Line #83 WesternAnimation/Rio2


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4	Released three years after [[WesternAnimation/{{Rio}} the first movie]], ''Rio 2'' deals with Blu, Jewel, and their kids having to fly into the heart of UsefulNotes/TheAmazonRainforest, after Linda and Tulio discover that there just might be a wild flock of blue macaws living there. Their search soon becomes perilous as loggers move into macaw territory. And that isn't all of the blue birds' troubles; Nigel, rendered flightless due to what Blu did to him, is out for revenge...
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6	Carlos Saldanha returns as director, while Creator/AnneHathaway, Creator/JesseEisenberg, Creator/JemaineClement, Music/WillIAm, Creator/GeorgeLopez, Creator/TracyMorgan, Creator/RodrigoSantoro, Creator/LeslieMann, and Creator/JamieFoxx all reprise their roles from the first film alongside new additions such as Music/BrunoMars, Creator/KristinChenoweth, Creator/RitaMoreno, Creator/AndyGarcia among many others.
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8	'''Previews:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUWsKkMKZBc Teaser 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2I26YYe1dI Teaser 2]], [[https://youtu.be/Vt5wP9C_Ppw Teaser 3]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uKP5ipSRm4 Official Trailer 1]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtP7zka5UI8 Official Trailer 2]].
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11	!!''Rio 2'' provides examples of:
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13	%% * AbhorrentAdmirer: Gabi, to Nigel anyways.
14	* AccidentalMisnaming: Eduardo gets Blu's name wrong for most of the film, calling him "Stu", "Sue", "Lou" and "Drew".
15	* AerosolSprayBackfire: In one scene, Blu tries to get rid of a pesky fly by following its movements with blasts of bug spray. He accidentally sprays himself in the eyes when the fly goes by his face.
16	* AesopAmnesia: Jewel learns to trust humans in the first movie, in this movie, she goes back to her anti-humans ways, gently yet firmly scolding Blu and her kids for involving themselves with human objects and food. Even going as far as to go back on the plan of getting Linda and Tulio to discover the uncharted part of the Amazon they live in, no thanks to her anti-human father. She gets better in the end.
17	* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Subverted. See DisneyDeath.]]
18	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Gabi.
19	* AnimalsNotToScale: The Spix Macaws are shown to be the same size as the Scarlet Macaws. When in reality, the former are much smaller.
20	* AnkleDrag: At the end, [[spoiler: Gabi]] drags [[spoiler: Nigel]] off into the jungle for "romance."
21	* ArtifactTitle: Rio de Janeiro only appears briefly in the first several minutes, and the rest of the film is set in the Amazon.
22	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: You can technically handle poison dart frogs all you like and be perfectly fine. It's not until the poison touches a mucous membrane or an open cut that it actually takes effect. Dart frog deadliness also varies from species to species. [[spoiler: Averted as it turns out Gabi is not poisonous and she and Nigel were assuming she was toxic to touch]].
23	** One scene has Tiago farting in a bird bath. Birds are unable to fart.
24	* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: Averted this time around. Whereas in the first movie, Blu and Jewel were referred to as Blue Macaws, here they're called "Blue Spix's Macaws". It implies that Spix's Macaws come in some other color, but accuracy-wise, it gets the job done.
25	* ArtShift: The TravelMontage chronicling the trip from Rio to the Amazon constantly shifts to a animation style similar to that of a pop-up book (The first portion of the end credits is also in that style).
26	* AscendedExtra: Not a singular character as much as an entire species. Red Macaws were seen in passing in the first movie, while in the sequel, a whole flock of them is featured as rivals to the Blue Macaws.
27	* BadassFamily: The entire tribe becomes this when they team up with Linda and Tulio against the smugglers in the final battle.
28	%%* BadlyBatteredBabysitter: Poor Tiny...
29	* BasedOnATrueStory: There really ''was'' a Spix Macaw [[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/06/140629-spix-macaw-presley-rio-parrot-brazil-science/ just like Blu]]. Unfortunately, his story didn't turn out quite so happy.
