Surf's Up 2: WaveMania (2016) Reviews

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  kobyg-042902017-06-03

  The reason why i rated it 1 is because Surfs up 1(the good movie) was one of my favorite animated films. Surfs up 2 is a disgrace, pretty much no surfing in the movie about 5 waves ridden. It has nothing to do with the old movie, Big Z isn't there, and Cody is not the same voice as in the first film, a whole different voice actor. And when did surfing move into wrestling??? Surfs up 1 was made by surfers. Surfs up 2 was made by kooks. If you are a surfer i beg you to not watch this film if you enjoyed Surfs up 1. The first movie was about the soul of surfing, making his own board, not caring about some contest, just free surfing and hanging with friends. I was so excited to watch the second movie but not stoked after. Disgrace.

• Terrible Moral

  happybrand2017-01-30

  The first time I heard this movie existed I thought to myself somebody had to have sat around a company boardroom and went, 'Know what needs a sequel? That surfing penguin movie that came out 10 years ago.' And then for some reason everyone at that table agreed. Then they felt that not only should they do it, but they should also get high profile wrestlers to be in it. Why? Once again I don't know, but you know that there had to have been several meetings to discuss it. I myself am a big fan of animated sequels. I'm not one of those people that believe that they shouldn't exist. Some of my favorite movies are 'All Dogs Go to Heaven 2' and 'Fievel 3'. However, I have to say, this movie has no business existing. First off, if you're expecting Big Z, you know, that guy who was kind of important to the previous movie, he's not there. Like, at all. And they don't even really mention him ever. So that whole part of the main penguin's backstory about Big Z being his inspiration? Yeah. They kind of just...ignore that and replace it with this group called The Hang 5. Who are all voiced by famous wrestlers. Because....some reason. Since the previous movie we learned that since the main guy gave up winning to help his buddy, instead of being showered with praise and gotten the good ending regardless like they did in Cars, instead, Chicken Joe has all the fame and the main character gets jack and squat. So, first note this movie is trying to tell you. If you do the right thing, you will feel better inside, but you will lose your dream. Nice. Good job movie. So basically we're five minutes in and its telling us that if you do the right thing you're going to miss out on being famous and loved for what you're good at. Nice. Then this movie turns into one of those 'It's okay to shoot for your dreams but when your dream is in front of you, don't take it because your dream is really to not fulfill your dream' morals. I hate this moral. I really, really do. Some movies tell you to go after your dream. This movie tells you that even if you're really good and passionate about what you do, ignore all that and don't follow your dream. I could see the resolution of this movie coming a mile away and it wasn't even entertaining. There was a joke here and there that was mildly amusing but it wasn't worth the 90 minutes you were watching it knowing what was going to happen. If they were going to bother giving this a sequel they probably should have ended it with Cody actually GETTING his dream of being a famous surfer since he apparently gave it up after the first movie to help a friend who then stole his dream because he was a nice guy. I just..I got really mad at this movie. The voice acting and animation was fine for DVD fare and everything. It was just the moral that irritated me. If they had changed the ending I would have been a lot happier. All in all, not worth it, but if you're forced to watch it, there ARE worse things. This is just below average.

• This movie removes the original story from the 1st movie.

  ericdojillo2017-06-11

  Okay so, the original was awesome, watched it when I was 6. I always thought the movie would have great potential for a sequel and it would be also just as good to be a standalone movie. I completely forgot about Surf's Up for a long time. It was only a few weeks ago that I just found out that a sequel came out months ago. I was really excited, and I didn't know what to expect! Watched online... It didn't turn out as good as I thought it would be. The story completely removes the first movies original story. Having Cody say that he was always looking up to the Hang 5, which is a group of surfers voiced by WWE stars. In the first movie, Cody always looked up to Big Z. Basically, the movie was still watchable, but it's not the sequel anyone had wanted. The story does not really coexist with the original story. I am really bummed out due to the fact that this movie was not the sequel I wanted.

• Bad but somehow watchable.

  MonsterVision992017-01-31

  "Surf up 2: Wavemania" its a 2017 direct to video movie directed by Henry Yu, who worked as a storyboard artist in shows such as "Sym- Bionic Titan" and "Regular Show", he does an average job in directing the movie, this is a sequel that no one asked for and no one wanted, I don't really know why this even exists. Its actually a bit entertaining somehow, its quite average, it doesn't take any risks, the wrestlers are forced into the movie in such an unsubtle way, but their voices aren't the worst about the movie (actually, I watched this with the Spanish dub, which may have made this movie a little worse or a little better, since I don't particularly care for the Argentinian dub). The animation it's OK, not great but competent, the characters aren't awful, they certainly aren't annoying or unlikable, they are just kinda of bland and forgettable, sometimes it seemed like if it tried to follow with the theme of the first film, you see, in case that you didn't see the first movie, I will tell you that it had a Mockumentary style to it, I don't remember the first one very well, I remember kinda of liking it, but this one doesn't know if it wants to be a Mockumentary or an average movie, so it sometimes switches back and forward, which becomes kinda of distracting, sometimes it even forgets that it tries to be a Mockumentary. The movie its bad, not too horrible, but nothing good either, if you have kids and you want to entertain them for a while, show them something else, like "Zootopia" or "Sing", but if they really want to see it, I guess you could put it on, its harmless, but I don't recommend seeing it.

• basic straight to video sequel

  SnoopyStyle2018-01-09

  Since Cody Maverick saved his friend Chicken Joe from bully Tank Evans, Chicken Joe has become a celebrated champion. Meanwhile, Cody has been mostly forgotten. He's running a kids' surf school with Lani Aliikai. Tank is still a bully. Chicken Joe is back visiting his friends. Cody is shocked when his heroes surfing legends Hang 5 shows up. They have a map to a mythical surfing spot and take the group on a quest. This straight to video sequel has a bunch of WWE people providing the voices along with a few from the original. It is perfectly fine for what it is. I don't know why Cody stopped surfing the pro unless I've forgotten something about the original. It seems odd. The basic quest is basic. The new characters are basic. There isn't much special. When they come upon the lava, I expected them to surf it. That would be kinda cool and they're surfers after all. This is all very basic and nothing special.