Rio

IMDB
First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Myself

Perhaps my expectations were too high, i thought this looked like it would be good. Pretty standard though, not that funny.

The worst thing is the horrible psudo-latin poprap songs with voices auto tuned to death. That's right there are about 5 songs in this and they are all the most horribly offensive things my ears have had to endure in a long time. The only fun thing about it was hearing Jesse Eisenberg sing a line or two in the end credit song.

Technically the animation is good, they use a lot of soft lighting in this one, I normally like Blue Sky's lighting, it's the best thing about all the Ice Age films but this one didn't pop as much for me. 3D was ok. They used perfect circles for their out of focus lens "circles of confusion". Guess they want to emulate lenses but not too real, just real enough to know that they are fake…

Anyway the film was a bit of a disappointment. Perhaps one of the other 3D kids films opening for the holidays will provide the goods. More likely they will just make this one look better by comparison. Ho hum.