Review – Surf’s Up

Well, at least it wasn’t as annoying as Happy Feet. For starters, the designers of this effort figured out ways to make the animated penguins look different from one another without resorting to distracting tricks like a half-adult-half-chick character. On the other hand, the penguins in this one surf (as the title implies), so there are plusses and minuses. This is a goofy comedy about a penguin from Antarctica (which oddly enough doesn’t seem to be the home of any of the other penguins in the movie) who gets the chance to compete in a surfing competition on a tropical island. The result is an inoffensive bit of fluff, the sort of thing I’d probably miss if not for premium channel free weekends. Mildly amusing