If it has one fault its that its obligatory sentimental streak felt a little bit too forced for my liking. The script is well written, the voice cast absolutely brilliant, hell even the animation surprised me for being very well done. A mockumentary style movie somewhat reminiscent of Creature Comforts, trust me if you like Creature Comforts you will adore this movie. So what a pleasant surprise to find that Surf's Up is not only a movie that'll appeal to both kids and adults, but also the best animated movie of the year so far! The fact that its a surfing penguin movie didn't make it as good as it is, no the movie succeeds for daring to try something different. I felt like Sony were merely cashing in on this penguin phenomenon. Dancing penguins is one things, surfing penguins is just plain ludicrous. When the first trailers for Surf's Up arrived I didn't know what to make of it. Its animations was beautiful, but it just didn't live up to its potential. But after multiple viewings I realised something, it was actually pretty boring, and way too depressing at times for my liking. Now I really wanted to love Happy Feet, when I first watched it I actually did adore it. It reached its pinnacle in my eyes last year when Happy Feet arrived on our big screens. Since then penguin items, TV shows and penguins on our screens have been appearing like crazy. Then came along Madagascar, while admittedly not completely about penguins the penguins that did feature were undoubtedly the best things in the entire movie. I can't see what all the fuss was about that documentary and quite why it was the success it was. March of the Penguins I suppose really kicked it all off. But just recently Hollywood has seemed to start to overuse them a tiny bit. What is it with this sudden surge of penguin movies appearing? Or penguins appearing in movies? I've always found watching penguins on real life TV programmes to be very entertaining because they just seem, well there's no other word for it, cute.
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