Surfs Up Over and Over Again

"Information technology's gonna be great... Can I get in line to not see information technology?"

— Glen Bohemian

Surf's Up is a picture show past Sony Pictures Animation. It takes on an interesting style: despite being gear up in a globe of anthropomorphic talking animals, the film parodies surfer documentaries, complete with handheld camera shots and interviews with the cast spliced in various places. The plot tells of a young Rockhopper penguin named Cody Maverick, who dreams of moving to the tropics and becoming a legendary surfer, like his idol, Big Z.

A 2007 CGI animated film, and the second one from Sony's animation sectionalisation. It earned a surprising University Award nomination, and was the only film from Sony Pictures Animation to do so until Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse over a decade afterward, which ultimately won the laurels.

In early 2016, Sony announced that they were partnering with WWE to produce a sequel, entitled Surf'due south Upwardly 2: WaveMania, that was released Straight to Video on Jan 17, 2017, 10 years after the original film. The pitch is that Cody accompanies the Hang 5, a group of big moving ridge riders (voiced by John Cena, Triple H, The Undertaker, Paige and Vince McMahon), in their quest for "The Trenches", a legendary surf spot holding the biggest waves in the world.

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Tropes:

• An Aesop: Carpe Diem, and don't practice something for the glory — exercise information technology because y'all enjoy doing it.
• Affectionate Parody: Of surfing documentaries, with a plot parodying the 1987 surf moving-picture show North Shore.
• Afraid of Blood: Chicken Joe. Even stating the fact makes him feel faint.
• Almost Kiss: In the last ii minutes, Cody and Lani were virtually to kiss when Arnold (who has a Precocious Crush on Lani) interrupts them.
• Aloof Big Brother: Glen for Cody.
• Alter Kocker: The elderly penguins in Shiverpool speak using Yiddish accents and slang.
• Always a Bigger Fish: Large Z was and then concerned with winning, when he realized he was going to lose, he faked his death.
• Armor-Piercing Question: Angry that Zeke refuses to lookout man him compete, Cody demands to know why Zeke disappeared after he wiped out of the contest.
• Creative License – Ornithology: The most blatant example is when Geek pees on Cody to heal a burn - birds don't urinate (like reptiles, the excretory system's products are released on the feces). Of grade, this is likely just Dominion of Funny.
• Ascended Fanboy: Cody, who was a lifelong surfer and admirer of Big Z gets to compete in the memorial competition under the fly of the penguin himself.
• As Himself: Existent life surfers Kelly Slater and Rob Machado announced every bit penguin versions of themselves.
• Awesome Mc Coolname: Cody Maverick and Tank Evans.
• Bad Dominate: Reggie. Mikey is happy to get fired. Big Z also tells him off at the finish, telling him not everything is a promotion and to only obviously close upwards.
• Beleaguered Assistant: Bad Dominate Reggie'southward shorebird assistant Mikey, who'due south at his beck and call.
• Big Game: The Big Z Surf Open, which occurrs annually and is said to be the fiercest surfing competition on the planet, with penguins (and a chicken) all over the globe competing in it.
• Birds of a Feather: Cody, Joe and Lani bond because they are all fatherless.
• Blown Up by a Blowhole: While riding a whale to Pen Gu island, Chicken Joe entertains himself by stick his head over the blowhole to get sprayed, which gives him a brain freeze. Subsequently introducing himself to Cody, Joe is hit with the spray and blown up. ("Butt freeze!")
• Broken Ace: Big Z / Big Geek, who realized he allow his ego get the better of him when Tank showed upwards for the first tome.
• Cleaved Pedestal: Cody is none too pleased when Z admits he's a Cleaved Ace. Both get over it.
• Brutally Honest: Afterward Cody made a disastrous wipeout on his beginning try, Mikey whispers to him "You should've stayed in Antarctica, kid". He's the just one who feels Cody is out of his league from the get-go, and spends most of the contest worried about his condom.
• But for Me, Information technology Was Tuesday: That medallion Large Z gave Maverick? One of a mass-produced thousands he gave to every fan.
• Past Wall That Is Holey: At one betoken Cody and Joe knock over ane of those cut-out figures you put your own face up in; baby penguin Arnold is walking past and escapes being squashed past being in the exact place the hole for the face falls. What makes it funny is that he doesn't notice.
• Camera Corruption: The camera was busted by Pen Guans when the crew followed Chicken Joe in the wood. Not to mention numerous interferences between the characters and the cameraman.
• Carnivorous Tribe: The Pen Guans. Thankfully, annihilation that Tastes Like Chicken is a good replacement.
• Central Theme: Winning isn't everything.
• Cerebus Retcon: Cody's father being eaten is commencement Played for Laughs when it is revealed at the first of the film, but when Cody is arguing with Big Z, he lets skid that he'south actually pretty torn up well-nigh it. But said too much already, he immediately drops it.
• Character Evolution: Similar nearly people that appear on reality tv set, Cody is initially under the impression that he's the most fascinating person on earth. Past the end of the movie, he tells the camera crew: "To exist honest, I'thou kind of bored of talking about myself."
• Cloudcuckoolander: Chicken Joe, who spends almost of the flick in his own world and missing the purposes of things happening effectually him.
• Clucking Funny: Chicken Joe is there purely for laughs. Until he beats both Cody AND Tank to win the surfing contest.
• Companion Cube: Tank to his various surfing trophies. He refers to them past proper noun and call them his "ladies".

