Thursday 6 November 2014

Rio 2 (2014) 6/10

Starring : Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Leslie Mann, Bruno Mars, Jemaine Clement, George Lopez
Director : Carlos Saldanha
Running Time : 102 mins

Blu (Eisenberg) and Jewel (Hathaway), two Spix’s macaws that live in Rio with their three children, hear on the news that their previous owner Linda Gunderson (Mann) and her husband are in the Amazon seeking out another rare macaw so eventually decide to travel to the Amazon to help them out. But they soon find themselves in danger from a group of Scarlet macaws as well as some loggers who plan on demolishing their habitat.

This sequel to the wonderful 2011 original suffers from the fact that what made the original so fun has been totally ignored and the characters have moved on far too much. Blu and Jewel have a family which spoils the mystery of their romance in the first movie and their endeavours in the Amazon feel forced and at time pointless. Even the most diehard fan of the original will find it hard to find anything extremely likeable about this poor effort that has one of the most predictable plots in recent cinematic history.

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