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Did anyone notice these TWO things?

posted 11 years ago by A-zone
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1. The guard Sylvio, the waiter and the fat smuggler, all look the same! It's like the animators were too lazy and just recycled the same character. See for yourself: http://img17.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=995085589_Riocharacters_122_ 106lo.jpg

2. Almost all of the native creatures (brids, dogs etc.) of Rio de Janeiro are voiced by American actors. I'm not saying that's a bad thing but if they had been voiced by Hispanic actors, then their accent would have added a nice flavor to the ambience of the movie. That way the audience gets the sense that these characters are indeed Latin Americans. Take, for example, "Ratatouille" which is set in Paris and so a majority of the characters have a French accent. Such small things can make a difference to a movie, IMHO.

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[–] A-zone 11 years ago

Forgive my ignorance. But I am sure that they DON'T have American accents as depicted in this movie, do they?

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[–] whitelion43 11 years ago

Is it THAT impotrtant to you? if not remember its only a movie. If so we all live with The disappointments life throws at us

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[–] A-zone 11 years ago

No. It is not THAT important. But it is just something I noticed and wanted to express my opinion and hopefully get other people's opinions on it as well.. I though that is what IMDB message boards are for. People express the things they liked and/or disliked about a movie.

Haven't you ever done that, "whitelion43"? Haven't you ever opined about something in a movie that you didn't agree with or found to be annoying or out of place? If you feel that we should just "accept" everything without even saying a single word, then perhaps IMDB should just shut down these message boards.

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[–] Hanz-Willhelm 10 years ago

Would you have preferred they just spoke Portuguese? No one in the movies country of origin would understand the movie but at least it would be an "authentic" kids cartoon.

[–] Strazdamonas 9 years ago

actually there is quite large group advocating for this (in all movies). Perosnally i do not agree but there are a lot of people that do want realistic language being used even if one does not understand.

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[–] machintosh2-1 11 years ago

i did not noticed that and I don't care. I watch movie and I don't search mistakes like anyone else. I enjoy the movie.

But one thing was odd: Nigel hit ONE transformer and hole city goes blackout. THAT IS MISTAKE! That is impossible.

[–] TerraFirma69 10 years ago

You are confusing.

[–] Catgurl22 10 years ago

You are a living paradox.

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[–] rocrgurl1023 11 years ago

My daughter was just saying how none of the actors sound like they are from Brazil. My x husbands family is from Brazil and speaks Portuguese so for her it is kind of disappointing.

[–] TerraFirma69 10 years ago

Good couple of points there, A-zone. Pity you had so much obnoxiousness in the replies. Some people eh?

[–] Catgurl22 10 years ago

Good couple of points there, A-zone. Pity you had so much obnoxiousness in the replies. Some people eh?

Very well said, TerraFirma69. I was wondering the same thing. The guy just pointed out a couple of things and he gets a barrage of stupid wise-a$$ retorts.

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[–] clivy 10 years ago

Yes, I agree with you about the voice actors. I saw Rio on TV. I thought the characters aside from Blu Jewel and Nigel were all a little weak. I wondered why all the characters in Brazil aside from Tulio sounded pretty much the same. I didn't know until the end of the movie that Jamie Foxx and Will I Am played the two birds who helped Blu. They were great. Luis was funny. But it would have been good to hear Brazilian singers sing some of the songs.

[–] JaneBingley 10 years ago

A man eating ice cream at the beach also looks exactly like the three in your link.
The birds are flying over the brach when the man rermoves paper on his ice cream.

[–] drxcreatures 9 years ago

You must not watch many family movies. It's all about marketing. It's about the famous voice-overs.

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