Surf's Up (2007)

Lack of good storyline.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I liked the movie Surf's Up because of the original documentary style in which the story was presented. The superb animation and the relaxed dialogue made me feel like I was watching a "real" documentary. It's a bit slow, and there's plenty of potty humor, but it is worth a watch.

The only thing i have to say is that i'm in 2018 and i still Watch this movie.

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!

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.