NurMohammad 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.

Jon_Snow_21 I really like this movie because it brings back memories from when I loved it as a kid. I remember watching it over and over again, and after watching it again now I still like it. The reason I like this movie is kind of hard to explain so this might come out weird : it's "cool". The main character Cody Maverick is just really "cool" and awesome. Again another personal preference: the movie is about surfing:my favourite sport. I really like surfing and since this movie is about surfing and they depict it well, it scores major points in my book. The surfing montage where Cody gets the hang of surfing is beautiful. I really like the cast of supporting characters as well: chicken Joe, Big Z, Lani and the others. I really like the final surf off. It really sets itself apart from other movies by not making the main character win literally but figuratively since he helps his friend. Surf's up is also an extremely funny movie and I love it's mockumentary style. I really like the fact that during the movie big z trains Cody to let go and stuff like that. I think they should've left out the chicken Joe expedition thing and they should've made the movie longer. All in all even though Surf's up is not perfect but it's funny, "cool", has good voice acting , has a nice final surf off and is about surfing.

Electrified_Voltage There are some computer animated films from the past few years which I've known about for a while but still haven't seen, and that was the case with "Surf's Up" until this month, three years and a few months after it came into theatres. I knew it was a movie about surfing penguins, and I had never seen anything like that before, though that obviously didn't mean I was guaranteed to like it. I knew this Sony Pictures Animation effort did not have the amazing reputation which many Pixar movies have, but it did seem to be fairly popular, so I figured it would be another charming piece of CGI animation for the family, like most of the other ones I've seen through the years. Fortunately, I wasn't proved wrong when I watched it.Cody Maverick is a teenage rockhopper penguin who has lived in Shiverpool, Antarctica his entire life and is currently being followed by a documentary film crew. He loves surfing, and his idol is Zeke "Big Z" Topanga, a penguin who was once a surfing champion but is now believed to be dead. Cody doesn't get encouragement from other residents of Shiverpool, and that includes his brother, Glen, who is much bigger than him. However, the ambitious penguin still remembers when he got to meet Big Z once in his childhood, and the words of encouragement he got from the champion surfer, so the young penguin is still determined to be like his idol. When surf talent scout Mikey Abromowitz comes to Shiverpool searching for participants for the Big Z Memorial Surf-Off on the tropical Pen Gu Island, it takes some struggle, but Cody manages to convince him that he is worthy. He travels on a whale with Mikey and a dimwitted but friendly rooster named Chicken Joe, and the documentary crew follows. After arriving on the island, Cody soon meets Tank "The Shredder" Evans, a large, arrogant penguin who is the current surfing champion and will be hard to compete with!Viewers can expect these CGI films to be very pleasing to the eye, and this one is no exception, with the characters and backgrounds, showing a CGI version of Antarctica and then a tropical island with beaches and a jungle interior. I'll admit some of the backgrounds look primitive for 2007, looking more like painted backgrounds than computer-generated ones, but this is only a very minor flaw. I laughed at lot while watching the film, during scenes such as the sibling rivalry between Cody and Glen around the beginning, Chicken Joe getting captured by a tribe of penguins and not realizing what they really want him for, and so many others, so the humour in "Surf's Up" also works. The characters are generally well crafted, and while Shia LaBeouf may not do the greatest job providing the voice of Cody, his performance is acceptable, and there are better voice-overs provided here, including Jeff Bridges as Big Z and Jon Heder as Chicken Joe. The story is a well written and overall entertaining one with some touching moments, and it's better than it may look near the beginning. This particular film from Sony Pictures Animation has not impressed as many viewers as many other CGI films have in the past fifteen years (such as many of Pixar's features, and perhaps certain efforts from DreamWorks Animation and Blue Sky Studios as well), but it seems to have received more praise than criticism, which I can understand after watching it myself. While it's not absolutely stunning from start to finish, it's mostly very entertaining for several reasons and is bound to leave viewers in a good mood, as animated family films like this should. "Surf's Up" is rated PG, so it isn't exactly squeaky clean, but even as a film that is marketed as family fare, it certainly could be dirtier, and I think many kids could still really enjoy it. There are lots of computer animated family features out there and this kind of film has lots of fans, so if you like this very popular kind of animation, I wouldn't suggest skipping this film.

Karl Self 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.