RIO, G ( 1 hr & 36 min )

where:  MOVIE2K.TO via Stream2K
when:  Friday, April 15th, 2011
show:  9:50 a.m.
costs:  $0.00 stream
auditorium:  My living room
seat:  My swivel chair

2nd time:

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Friday, April 15th, 2011
show:  3:15 p.m.
costs:  $11.00 Ticket + $4.50 Pretzel Bites + $4.00 small Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's & Cherry flavors ) Coke = $19.50
auditorium:  8, with the 3-D screen
seat:  6th row, 9th column
 
synopsis/overview:   Blu, a  blue macaw,  is captured as a hatchling by some smugglers.  By chance, he is found and rescued by a little girl named Linda.  They  grow to  become best of friends.  When Linda learns that Blu's species is a very endangered one, she agrees to take Blu to a conservation center in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil,  to have him mate with another blue macaw named Jewel.  Smugglers capture the pair.  But the birds escape and begin their dangerous journey back to freedom.


noteworthy scenes:  1.) Avian paradise; 2.) Smugglers; 3.) Rescue; 4.) Best friends; 5.) Mimics; 6.) Blue Macaw Bookstore; 7.) Tulio, the ornithologist; 8.) "I didn't get that at all"; 9.) "Perhaps, he's too domesticated"; 10.) Flight books; 11.) "She's my dentist"; 12.) The failed attempt at mating; 13.) The infiltrator; 14.) "I wouldn't expect a pet to understand"; 15.) Dinner date; 16.) The cop and the witness; 17.) The bad guys' hideout; 18.) Fernando, the street orphan; 19.) "Scissors cuts rock"; 20.) Nigel's song &  dance; 21.) "Just open the door"; 22.) "See, I'm bilingual, too"; 23.) Black-out; 24.) "Leaf!  'Told you"; 25.) "Who's dragging whose butt now"; 26.) "I know where your birds are"; 27.) "I'm putting him in charge"; 28.) "Nice try, Brainiac"; 29.) The Toucan family; 30.) Pickpockets; 31.) "You think too much"; 32.) Hang gliding; 33.) "You did not feel it in here"; 34.) "I traded it for your Jeep"; 35.) Spies; 36.) "I like you.   Nothing you say makes sense"; 37.) Fight; 38.) "Cheese &  Sprinkles"; 39.) "It's just like riding a snowmobile"; 40.) "Never send a monkey to do a bird's job"; 41.) Set the mood"; 42.) "I have beautiful eyes"; 43.) Luis's garage; 44.)"Medical condition"; 45.) "It's finally over"; 46.) "I know just how you feel"; 47.) "You're like Romeo &  Juliet"; 48.) "Everybody loves the parade"; 49.) The float; 50.) "I look ridiculous, don't I"; 51.) The parade; 52.) "You've gotta shake your tushy"; 53.) Captured; 54.) Airport runway; 55.) Freedom; 56.) "'Not cool, man"; 57.) "I'm not gonna let you go";  58.) "That's my big, brave boy"; and 59.) Bonus Scene and Photos during the Ending Credits.

favorite scenes:  I liked the avian paradise scene.

I liked the "sunburned-faces-after-they-handed-out-flyers" ( i.e. leaflets ) scene.

I liked the Carnival Parade scene.
 
audience reaction:  N/A.  I watched this all by my lonesome ....

2nd audience reaction:  The audience liked this.

recommendation:  I liked it.  Go see this with your little brats.

spoiler alert!  Why couldn't Blu say human words to Linda?  Chocolate is toxic to macaws.  What's a mating ritual for one bird species is not a mating ritual for  another bird species.  In other words, no other kind of bird can teach Blu  about his own species' specific mating ritual that he never got to learn in the first place.  Or, to put it in another way, since there is no mating ritual to turn-on Jewel, Blu's  species is doomed!  Or they could just try artificial insemination since Tulio seems to have what it takes to give it a shot.  ( Yeah, I'd love to see that .... )  If  Blu and Jewel are the only ones  left of their kind, wouldn't their future descendants  eventually become in-bred?  Blu was hit in the noggin with a coconut and he lived through it.  Why do all the fat guys in this movie look the same?  Those monkeys could have easily ganged-up on Nigel, the Cockatoo.  That in-the-air collision was not sufficient enough to knock-out the plane's engine.  Why do the native birds of  Rio De Janeiro--and just about every native one, for that matter--speak English without a Brazilian accent?

fyi:  I googled Moose Lake, Minnesota.  Downtown Moose Lake reminded  me of  Linda's hometown.  I  could just imagine Linda's bookstore somewhere up or down the main street in downtown Moose Lake.

I have a female co-worker, Racquel,  who's Brazilian.  And she speaks English with a Brazilian accent.  'Quite a lovely accent, too, I might add.

One time, about nine years ago, there was a power failure here at my condominium  complex.  A kid,  on his way out, ran down the  hallway as he alerted the residents by yelling a few times, "Black-out!"  I couldn't see anybody in the hallway because it was completely dark.  So, I looked out of my living room window.  And there on the lawn were my neighbors, just the black ones, though.  My white, brown and yellow neighbors were nowhere to be seen.  I thought that that was amusing.

Linda is  muy linda in a carnival costume!

I wanted to call the number on Tulio's business card but it's a long distance number, so I didn't.  For anyone who's curious about it, here's the 'phone number:  ( 55 ) 21  5342-11004, ext. 6345, Conservation Center of Rio De Janeiro.

And I didn't bother to write down the "coconut" pick-up truck's license plate number because I didn't want to go through all that added time and expense just to verify its authenticity.

word of advice:  Don't let greed cloud your judgment.

tidbits:  Fortune cookie makers better not be using my words of  advice without my permission!

I was gonna watch this late last night but I fell asleep.

2nd tidbits:  I had to see this in 3-D.  And I also had to see it again because the internet version doesn't show the Ending Credits.  Plus, I needed to gauge the audience reaction.

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