30	* BickeringCouplePeacefulCouple: Despite both the main couples' loves running as deeply as can be, Linda and Tulio seem to be a lot more content with one another while Blu and Jewel still have a tendency to bicker now and then.
31	* BigBadEnsemble: Nigel and Big Boss.
32	* BigLittleBrother: Mimi is half the height of her younger brother Eduardo's.
33	* BinomiumRidiculus: Bia's pop-up book has an anaconda listed as "''anacondus giganticus''".
34	* BlandNameProduct: In a scene involving a vending machine, the Guaraná can bears a close resemblance to [[http://publicidadeecerveja.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/nova_embalagem_guarana.jpg the largest one of that kind in Brazil]].
35	* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: Blu and Jewel have this after their argument over staying in the wild and when the latter accuses the former of thinking about himself, while Blu states that no matter what he does, he can't find a way to fit in with everyone else.
36	* BrickJoke:
37	** Luiz chases after the birds as they fly to the Amazon, seemingly giving up after a short run. [[spoiler:He shows up in the final scene, having been given a lift all the way there by Kipo the roseate spoonbill.]]
38	** Claira the capybara is eaten by a jaguar during her audition. [[spoiler:During the battle against the loggers, the jaguar appears and spits out Clara, who calls her fellow animals to "Attack!"]]
39	* CallBack:
40	** Eva sings "Real in Rio" during her Carnival audition.
41	** "They left without me... again! That's messed up!"
42	** Within the sequel itself, there's "Birds with blue feathers... have to stick together!"
43	* CanisLatinicus: Bia's pop-up book has an anaconda listed as ''Anacondus Giganticus''. For the record, anacondas belong to the genus ''Eunectes''.
44	* CardCarryingVillain: Nigel.
45	-->'''Nigel:''' We attack at the midnight hour... because it's more evil!
46	* ClarkKenting: Pedro and Nico don't seem to realize the very talented cockatoo with the leaf over his face is Nigel. Rafael is at the very least suspicious.
47	* CleanPrettyChildbirth: We see a still of the chicks hatching, clean and fluffy and fully feathered. Real newborn Spix macaws look like [[http://awwp.alwabra.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Spix_day1.jpg this.]]
48	* CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise: After attacking a blue macaw he thought was Blu, Nigel ends up with a leaf mask and cape.
49	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Big Boss, the head of the logging company that's illegally razing the rainforest.
50	* CoversAlwaysLie: Some posters made it seem like the Felipe and his red macaws would be teaming up with Nigel. In the movie itself, they never actually meet. In fact, Felipe is not even an antagonist to begin with--just very fiercely protective of his territory and does not tolerate trespassers (intentional or not).
51	* CreativeClosingCredits: During the end credits, all the characters appear in Brazil (including Amazon jungle) in Bia’s pop-up book.
52	* DatingWhatDaddyHates: A variant in that Blu and Jewel are already married with kids by the time of this movie, but Eduardo despises Blu anyway due to the latter having lived with humans, whom he refuses to associate with. [[spoiler:After being rescued by Linda in the climax, he's quick to change his tune]].
53	* DefrostingIceQueen: Eduardo, and to a lesser extent, the rest of the tribe (except Mimi and Roberto) don't really accept Blu at first due to his domestication and the fact that he lived with humans. [[spoiler: Once the loggers come in and try to destroy their homes however, they let him lead the tribe into battle and he finally earns their respect.]]
54	* DisappointedInYou: Eduardo's response to Blu [[spoiler:costing the blue macaws the air soccer match by scoring an OwnGoal]]:
55	-->'''Eduardo:''' I shouldn't have expected more from a ''[[FantasticRacism human's pet]]''.