  Tank'due south Mom: Tank! Are y'all polishing your trophies again?!

• Crash-Into Hi: Cody and Lani crash into one another when the beginning is ranting about Geek and the other is bringing Geek more clams.
• Creator Cameo: The voices of the never-seen documentary filmmakers are provided by the bodily directors of the movie.
• Cucumber Facial: Big Z makes Cody meditate with pineapple slices on his eyes as office of his surf grooming and as a joke to make Cody await ridiculous in front of the camera coiffure.
• Expletive Cutting Short: In 1 scene, Tank takes a bite from a squid on a stick and says "Bleah, tastes like sh—" The DVD Commentary confirms that he did in fact say shellfish.
• Nighttime Horse Victory: Double-subverted; both Cody and Tank lose to Chicken Joe.
• David Versus Goliath: Cody, a skilled but uncompetitive surfer, vs. Tank, a 9-fourth dimension defending champion.
• Disappeared Dad: Both Cody and Chicken Joe never knew their fathers. Cody's dad was eaten by a killer whale, while Joe'south was served as part of a six-piece meal.
• Disqualification-Induced Victory: Joe, Cody, and Tank are the finalists in the Memorial, and Joe wins considering Cody intervenes in Tank's attempt to push Joe off his lath, and both Cody and Tank end up in the Boneyards, an off-limits area.
• Distinction Without a Difference: Tank doesn't consider himself a role model, but he does consider himself someone who people should look up to and try to emulate.
• Dodgy Toupee: Reggie's tall hairdo. Mikey yanks information technology off his caput at the end of the picture show.
• The Dog Bites Back: Mikey pulls off Reggie's wig. Reggie fires Mikey for information technology - a move that the latter appreciates.

  "I never imagine a better day!"

• Erudite Stoner: Chicken Joe, who never takes annihilation seriously and has fun bevause of it.
• Fifty-fifty Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Tank. He'southward a jerk to everyone simply his mother.
• Everything's Better with Penguins: Made around the fourth dimension penguins became popular in movies. Lampshaded when Cody, in an interview, is asked about his talents, and he responds "You lot mean similar singing and dancing?"
• Evil Counterpart: Tank lives with his mom like Cody. He and Big Z also looked similar in Z's prime number years.
• False Photographic camera Effects: To give it a documentary feel, shots are made to look like they were fabricated on handheld cameras, and during various points, the camera goes through some Camera Abuse.
• Fast-Forwards Gag: A time-lapse montage of Mikey setting upward the beach for the Big Z Memorial contest is set to increasingly sped-upwards background music. At the end, Mikey says "I experience featherbrained" to the camera in a high-pitched voice.
• Feather Fingers: Averted with the penguins who have flippers but played straight with Chicken Joe.
• Flashback: The film has several, washed in the course of onetime film footage or photographs; they include the first fourth dimension Cody met Large Z and when Z faked his death.
• The Fool: Chicken Joe, full stop. Dude had no inkling that the Pen-Guans wanted to swallow him, or even that he won the surfing contest.
• Fun with Acronyms: SPEN for the penguin version of ESPN.
• Funny Animal: The fun and goofy Chicken Joe.
• Genius Ditz: Chicken Joe, for all his airheadedness, turns out to exist such a skillful surfer that he doesn't even realize it when he wins the surf competition.

