Ornithologist Túlio Monteiro invites Blu and Linda to Rio de Janeiro for Blu, the last known male of his species, to mate with the last known female. Fifteen years later, Blu is highly domesticated and unable to fly, and is frequently ridiculed by the Canada geese that come by Linda's bookstore. In Moose Lake, Minnesota, a crate containing a male Spix's macaw hatchling that was smuggled out of Brazil falls from a truck and is found by a child named Linda Gunderson, who names him Blu. A sequel, Rio 2, was released on April 11, 2014. The film was nominated for Best Original Song for the song 'Real in Rio' at the 84th Academy Awards, but lost to the other nominee, ' Man or Muppet' from The Muppets.

The film was also a box office success, grossing over $143 million in the United States and $484 million worldwide. The film received generally positive reviews from film critics, who praised the visuals, voice acting and music. Rio premiered on March 22, 2011, in Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro, followed by its general release on April 15, 2011, by 20th Century Fox. During production, the crew visited Rio de Janeiro and also consulted with an expert on macaws at the Bronx Zoo to study their movements. The main voice actors were approached in 2009.

He proposed his idea to Chris Wedge in 2006, and the project was set up at Blue Sky. Saldanha learned of the production of the films Happy Feet (2006) and Surf's Up (2007), and changed the concept to involve macaws and their environments in Rio. Saldanha developed his first story concept of Rio in 2005, in which a penguin is washed up in Rio.

The two eventually fall in love, and together they have to escape from being smuggled by Nigel (Clement), a cockatoo. It tells the story of Blu (Eisenberg), a domesticated male Spix's macaw who is taken to Rio de Janeiro to mate with a free-spirited female Spix's macaw, Jewel (Hathaway). The film features the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro, Jemaine Clement, George Lopez, Tracy Morgan, will.i.am, and Jamie Foxx. The title refers to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, where the film is set. Rio is a 2011 American computer-animated musical adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox Animation, and directed by Carlos Saldanha.

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