56	* DisneyDeath: PlayedForLaughs with [[spoiler:Nigel. Gabi accidentally fires a [[PoisonedWeapons poison dart]] tipped with her own toxins into Nigel (she was aiming for Blu), at which point Nigel gets a dramatic death scene complete with falling into a bed of flowers and Gabi [[LargeHam hammily]] proclaiming she will go with him and swallowing a drop of her poison. Blu and the other birds then arrive at the scene and clap at the ''fantastic'' performance. Bia then remarks that Gabi is not actually poisonous, but a species of frog mimicking such.]]
57	* DrillSergeantNasty: Eduardo gives off this vibe when coaching Blu on the way of wild macaw life, since he resents the trappings of human civilization and wants them stamped out of Blu as much as possible. [[CharacterDevelopment This attitude changes during the climax of the film]].
58	* DysfunctionalFamily: Downplayed. Most of the dysfunction that the Spix Macaw family has is normal and they do love each other. Becomes less downplayed, however, as the movie progresses but they do get better by the end.
59	* EatTheCamera: Inverted with the tapir announcer at one point in the Pit of Doom.
60	* EcocidalAntagonist: The illegal loggers are the movie's human antagonists, responsible for attempting mass deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest, and advancing closer to where Jewel's family lives. When they encounter Linda and Tulio and realise that they're a threat to their operation, they tie them up to a tree and leave them there. The worst of them is Big Boss, their leader, an all-around {{Jerkass}} who treats his workers terribly [[spoiler:and gets his comeuppance by the hand of nature itself as he gets EatenAlive by an anaconda]].
61	* EnemyMine: [[spoiler: Felipe and the scarlet macaws show up to help fight the loggers.]]
62	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: All three of Blu and Jewel's kids get this in their first scene:
63	** Bia shows her intelligence and skill at math.
64	** Carla exhibits a talent for choreography and artistic style.
65	** Tiago comes off as a thrillseeker, and more than a little reckless.
66	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "Flesh eating piranhas that ... ''eat flesh''."
67	* ExitPursuedByABear:[[spoiler: Big Boss]] gets eaten by a python/constrictor snake at the end.
68	* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath:
69	** [[spoiler:The acrobatic capybaras are eaten down to the bone by piranhas]].
70	** [[spoiler:Big Boss is swallowed alive by an anaconda. Big Boss' death may have been ''even more'' gruesome, given how boas and pythons kill their prey. (read: slowly squeezing the air out of its lungs until it suffocates to death).]]
71	* FantasticRacism:
72	** Eduardo, Jewel's father, is severely opposed to anything that related to humans; he insists that all members of the flock stay out of their view, and angrily chastises Blu for using human artifacts.
73	** The conflict between The Spixes and Scarlet Macaw tribes also seems to have shades of this, [[spoiler:though the latter are perfectly willing to [[EnemyMine set aside their rivalry to help save their home from illegal loggers]]]].
74	* FishOutOfWater: Blu, a CityMouse in the jungle.
75	* FlashbackCut: Nigel, upon seeing Blu and his family, gets a flashback to his defeat in the first movie.
76	* FreezeFrameBonus: During the kitchen scene, brief clips from ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic\|2013}}'' appear on the TV screen.
77	* FreudianExcuse: Eduardo's anti-human sentiment came about because he and his flock's previous territory was burned down by a logging operation, forcing them to find a new home.
78	* GilliganCut: When Luiz reveals he left the kids with Tiny.
79	-->'''Luiz:''' She's an excellent babysitter!\
80	''[cut to Tiny, strapped to a firecracker]''\
81	'''Tiny:''' I'm a terrible babysitter!
82	* GoingNative: Blu tries to invoke this with the Spix's macaw flock, somewhat unsuccessfully. The rest of his family has an easier time adjusting.
83	* GoneHorriblyRight: Blu is allowed by Eduardo to substitute for a knocked-out player at the aerial football match. He seems to impress everyone as he shows off his skills at the sport, [[spoiler:until it turns out he accidentally scored the decisive point in his ''own'' team's net]]!
84	* GoodParents:
85	** Blu and Jewel are shown to be loving, kind parents to their three kids.
86	** Despite his aggressive behavior, Eduardo has shown to be a good dad to Jewel, and gives Blu a chance because of her.
