Surf's Up

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Surf's Up isn't a great animated film like Ratatouille, but it's a lot better and funnier than I would have guessed, given that it didn't seem to make much of an impact last year. It's probably the funniest cartoon since the Spongebob movie (although not its equal) and I thought the animation was pretty cool, especially the way it tries to imitate documentary style camera work. Neat. And there's also a lot of cool wave visuals, as this is one of those zen-of-surfing type movies, and the last shot is actually kinda beautiful. I guess this one didn't catch on as much with the kiddies, but I liked it a lot more than I liked any of the Shrek pictures.