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Directed by | Carlos Saldanha |
Produced by | Bruce Anderson John C. Donkin |
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Story by | Carlos Saldanha |
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Music by | John Powell |
Cinematography | Renato Falcão |
Edited by | Harry Hitner |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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101 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English Portuguese |
Budget | $103 million |
Box office | $500.1 million |
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Soundtrack album by Various Artists | ||||
Released | March 25, 2014 | |||
Genre | Pop, Latin, alternative hip hop | |||
Length | 39:07 | |||
Label | Atlantic | |||
Producer | Sérgio Mendes, John Powell | |||
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Singles from Rio 2: Music from the Motion Picture | ||||
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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.
Blue macaws Blu and Jewel and their three children—Bia, Carla, and Tiago—are living happily in the city until Jewel realizes that her children are becoming more like humans. Meanwhile, Blu's former owner, Linda Gunderson and her ornithologist husband, Tulio are on an expedition in the Amazon and, after a fall down a waterfall, 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 find the blue macaws. While the kids are ecstatic, Blu is uncertain, but he 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.