RIO
ended with a triumphant musical number at the titular Brazlian city’s annual
Carnival. RIO
2 commences with a similarly bombastic New Year’s Eve celebration, during which
director Carlos Saldanha (ICE AGE: THE
MELTDOWN) reintroduces us to the first film’s amusing animal ensemble.
Former pet bird Blu (Jesse
Eisenberg) has been successfully reintroduced into the wild and has learned to
fly. He and soul-made Jewel (Anne
Hathaway) now live atop a sunny sanctuary with their three kids, who between
them display all the quirks of your typical teenager: chubby Carla (Rachel Chow) is
musically-inclined daughter with an attitude; brainy Bia (Amandla Stenberg) is
a petite Jewel clone; and free-spirited son Tiago (Pierce Gagnon) is a goofy
miniature version of his dad.
