Sunday, April 17, 2011

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Is 'Rio' as good as a Pixar movie?

The creators of "Ice Age" return with an animated film about a globetrotting parrot — and some say "Rio" meets the quality standard set by legendary studio Pixar[...]

'Rio' may ruffle Pixar's feathers
It doesn't take four minutes for "Rio" to set itself apart from all the "Ice Age" movies the animators at Blue Sky made before it. A rain forest filled with parrots, macaws, cockatoos and toucans sing and dance the samba in a flying delirium of color. And then the poachers show up.[...]
Review: 'Rio'
It doesn't take four minutes for "Rio" to set itself apart from all the "Ice Age" movies the animators at Blue Sky made before it.[...]
An Exclusive Interview with Rio Director Carlos Saldanha
ComingSoon.net has an extended exclusive interview with Carlos Saldanha, director of the "Ice Age" movies, to talk about his most personal project to date, the animated Rio , featuring the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro, Jamie Foxx and more.[...]
'Little Ice Age' Resulted from More than Just Solar Calm
Total solar irradiance (TSI), essentially a measure of the amount of light the Sun puts out, varies with the 11-year sunspot cycle and influences Earth's climate, especially when TSI is notably higher or lower than its average values.[...]
Llamas help protect an ice-age fish
The endangered vendace, the UK's rarest freshwater fish, were transported 500 metres up a mountain, not by 4 x 4, but on the back of llamas. But the unusual spectacle of 25,000 fish being carried up a mountain in this way has a serious story behind it.[...]

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