A.C.’s Review: Animated
fare is truly a hit or miss. For every brilliant production like
TANGLED you get some dreadful offerings like MEGA MIND. Thankfully the sequel to 2011’s RIO falls somewhere between the two. Is it a master piece? No but it is entertaining.
Carrying forward the story of the Blue Macaw named BLU from the first movie-we now have Blu and his wife and three children happily living in Rio De Jannro until the sudden discovery of other members of their species deep within the Amazon Rain Forest including Jewel’s family.
Now
knowing they aren’t alone the family of birds and a couple of their
avian sidekicks from the first movie set out in search of the flock.
Every movie needs a villain so the evil Cockatoo
from the first movie is in pursuit of Blu out to exact revenge on Blu
for costing him the ability of flight in the climax of the original
movie. Every villain needs a good side kick and the Cockatoo I believe
named Basil is given a colorful little Dart Frog
named Gabi as his loyal henchman. I will say hands down that Gabi stole
the movie and I think kids will love her. There is the requisite human
baddie out to cut down the rain forest where the Macaw flock calls home
for sheer profit and his hate for “tree huggers”.
To
no surprise everything here isn’t anything that is new…there is the
conflict of Jewel’s family not liking Blu because he was once a human’s
pet and there is an old boyfriend of Jewel’s
on the scene that naturally Jewel’s father prefers over city bird Blu.
As said...though not new it’s the execution of the materials that is
done well that even adults can enjoy these movies.
The
only quibble I have is that Blu has a pair of human friends from the
first movie...a husband and wife team that run a bird sanctuary. The
husband of the two is written as such a dimwit
that he makes Gilligan look like a genius.
A.C.’s Rating: Worth full price (if there is a part 3 I would show up for it).
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