87	* GreenAesop: Protecting the rainforest is essential to protecting the Spix macaws.
88	* HappilyMarried:
89	** Blu and Jewel still bicker and bug each other from time to time, but overall, their love and commitment to one another overcomes pretty much everything that's thrown at them.
90	** Linda and Tulio too.
91	* HehHehYouSaidX: Tiago has this reaction when Bia comments on a larva about to enter the pupa stage, thinking she said "poop".
92	* HeroicBSOD: Blu falls into this after accidentally scoring the winning goal for the Scarlet Macaws and then being severely berated by Eduardo and the other Spix Macaws for it; Eduardo is now officially convinced Blu is truly a no good misfit who will never belong. Convinced of Eduardo's vitriol toward him, Blu is also convinced he has no place in the Amazon and Eduardo will never warm up to him and so he sadly decides to leave...until he catches sight of loggers atttempting to destroy the Amazon rainforest, which snaps him out of his funk and gives him a opportunity to redeem himself to the Spixes (and especially Eduardo), by convincing them to fight for their homeland.
93	* HighAltitudeBattle: Apparently, red and blue macaws like to resolve their issues through a game of air soccer.
94	* HopelessAuditionees: We are treated to a scene like this, with auditionees such as an orchestra of mosquitoes, a duo of turtles that practice capoeira, and a cute little capybara [[spoiler:that ends up eaten by a jaguar, though comes out alive and well just in time for the climax]].
95	* HopeSpot: At the end of the aerial football match, it seems Blu is finally about to score a victory and earn Eduardo's respect as he easily makes it past the red macaws to their net. [[spoiler:It's only too late when he finds out that he scored the winning point ''[[OwnGoal against]]'' [[OwnGoal his team]], losing the blue macaws the game and earning himself more disdain from Eduardo]].
96	* HungryJungle: The Amazon Rainforest is this from Blu's point of view, though Jewel and the kids are far more excited to visit it. Since a few of the HopelessAuditionees for the B-plot's performance, [[spoiler:as well as the BigBad]], are killed by the local wildlife, there may be a ring of truth to Blu's suspicions.
97	* InevitableWaterfall: Tulio and Linda go over one of these in the opening while canoeing in the Amazon.
98	* InkSuitActor: All the new characters look quite like their VA's:
99	** One can definitely see Creator/AndyGarcia as Eduardo; the eyebrows. Same goes for Creator/RitaMoreno as Mimi.
100	** Roberto doesn't look any different from Bruno Mars even sharing his trademark hair style (or should we say ''feather'' style?).
101	** One can definitely see Kristen Chenoweth as a tiny poison dart frog.
102	* InterspeciesRomance: Gabi the frog to Nigel.
103	* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:At the end of the first movie, Blu finally learns how to fly, while Nigel gets into an accident that, as revealed here, rendered him unable to fly.]]
104	* JustDesserts: [[spoiler:Big Boss]] getting devoured by an anaconda.
105	* LiteralMinded: When a blue macaw shows some curiosity toward Blu's box of mints, Blu points out that they're meant to be eaten. The blue macaw proceeds to try and swallow the entire box, resulting in him almost choking.
106	* KillerRabbit: Bia, Carla and Tiago tie their babysitter, Tiny, to a firecracker in their first scene, fully intending to set it off.
107	* LargeHamAnnouncer: The announcers for the aerial football match, as you might expect from them.
108	* LogoJoke: The famous Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox fanfare has a samba beat to it in the sequel.
109	* MadnessMantra: Roberto has one of these [[spoiler:as an artifact of his time in human captivity]].
110	-->'''Roberto:''' [[spoiler:Polly want a cracker! POLLY WANT A CRACKER! NO! ENOUGH CRACKERS!]]
111	* MisplacedWildlife: The Spix's macaw is not from the Amazon (Brazilian north), but the Caatinga (Brazilian northeast), and yet Jewel comes from there and finds daddy and his tribe. And given biologists pretty much consider that macaw extinct in the wild, the fact that it's a huge flock fits AcceptableBreaksFromReality.
