{"id":5463,"date":"2011-04-21T12:03:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T18:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/?p=5463"},"modified":"2011-04-21T12:03:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T18:03:56","slug":"movie-review-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=5463","title":{"rendered":"Movie review: Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5464\" title=\"Rio-review page 11\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flovalleynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Rio-review-page-11-470x291.jpg?resize=470%2C291\" alt=\"Rio-review page 11\" width=\"470\" height=\"291\" \/><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Blu and his pals in the animated film <\/strong><em><strong>Rio<\/strong><\/em><strong> now playing in time the holiday weekend.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Maggie Scott<\/strong><br \/>\nAs it is put in the latest animated comedy\/romance, <em>Rio, <\/em>\u201cstop yapping, start flapping\u201d your way to the nearest theatre and check out this tropical treat from director Carlos Saldanha and the CGI whizzes who brought you the clever <em>Ice Age<\/em> films.<br \/>\nRio\u2019s colorful carnival and Brazil\u2019s lush avian species are truly inspirational to the artists of 20th Century Fox Animation, who sweeten your viewing deal with a scintillating bon bon before the main event.<br \/>\nThat most uproariously unlucky of rodents, Scrat, causes ancient land masses to split into continents in his latest pursuit of the elusive acorn.\u00a0 Moving from his icy realm, the screen opens onto a kaleidoscope of rainbow-hued feathered life swooping through the morning light-tinged trees of the forest outside Rio.<br \/>\nThis is the home of Blu (voice of Jesse Eisenberg), a baby blue Macaw, soon to be poached and parted from his own kind before he can even learn to fly.\u00a0 His crate rudely deposited in the snow of Moose Lake, Minnesota, by a sliding Exotic Pets delivery truck, the quivering Blu is rescued by Linda (voice of Leslie Mann). She&#8217;s \u00a0a bright pre-teen, who spends the next 12 years lavishing BFF love on the flightless bird, who makes a dazzling mascot for Linda\u2019s Blue Macaw Bookstore.<br \/>\nOne day, Tulio (voice of Rodrigo Santoro), an ornithologist, comes to call; informing Linda that Blu is the last male Macaw of his kind.\u00a0 To ensure the survival of the breed, Blu must breed&#8212;with Jewel, the last female.\u00a0 The first date is a bit of a bust, with Jewel (voice of Anne Hathaway) intent on busting out of her confinement in the Rio research lab\u2019s simulated environment.<br \/>\nFrom his awkward attitude and impotent wings, to his affection for humans that Jewel has learned to mistrust, there\u2019s not much about this earthbound bird to stimulate her nesting instinct.\u00a0 All it will take are smugglers, a teen orphan from the slums, a slobbering bulldog, a matchmaking toucan, two hip urban birds of indeterminate species and the magic of the city to make it happen.\u00a0 While there are plenty of virtuoso visual gags to hold adults\u2019 interest, all the standard character and plot elements of this genre (the bumbling sidekick villains, the evil animal accomplices) are in place to ensure a merely modest quotient of dramatic merit.<br \/>\nEnvironmental and social messages are dialed down so low as to be barely detectable\u2014presumably to keep the story at a level tolerable and comprehensible to the average four-year-old.\u00a0 The voice-over and vocal talents of Hathaway and Eisenberg and such celebrities as George Lopez, Tracy Morgan, Jamie Foxx, Jane Lynch and will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas vary in quality; making Ms. Mann\u2019s consistently superior performance the most appealing.\u00a0 Rated G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blu and his pals in the animated film Rio now playing in time the holiday weekend. 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