Rio 2 is a 2014 American animated musical comedy film produced by 20th Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios. The sequel to Rio (2011), it was directed by Carlos Saldanha, and written by Don Rhymer, Carlos Kotkin, Jenny Bicks, and Yoni Brenner. The film features Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Mann, George Lopez, Jamie Foxx, will.i.am, Tracy Morgan, and Rodrigo Santoro reprising their roles from the first film, with Kristin Chenoweth, Bruno Mars, Rachel Crow, Rita Moreno, Andy Garcia, and Miguel Ferrer joining the cast. 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 other blue macaws, while Nigel the cockatoo pursues Blu to exact revenge.