One day, a scout bird named Mikey (Mario Cantone), traveling by whale, recruits Cody for the big Big Z Memorial Surf Off on tropical Pen-Gu Island, run by a sleazy otter named Reggie (James Woods). Bored with sorting fish, he longs to surf the world's waves in emulation of his idol, legendary champ Big Z. The look of the film is artful and the script includes great vocabulary words, such as "finesse," for grade-schoolers.Ĭody Maverick (voice of Shia LaBeouf) is a small Rockhopper penguin from Antarctica. "Surf's Up" is consistently funny, from the three little penguin chicks who comment on the action to the "native" penguins who capture and nearly cook a surf-loving rooster.
And its message - that winning isn't everything - doesn't crash down like a wave.
BIG Z SURFS UP MOVIE
The movie doesn't talk down to kids, but has plenty to tickle adults. Older kids will also like the way it unfolds as a "reality TV" show, with interviews and scratchy "archival" scenes. Kids 6 and older will take pleasure in the film's clever overlay of surfer-dude culture onto a cartoon penguin world. But it turns out that "Surf's Up," about a penguin who lives for surfing, is a funnier, less pretentious, more carefree enterprise that can stand on its own webbed feet. It sounds like a weak excuse for yet another computer-animated feature about penguins, especially after last year's "Happy Feet" (PG, 2006).
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