A pleasant experience

Rating: 6/10 (25 April 2011)

Rio is a pleasant kids matinée film. There is nothing here particularly new or surprising, but the kids will love it. The high point for me for this movie was the nice animation of the colorful birds flying to Latin music.
Blue is a blue macabre(who does not know how to fly) the last male of his type who is captured to be sent to some place in the USA. He falls off the truck and is found by Linda who adopts Blue as a pet. 15 years latter Doctor Borbosa comes from Brazil who has found a female blue macabre and wants to breed the pair to help keep the species alive. So off to Rio during Carnival to get the pair of birds to hook up. The problem at first Jewel the female bird is very fightsy and wants nothing to do with Blue. Well that night a smuggler of exotic birds steals the pair and binds their feet together. Later that night the pair escapes. The rest of the movie is about the 2 birds trying to get unbound, Linda trying to get Blue back and the smuggler trying to get the birds back. The rest is rather predictable.
The movie is a nice kids flick but nothing more. The story is neither interesting or new, the characters we have all seen before. The kids will love it but the adults will probably be looking at there watches waiting for it to end.
Grade C+