Rio 3

thumb|link=Rio 3 is a 2024 American 3D computer-animated musical comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and directed by Carlos Saldanha. It is the sequel to the 2011 computer-animated film Rio and it's 2014 sequel, Rio 2. The film features Blu, his friends, and his family living their new life on the Amazon rainforest. It's running time is 97 minutes.

The film was released internationally on October 23, 2024, and on November 13, 2024, in American theaters. The film received mixed reviews from critics but it was positively welcomed from audience and was a box office success grossing $500 million worldwide.

Plot
Two months after the events of the second film, in the Amazon, Spix's Macaw Blu and his friends—Jewel, Rafael, Nico, Pedro, and Luiz—raid their nemesis, Nigel the cockatoo, who escaped from Rio and is plotting to finally kill Blu for another plan in the Amazon rainforest's ruins. They encounter Nigel's scarlet macaw, Enrico, who is working for Nigel and he was in Tulio's observatory with him and helped him to escape. Jewel throws a rock at Nigel and knocks him unconscious. After that, Blu and his friends are hailed heroes of the Amazon by Jewel's dad, Eduardo. The next morning, Blu's former owner, Linda Gunderson and her ornithologist husband, Tulio, discover that Blu is hailed a hero of the Amazon. They and their son, Fernando, set off to congragulate Blu for defeating Nigel. When Nigel's girlfriend, Gabi the poison dart frog, hears the news, she's devasted and believes that Nigel is dead.

At the ruins, Nigel awakens and plots revenge. Meanwhile, an evil peregrine falcon named Terrin, who is Eduardo's servant, plots to kill him and take command of the forest. Nigel hears him and they team up.

Blu thinks that his biological family is coming the next day for a one-week visit. Jewel and Blu come up with a plan to surprise Blu's family: Jewel will prepare a dinner for the family, Nico and Pedro will do the decorations, and Rafeal and Enrico will do the orginizations. Nigel tells Blu that he will meet Blu's family too. That evening, Blu's family, consisting of Susan, William, Michael, Maxwell, Alex, Thomas, Julie, and Jay, arrives, reunites with Blu, and greets Jewel, Nico, Pedro, Rafeal, Enrico, Luiz, Bia, Carla, Tiago, and Nigel. The next day, a puffin named Sven, who is Terrin's henchman and a hitman, captures Nigel and brings him over to Terrin, who sends him flying upside-down onto a chair with a vicious karate chop. This helps him regain his memory back and he agrees to help Terrin take over the Amazon.

The next morning, Terrin captures Blue and puts him in the hole of a three. Then he betrays Nigel throwing him away. However, when Jewel ambushes Terrin, Nico takes Blu out of the seat and replaces him with Nigel, much to his horror. After a long chase, Terrin is about to kill Blu. But Blu tells him to let the birds go and Sven redeems himself. Blu's family and the Spix's Macaw, lead by Jewel's old friend, Roberto, arrive to defeat Terrin's army of slave birds he captured in the past. Linda, Tulio, and Fernando decide to stop Terrin and fight him for freedom. Felipe gets his own army of Scarlet Macaws and fights along with Blu.

Terrin threatens Blu to be killed. But after Nigel, who decided to team up with the heroes after Terrin's betrayal, arrives to save Blu, both Nigel and Blu defeat Terrin by using a giant bomb-like cannonball to disintegrate him and his army. Jewel's aunt, Mimi, and Eduardo tell Jewel that they were looking for her everywhere and Blu reconciles with Nigel while maintaining a friendly rivalry. Linda, Tulio and Fernando meets Blu and the others and salutes them.

At the end Blu, Jewel, their children, Raffaele, Nigel, Enrico and the others are singing Real in Rio concluding the film and the Rio trilogy.

Cast

 * Jesse Eisenberg as Blu
 * Anne Hathaway as Jewel
 * George Lopez as Rafael
 * Jemaine Clement as Nigel
 * Simon Pegg as Pedro
 * Denis Leary as Terrin
 * Cate Blanchett as Susan (Blu's Mother)
 * Nick Frost as Nico
 * Thomas Haden Church as William (Blu's Father)
 * Tracy Morgan as Luiz
 * Rose McGowan as Carla
 * Abbi Jacobson as Bia
 * Jude Law as Tiago
 * Johnny Depp as Enrico
 * Alec Baldwin as Sven Gronn
 * Leslie Mann as Linda Gunderson
 * Rodrigo Santoro as Tulio Monteiro
 * Jake T. Austin as Fernando
 * Matt Damon as Felipe
 * Andy García as Eduardo
 * David Tennant as Roberto
 * Rita Moreno as Mimi
 * Ron Perlman as Michael (Blu's Grandfather)
 * Peter Weller as Maxwell (Blu's Uncle)
 * Eric Idle as Alex (Blu's Cousin)
 * Gary Oldman as Thomas (Blu's Friend)
 * Jodi Foster as Julie (Blu's Auntie)
 * Chris Wedge as Jay (Blu's Baby Brother)
 * Zachary Levi as the toucan reporter

Trivia

 * Nigel's storyline in the film is similar to Regarding Henry.
 * At the time limit "10:03", Nigel gets hit on the head by a rock thrown by Jewel. At the time limit "13:17", a picture of Nigel is announced during the "fake" memorial message of him. At the time limit "19:17", Nigel wakes up and suffers amnesia. At the time limit "1:04:41", Nigel gets his memories back, thanks to Terrin. At the time limit "1:21:33", Nigel is brainwashed to be nice and cheerful.
 * From "12:13" to "12:19", the title card appears.
 * Terrin first appears from the time limit "14:30" to "15:26". He is absent until his next appearance from "28:58" to "29:21", where he captures Linda, Tulio, and Fernando. He vanishes from that time limit until "1:01:16", where he finally reveals his face for the first time when Nigel enters his lair.
 * Eduardo disappears from the time limit "21:24". He never returns until the time limit "30:55". He disappears from the time limit "37:49" and never returns until "45:03".
 * Roberto disappears from the time limit "24:36". He never returns until the time limit "1:11:44".

Tropes

 * Main article: Rio 3/Tropes