A domesticated rare bird is taken to Rio de Janeiro to mate with a female, but the pair are stolen by animal smugglers. He ends up lost on the streets of a strange city, and to make it back to his owner, he will have to learn to fly for the first time in his life. Animated comedy, with the voices of Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway.

Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel, a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kidnap Blu and Jewel, but the pair soon escape and begin a perilous adventure back to freedom -- and Linda.