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Ok, first, this is not a great work of art or some phenomenal writing or anything. It is just a sports movie about Penguins surfing. And you know what? This might just be what animation needs to become a mature medium, by going in the opposite direction and making a silly sports film. Animation is always being used to tell great sweeping stories about revolution and heroes and princesses, but what about the normal films. What about the "Juno"s. The movies that don't seem to be anything at all besides just an excuse to make a fun movie.
The point I'm making is, once we start to see Animation as JUST another art form, we can start making all kinds of great movies. And maybe the best way to start that is to just make a generically good movie.
Surf's Up is not a kid movie, or a family movie, it's just A movie. The movie is about Cory Maverick, a Penguin from Shiverpool, Antarctica. This is one of the things I love about the movie, it's basically telling a generic surfing movie, but with birds instead of humans. Another thing I love about it is that it is filmed entirely from an interview perspective. With camera men filming the entire movie on-location. The guys who made this movie clearly knew what they were doing when they made this. People often call shaky-cam a lazy move when making a live action film because it removes us from the film, but in animation, where nothing is real, having a shaky-cam actually ADDS to the realism of the movie.
Well, anyway, the movie is basically about Cory Maverick going from Antarctica to a tropical island called Pen Gun island. He becomes good friends with a surfing chicken, named Chicken Joe, from Michigan and starts a romance with Lani, a lifeguard who is also the niece of "Big Z", a surfing legend that inspired Cory to want to be a surfer. We even get a generic villain named Tank who is actually a lot of fun. Not in the traditional fun Disney villain or the sympathetic Marvel comics villain, more in the, "is this guy really the best villain they could hire?" It really does add to the movie to make it feel like a real life film and nor an animated one.
Tank is a bit of a douche, but he's just weird enough and not shown enough that he doesn't really make you hate him, he just, is the villain. The movie is really a generic Surfing movie. You see all the plot twists that come about just in the first 20 minutes and you're just supposed to enjoy the ride. Shia LeBeouf stars as Cory and he does a spectacular job as him. Shia's best roles are always when he's intended to be this ordinary, realistic guy. And Realism is really all this movie tries for. Not in the gritty realism or even in the humane realism. In the, made by humans with humans and in reality realism.
Anyway, you've heard my review. Hopefully this warm and sunny movie will be a great distraction from how terrible the winter is going to be soon. Cya everyone
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