Surfing means everything to teenage penguin Cody Maverick (Shia LaBeouf). Followed by a documentary film crew, he leaves his home in Antarctica for Pen Gu Island, site of the the Big Z Memorial Surf Off. Cody wants to be respected and admired, and he believes that winning the competition will bring him what he craves. However, an encounter with washed-up surfer Geek (Jeff Bridges) teaches Cody about what is truly important.
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I took my 4-year-old to see this and we really enjoyed it, but her thoughts walking out of the theater sums it up best - "it wasn't Happy Feet." I think the PG rating is right, but not for the language or humor. The plot is a spoof on reality shows and documentaries that are a little over a 4-year-old' head.
Surf's Up is definitely entertaining for the adults and probably best suited for kids age 6-8.
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| Shia LaBeouf | Voice of Cody Maverick |
| Jeff Bridges | Voice of Geek |
| Zooey Deschanel | Voice of Lani Aliikai |
| Jon Heder | Voice of Chicken Joe |
| James Woods | Voice of Reggie Belafonte |
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"Surf's Up" has only one point of overlap with "Happy Feet": the penguins. Whereas last year's Oscar-winning animated feature clobbered audiences with sound, tap, fury and 70 tons of pathos, "Surf's Up" is just a slip of a thing, derivative but mellow, about a teenage surfer from the penguin burg of Shiverpool, Antarctica, who ventures to the tropics to compete with the big kahunas of the flightless aviary endless-summer set. (Full review)