Rio 2

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Rio 2 is a 2014 American 3D computer-animated musical adventure-comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and directed by Carlos Saldanha. It is the sequel to the 2011 computer-animated film Rio and the studio's first film to have a sequel outside of their existing Ice Age franchise. 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.

Featuring the returning voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, will.i.am, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez, Tracy Morgan, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro, and Jake T. Austin, the film was released internationally on March 20, 2014,and on April 11, 2014, in American theaters. Rio 2 was Don Rhymer's final film after he died on November 28, 2012. The film received mixed reviews, but was very successful, earned over $480 million at the box office as of July 5, 2014.

Plot

Blu and Jewel enjoy life in Rio with their three kids, the oldest and music-loving Carla, book smart Bia, and the youngest and mischievous Tiago. Meanwhile, Blu's former owner, Linda Gunderson and her ornithologist husband, Tulio are on an expedition in the Amazon and eventually discover a quick-flying spix's macaw that loses one of its feathers. When word gets out about this through television, Jewel believes that they should go to the Amazon to help their human friends find them. While the kids are ecstatic, Blu is uncertain, but is pressured into going along. Rafael, Nico and Pedro decide to come along. Luiz attempts to follow, but fails. Blu brings a fanny pack full of supplies, one of which he uses mostly is a GPS, much to Jewel's displeasure.

Meanwhile, the leader of a group that is in a line of illegal logging named Big Boss, discovers Linda and Tulio's expedition to find the macaws and orders his minions to hunt them down to avoid disruptions to their work. Also, Blu and Jewel's old enemy, Nigel the cockatoo has survived the plane crash from the first film, but is now unable to fly and is working as a fortune teller/con artist. When he sees Blu and his family flying overhead of him, he wastes no time deciding to go after them in revenge. He enlists two minions to help him in his plans; a silent anteater named Charlie and a poison dart frog named Gabi, the latter of which is in love with Nigel. Blu and his family use a boat to get toward the jungle (with Nigel's first plan of revenge being inadvertently foiled by Charlie), and when they arrive, they find nothing in sight. However, they are eventually taken to a flock of blue macaws that are hiding in a secret paradise land. There, they meet Jewel's stern long lost father, Eduardo, his older sister Mimi, and Jewel's childhood friend, Roberto. Eduardo seems unimpressed with Blu's domesticated behavior.

While searching for the macaws, Linda and Tulio are eventually trapped by the loggers. Meanwhile, Blu does his best to fit in with the flock, as his family and friends are doing, who are against humans and all things human. Blu fails at Eduardo's survival techniques when the former takes Blu out to train him to be like one of the flock. Meanwhile, Nigel plans to kill Blu at the new Carnival show after landing in an audition hosted by Rafael, Nico, Pedro, and Carla, while in disguise as a bird named Bob. When Blu tries to pick a Brazilian nut for Jewel, he accidentally crosses into 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 hits Felipe with a twig. The war turns out to be just like football (soccer), and Blu accidentally costs the flock the food when he sends the fruit ball into his own team's goal, much to Eduardo's frustration. Blu and Jewel then have a falling out afterwards over whether they stay in the Amazon or go back to Rio.

Blu visits Tulio and Linda's site to say goodbye, deciding to stay in the Amazon for his family, where he discovers a broken CB Radio. Blu is discovered by Roberto (who followed Blu), who accuses him of being a traitor. Despite this, Blu saves Roberto from being run over by a tractor, and sends him to warn the flock as he saves Linda and Tulio. Blu reconciles with Jewel and persuades the macaws to defend their homes, and they easily outmatch the loggers with help from the Scarlet macaws and the other animals. Big Boss tries to blow up the trees as a back-up plan, but Blu steals the lit dynamite. Nigel goes after Blu, and reveals himself as they are falling down when he tugs on the dynamite. After the dynamite goes off, Nigel tries attacking Blu while they hang upside down from vines. Gabi tries to help Nigel by shooting Blu with a dart that has her poison on it, but it accidentally hits Nigel, who gives a Shakespearean death speech before seemingly dying. Gabi tries to commit suicide by drinking her own poison and the pair are seemingly dead. However, it is revealed by Bia that Gabi isn't poisonous at all (she was lied to by her parents that she was). Nigel tries to attack Blu one last time, but Gabi showers Nigel with affection against his will. Big Boss tries to escape, but is swallowed by a boa constrictor.

With the flock now under Linda and Tulio's protection, Blu and Jewel decide to live in the Amazon with their kids and friends, though still agreeing to visit Rio in the summer. Meanwhile, Nigel and Gabi are taken back to Rio by Tulio, Luiz finally arrives in the Amazon after hitching a ride with Kipo, and Charlie joins the birds' party.

Cast

• Jesse Eisenberg as Blu, a male Spix's macaw from Moose Lake and Jewel's husband
• Anne Hathaway as Jewel, a female Spix's macaw from Rio de Janeiro and Blu's wife
• Leslie Mann as Linda Gunderson, a girl who adopted Blu for 15 years. She is Tulio's wife
• Bruno Mars as Roberto, Jewel's suave childhood friend
• Jemaine Clement as Nigel, an evil sulphur-crested Cockatoo, who seeks revenge on Blu for crippling his ability to fly
• George Lopez as Rafael, a romantic Toco Toucan fond of the Rio Carnival, Eva's husband
• Jamie Foxx as Nico, Pedro's close friend. He is a Yellow Canary with a bottlecap hat
• will.i.am as Pedro, a rapping Red-crested Cardinal
• Rachel Crow as Carla, Blu and Jewel's music-loving, older daughter
• Amandla Stenberg as Bia, Blu and Jewel's intelligent, younger daughter
• Pierce Gagnon as Tiago, Blu and Jewel's youngest, free-spirited, and only son
• Rodrigo Santoro as Tulio Monteiro, a Brazilian ornithologist and Linda's husband
• Jake T. Austin as Fernando, Linda and Tulio's adopted son
• Tracy Morgan as Luiz, a bulldog and a chainsaw expert with a drooling condition
• Bebel Gilberto as Eva, a Keel-billed Toucan and Rafael's wife
• Andy García as Eduardo, Jewel's father
• Kristin Chenoweth as Gabi, a poison dart frog and Nigel's sidekick
• Rita Moreno as Mimi, Eduardo's older sister
• Natalie Morales as a news anchor
• Janelle Monáe as Dr. Monae, a veterinarian
• Philip Lawrence as Felipe, a male Scarlet Macaw and the hostile leader of a tribe who has a rivalry and territorial dispute with the Spix's macaws
• Miguel Ferrer as Big Boss, the head of the illegal logging activity
• Jeffrey Garcia as Kipo, a Roseate Spoonbill
• Kate Micucci as Tiny
• Randy Thom as Logging Foreman

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_2