However, they are eventually taken to a flock of blue macaws that are hiding in an uncharted section of the Amazon. 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. 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. Blu brings a fanny pack full of supplies, including a GPS, much to Jewel's chagrin.īig 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. While the kids are ecstatic, Blu is uncertain, but he is pressured into going along. Jewel believes that they should go to the Amazon to help find the blue macaws. 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.

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. This was also the final Rio film to be produced by Blue Sky Studios before its closure on April 10, 2021, and a sequel is currently in development. The film is dedicated to the memory of screenwriter Don Rhymer, who died on November 28, 2012.

It grossed $498 million worldwide, against a production budget of $103 million, and received mixed reviews from critics, garnering praise for the animation, voice acting and songs, but criticism for the story and writing. Rio 2 was released internationally on March 20, 2014, and on April 11, 2014, in American theaters by 20th Century Fox. Austin reprising their roles from the first film with new members including Bruno Mars, Andy Garcia, Rita Moreno, Rachel Crow, Kristin Chenoweth, Amandla Stenberg, Pierce Gagnon, and Miguel Ferrer (in his final theatrical film before his death in 2017). The film stars Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, will.i.am, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez, Tracy Morgan, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro, and Jake T. The title refers to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, where the first film was set and Rio 2 begins, though most of its plot occurs in the Amazon rainforest. It is the sequel to the 2011 computer-animated film Rio and the second installment of the Rio franchise. Rio 2 is a 2014 American 3D computer-animated musical comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and directed by Carlos Saldanha.

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