy Thom as the Logging Foreman
- Peter Pamela Rose as the Unnamed Mother
- Sergio Mendes as the Street Vendor
- Kevin W. Keane as the Unnamed Obnoxious Kid
- Pablo Ramirez as Tapir Game Announcer
- Marco Antonio Regil as Porcupine Game Announcer
- Kate Micucci as Tiny
- Jeffrey Garcia as Spoonbill and Peri
- Jason Harris Katz as the Unnamed Old Bird
- Carlinhos Brown as Audition Bird
- Amy Heidermann as Rapping Sloth
- Nola Donkin as Opera Bird
- Gracinha Leporace as Swinging Audition Monkey
- Jim Conroy as Capoeira Turtle
- Claira Titman as herself (known for credited as Claira)
- Carlos Saldanha as Amazon Quail
- Miriam Wallen as Coin Toss Bird
- Cindy Slattery as Plucked Porcupine
- Manoela Scarpa Saldanha as Lady Macaw
- Julia, Rafael, and Sofia Scarpa Saldanha as the 3 Kid Macaw
- Bernando de Paula as Blue Sentry and Carnival Barker
- Additional Voices by Alberto Costa, Annie Tippe, Anselmo Martini, Brian McFadden, Byron Thames, Claudine Barros, David Cowgill,Dennis Carnegie, Edie Mirman, Harry Hitner, Heber Moreira, Henry Martin Leyva, Holly Dorff, Hope Levy, Jackeline Olivier, Jeffrey Garcia Jeremy Bowker, Kleber Jorge Pimanta, Leo Nobre, Mario Costa Mauro Blanco, Mina Olivera, Phil Miler, Renata F. Martins-Becker, Rif Hutton, Ron McClary, Shanti Correa, and Vanessa Lemonides.
Trivia[]
- It is taken to Rio to be observed.
- Jemaine Clement, the voice of Nigel, is also the voice of Tamatoa from Moana.
Humans[]
- Leslie Mann as Linda Gunderson
- Rodrigo Santoro as Tulio Montero
- Jake T. Austin as Fernando
- Unknown as Big Boss,