• Hated Hometown: Cody. "Practiced-old Shiverpool. *razz* This place sucks, bro!"
• Heroic BSoD: Cody and Big Z both go one afterward losing to Tank. Ironically it was Cody's that caused Big Z to have the first initiative towards helping them BOTH become back on the surfboard.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Cody throws the last match by protecting Chicken Joe from Tank, causing Tank and Cody to wipe out. We so sees he'due south trapped in the Graveyard, struggling not to drown or become torn apart. Z saves him, comes out of hiding, and everyone praises Cody for risking his life for his all-time friend.
• High Hopes, Zero Talent: Downplayed. Cody is by no means a "bad" surfer. However, he is lacking in both patience, bailiwick and understanding of what surfing ways to some people. In one case he finally understands that, his surfing skills better ten-fold.
• Hollywood Natives: The Pen Guans, who attempt to cook Craven Joe and occasionally assault the camera crew.
• Humanoid Female person Animal: Lani has a physique that's much more curvy and humanoid than near of the other penguins.
• I Phone call It "Vera": Tank named every single one of his trophies.
• The Idol'south Blessing: As a young child, Cody is greeted and apace enamored by Big Z, inspiring him to learn the sport himself. Many years later, afterwards losing his first competition, he meets Big Z himself, who teaches him how to surf and helps him acquire that the real goal is just to accept fun.
• I Simply Desire to Be Normal: In the end, Large Z doesn't see himself as "the greatest surfer" or consider himself a legend anymore, he's just a guy who really loves surfing.
• I Just Want to Exist Special: Cody. He desperately wants to win the surfing competition and become a legendary surfer like Big Z. He fails at the competitom merely its implied he succeeds in the long run.
• In-Universe Photographic camera: Every bit an blithe mockumentary, the characters are followed past cameramen and occasionally are interviewed by the offscreen directors.
• Ironic Echo: With a side order of Tempting Fate: earlier his kickoff contest with Tank, Cody brags that his functioning will exist so impressive, people will want to watch it "over and over and over and over again". Cue instant-replay footage of his embarassing wipeout.
• Jerkass: Tank, a mean Jock who cares about no 1 simply himself, Reggie, a terrible cheapskate dominate who mistreats his assistant, and Glen, Cody's lazy and dimwitted blood brother.
• Jerk Jock: Tank. Oh then much. He aims to knock kids off their surfboards, for one.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: A lot of characters:
  • Cody is impatient and brusk-tempered, caring only near becoming a surfing legend similar Large Z. Nevertheless, he does intendance for the friends he makes forth the way, and learns some important lessons well-nigh surfing in the end that make him much more humble.
  • Geek/ Ezekiel 'Big Z' Topanga is lazy and a fleck grouchy, simply it's by and large due to his humiliating defeat past Tank. Underneath it all, he sees Cody's existent potential and decides to teach him how to surf like a pro despite the fact he left that life behind him.
  • Mikey is a scrap snarky, but that'south more often than not considering he has to work for Reggie and is constantly belittled by him. Underneath it all, Mikey worries about the surfer'south safety equally is actually a pretty sensitive birds.
• Continue Abroad: Two groups of penguin chicks throw the Big Z Memorial trophy to each other over Tank's head, until they botch a catch and shatter information technology.
• Kick the Canis familiaris: Tank, on first appearance on-screen, kicks the surfing baby penguins.
• Meaningful Name: Cody's last name, Bohemian, is another term for an outcast. Bohemian'southward is also a major surf spot in Northern California.
• The Mentor: Geek coaches Cody and teaches him how to brand his own surfboard.
• Mirror Character: Big Z cared more nearly winning, every bit a effect of the contests taking the fun out of surfing. Lani pointed out to Cody that he cared more than about winning than her or Zeke.
• Mockumentary: Parodies surfing documentary films in plot, character archetypes, and await, except animated penguins are the main characters. The directors later stated that it was a error, because information technology fabricated several scenes either impossible or just plain odd (like the private moments between Cody and Lani, and even The Reveal that Big Z was alive). They said that Constitute Footage Films were large at the fourth dimension, and they were basically following the leader.
• Moment Killer: The lamentable moment when Geek wanders around his old shack from back when he was Big Z is interrupted past an excited Motor Mouth Cody peppering him with questions.
• Musical Slapstick Montage: To Mikey setting upwards the judges' cabin and bringing Reggie kokosnoot drinks.
• Not-Mammal Mammaries: Lani is notable for having a far more than feminine, curvaceous physique than the other female person characters. It'due south no surprise that Cody has a huge vanquish on her.
• Non Sequitur, *Thud*: After a major wipeout and ocean urchin poisoning, Cody remarks on the "pixies everywhere" earlier passing out.
• Opposing Sports Team: Cody'southward chief rival Tank is a egoistical but skilled bully of a surfer.
• Parental Abandonment:
  • Cody and Joe'southward fathers were eaten by a killer whale and fried for dinner, respectively, and Lani was apparently raised by her uncle, the Geek/Big Z.
  • After seeing Big Z equally a quitter, Cody felt similar he lost some other begetter.

