Surf's Up (film)

A documentary crew follows the adventures of Cody Maverick, a 17-year-old northern rockhopper penguin who lives in Shiverpool, Antarctica, with his mother Edna and his older brother Glen. Cody 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 Mikey arrives to find entrants for the Big Z Memorial surfing contest on Pen-Gu Island, Cody jumps at the chance. En route to the contest, Cody befriends another entrant, Chicken Joe.

The entrants arrive at Pen-Gu Island where Cody meets and immediately falls in love with Lani, a female gentoo penguin who is a lifeguard. 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. Cody sees him vandalizing Big Z's memorial and immediately challenges Tank to a surfing duel. Tank easily wins the duel while Cody nearly drowns and is stung by a sea urchin. Lani rescues him and takes him to her uncle, the "Geek", to help Cody recover from his injuries. Cody wakes up, but cannot find the souvenir necklace given to him as a kid by Big Z. Geek then finds it in his hut.

While returning the necklace, Geek finds Cody sitting on a koa log and offers to help him make a perfect surfboard. 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. When Cody gets to the beach, he discovers a shack full of old trophies and surfboards, which used to belong to Big Z. After observing Geek walking sadly into the shack, he realizes that Geek is actually Big Z and asks him to teach him how to surf. Z reluctantly agrees, but tells Cody he has to make his own board first. 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. Angry, he storms off and runs into Lani, who eventually persuades him to return. Cody spends the night working patiently on a new board.

Z compliments Cody on his new board, and Cody is eager to start training. But Z instead has him do menial tasks seemingly unrelated to surfing. Finally Z and Lani teach him how to surf the waves. Afterwards, Cody asks Z if he'll come watch the contest, but Z refuses, revealing that he faked his death because he realized he couldn't compete with his then-new rival Tank, and that he had become too focused on winning. Not impressed that Z just gave up, Cody morosely throws the necklace Z gave him to the sea and leaves, meets up with Joe, and gets back to the contest just as it begins.

Tank easily makes it to the finals, as do Cody and Joe. In the semifinals, Tank battles with Cody, with Tank trying to throw him off his board, but Tank falls off his own board and loses. During the finals, however, Tank bursts in and tries to knock Joe off his board. Cody intervenes at the last minute, sending himself and Tank out of bounds and into an area of the beach known as the Boneyards, which consists of dangerously sharp rock outcroppings and has killed many surfers who have ventured there. Tank punches Cody off his board before crashing, and is rescued by Lani. Z, who had been secretly watching Cody's performance, rescues Cody from a gigantic wave and helps him get back to the beach safely.

Z and Cody find out that Joe won by default since Tank and Cody were disqualified. However, Cody accepts the loss, having decided he'd rather just have fun instead. Z reveals himself to the spectators and invites all of them to surf at his beach. Cody finishes his interview with a reflection of the past events and then joins the rest of his friends in the water.

Before the credits start, the film crew interviews Cody's family. Edna says she doesn't mind that Cody didn't win, but Glenn still sees Cody as a loser, causing his mother to lecture him.

In a post-credits scene, Glenn kicks out the film crew by carelessly tossing their expensive equipment out the window. He then says, "Go back to Hollywood!", much to Edna's dismay.

• Shia LaBeouf as Cody Maverick, a 17-year old teenage rockhopper penguin who dreams of being a surfer.
• Jeff Bridges as Zeke "Big Z/Geek" Topanga, Cody's idol and a famous surfer penguin.
• Zooey Deschanel as Lani Aliikai, a Gentoo penguin and Cody's love interest.
• Jon Heder as Chicken Joe, a dimwitted, hyperactive and energetic rooster.
• Mario Cantone as Mikey Abromowitz, a talent scout shorebird.
• James Woods as Reggie Belafonte, a short-tempered sea otter, who is Tank's manager.
• Diedrich Bader as Tank "The Shredder" Evans, Cody's rival.
• Dana Belben as Edna Maverick, Cody's mother.
• Brian Posehn as Glen Maverick, Cody's older brother.
• Kelly Slater as the penguin version of himself
• Rob Machado as the penguin version of himself
• Ash Brannon as himself
• Chris Buck as himself
• Sal Masekela as himself
• Reed Buck as Arnold
• Reese Elowe as Kate
• Jack P. Ranjo as Smudge
• Maddie Taylor as Ivan, a sea urchin (credited as Matt Taylor)

Surf's Up: Music from the Motion Picture
Soundtrack album by Various Artists
Released	June 5, 2007
Genre	Film soundtrack
Length	50:17
Label	Columbia Records

Surf's Up: Music from the Motion Picture was released on June 5, 2007. The following 14 songs are on the Sony's official film soundtrack.[6]

According to the film's end credits, the version of "Wipe Out" heard in the film is actually performed by the punk band The Queers. The official soundtrack includes this version under the pseudonym "Big Nose", presumably for marketing purposes.[7][8] Two songs by Green Day, "Welcome to Paradise" (the version from the album “Dookie”) and "Holiday" in an instrumental version, are used for background music in the film.[9] Neither song appears on the official soundtrack album. In the primary teaser trailer, the song "Get on Top" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers can be heard in the background. "Welcome to Paradise" was also used in the second trailer promoting Surf's Up, as well as "Three Little Birds" by Sean Paul featuring Ziggy Marley. The DVD and Blu-ray behind-the-scenes featurette entitled "Making Waves" features the song "The Water", performed by Venice. This also does not appear on the "Surf's Up" soundtrack, but can be found on Venice's "Garage Demos Part 2: Fast Stuff" CD.

Surf's Up: Original Ocean Picture Score was composed for the film by Mychael Danna and it was released on a limited edition (of a thousand units) 23-track CD.[10]

A direct-to-video sequel, titled Surf's Up 2: WaveMania, was released on January 17, 2017. The film stars WWE superstars John Cena, Triple H, The Undertaker, Vince McMahon, and Paige.[22]

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