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Rio 2 is a 2014 American animated musical comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and directed by Carlos Saldanha. It is the sequel to the 2011 film Rio and is the second installment of the Rio franchise. Set three years after the events of the first film, it follows Blu, Jewel, and their children leaving Rio for the Amazon rainforest to find more blue macaws, where Blu struggles to fit in after Jewel reunites with her long-lost father, while Nigel the cockatoo pursues them to exact his revenge. The film features Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Mann, George Lopez, Jamie Foxx, will.i.am, Tracy Morgan, Rodrigo Santoro, and Jake T. Austin reprising their roles from the previous film with new members including Kristin Chenoweth, Bruno Mars, Rita Moreno, Miguel Ferrer, and Andy García.