112	* MissedHimByThatMuch: Nigel -- disguised as Bob to everyone -- casually walks past Blu while he's off monologuing his entry at the festival. Only Gabi sees him and tries to make Nigel turn aound, to no avail.
113	* MotorMouth:
114	** Gabi loves to [[IncrediblyLamePun gab on and on]].
115	** One of the auditionees is a sloth that breaks into rapid-fire bursts of rap.
116	* NeverMyFault: Nigel blames Blu for [[spoiler:costing him his ability to fly]] in the previous movie, even though that wouldn't have happened if he hadn't been menacing Blu and Jewel in the first place.
117	* NeverTrustATrailer: One would assume the main plot is Blu trying to win over Jewel's father's appreciation while having to deal with a new contender for his wife's affection. [[spoiler:The former is touched upon, and, while Roberto makes a few passes at Jewel, the plot thread never really goes anywhere. The story is more about other things.]]
118	* NoNameGiven: The corrupt head of the illegal logging operation is only referred to as "Big Boss" (no, not [[VideoGame/MetalGear that "Big Boss"]]).
119	* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Happens again to Nigel when he's hit with a needle laced with Gabi's poisonous fluid, and Gabi drinks her own poison, until it is revealed that she's not venomous.]]
120	* ObsessionSong: Gabi, and it is very creepy...
121	* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: During the film's climax, [[spoiler: Nigel prevents Big Boss from attacking Blu so he can do it himself.]]
122	* OralFixation: Big Boss with a lollipop, strangely.
123	* OwnGoal: The Red and Blue Macaws get into a soccer-like game using nuts after Blu accidentally breaches a territory rule between the tribes and use the game to settle things. Blu joins in on the game and seems to make a winning point... until he's told he scored for the Red team's goal, losing the blue macaws the game.
124	* PecFlex: While boasting about how he built his hollow with his "strength... [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment and brawn]]", Roberto wiggles his pecs (which Jewel can't help but [[EatingTheEyeCandy stare at]]).
125	* PerkyFemaleMinion: Gabi. She is so eager to work for Nigel and follows every order with a smile.
126	* PetsVersusStrays: Blu may have only recently been released into the wild by Linda, his former owner, but he still has hallmarks of being fomerly domesticated, which earns him the resentment of Jewel's family who want nothing to do with human civilization. Nothing Blu tries to make himself fit in is even remotely successful, [[spoiler:until he manages to rally the wildlife against the logger attack, finally earning the wild macaws' approval - Eduardo in particular comes around after Linda herself saves him]].
127	* PiranhaProblem: Piranha are first mentioned by Luiz as one of the dangers of the Amazon, and several are seen throughout the movie. In particular, the acrobatic capybaras are eaten to the bone by a shoal of them during the HopelessAuditionees montage.
128	* PlotIrrelevantVillain: What Nigel's been reduced to after serving as TheDragon and TheHeavy in the previous film. He struggles just to keep up with Blu, who spends most of the movie unaware that he's even alive, fails to do anything to seriously hinder him or affect the plot, fails to pose a serious threat when they finally do meet, and is in the end overshadowed by the other antagonists found in the loggers, the red macaws, and the {{Jerkass}} blue macaws.
129	* PoisonedWeapons: Nigel plans to shoot Blu with a porcupine quill tipped with Gabi's poison-dart frog toxin. [[spoiler:It turns out the frog from which he got the toxin is not actually poisonous, however.]]
130	* PredationIsNatural: Animals eating each other is played for BlackComedy, and happens on-screen multiple times. During the "Amazon Untamed" auditions, several talent demonstrations are interrupted by their members being eaten (a sleeping alligator waking up and eating its plover, a jaguar eating a baby capybara, several more capybaras having their flesh ripped off by piranhas), which Pedro complains about. Bia and Tiago even gleefully tell Blu about the snakes and their habits of swallowing animals alive, which happens to him during a musical montage.
