Rio
Short description
Blu is a blue macaw who was taken from the jungle as a hatchling and raised in the small Minnesota town of Moose Lake by Linda, a woman who has kept him as a companion. Domesticated and never taught to fly, he lives a comfortable indoor life until he learns he may be the last male of his species. A female named Jewel is living in Rio de Janeiro, so Blu and Linda travel to Brazil to meet her. Smugglers seize the two birds, and their escape sets off a journey through the city and the surrounding jungle as they try to return to Linda.
Directed by Carlos Saldanha, the film followed his work on the second and third Ice Age instalments and came fourth in his directing chronology, before Rio 2 and Ferdinand. The screenplay is by Sam Harper, Don Rhymer and Jennifer Ventimilia, and the voice cast includes Jesse Eisenberg as Blu, Anne Hathaway as Jewel, Leslie Mann as Linda, Jane Lynch, Will.i.am and George López.
Made by Blue Sky Studios with 20th Century Fox, the film cost about 90 million dollars and took roughly 484 million dollars worldwide, a strong return on its budget. On IMDb it holds 6.9/10 from around 271,000 votes, while on TMDB it has 6.8/10 from more than 7,300 votes. A critics' rating of 6.4/10 from 150 reviews places it slightly below those audience scores, indicating solid but not exceptional reviews alongside broad popular approval.
What's left behind the scenes
- In the Russian version of the cartoon, instead of Jamie Foxx's English song "Fly Love", the Portuguese song "Ararinha" performed by Carlinhos Brown is used. This song is not included on the official cartoon soundtrack.
- In reality, blue-and-gold macaws do not have blue heads, but white ones. However, hyacinth macaws are completely blue.
- Blu and Nigel each lack one claw on their feet, while Jewel has two missing – real domesticated cockatoos and macaws have four claws, and wild ones even five, while the aforementioned cartoon characters have only three claws per foot.
- According to the plot, Nigel was a star in many television films until he was replaced by a green Amazon parrot, presented in the cartoon as a true angel, although in nature it is the opposite. Amazons are very aggressive and predatory towards other birds, while the gentle and tender cockatoo would be more suited to the role of an angel parrot.
- In the cartoon, birds – characters from the popular game "Angry Birds" – can occasionally be seen in the background. Interestingly, the game "Angry Birds Rio" is based on the plot of this cartoon.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
