Much like the first movie, "Rio 2" is colorful and vibrant and cracks a few good jokes here or there. It's a generally enjoyable film, albeit one that feels like several animated features audiences ...

Animated comedy. Starring the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez and Leslie Mann. Directed by Carlos Saldanha. (PG. 101 minutes.) The makers of "Rio" really backed themselves in ...

The optimum version of Rio 2 is sliced, diced, and buried under a stodgy Meet the Parents send-up. Sporadically, the animated sequel dazzles with splashy Brazilian wild life sambaing to the tunes of ...

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Rio 2 teems with colorful animated splendor and elaborate musical numbers, but its rambling, hectic, if good-hearted, story is for the birds (** out of four; rated G; opens Friday nationwide). Blu ...

“Rio 2” is a perfect example of franchise maintenance in place of storytelling, and the nicest thing I can say about it is that my kids found it to be an agreeable way to spend part of an afternoon. I ...

There are a couple ways to make a sequel. The “Hangover” school of thought, for example, dictates that all successors lazily follow the same formula, with only the minutest of variations. The “G.I.

Fans of the animated film Rio will be getting a double douse of their favorite characters starting in March as Papercutz introduces a new line of graphic novels that will be followed a month later by ...

A vivid and delightful animated spectacle, “Rio 2” is chock-full of colorful 3-D wonder and jubilant musical numbers set against a tale of family dynamics and environmental dilemmas. The sequel opens ...

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