#55: Rio 2

Music and a weaker show.

Rio 2 stars Anne Hathaway, Jermaine Clement, and Kirsten Chenowith, so it's already pretty cool.

It's less annoying on the "Characters have children in movie number 2" than in the Hotel Transylvania series (Seriously, the second movie was awful. Same with Despicable Me 2.)

And this is going to sound weird but props for ... body diversity in Blue Spix Macaws.

If you're going to laugh at me for this quote at least link to my blog.

 Also there's no hiding how many brown people are seen in this movie, even if it's not about them. This is Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, after all.

Though it would take nearly two years until an American mainstream animated production would star brown people.

The story - We have seen this before, loser does not fit in with wife's family and former flame, ecological warfare - but I didn't record and rewatch this for the story. The difference is it focuses on a genuinely endangered species that isn't a made up animal variant.

I rewatched this because the vocal soundtrack is fantastic.




Between "What Is Love", "Poisonous Love",  and my personal jam, "Beautiful Creatures" and everything else, this soundtrack is astonishingly good and amazingly ignored because it's not a Disney movie.

Let's give credit where it's due. It's not in the story, it's in the music. Listen to it.

There's also an odd sideplot about .... a talent show... with birds...but it gives us some cool music pieces.

The birds look so much better than the people - as they should be, as they're the focus, but it's astonishing how on model they look for animated birds?

The rest of it is wholly unamusing and unentertaining.