Writers Ash Brannon,Chris Buck,Christopher Jenkins,Don Rhymer. Starring Shia La. Beouf,Jeff Bridges,Zooey Deschanel,Jon Heder,James Woods,Diedrich Bader See full cast crew. A Sony animation adventure delivers vivid visuals, a cute cast of characters and awesome high definition. Reviewed by Greg Maltz, October 6, 2. Every Saturday morning, children tune in to cartoons. I did. I looked forward to it all week. But I never saw anything like the new CGI films from Pixar and other animation companies. Sony Pictures Animation and Imageworks are not far behind Pixar, which is regarded as the state of the art. So on a nice, cool Saturday morning, I slipped Surfs Up into the PS3 and rediscovered what this time of the week is all about, Blu ray style. With the now familiar 1. BDs, the look of Surfs Up is far beyond the NTSC cartoons I watched when I was a kid. Fashioned to be a spoof of sports documentaries, Surfs Up follows a young rockhopper penguin, Cody Shia La. Beouf, who is obsessed with surfing. He dreams of leaving his boring home in Shiverpool, Antarctica to rise in the ranks of professional surfers, although no one in Shiverpool believes he can make it happen. As the plot takes off, Cody convinces a team of recruiters that he is worthy of entry into the Big Z Memorial Surf Off contest on tropical Pen Gu Island. He quickly crosses paths with the reining champ, a bully who challenges Cody to a wave riding contest that proves too dangerous for the young rockhopper. Unconscious and defeated, Cody is taken to the jungle shack of Geek Jeff Bridges where he is healed. Watch Shrek 2 Cartoon Stream on this page. He then undergoes a process of discovery, learning what it means to be a surfer, to persevere and to strive for integrity. By the end, Surfs Up dishes out a nice morality lesson for the kids without taking itself too seriously. It heaps up humor and hang sixes since penguins only have three toes on each foot by sticking with the documentary style in all the right places. The fowl characters are easy to relate to and well defined. It all comes together in a hilarious and wholesome, wet and whacky animated adventure.