Why I like this movie:
a) it has waves!
b) it has surfers (so they happen to be penguins, I'm not prejudice)
c) the shmaltzy storyline
d) beautifully rendered visually
e) who can resist Chicken Joe?
So, Junior and I took this in at the local theater after we saw the teaser earlier for another movie (Spiderman 3 to be specific). It was a forgone conclusion we wouldn't pass up this one up. After all, how often does a feature length surf movie come out?
Anyway, I fully expected to be bored by this one. Instead I was turned around by all the lush eye-candy artistry, the sports mockumentry story telling, and of course the whole shmaltzy Geek/Big Z background storyline (what can I say? I'm a sucker for shmaltzy). The people who made the movie showed they get it, a real honest love of the sport - and remind us that if you lose sight of why you fell in love with it to start with, you should either wake up or get out.
In this age of CGI realities, its obvious there never really was a Big Z's hidden beach and board shack... but there ought to be.
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