Rio 2

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this movie. It's simple, bright, colourful fun.

Naught terrible about it, but 'Rio 2' is a boring - if colourful and well meant - follow-up to the 2011 original.The whole plot is basically just a typical family drama fest, filled to the brim with the clichés of relative and love quarrels.

It had been 9 years since I had seen the original film, made by the creators of Ice Age and Robots, but I do remember enjoying it, despite the long gap of time, I was up for seeing the sequel, directed by Carlos Saldanha (Ferdinand). Basically, Spix's Macaw Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) and Jewel (Anne Hathaway) and their three children, Bia (Amandla Stenberg), Carla (Rachel Crow), and Tiago (Pierce Gagnon), are living happily in Rio de Janeiro.

I'm just going to cut to the chase: It's "Lorax" with birds. The pro-environmentalist, liberal message isn't even subtle.

In the sequel, Jade and Blu decide that their puppies need to learn to live freely, and everyone embarks on a trip to the Amazon. Characters like the bulldog Luiz, the toucans Rafael, the parakeets Pedro and Nico and the cockatoo Nigel are also back.

JFC I watched Rio 2 yesterday and I'm so mesmerized. The first one was like...

While it wasn't the best movie or even the best animation I have seen this year, this movie is definitely entertaining.The movie begins with Blu, Jewel and their three kids having fun in their home in Rio, while Blu's former owner, Linda, and her husband, Tulio, are in the amazon.