Notable exceptions might include Gerry in North Shore, kinda.
#CODY SURFS UP PRO#
Pro surfers can neither be blamed for being shit at acting, nor being tempted into attempting it by considerable financial reward they’re no different from other sports people who didn’t stay in their lane. SU shines by not only animating plausible, stylish surf moves (let’s assume a bonus of having Slater as a consultant), but from the unforeseeable fortune that today’s real surfing suddenly resembles yesteryear’s caricature. Even real life giant surf looks weird when flipped from land to water angles, check any GoPro nose footage and even XXL Jaws looks slightly overhead. In fact, in an apparent chilling prophecy of state of the art surf action to come, the Boneyards scenes bear an uncanny resemblance to John John’s Himalayas waves from Maps of Home.Īnimation allows for cartoon-like waves to look impressive from all angles, as opposed to splicing a head dip onto library footage of the Eddie. Surf’s Up almost certainly offers the finest rendition of surf action of any piece of surf cinema in history, even today nearly 15 years since its release. Alas, the curse of the dedicated surfer is the compulsion to immediately point these infringements out to non-surfing company who perhaps hadn’t noticed, an interaction nobody gains from. Lefts become rights, Bell’s become Waimea, Cornwall the Canaries. Surfing cinema plagued with a basic continuity problem that anyone who’s surfed more than a little bit can whiff a mile off when the tight water shots of the actor paddling in the lineup flip to the pulled back action that depicts clearly not the same spot/human/day/continent. Think the cozy indulgence of North Shore mixed with Creature Comforts quirks, and even a touch of Lebowski.īizarrely, the surfing action is really, really good. In it, a young northern rockhopper penguin named Cody Maverick, maligned and misunderstood in his home of Shiverpool, Antartica sets out to chase surfing fame and fortune in Pen Gu Islands’s Big Z Memorial Surf Contest, where he must overcome the evil 9 x Big Z Champ Tank ‘The Shredder’ Evans, as well as his own crushing big wave inhibitions. Released in 2007 as part of a wave of penguin films, Surf’s Up delivers clever animated quirks, without the often too-fast-for-human-comprehension Pixar pace, while A-listers Shia LeBoeuf, James Woods, Jeff Bridges and Zooey Deschanel voice a funny, clever script. From Gidget to Big Wednesday, North Shore to Point Break to Blue Crush and much between, beach culture seems to capture the scriptwriters’ imaginations, or rather, the studios bean counters’ budgets more often than other leisure pursuits. Surf’s Up is part of a long, oft maligned line of mainstream cinema’s surf themed features. The 2007 animated tale of a stoked penguin named Cody Maverick might just be Hollywood’s finest ever depiction of wave riding.
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