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, Jeffrey 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 characterisation 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

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