Hanging Out in Rio2

I finally got to hang out with Kitten today after...a few weeks of no communication TT^TT I is so bad at communicating.

Anyway, yesterday I asked whenever she was free (as her schedule turned ultra hectic) if she wouldn't mind going to see Rio 2; we saw the first one and loved it.  Funny part was she had actually thought about that the day before which was epic.

So we went to go see it today.  The horses were in due to the rain (figures right?) and get this: we had the theater all to ourselves, it was awesome!  Aside from a power surge half way through, we got to see the whole movie without missing a moment.

And in this, they were more focused on the story as opposed to being heavy on music.  Although she was unsure about the subplot of the Scarlet Macaws, we had nothing bad to say about the film.  They did another really fantastic job, just capturing the hidden beauty of the amazon so well.  And it touched on the real world problem of the amazon being excavated and how it destroys the animals' habitat and food source (even going so far as to show a yellow bird in her tree with eggs as the construction crew was knocking down trees and she was helpless).

So yeah, another fantastic job.  The story was really solid, the music of course being really good, the hidden beauty of the amazon being brought out, well-timed funny moments, and decent subplots.

This film basically in a nutshell, Linda and Tulio are releasing a bird back into the wild they had rehabilitated, and coming upon a nasty construction crew, as well as (eventually) coming upon the huge flock of Spix's Mawcaws, that were once thought to have been almost fully extinct.  Blu, Jewel, and their three kids find this out via news on tv, and accompanied by Nico, Pedro, and Rafael, fly to the amazon, coming upon the missing tribe.  Blu naturally has a very hard time fitting in as he was a "companion" to Linda for 15 years.  One subplot focuses on Nigel trying to get revenge on Blu, a secondary subplot that focuses on Nico and Pedro trying to find talent for the next Carnival show, and a third subplot focuses on the Spix's Mawcaws "fighting over" (lack of better term) Brazil Nuts with a tribe of Scarlet Mawcaws.

I don't wanna go any further because I don't wanna spoil anything as the film JUST came out, but I can freely say you won't be disappointed.