![]() Z compliments Cody on his new board, and Cody is eager to start training. Cody spends the night working patiently on a new board. Angry, Cody storms off and runs into Lani, who eventually persuades him to return. The attempt does not go well, however, as an impatient Cody refuses to listen to Z's advice and crafts a weak and unstable board that shatters upon hitting the water. Z reluctantly agrees, but tells Cody he has to make his own board first. Thrilled, Cody asks him to teach him how to surf. ![]() After observing Geek walking sadly into the shack, he realizes that Geek is actually Big Z himself. When Cody gets to the beach, he discovers a shack full of old trophies and surfboards, which used to belong to Big Z. They attempt to take the log back to Geek's house, only to lose control of it and end up on a beach far away from the house. While returning the necklace, Geek finds Cody sitting on a koa log and offers to help him make a surfboard. Cody wakes up, but cannot find the souvenir necklace given to him by Big Z. Lani rescues him and takes him to her uncle, "Geek", to help Cody recover from his injuries. Tank wins the duel while Cody nearly drowns and is stung by a sea urchin named Ivan. Cody sees Tank vandalizing Big Z's memorial and immediately challenges him to a surfing duel. He also meets the contest's arrogant champion, Tank "The Shredder" Evans, who has won the Big Z Memorial nine times since it was first held after Z's presumed death during a previous match ten years ago. The entrants arrive at Pen-Gu Island, where Cody meets and immediately falls in love with Lani Aliikai, a female gentoo penguin who is a lifeguard. En route to the contest, Cody befriends another entrant, Chicken Joe, a nice, but dim-witted rooster surfer from Sheboygan, Wisconsin. ![]() In a mockumentary, northern rockhopper penguin Cody Maverick, living in Shiverpool, Antarctica, with his mother Edna and his older brother Glen, has yearned to be a professional surfer ever since meeting the famous surfer Big Z many years ago, so when a talent scout shorebird named Michael Abromowitz arrives to find entrants for the Big Z Memorial surfing contest on Pen-Gu Island, Cody jumps at the chance. A sequel, titled Surf's Up 2: WaveMania, was released direct-to-video in the United States on January 17, 2017, and theatrical in select countries. It was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 80th Academy Awards, but lost to Pixar’s Ratatouille. The film grossed $152 million worldwide against a budget of $100 million. Surf's Up was released in the United States on Jby Sony Pictures Releasing, and received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for the animation and humor. To obtain the desired hand-held documentary feel, the film's animation team motion-captured a physical camera operator's moves. Real-life surfers Kelly Slater and Rob Machado have vignettes as their penguin surfer counterparts. It is a parody of surfing documentaries, such as The Endless Summer and Riding Giants, with parts of the plot parodying North Shore. The film stars the voices of Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel, Jon Heder, and James Woods. ![]() It was directed by Ash Brannon (in his feature directorial debut) and Chris Buck from a screenplay they co-wrote with Don Rhymer and Chris Jenkins, based on a story by Jenkins and Christian Darren. Surf's Up is a 2007 American computer-animated mockumentary comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation. ![]()
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