Rio: The Movie

         Rio: The Movie, is a 3D computer-animated musical comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and directed by Carlos Saldanha. Just like the title ‘Rio’ The film was set to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. The film features the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez, Jemaine Clement and Jake T. Austin. The film tells the story of Blu (Eisenberg), a male blue macaw who is taken to Rio de Janeiro to mate with a female. He eventually falls in love with Jewel (Hathaway), a free-spirited macaw, and together they have to escape from being smuggled by Nigel (Clement), a cockatoo.

        20th Century Fox released the film on March 22, 2011 in Brazil and April 15, 2011 in the United States. The film received generally positive reviews from film critics. Observers praised the visuals, voice acting and music. The film was also a box office success, grossing over $479 million worldwide.

         Rio has received generally positive reviews from film critics. As of June 2011, review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has scored a 72% rating, with an average rating of 6.4 out of 10, based on 133 reviews. The website's consensus is "This straightforward movie hits great heights thanks to its colorful visual palette, catchy music, and perfect vocal performances. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the movie a "mixed" C rating. Gleiberman praised the animation in Rio and its music, and later went on to say that the film is "less a Pixar-level pleasure than a busy, frantic, and overstuffed dessert of a movie." Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times gave a positive review of the film. Sharkey said that the storyline is an "eco-sensitive variation of 101 Dalmations with birds as prey," and praised the film for its comic action and the voices, as well as the visuals.

         Rio has made $143,323,281 in North America, as of August 7, 2011, along with $336,000,000 in other territories, which totals up to $479,323,281 worldwide, becoming the seventh-highest grossing film of 2011, behind Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Fast Five, Kung Fu Panda 2, and The Hangover Part II. It was the first film of 2011 to pass the $400-million mark.

North America

         Rio debuted with $39,225,962 during its opening weekend on approximately 6,400 screens at 3,826 theaters. It ranked number one at the box office surpassing the other new wide release, which ranked second, Scream 4. This was the highest-grossing opening weekend for a 2011 film at the time but now ranks 7th. It also scored the largest opening weekend in April for an animated feature, and the sixth largest in April overall. On its second weekend (Easter weekend) it retained first place at the box office, dropping only 33% to $26.3 million, therefore surpassing that weekend's releases, Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family ($25.1 million), Water for Elephants ($16.8 million) and African Cats ($6.0 million), which ranked second, third and sixth respectively.

         On its first weekend overseas, before its release in North America it topped the box office with $54.9 million from 11,714 screens in 72 countries. On its second weekend it earned $55.4 million, still on top of the overseas box office and on its third weekend it remained at the summit of the box office, grossing an estimated $44.3 million. It therefore marked the second movie that succeeded in topping the overseas box office three times in 2011, joining Tangled, although it is the only one that did it on three consecutive weekends.

         Since they have “Rio: the movie, the DVD” some peoples also use to view the movie more than once at their home.