Rio 2 (2014), 7

G | 1h 41min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 11 April 2014
It's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets his father-in-law.
Director: Carlos Saldanha
Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Jemaine Clement, Andy Garcia.
(no choreography credit)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2357291/

24 songs in the Soundtracks.

I like the animation, the colors, the music, the rhythms. Unfortunately, this has a lot of plot, and only ~3 production numbers (opening, ch14, closing). The BD has a nice jukebox feature that plays 11 songs performed.

The Blu/Jewel family is not "hurtled" into the Amazon rainforest. They choose to go when our original human couple discover another blue macaw. Turns out to be a huge flock of them, including Jewel's father AG.

Their habitat is being denuded by illegal logging, so the birds and the 2 ornithologists fight them off.

I wish they made more of these films, especially with lots of big production numbers (lots of birds dancing). For now, I'll have to settle for going backward to the non-musial Ice Age films, also by this director.

Rated 6.3 (70,930)

Fox & more, dir. Saldanha; 7