Surf's Up

Watched this animation few weeks ago. Movie sponsored by Mr Jeremy Tai. Ermm... Any comment bout this animation? Ermm... So so....

Really not that amaze especially after you watched Ratatouille. Although they purposely add in few cute characters. But yet.... Still cant convince me. Its like a documentary, keep on talking and talking.

Maybe it meant to be for adults, not a kids' animation? Hmm... Jz not my cuppa tea.

Surf's Up is an American computer-animated mockumentary film produced by Sony Pictures Animation, released on June 7, 2007 by Columbia Pictures.

Plot:

A documentary crew follows the events of Cody Maverick a small rockhopper penguin residing in Shiverpool, Antarctica (a pun on Liverpool, England). After a visit from surf legend Zeke "Big Z" Topanga, young Cody aspires to emulate the renowned legend by becoming a famous and respected surfer.

Eventually, talent scout Mikey Abromowitz arrives in Shiverpool to look for surfers to compete in the Big Z Memorial Surf Contest. Cody joins the group and befriends Chicken Joe, an easy-going surfer from Wisconsin. Upon arrival, Cody has an altercation with the egotistical Tank "The Shredder" Evans, a large muscular penguin and nine time winner of the Big Z Competition when he witnesses him hurling stones at Big Z's memorial shrine. He also meets a kind lifeguard named Lani Aliikai, with whom he falls in love with at first sight, when she saves a baby penguin from drowning. Tank challenges Cody to a surf-off on the spot and Cody's arrogance leads to a terrible wipeout. Lani Aliikai takes an injured Cody to the hidden home of Geek, a hermit, in order to help Cody recuperate from his fall. He had stepped on one of the poisonous reef inhabitants and Geek had pulled it out and urinated on Cody's foot in order to prevent him from dying.

Eventually Cody wakes up and tells Geek about big Z though Geek doesn't seem too interested. He shows Cody the route back to the beach when Geek sees a log of which all the best surfboards are made of. He tries to teach Cody how to make a surfboard and Cody got too eager therefore ruined his laughable idea of surfboard. Geek and Cody stumble upon an undiscovered, uninhabited beach and find Big Z's old shack and surfboards. Cody soon realises that Geek is Big Z. At first Big Z does not want to help Cody win the competition but then teaches him how to have fun therefore learning the meaning of surfing - just having fun.

Cody then asks Geek/Big Z to come and watch him surf in the Big Z memorial surf competition. Geek took it the wrong way and Cody and Big Z are no longer friends. Cody walks to the beach through the forest and is caught in a trap by cannibals of Pen Gu island. However Chicken Joe, who had been looking for Cody had befriended and learnt to communicate with the Pen Guins and then retrieves Cody just in time for the Surf Off.

The first wave leaves only Tank, Cody and Chicken Joe afloat and the second wipes out Tank. Tank floats to the surface of the water and tries to take out Chicken Joe while Cody has an opportunity to win, which he does not take so that he saves Chicken Joe therefore Joe won. While trying to swim back to shore another huge wave pushes Cody and Tank to "The Boneyard" the most dangerous part of the beach's water and Tank is knocked out cold. Lani rescues Tank and brings him to shore while Cody hangs on to one of the many jagged rocks. Big Z appears and rescues Cody and they paddle safely to shore. Z is then revealed to still be alive to the curious onlookers. After standing up to Reggie, Z invites everyone to the Northern side of the island where the film ends with Big Z, Cody, Lani, and many others surfing the waves as the sun sets.

Overall rating: /5