Review of Rio 2

Rio 2 (2014)
7/10
An entertaining sequel, full of laughs indeed
15 April 2014
Warning: Spoilers
So the story picks up after the first movie, Blu and Jewel has already have three kids, yay!.... LOL. And after learning that there is still more of their kind, the family then goes to the Amazon jungle. Somewhere along the way Nigel, the evil cockatoo from the first movie caught sight of them and followed them, trying to get revenge. Blu and his crew finally reach Amazon, almost meeting Linda and Tulio, but they are taken away by the rest of the Blue Macaw hidden flock tribe. There Jewel meet her father.

Nigel also reaches the location and decides to enter as an audition participant. Meanwhile, Tulio and Linda are then chased by illegal loggers. Accidentally while trying to impress Jewel, Blu ignites a "war", of bird soccer, between the Blue and Red Macaw tribe to control the grove they are in. Blu worsen things when he accidentally make an own goal, making the Blue Macaws lose the "war". But soon after, the loggers bulldoze the forest. But Blu convinced the rest of the tribe to fight back, and the rest of the jungle joins the fight against the loggers. Nigel, who have devised a plan to shoot a poisoned dart to Blu, ends up getting shot with that very dart. The jungle triumphs against the illegal loggers and turns out that the frog from whom the slime was taken to coat the dart is not poisonous.

The movie is greatly entertaining, especially released after the dose of action and heroes. The jokes are stupidly super funny. As when the red bird tries to warn Tulio and Linda of the waterfall, and the bird is like "ah whatever". And also the "Find Linda and Tulio" that transforms into "Searching for Dinner in Tokyo"

The first appearance of Bruno Mars character is also stupidly funny, especially with Bruno's nice voice. The Amazon audition part is truly hilarious. In my opinion this part has the longest laughable funny sequence on a movie so far this year.

As the movie is set in Brazil, the five time world soccer champion, it will be incomplete if the movie doesn't incorporate soccer in it. Rio 2 even incorporate almost everything the world knows about Brazil; the nature aspects of piranhas, anacondas, hand-sized tarantulas, colorful birds, and to the fact that there are irresponsible illegal loggers there.

It is a movie aimed as a family entertainment. So, as expected, nobody is depicted to die in it, even the evil Nigel. but the scene of the fat anaconda near the ending is indeed quite creepy, especially for those who can grasp that far.

There is more musical part here than the first installment, and they have more solo parts too. For me it's good on one side, but, if has a little more musical part, the movie will be boring. Particularly because it seems like the movie is designed to be focused more on the animation side rather than the musical side.

From me, a 7 out of 10 score is deserving for this movie, and of course a recommendation to see it.
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