Surf's Up 2: WaveMania

With the exception of Jon Heder and Diedrich Bader reprising their roles, this movie was a complete letdown. Story was contrived, writing was low-grade, the whole ESPN-style format comes and goes without context, and half the voices are cheesy wrestlers with zero acting chops. I loved the first one. I hated this one.

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.

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.

Had to turn it off after 10 minutes, this movie destroys the legacy of Surf's Up.

Voice actor performances, dialogue, animation, even Chicken Joe... every part of this movie seems like a downgrade from the original.

#makejoehighagain.

10 years passed, and the acting of characters even gone worse than the first one; nor they behave/speak like the first one; nothing hooks up to the first one other than the champion thing... It's just like a fan-made, very poor fan-made movie. I am going back to watch the first one.