Film 38 - Rio 2

Rio 2 - 05/04/2014

I appreciate the fact that if I go to watch a kids film on a Saturday afternoon, then we should expect !KIDS!. What we didn't expect was parents not actually caring about those kids.  Believe me, they were EVERYWHERE!

I saw Rio on the plane going to Las Vegas.  The characters are annoying and uninteresting, but Luiz the Slobbering Bulldog was hilarious and saved the film from utter disappointment. So imagine how I felt when within the first 5 minutes of Rio 2 starting, Luiz was up to his old tricks....and then left behind, gone, forgotten.  The best character they had just left behind.

The rest of the film plodded along at a very annoying pace, the main villain was hardly around for most of the film, the story has been done a thousand times before and there are 100's of side characters who all are completely uninteresting.

Comedy is one of the hardest things to write in cinema, and children's comedy films must be even harder as not only have you to entertain the terrors that are just running around in the dark, but also the parents who are tortured into bringing them.

When we went watching Frozen at the start of this "Year of Cinema", I can't remember any children running around.  All I can put this down to is entertainment, the kids in Frozen were entertained and happy to stay seated as the spectacle on screen had them enthralled.  With Rio 2, I was thinking of joining the kids and finding something more entertaining to do...like kicking chairs and running up and down the stairs.

On the plus side....I did get to see the trailer for the new Peanuts movie!