{"id":4593,"date":"2026-02-17T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=4593"},"modified":"2025-12-31T20:40:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:40:45","slug":"movie-rio-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/movie-rio-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Rio (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2011
Rating: G
Length: 96 minutes \/ 1.67 hours<\/p>\n

When Rio<\/em> (2011) came out, I felt it was pushed into so many aspects of popular culture that 20th<\/sup> Century Fox Animation was trying to make it a hit by sheer cross-branding. Heck, there was even an entire Angry Birds<\/em> game made for mobile phones that was filled with plot from the movie. Re-watching this film more than a decade later made me realize how generic this movie truly is. That it had so many trope similarities to Fox Animation\u2019s Epic<\/em><\/a> (2013) which came out a few years later, shows how formulaic these movies are.<\/p>\n

It seems every movie dealing with rare animals always has some kind of poacher as the villain. Finding Nemo<\/em><\/a> (2003) did this. Madagascar 3<\/em><\/a> (2012) did this. Migration<\/em><\/a> (2023) did this. Additionally, most movies set in \u201cforeign\u201d locales play up their cultural touchstones as a strong bit of advertising to the tourists who might watch the movie (or at least have their kids beg them to go there). Even though there aren\u2019t a ton of movies set in Rio de Janeiro, these tropes made the whole movie feel too similar to many others.<\/p>\n

The trick is that generic movies like this aren\u2019t necessarily terrible. Sure, there\u2019s the comedic relief duo, the fish-out-of-water main character, and the experienced other main character that guides them through their journey of self-discovery. But the other accoutrements give the movie its own personality. For Rio<\/em>, I felt the standout part of this film was how the Blue Macaws moved. Even though there were moments of exaggerated movement (it is a kids’ film, after all), the way Blue (Jesse Eisenberg) moves with his beak and feet felt extremely realistic to how most parrots move. Certainly worth a watch if you have a parrot for a pet.<\/p>\n

A generic kids’ movie with realistic parrot movements, I give Rio<\/em> 3.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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