Rio Page #4

Synopsis: In Rio de Janeiro, baby macaw, Blu, is captured by dealers and smuggled to the USA. While driving through Moose Lake, Minnesota, the truck that is transporting Blu accidentally drops Blu's box on the road. A girl, Linda, finds the bird and raises him with love. Fifteen years later, Blu is a domesticated and intelligent bird that does not fly and lives a comfortable life with bookshop owner Linda. Out of the blue, clumsy Brazilian ornithologist, Tulio, visits Linda and explains that Blu is the last male of his species, and he has a female called Jewel in Rio de Janeiro. He invites Linda to bring Blu to Rio so that he and Jewel can save their species. Linda travels with Blu and Tulio to Rio de Janeiro and they leave Blu and Jewel in a large cage in the institute where Tulio works. While they are having dinner, smugglers break into the institute and steal Blu and Jewel to sell them. Linda and Tulio look everywhere for Blu, who is chained to Jewel and hidden in a slum. Meanwhile, Jewel and
Director(s): Carlos Saldanha
Production: 20th Century Fox
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 29 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
72%
G
Year:
2011
96 min
$143,613,651
Website
12,170 Views


Yes!

Nuh-uh, scissors cuts rock.

Oh, man. How come you always win?

Nice birdie.

Here you go.

Cannibal.

Okay, pull it together.

The key is not to panic.

I'm not panicking.

I wasn't talking to you,

I was talking to me.

But it's okay, because any minute now,

Linda will find us.

Great. And then she'll stick us behind

another set of bars, right?

Yeah. I mean, no.

Look, pet, cages might work for you,

but I don't want to belong to anyone.

Something seems to be lodged in my beak.

Would you mind?

I know I'm not a pretty birdie...

but I used to be quite a looker.

A star.

Lights, camera, action.

I was striking,

suave, ambitious.

Feet to beak...

so birdie-licious

Now I'm vile, I am villainous,

and vicious

Oh, and malicious

I had it all

A TV show, women, too

I was tall

Over one-foot-two

Then they got a

pretty parakeet to fill my shoes

That's why I am so evil,

why I do what I do.

He was a super star

So young and vital

He's nasty

A South American Idol

He's a suspicious bird

Who said that about me?

- A very vicious bird

- I'll have you rotisseried

I'm a feathery freak

With a beak

A bird murderer

You think you're badder than me?

I never heard of ya

I'm evil,

I'll fill your cheese balls with weevils

I poop on people

and I blame it on seagulls

It was him.

- He's a nasty bird

- I'm invincible

- He's ghastly

- I'm un-mince-able

I'm unwashable, unrinseable

Like an abandoned school

I have no principle

All of you Brazilian birds

All 80 million birds

I'll tell you what I'm going to do

I'm going to make you

Shut up, now. Shut up!

It's just me.

I will make you ugly...

...too.

Hey!

Sweet nightmares.

Not cool, man!

Scary, but not cool!

Hey, are you okay?

No, I am definitely not okay!

Wait. What are you doing?

Getting out of here.

Are you going to help me or what?

Actually, all the survival guides say

to sit and wait, and help will come.

No one is coming!

We are on our own and if we just sit here,

we're going to die!

Yes! Yes!

Yes!

No!

Nigel! Get out of the way!

Hold on!

Stop! Stop!

Why don't you just open the door?

Are you kidding me?

What? It's just a standard flip slide bolt.

Come on! Let's fly!

What are you doing?

- I can't.

- What? You can't what?

I can't fly!

You couldn't tell me this before now?

It didn't matter before now!

I hate you.

Is there anything else I need to know?

Yes, I can't fly, I pick my beak,

and once in a while I pee in the bird-bath.

Happy?

There they are!

We got to get out of here!

Just move! Move!

Wait, wait. Listen to me.

Flying may not be my thing,

but walking is.

Follow my lead. Inside leg, outside leg.

Yeah, okay, I got it.

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Don Rhymer

Don Rhymer (February 23, 1961 – November 28, 2012) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He graduated from James Madison University in 1982. He wrote movies like Big Momma's House, The Santa Clause 2, Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, The Honeymooners, Deck the Halls, and the computer animated mockumentary Surf's Up. more…

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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