When Blu, a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, meets the fiercely independent Jewel, he takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with the bird of his dreams.
Co-writer/Director: Carlos Saldanha
Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez.
Rosero McCoy ... choreographer
19 songs in the Soundtracks.
Sweet and cute, gorgeous colors and motion; terrific musical numbers, especially the opener with the overhead shot of multi-colored parrots in kaleidoscope formations. The story does drag a bit, and the humans and the villains are rather pedestrian. Glad I bought the disc, because this deserves repeated viewing.
Special features are all music-related (except the deleted scene), including a jukebox to play 5 musical numbers, and a music video edited from the opener, but they're better in context.
Rated 6.9 (188,889)
Fox Animation & more, dir. Saldanha; 7
