Surf's Up Preview Event

Via Animated News, Coming Soon has a great article on a recent preview event for "Surf's Up" that they were able to attend.



The footage being shown by Sony includes the first ten minutes of the movie, which starts exactly like the current trailer with the voice of Shia LaBeouf's Cody Maverick explaining the history of penguin surfing and the legend of "Big Z" and what he did for the sport before mysteriously vanishing. We then meet Cody and his family through a series of interviews from their Antarctica abode of "Shiverpool." With a bully as a brother and an unsupportive mother, Cody really wants to get out of there, and he's given his chance to escape when big-time surfing promoter Reggie Belafonte (voiced by James Wood) sends his sandpiper scout Mikey Abromowitz (Mario Cantone) to Shiverpool to look for new talent for a surfing competition on Pen Gu Island. Of course, Cody is very excited but during his audition, there are no waves so he chokes. Undeterred, he chases after Mikey's whale transport riding on the waves created by its departure, begging and pleading until Mikey agrees to take him to Pen Gu Island. As they travel, Cody meets Chicken Joe, a surfing chicken from the MidWest voiced by Jon Heder who has a similar backstory. When we meet Chicken Joe, he's enjoying the rush that comes with jumping into the water shooting out of the whale's blowhole.

I loved "Open Season," and really think it got a bad rap for being "another fuzzy animal movie," so I'm excited to see what Sony can do with "Surf's Up." The whole "mockumentary" style of filmmaking also appeals to me a great deal ("Spinal Tap," "Best In Show," "Waiting for Guffman," etc), and that coupled with the amazing visuals makes this my second most anticpated film of the summer, behind "Ratatouille."

Wait... make that my third most anticpated... almost forgot about the new "Rambo."

Much more on "Surf's" and the event via the link below.

Coming Soon's Recap of the Surf's Up Preview Event

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