Thursday, April 7, 2011

Rio Review










Rio


Release Date: 7th April 2011 - Australia


Production Companies

Blue Sky Studios

20th Century Fox Animation

Distribution

20th Century Fox Australia


Genre: Animation/Family

Rating:
G

Runtime:
96 minutes


Budget: $90,000,000

Box Office Gross: $483,866,772 (Worldwide)


Plot Summary

A domesticated, flightless Macaw named Blu from a small town in Minnesota in the USA gets taken to the exotic Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. There, he meets a fellow Macaw named Jewel, who is feisty but independent, and with the help of Rio's human owner and a clumsy scientist, they try to save the species from
extinction. Unfortunately,
a band of smugglers and a
bitter cockatoo, Nigel, capture
the two as they intend to
sell the rare birds for a
profit. Can Blu overcome
his obstacles with the help
of his new friends?


Voice Cast

Jesse Eisenberg - Blu
Anne Hathaway - Jewel
George Lopez - Rafael
Jemaine Clement - Nigel
Jake T. Austin - Fernando
Leslie Mann - Linda
Tracy Morgan - Luiz
Will.i.am - Pedro
Jamie Foxx - Nico
Rodrigo Santoro - Tulio
Carlos Ponce - Marcel
Jeffrey Garcia - Tipa
Davi Vieira - Armando
Brian Baumgartner - King
Mauro
Bebel Gilberto - Eva
Sergio Mendes - Samba School Director

Crew

Story/Director - Carlos Saldanha
Story - Earl Richey and Todd R. Jones
Screenplay - Don Rhymer,
Joshua Stermin, J.R. Ventimilia and Sam Harper
Executive Producer - Chris Wedge
Producers - Bruce Anderson
and John C. Donkin
Art Director - Thomas Cardone
Lead Set Designer - Arden Chan
Character Designers - Jason Sadler,
Sang Jun Lee and Sergio Pablos
Sculpting Supervisor - Mike Defeo
Head of Story - Karen Disher
Story Consultants - Alec Holland
and Mike Reiss
Production Manager - David Esnault
Supervising Animator - Galen T. Chu
Animation Leads - Jackie Fortin, Jeff Gabor,
Amila & Patrick Puhala, Derek Rozmes,
David R. Sloss and Melvin Tan
Senior Animators - James Bresnahan,
Nick Bruno, Pete Paquette and Mika Ripatti
Animation Technical Lead - Matthew D. Simmons
CG Supervisor - Robert V. Cavaleri
Fur and Feathers Supervisor - Eric Maurer
Cinematographer - Renato Falcao
Head of Camera and Staging - Robert Cardone
Camera Concept Sketch Artist - William H. Frake III
Head of Lightning - Andrew Beddini
Lightning Supervisor - James Gettinger
Lyrics/Performer: Songs - Sergio Mendes
Editor - Harry Hitner
Co-Editor - Randy Trager
Associate Editor - Christopher Campbell
Additional Editor - Tim Nordquist
Supervising Sound Designer/Editor
(Uncredited)/Re-Recording Mixer -
Randy Thom
Supervising Sound Editor - Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
Sound Effects Editors - Josh Gold,
Pete Horner, Teresa Eckton and
Malcolm Fife
Dialogue Editor - Cheryl Nardi
Re-Recording Mixers - Lora Hirschberg
and Gary A. Rizzo
Additional Re-Recording Mixers -
Gary Summers and Juan Peralta
Foley Artists - Jana Vance
and Dennie Thorpe
Foley Mixer - Frank Rinella
Executive Music Producer - Chris Mendes
Music - John Powell
Additional Arranging, MIDI Orchestration
and Programming - Paul Mounsey,
Michael Mollo, Beth Caucci, Victor Chaga
and Dominic Lewis
Recordist and Mixer - Shawn Murphy


Review

A remarkable but amusing and colourful movie set in Rio de Janeiro released in 2D and 3D, RIO is an animated musical with an exotic flavour created by Blue Sky (not Disney, as you would expect). The film is much better than any Ice Age movie and has a better-executed premise. Despite its fantastic comical and visual elements, the story may be predictable. Notes of praise include the terrific aerial views, splendid characterization and the voice acting by Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez and Jemaine Clement.

RIO is a great family picture with an incredible rhythmic undertone, and I recommend this film to anyone of all ages.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

1 comment:

  1. IT sounds like a good movie according to you i think i might go see soon

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