  Cody: It's bad enough to lose one dad...
  Interviewer: What do you hateful by that?
  Cody: Nothing, just forget information technology.

• Parental Favoritism: Cody's mom at first favors his older brother, only later the contest seems to favor Cody, much to his brother's displeasure ("I really hope, that some day, you can be more like Cody." "...This interview's over.")
• Precocious Beat: The young penguin, Arnold, has one on Lani, to the indicate where he routinely drowns himself, just so she can rescue him.
• Decumbent to Tears: Mikey is the only one who was moved to tears by Geek/Large Z'due south speech. When he'due south caught on photographic camera, he averts the camera and begs them to please give him a minute.
• Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: Cody tries to beat up Tank when he hits Craven Joe, just Cody's punches are and so weak that Tank takes it as a massage.
• Punny Proper name:
  • Cody'southward hometown of Shiverpool.
    • Spanish and Brazilian-Portuguese dub: Frio de Janeiro (Cold of Janeiro).
    • Buenos Eisig (Buenos Icy) in Germany.
  • The anthology of Mychael Danna's music for the pic is billed as the "Original Ocean Picture Score".
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:

  Cody: Yep. I know. I can't even... I think I can win this matter. Information technology'due south too much correct at present.
  Lani: Well, that's all you lot came for.
  Cody: What? What is that supposed to hateful?
  Lani: You made it pretty articulate concluding night that winning's more than important to you than Z or me. Merely, hey, maybe you'll go to take your stupid trophy home.
  [Lani walks away in disgust.]
  Cody: Lani. Come up on.
  [Cody gets pulled in front of the camera by Reggie.]

• The Reveal: Geek/Zeke is revealed to be Cody's idol, Large Z, who faked his death many years ago.
• Real Men Habiliment Pink: You lot have to be very manly to hatch an egg to term.
• Echo Cut: Cody wiping out on his showtime wave at Pen Gu Island is repeated 4 times. Information technology is shown afterward a shot of him talking most how you'll want to see that showtime ride over and over and over again.
• Revolting Rescue: Cody accidentally steps on a sea urchin and its spines are lodged into his human foot. Large Z neutralizes the venom by urinating on Cody's foot. Cutting to the exterior of the house as Cody screams in horror.
• Rule of Absurd: Just about every unrealistic animal behavior. Or how dangerous the stunts are.
• Scenery Porn: Zooey Deschanel was sold later seeing examination footage of the behemothic waves, and the finished product is spectacular too.
• Sea Hurtchin: Cody accidentally steps on a ocean urchin at ane indicate, which leads to the "urinate on it" remedy. As a bonus, there is likewise an interview clip of the sea urchin disputing that he was merely stepped on, showing a cleaved spine.
• Second Place Is for Losers: Subverted. Big Z humorously calls Cody a "loser" because he didn't come in commencement, and Chicken Joe is shocked he won — he was just having fun and it isn't articulate he even knows he was in a contest. During the entire moving picture, all of the interviewed characters say that loser is as loser does, regardless of whether they come in first or not — salvage Tank of course.

