Talk:Surf's Up (film)

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This article was nominated for deletion on 6 Feb 2006. The result of the discussion was keep.

Does anyone know why the subtitle is "A True Story"? Not that I don't believe in penguins or anything. Is it based on a famous surfer's story? Beagley 01:40, 29 September 2006 (UTC) Thats a joke!

As a joke, does it warrant being in the "Trivia" section of the article?--PigManDan 20:57, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Knockoff of Happy Feet 2 Needs a Disambiguation Page 3 How much money is this film making? 4 Trivia 5 Species of Rob Machado 6 The Film Making Process? 7 Featured Animals removal

[edit] Knockoff of Happy Feet

Isn't this just a knockoff of Happy Feet?

Happy Feet is about tap-dancing penguins, Surf's Up is about surfing penguins... other than both films being about penguins, I don't see either as being a "knock-off" (My grammar seems a bit skewed in this reply because I'm half-asleep).--PigManDan 01:59, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

It's a definite knock-off. Hollywood is riding the "Hey, they had a good idea about making a documentary about penguins so we should make more penguin movies" band wagon, and following the success of Happy Feet, someone else thought it'd be a good idea to make another penguin-based film. It happens all the time, and it makes me cry. Daramane 19:14, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Not that Happy Feet was riding the success of March of the Penguins or anything... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.239.179.113 (talk) 19:44, 29 April 2007 (UTC).

Guys, that is insanely stupid logic. Calling it a rip off because penguins are the main focus is stupid. So I'd assume if a Dog movie came out in the future, it's automatically a rip off of 101 Dalmatians. I mean hey, they would both have dogs as the main focus.

After the amazing coincidences of Antz/A bugs life, Shark Tale/Finding Nemo, and Madagascar/The Wild, it's not exactly unreasonable to get suspicious when two penguin themed CGI movies get released on top of each other. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.253.177.76 (talk) 02:07, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

I can't even remember the last 101 Dalmations movie that anyone watched, but Happy Feet was released only a couple months ago. It seems like a ripoff because hey, there are 'flippin penguins.

7FlushSetzer 01:40, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Its only two movies, Deep Impact and Armageddon were kind of similar too but both were pretty good, Happy Feet was slightly more reality based just as Deep Impact was; besides, its not as though it'll have a blair-witch-project-effect where you'll have to deal with a new penguin movie every year for 10 years--24.57.97.56 13:11, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

guys this is not a forum.............. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.212.124.75 (talk) 07:48, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Needs a Disambiguation Page

I typed in Surfs Up to get the Beach Boys album and I got this instead. I don't really know how to make a disambiguation page. Does somebody want to do it? --SRSco 04:46, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How much money is this film making?

It would be nice if the article said how much money the film is making. It may not be as epic as Spiderman 3, Shrek the Third, or Pirates (all three articles say how much money the movie has made so far) but it would still be nice to know how successful the film is, considering it is Sony's second animated film attempt.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=surfsup.htm

UPDATE: According to this link, it's made about 62.6 million dollars. Tis' a shame.

7FlushSetzer 01:41, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

Would Pen Gu Island be a reference to Pen Gu the TV show?--24.57.97.56 13:13, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Ahhh...not terribly likely, it's probable that it's just a happy accident. "Pen Gu" is simply meant to be pengu-in, after all. starfig 00:38, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Species of Rob Machado

Someone keeps changing the species of Rob Machado to Emperor penguin on both the character list pages but isn't providing a reference to why, I think this may require a little research no matter how trivial the subject matter is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by EwanMclean2005 (talk • contribs) 20:44, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Film Making Process?

I think the process of how this film was made should be noted.

Things like how they had all the actors improvise all their lines to a loose outline to mimic an un-scripted documentary, to things like having cameramen use an actual camera hooked up to the computer to give that hand-held camera look. (sources could be from the dvd, or either these youtube accounts: [1] [2] )

The movie has done some different things not usually seen in animation, and I think it should be added.

Nymo (talk) 00:29, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

I do agree, I'll try to work some of that into the information on the page if at all possible. Starfig 22:40, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Featured Animals removal

Personally, I think it should be removed. The information given seems redundant and can easily be worked into the main page, and in particular, it's already on the "characters" page. It's unneeded, and I think the removal will only better the page. Starfig 22:49, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

You have good point there, someone removed it already without discussing it, but I reverted it back because it had not yet been discussed, and it was only for this reason, should we take out the whole section and merge it into other areas of the article or just remove it altogether.EwanMclean2005 (talk) 21:13, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

I think, the best thing would be to see if some of the information can be successfully worked into the main page, if it cannot, well, as I said, the character page would cover all that more than well enough.Starfig 00:19, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah that sounds ok EwanMclean2005 (talk) 22:16, 28 February 2008 (UTC)