131	* ProductPlacement: Subverted in an odd way. In the trailer for the movie, a blue macaw swallows Blu’s mints. When the macaw throws up the box of mints, they are shown to be Tic Tacs. In the finalized movie however, the scene remains intact, but the Tic Tacs are replaced with a fictional brand of mints.
132	* PunctualityIsForPeasants:
133	-->'''Rafael:''' You guys are late.\
134	'''Pedro:''' Clock late.\
135	'''Nico:''' But musician early.
136	* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Eduardo gives a scathing one to Blu after he accidentally scores the winning goal for the Scarlet Macaws, costing the Spixes the game.
137	* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler:In the climax, Nigel is so determined to get his revenge on Blu that he hitches a ride on a string of dynamite with a lit fuse, which Blu is attempting to carry out of harm's way. Blu, currently unaware of his identity, even asks him, "Are you crazy?"]]
138	* RhymesOnADime: Felipe, the leader of the Scarlet Macaw tribe, talks like this.
139	-->'''Felipe:''' C'mon boys, let's fly, paint the sky — before they start to cry.
140	* SceneryPorn: Lots of attention was paid to detailing individual plants and trees, as well as lighting of the jungle, and ''man'', does it show!
141	* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: [[spoiler: When Gabi discovers she's not really poisonous, she pounces on Nigel, showering him with affection. Nigel calls to Charlie for help, but Charlie just dances offscreen.]]
142	* SelfDisposingVillain: [[spoiler:Big Boss, who gets eaten whole by a giant anaconda.]]
143	* SeriousBusiness: The blue and red macaws refer to [[spoiler: their "sky soccer" game]] as "war".
144	* ShapedLikeItself: Luiz talks about "flesh-eating piranha that eat flesh."
145	* ShootTheTV: Big Boss throws a remote into his TV after seeing a news report about the macaws.
146	* ShoutOut:
147	** Blu's [=GPS=] [[VirtualAssistantBlunder misinterprets]] his urge not to let him down as a request to find "Funky Town", a reference to the band Lipps Inc.'s song of the same name.
148	** Nigel's leaf mask is of a similar design to the one worn by Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera.
149	** Charlie is a [[Creator/CharlieChaplin comedic silent character in a dapper hat.]]
150	** During her Carnival audition, Eva wears a fruit hat, like Carmen Miranda.
151	** One of the jungle auditionees is a monkey that swings around on a rock tied to a vine, similar to Music/MileyCyrus' "Wrecking Ball" video.
152	** Clara the capybara sings "Memory" from ''Theatre/{{Cats}}''.
153	** The mosquito orchestra is conducted by a mosquito with a [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]]-esque hairstyle (Though ironically, he is conducting a [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]] tune).
154	** The toilet roll in Blu's fanny pack has [[WesternAnimation/IceAge Scrat's acorn]] for a pattern.
155	** Nigel and Gabi's reaction to [[spoiler: the discovery that she isn't poisonous]] is near identical of a similar gag in ''Film/CitySlickersIITheLegendOfCurlysGold''.
156	* ShownTheirWork: The black jaguar has its spots faintly visible when looked closely enough.
157	* TheSilentBob: Charlie doesn't speak a word in this movie, but his antics and pantomime steal the show anyway - in particular, he happens to be an excellent dancer.
158	* SinisterSweetTooth: The head of the illegal logging operation which is destroying the Amazon is hardly ever seen without a lollipop.
159	* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Big Boss and the loggers don't appear in any of the trailers, making their appearance in the film something of a surprise.
160	* SluggishSloths: Zigzagged with the sloth who appears a few times. She [[MotorMouth raps very quickly]], but she often randomly falls asleep.
161	* SomewhereAMammalogistIsCrying: Tamandua are excellent tree climbers, using their claws to climb up. Charlie, however, seems ill at ease with it, using his tongue like a brace (similar to a lumberjack).
162	** The website also calls Charlie a giant anteater.
163	* SomewhereAnOrnithologistIsCrying:
164	** Tiago is shown belching and farting. Bird stomachs don't produce the bacteria that instigates flatulence.
