Rio 2 2014

It's on in the Amazon.

6.512 / 10   3350 vote(s)
G
Animation Adventure Comedy Family

It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary of all: his father-in-law.

Release Date 2014-03-19
Runtime 1h 41m
Directors Carlos Saldanha, Renato Falcão, James Gu, Daniel Sampaio Lima, Marin Petrov, Christopher M.K. Hill
Producers John C. Donkin, Bruce Anderson, Chris Wedge, Sérgio Mendes, Katie Hasleham, Ashini Shah
Writers Carlos Kotkin, Yoni Brenner, Don Rhymer, Carlos Saldanha, Jenny Bicks, Laurie Craig, Laurie Craig

Naught terrible about it, but 'Rio 2' is a boring - if colourful and well meant - follow-up to the 2011 original.

The whole plot is basically just a typical family drama fest, filled to the brim with the clichés of relative and love quarrels. It's also entirely predictable, which doesn't help. A few of the characters from the first film are shoehorned in too, especially Nigel (Jemaine Clement).

Jesse Eisenberg (Blu) and Anne Hathaway (Jewel) reprise their roles, Eisenberg is the better of the two. Bruno Mars joins the cast, I actually liked his voice for Roberto but unfortunately his character is forgettable.

I'd guess the younger viewers will like this, as well as a number of others. For me, it's just very average.

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