I watched this awesome movie called Surf's Up this morning on Star Movies. I've actually seen the movie a couple of times already since we had a DVD of that movie. Anyway, so on to the plot of the movie, it's about a penguin named Cody Maverick from Shiverpool, Antarctica (a spoof of Liverpool in England) who longs to be a surfer one day. Despite of the fact that no one in Shiverpool, especially Glen, Cody's older brother and even Mikey (the talent scout in the movie) likes the idea of Cody being a surfer, this didn't stop Cody from pursuing his dreams. While on his way to Pen Gu Island for the 9th Big Z Memorial Surf-off, he meets Chicken Joe, a fellow contestant from Michigan and befriends him. On the first day of the Big Z Memorial Surf-off, Cody gets wiped out by the waves and he gets stung by a Sea Urchin in the process which causes him to pass out and Lani, a lifeguard, brings him to Geek, her uncle so that he could be healed and on the next day, Cody wakes up to find out that his Big Z necklace has disappeared and though Geek does not mind about this at first but when he sees the necklace, he returns it to Cody and later, Geek finds Cody sitting on a Koa log and offers to teach him how to make a surfboard but just as they are about to drag it back to Geek's house, they end up losing control of the log and they end up in a shore far from the contest which is revealed to be Big Z's shack and this is where Cody finds out that Geek is Big Z and because of this Cody asks for Big Z's help so that he can win the Surf-off and on the last day of the Surf-off, Cody, Chicken Joe and Tank "The Shredder" Evans compete against each other after being declared as the finalists and Cody is able to take advantage of the contest at first after Tank gets wiped out in the middle of the contest but just as Cody is about to surf in the Boneyards, Tank comes back and tries to take down Cody while Cody warns him that there's a huge rock ahead but Tank disregards this and he hits the rock while Cody is wiped out, leaving Chicken Joe to win the contest and the audiences of the contest thinking that Cody is dead. Cody is then helped by Big Z who was secretly watching the contest and they swim back to the shore just as the memorial service for Cody progresses and everyone rejoices after finding out that Cody and Big Z are alive and Reggie Belafonte uses this as an opportunity to promote himself for "resurrecting" Big Z from the dead. Big Z then invites the spectators to go surfing with him and right after Cody finishes his interview, he joins the rest of his friends in the water.
Rating for the movie (in a scale of 1 to 10): 8.5
Overall Review: I really think that Surf's Up is one of the best movies I've seen, not just because of it's appeal to people of all ages but also because of the lessons that the movie has conveyed to it's viewers and also because of the setting and plot of the movie. The movie never fails to entertain me, even though I've seen it a couple of times already. I really hope that this movie gets a sequel or a spin-off soon. Oh, and the movie's got an awesome soundtrack, too. This was actually one of the things that got me into Hawaiian music.
So yeah, there you have it! This is my review for the movie & I hope you guys enjoy this! :)
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