Rio The Movie

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  • Opened April 15, 2011 
  • 1 hr 36 min
  • G
  • Parents: Common Sense Media says OK for kids 6+. More on child suitability

  • Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel (Anne Hathaway), a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kidnap the Blu and Jewel, but the birds soon escape and begin a perilous adventure back to freedom -- and Linda. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, will.i.am, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez, Tracy Morgan
  • Director: Carlos Saldanha
  • Genres: Action/Adventure, Animated, Comedy

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Good for the Family!!!

by pictouch

The movie was very good for a family movie! The voice acting was very good, and fit all of the characters perfectly. Some scenes were pretty funny, but are sometimes not suitable for children. The...

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Very nice

by tdavis2607

Cute family movie with a great moral, go see it!...

So-so
Little Kid Movie

by G_Man_13

I took my little 11 year old sister and 8 year old brother to go see it. I would recommend it for kids 10 and under. It was a good movie but it is geared toward that age group....

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Critic Reviews

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Amy Biancolli

The humor's a little strange, and the action's a little frenetic, but all of it whooshes past in a swirl of tropical color and pseudo-South American bonhomie. Gorgeous scenery meets oddball characters and mild ethnic stereotyping. Read full review

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Boston Globe
| Wesley Morris

Makes the surprising and seemingly inarguable assertion that, if we're not all Brazilian, then, at the very least, Brazil is a state of mind. Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Carrie Rickey

Give Saldanha's film an A-plus for visuals and a B-minus for story. Read full review

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Wall Street Journal
| Joe Morgenstern

The production eventually succumbs to motion overload-so many characters darting off in so many directions that the ending turns unfocused, even flat. But watching them go by is great fun, and there are worse things than a movie that can't stop moving. Read full review

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Rafael, Blu and Jewel in ``Rio.''