The reviews for Surf’s Up are in and, for the most part, everyone loves it:
The consensus from Rotten Tomatoes:
Surf’s Up is a laid back, visually stunning animated movie presented in a witty mockumentary format.
From Peter Debruge at Variety:
Much effort was expended in getting the waves to look just right — do they ever — but pic’s true innovation is the ability to approximate handheld camera work, allowing the directors to “discover” the action within each shot, just as they might in a live-action film.
Film Geekz at IESB.net
Surf’s Up is the most enjoyable film of the summer…In a summer filled with lengthy sequels this movie really comes ashore with something a little more fresh and original. The writers and directors really make use of the surfer mentality to entertain and deliver a message and Sony Animation has moved up quite a few notches to become a contender in the animated CGI world.
David Edelstein at New York Magazine:
The kids won’t know how terrific Surf’s Up is…And they’ll love all that surfing, which is astounding and hilarious, if you can appreciate that the sight here of a penguin sailing through a scary-colossal “pipe” has more verisimilitude than the computer-generated head of Kate Bosworth on top of someone else’s body in the go-for-it female surfer picture Blue Crush.
And one to keep me humble from Joshua Tyler from Cinema Blend:
If Surf’s Up accomplishes anything, it will be to bring families together, in boredom. Take your kids and be bored together.
4 out of 5 isn’t bad.
Michelle
18 Dec 2012only thing that could make this day better would be a cold soda pop to go along a movie screening.