Surf's Up (2007)

Expected more

Disturbing yet enthralling

A Masterpiece!

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

First of all Thanks a lot to "Sony Pictures Animation" for great effort in this film. Why? Cause people Watch it and think sec by sec of this movie. Not only for kids but also for adults it has some great points.For the people who likes to surf and want to know some good points about surfing , i say this is the place for your motivation and skills.I watched it like 6 times.For it's great animation makes me feel the movie.The movie itself is an advise.And, of course, Our next gen. kids will be amazed by 2007's lifestyle. Shows a great difference between 90's and 21 century. Grapics and songs were very nice. Really watchable with your family.Don't go on my words. Check it out by yourself.

I just catched this idiotic, cliché, attempt of movie on cable and it was so bad that I actually created this account so I could leave a bad comment and rating about it. It's so plain and lacking in plot that I felt like Jay Sherman when he watched Kiss of death, all I could think of was "Oh, my god! What a terrible movie!!!!!" It was so bad that I will actually commit to write five more lines so this review can go online, since IMDb asks for at least that much. Honestly, if fake documentaries are bad already, a fake documentary animated movie is even worse, the only thing that could do this even worse would be if this was a "found footage" movie... Ughhh.... And I thought Happy Feet was bad. If I ever have a child I will only take it to Pixar movies, 90% of all the other films suck, but perhaps this is the worst of all!

The first time I heard about this movie I wasn't very enthusiastic about it, because I thought that it was going to be similar to "Happy Feet" (A movie which I hated, despite the great animation) Fortunately, "Surf's Up" ended being much more enjoyable than I was expecting. It is true that it had some tired clichés and overused formulas, but the result is still watchable.I think that the fake documentary treatment that this movie had (In a similar way to Rob Reiner's "This Is Spinal Tap") served to make a couple of scenes (That could have been much worse done in a conventional manner) funnier and much more interesting.While the main character was a bit boring and almost without any kind of distinctive traits (A flaw which sadly became quite common in some of the CGI animated movies from the recent years) the secondary characters were more likable and interesting. Personally, I think that Chicken Joe (voiced by Jon Heder) would have been a much more interesting protagonist, but anyway, this was still a satisfying film for the whole family, with great animation and good voice acting. I found it to be worth watching.6.5/10

This is simply a very entertaining computer-animated cartoon about a bunch of surfing penguins. It's shot in a unique "mockumentary" style which makes the movie look fresh and surprisingly, and also allows the filmmakers to adhere less strictly to story development, and allows them to load the movie with a joke per second (NB, the movie also delivers a solid, intriguing, well-developed plot, but the mockumentary style allows the storytelling to be a lot faster, sharper, more off the cuff.Paradoxically, to reproduce the -- usually undesirable -- "wobbly hand- held cam" effect in CGI, the studio had to go to fairly extreme length, with a cameraman filming the CGI framework off a large screen with a specially revamped hand-held camera.Anyway, the result is a very fresh, very funny cartoon that looks simply amazing (those waves look wayyyy better than in reality). The voice artists also did an amazing job. This one probably caters more to adult viewers, but kids will certainly get a hoot out of it, too. I can highly recommend it!PS: try this if the also penguin-themed "Happy Feet" bored your socks off.