  Cody: (amused) Well, I lost.
  Big Z: (amused) Yeah. Me, too. Come up on, loser.

• 2d Identify Is for Winners: Cody throws his gamble to win— and risks his life— to salve Chicken Joe from Tank. He considers it Worth It, especially since Z comes out of hiding to salve him in turn from the skeleton zone. Anybody saw him pull a Heroic Sacrifice, solidifying his reputation every bit an honorable surfer.
• Shout-Out:
  • Cody says he doesn't sing or trip the light fantastic toe.
  • One of Tank's trophies is named Jeannie.
• Shown Their Piece of work: They consulted several experts (whose names are listed in the credits) to brand sure the surfing data was accurate.
• Minor Parent, Huge Child: Cody'southward brother Glen Maverick is larger than both Cody and their mother Edna.
• So Proud of You lot: Geek gestures this to Cody later on the comptition.
• Stewed Alive: The oblivious Craven Joe thinks the native Pen Guans are giving him a hot tub bathroom. Subverted when he unknowingly escapes.
• The Stinger: Glen throws the interviewers' equipment out the window after the credits.
• The Stoner: Craven Joe. The PG rating ways he only acts similar one, though.
• Stumbling Upon the Lost Wizard: After Cody gets injure surfing, lifeguard Nani takes her to her uncle Zeke, a reclusive hermit living in the jungle, to recuperate. Somewhen, Cody recognizes Zeke for who he actually is—his childhood surfing idol Big Z, who faked his own decease to go away from the limelight.
• Suntan Stencil: A penguin is seen sunbathing, his flipper resting on his abdomen. When he moves the flipper information technology leaves an outline on his sunburned underside.
• Surfer Dude: Everyone on Pen Gu Island, but Chicken Joe is the funny stereotype.
• Sweet and Sour Grapes: Turned inside-out; Big Z's complaint was that surfing competitions took all of the fun out of the pastime. Chicken Joe, obviously just happy to exist there and surf, takes the competition and the bays. Cody, happily reunited with Z, is the sweet side. Tank, on the other mitt, is sucking lemons.
• Tastes Like Craven: Squid on a Stick, which is basically I am a Humanitarian where Chicken Joe is concerned. It saves his life when he gives the food to chicken-eating natives.
• Tastes Like Friendship: Chicken Joe befriends the the Pen Guans by giving them squids on skewers. They decide information technology's a passable replacement to craven.
• Totally Radical: Craven Joe says "dude" every other sentence, and Cody to some extent uses a 00's appropriation of the dialect with use of "bro" in place of "dude".
• Training Montage: Subverted, as Big Z constantly Trolls Cody instead of actual training. The lesson? Take fun.
• Tribal Carry: Chicken Joe is tied to a pole and carried to the hamlet of the fell penguins. He's completely oblivious to the fact they intend to eat him.
• Undercrank: Parodied in a sped-up montage when the surf contest is existence set up. The backing music starts to speed up faster and faster along with the camera, and at the end, Mikey says "I feel airheaded" in a chipmunk vocalisation.
• Underdogs Never Lose: Averted. Tank loses, but Cody doesn't win, either, having forfeited first identify to save Joe.
• Waterfall Shower: Cody and Lani end upwardly cleaning themselves upwardly under a waterfall after getting covered in glowworm poo.
• Wax On, Wax Off: Parodied and subverted, in which Zeke has Cody doing ridiculous training exercises to aid him "larn how to surf". Cody finally figured out that Zeke was playing applied jokes on him, and learned that the real lesson was to relax and only have fun.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Cody asks Big Z to watch him surf in the contest, just Z refuses and asks if winning is and so important to Cody. They contend well-nigh information technology until Cody demands to know why Z's been hiding later his wipeout. After Z tells him the whole story, Cody becomes disheartened that his hero is a quitter, and both function. Later, Lani too berates Cody for caring more about winning than about her or Z. They all make up when Lani fears that Tank killed Cody, and Z risks his life to salvage Cody from the skeleton zone.

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