Iman has been asking Mummy to bring her to watch Rio the Movie. Since Iman had an exam last week, we had to wait till the exam is over before Mummy can bring her. And Iman has been planning to ask her friend (bff) Fareeha to go along with us when we go for the movie.
In the end we decided to go for the movie on 23rd April, right after the exam is over. Mummy went to get the tickets first because it was Mummy's first time to watch movie in Wangsa Walk.
After much waiting in anticipation, 23rd April finally arrived and Iman was so excited to go. That's Iman and Fareehan waiting for the movie to start. Fareeha's mum was sitting new to Fareeha while Mummy sat next to Iman. The two girls were sandwiched by the mummies!
It was really a good movie. Mummy enjoyed it very much! Somehow Mummy think that it would have been nicer if we had watched the 3D movie because there many interesting moves that probably would be better in 3D.
What the movie is about: (Copied from Wikipedia - in case we forget what the movie is about later...)
In a jungle near Rio de Janeiro, a baby Spix's Macaw who is unable to fly and several other birds are captured by smugglers and taken toMoose Lake, Minnesota. The box containing the macaw falls to the street and is found by a girl named Linda (Leslie Mann), who names him "Blu". Fifteen years later, Linda lives in a bookstore with Blu (Jesse Eisenberg). Túlio (Rodrigo Santoro), a scientist, tells Linda that Blu is the last of his species, and he needs to mate with a female to preserve the species.
Linda takes Blu to Brazil, where Blu meets a female macaw named Jewel (Anne Hathaway). The shelter is raided by smugglers, who are let in by the lead smuggler's cockatoo, Nigel (Jemaine Clement). Among them is Fernando (Jake T. Austin), a poor boy who only helps the smugglers to earn some money. Blu and Jewel are captured and chained. Nigel explains that he used to be a performing bird on a television program, but was replaced by a parakeet. Because of this, he developed a hatred of exotic birds like Jewel, which is why he assists the smugglers in capturing such birds. After he departs, Blu and Jewel escape from confinement. As they flee, Nigel chases them through Rio, and Blu and Jewel get lost in the jungle.
They meet a family of toucans, whose father, Rafael (George Lopez), offers to take them to see his friend Luiz in removing the chain. Rafael attempts to teach Blu to fly, but Blu fails. The group meets a Red-crested Cardinal named Pedro (Will.i.am) and his canary friend Nico (Jamie Foxx). Meanwhile, Nigel enlists the aid of a group of thieving marmosets and their king Mauro (Brian Baumgartner), to find Blu and Jewel. Linda and Tulio also try to find Blu, assisted by the repentant Fernando. Pedro and Nico take Blu and Jewel to a bird's samba club, where Blu starts to dance, culminating in a duet with Jewel. They are then attacked by the marmosets, but their bird friends, including aRoseate Spoonbill they met at the samba club named Kipo (Bernardo de Paula) fend them off long enough for the four to escape.
Fernando leads Linda and Tulio to the smugglers hideout, where they learn the criminals plan to use Carnivale as a cover to regain Blu and Jewel and escape. The group finally meets the Bulldog Luiz (Tracy Morgan), who uses his drool to release Blu and Jewel from the chain. However, Jewel is captured by Nigel. When Pedro and Nico inform Blu of Jewel's capture, he decides to mount a rescue. Linda and Tulio make their way into Carnivale by posing as dancers, but Blu, Rafael, Nico, and Pedro are captured by Nigel. Linda and Tulio follow the smugglers, but are too late to stop them from taking off in their plane. During the flight, Blu manages to break out of his cage, and they all fly away except for Jewel, who knows Blu is scared of flying. Nigel grievously injures Jewel's wing. Blu manages to blast Nigel out of the plane by attaching a fire extinguisher to his leg, and hits the propeller.
Jewel, now flightless, is pushed out of the plane by a falling cage, and Blu follows her, much to her surprise. Blu is overcome by the rhythm of his heart, and flies, saving himself and Jewel. They return to Linda and Tulio, who attempts to tend to Jewel's hurt wing. Jewel is reluctant at first, but Blu convinces her to accept Tulio's help.
Sometime later, Linda and Tulio have organized the "Blu Bird Sanctuary", a part of Rio's jungle protected from smugglers. Blu and Linda remain very close, though she also has a relationship with Tulio, and is now living in Rio to help run the Blu Bird Sanctuary along with Fernando. Blu and Jewel are the parents of three chicks. The film ends with a lively sing and dance from their friends and family. Nigel survives his encounter, but has lost his feathers and is humiliated from Mauro, who is seen taking pictures and the smugglers are detained.
