I've never heard an adult say, "I must go see that film. It has Jesse Eisenberg's voice in it." They could have spent the money on something else, like a better story.

| Aug 30, 2018

Rio is a beautifully animated family frolic sure to keep the little ones joyfully content.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 29, 2011

Rio is a brightly-colored, dizzying pinwheel of 3D animation in which nothing much happens. Sounds like summer is here early.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 21, 2011

Carlos Saldanha's sincere but uninspired romp into the glossy postcard atmosphere of Rio de Janeiro is one long courtship that ultimately falls flat.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 17, 2011

The plotting here is of the set-up-the-pins-and-knock-them-down variety, so you'll pretty much predict every grinding of the script's gears.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 15, 2011

Expect the expected.

| Apr 15, 2011

Rio will not set your heart afire, although its low-level consciousness raising about illegally smuggled animals is nice. Mostly, it's brightly colored fluff, but then, it's supposed to be.

| Original Score: C | Apr 15, 2011

When Blue Sky Studio unveiled its debut feature-film, Ice Age, a decade ago, it became clear that Pixar didn't have a monopoly on clever storytelling or computer imagery. Now...

Full Review | Apr 15, 2011

The characters, the jokes, and even the striking visuals - they all dissipate from the memory like a piece of candy that seems tasty in the moment but ultimately isn't very filling.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 15, 2011

A fairly typical children's movie, but at least it moves along with purpose!

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 15, 2011

From the arches of the Carioca Aqueduct to Sugarloaf Mountain … Rio is as colorful a look at a faraway world as kids are likely to get without reading subtitles.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 15, 2011

The generic story elements can't spoil the real achievement of Rio, which is a series of vividly choreographed set-pieces.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 15, 2011

Eisenberg's tremulous, earnest delivery matches Blu's big worrywart eyes perfectly, and he and Hathaway, to their credit, give it their all.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 15, 2011

Buoyed by local color - literally, with a vibrantly sun-drenched palette, a sensationally festive Carnival parade, and a slinky samba-licious soundtrack

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 15, 2011

This is a movie that takes even the hoariest quest-peril-life lesson tropes of family animated films and imbues them with new life and rhythm.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 15, 2011

I have a feeling that older audience members will, like me, be getting restless during this celebrity-voice-driven, generically plotted variation on "Madagascar."

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 15, 2011

Although the road to "Rio" was paved with good intentions, this 'toon never truly takes flight.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 15, 2011

There are worse things than a movie that can't stop moving.

| Apr 14, 2011

As kids' movies go, "Rio" brings a lot to the party.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 14, 2011

More things work than not in this sweetened sweet bird of youth. Maybe the G is for good fun or great music or a gentle good time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 14, 2011