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Surf's Up

[2007, Movie]

Surf's Up: Review

What's black and white and green — in both senses of the word — all over? Penguins, of course! Ash Brannon and Chris Buck's animated mockumentary is cute, good-hearted, occasionally clever, ecofriendly and almost fart-joke-free, but it's also sadly constrained by the fact that mainstream American animation is kiddie fare. You can feel a more ambitious, ambiguous movie about surf culture straining to escape the extended visual gag of penguins hanging ten. Undersized rock-h... read more

Surf's Up: TV Guide News

X-Files, Dexter and More Short Cuts | Today's News: Our Take | 10/19/2007
The X-Files: The Complete Collectors' Edition, a 61-disc package, arrives on DVD Nov. 6 at a retail price of $329.98.... Dexter celebrates Halloween on Oct. 28 with an episode where our "hero" seeks to avenge his mother's murder.... Surf's Up topped last week's DVD sales and rental charts, besting Evan Almighty and Fantastic Four 2, respectively.... ESPN alum Dan Patrick has inked a deal to write a weekly column for Sports Illustrated, says Variety.... Twentieth Century Fox TV has signed L.I.E. director Michael Cuesta to develop, produce and direct series for the studio. Cuesta was behind the passed-on CBS pilot Babylon Fields and is helming the Fox pilot The Oaks. read more
Ocean's Crew Steals Box-office Title from Pirates | Today's News: Our Take | 6/11/2007
Ocean's Thirteen debuted to slightly lower numbers than parts Eleven and Twelve, yet still topped the weekend box office with a $37.1 million haul, unseating POTC 3 ($21.3 mil) from the No. 1 spot.Rounding out the top five were Knocked Up ($20 million), Happy Feet: The Funny Version Surf's Up (opening with $18 mil) and Shrek the Third ($15.75 mil). The week's other newbie, Hostel Part II (or as I like to call it, "Poor, Poor Heather Matarazzo") came in at No. 6 with $8.75 mil, less than half of the original's first-weekend take. Overall, the box office was down nine percent from a year ago, when Cars opened with $60 mil. read more

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Surf's Up: "Sneak Peek"
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Network: Nickelodeon
Posted: 11/27/2007

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Network: Video Detective
Posted: 3/17/2008

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Year: 2007
Rated PG

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Cast
Shia LaBeouf: Cody Maverick
Jeff Bridges: Big Z/Geek
Zooey Deschanel: Lani Aliikai
Jon Heder: Chicken Joe
James Woods: Reggie Belafonte
Diedrich Bader: Tank Evans

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