Toon Review 1: Surf's Up

Welcome to the first my first Toon Review! Since I never had a job in the animation industry, it's probably not fair for me to critique. But I'm a huge fan of cartoons and animation! So now for the first review. Luckily I wrote this before on one of the forums I visit:


Anyhoo, I watched the movie on its opening weekend, and let me just say it's a really good movie. It's not great by any means, but it's just nice, mainly because it's different. Doing the film in the style of a documentary gave it a unique feel and kept it from feeling like another run-of-the-mill talking animal CGI movie. Also I have the strange feeling that the movie was meant to train people to animate realistic water, because it looked great!
Unfortunately this movie opened in 4th place, which is a shame because it looks much better than Open Season. I guess people are really sick and tired of penguins. And this movie looks a lot better than Happy Feet as well.

I rate this movie a B/B+