165	** Members of the red macaw tribe (made up of Scarlet and Green-winged macaws) are generally shown to be the same height as their blue counterparts. In real life, both species are around 30cm taller than the Spix's macaw.
166	** One that's PlayedForLaughs, but while Eduardo is training Blu he demands him to fly backwards. Blu [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this by pointing out that only hummingbirds can do that...and then Old Eddie flies backwards with ease.
167	* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the junior novelisation, Big Boss is scooped up by a tree harvester (piloted by Tiago) instead of being eaten by a snake.]]
168	* StalkerWithACrush: Gabi.
169	* TelevisionGeography: Carlos Saldanha admitted that for the sequel, he put many parts of UsefulNotes/TheAmazonRainforest that are spread apart close together for the narrative's sake.
170	* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: The auditions for Pedro and Nico's show mostly fall between humorously mediocre to disastrous. Subverted in that all the better ones show up for the DancePartyEnding.
171	* TerribleTrio: Nigel is reduced to this alongside Gabi and Charlie. Blu and company don't even notice their presence until the end.
172	* ThisExplainsSoMuch: Eduardo says this when he finds out Blu was a pet to a human, which explains his lack of jungle skills.
173	* ThereIsAnother: Blu's family are not the LastOfTheirKind after all; there is a whole flock of Spix's macaws in the jungle making them an EndangeredSpecies and resolving the AdamAndEvePlot issue from the first movie.
174	* TookALevelInJerkass: Eduardo treats Blu with more and more contempt as the movie progresses, though he gets better towards the end.
175	* TravelMontage: The Spix's Macaw family as well as their friends Rafael, Pedro and Nico (sans Luis the bulldog) are on their way to Amazon. Footage scenes include bathing in the fountain, buying a can drink from the vending machine, riding the emus, visiting butterflies and sleeping while flying.
176	* {{Troperiffic}}: Just like the original.
177	* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The two major plots of the film are Big Boss' plans to raze the rainforest (which Linda and Tulio are the main focus of), and Nigel's revenge against Blu. [[FourLinesAllWaiting Four Lines]] actually, with the addition of Blu's struggle to be accepted by macaw tribe, which is the main focus of much of the film, and Pedro and Nico's search for new talent. Nigel's plot intersects with the latter.
178	* TwoScenesOneDialogue: Blu complains to Pedro and Nico about the jungle setting and Jewel's thinking about moving the family there. While at the same time it cuts to Eduardo complaining to Roberto about Blu's lack of jungle prowness and being raised by humans.
179	* VillainDecay: [[VillainousBreakdown Nigel's downfall in the first film must have really broken him]], because he's nowhere near as threatening as before. He [[spoiler:lost the ability to fly]], no longer has any real power over anyone, is used for comedy much more often and does not have very strong motives for what he does as compared to before. Thankfully he's only a secondary villain in this movie.
180	* VillainLoveSong: "Poisonous Love", sung by the poisonous frog Gabi, is a literal example.
181	* VillainousBreakdown: One of the few cases where this actually happens in the first movie and leads into the second. Nigel loses his feathers in ''Rio'' and ends up suffering all sorts of humiliation as well as [[spoiler:not being able to fly again.]] The minute he sees Blu and Jewel again, he snaps and spends the entire movie going to all sorts of lengths to hunt them down.
182	* VillainSong: Nigel sings a cover of "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor, with the lyrics slightly altered so that it's about him seeking revenge on Blu.
183	* VirtualAssistantBlunder: Blu gets a [=GPS=] to help with the family's trip to the Amazon. It doesn't help as much as he hopes, mostly due to misinterpreting his requests.
184	-->'''Blu:''' Come on, lady. Don't let me down.\
185	'''[=GPS=]:''' Calculating route to "Funky Town".
186	* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Eduardo, Jewel's father, has such disdain for Blu that he never gets his name right until the big showdown against the loggers. Blu is so overwhelmed he almost forgets the fight.

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