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Rio 2 is a 2014 American animated musical comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox Animation. It was directed by Carlos Saldanha and written by Don Rhymer, Carlos Kotkin, Jenny Bicks, and Yoni Brenner. It is the second film 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 the voices of 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 Kristin Chenoweth, Bruno Mars, Rita Moreno, Miguel Ferrer, and Andy García joining the cast.