I don't know why anyone ever greenlit this movie for production. At least Shia Labeouf realized that this movie was a terrible idea. How much do you have to pay the WWE to be a part of this BS. In case you were wondering, it is a movie with bad acting, very bad animation, and just centers around the characters of Surf's Up (great movie) but just kind of uses them as generic characters. There is a boring conflict and our main penguin is not at all compelling. I hate that this was made, it is a tragedy to call this movie a sequel to Surf's Up. Why are there WWE wrestlers?!?!?

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.

Surf's Up is a 2007 film made in a time when penguin films were basically oversaturating the box office thanks to Happy Feet and even the Penguins Of Madagascar. Thankfully, it did well, as it got some good reviews and even scored two Annie Awards. Ten years later, a DTV sequel is made, and it is not good.

One problem, as some reviews pointed out, is that the second film actually retcons some of the first film. Cody is no longer inspired by Big Z, he was inspired by the Hang 5, a group of extreme surfers that are modeled after the WWE athletes who voices them. That's right, the World Wrestling Entertainment, the wrestling federation that basically emerged victorious in the Monday Night Wars, has made another animated film to market to kids, and fresh off its crossovers with Scooby-Doo and The Flintstones.

Basically, the plot is the High 5 visits Pengu, where Cody Maverick has opened a surf school, and soon, he, Chicken Joe, Tank Evans, and Lila Aliikai join them on a trip to Slaughter Island where they will ride The Trench as Mr. McMahon's final ride before retirement.

While three of the actors of the first film return to reprise their role, sadly, it does not save this film. There are some tasteless scenes, including Mr. McMahon, an otter, thinking about drinking a fish's milk from its utter, which is disgusting. Also, there is not much surfing in this film. You think with a movie called Surf's Up, which has cartoon penguins in a surfing contest, they'd basically do the same for this, but no.

In the end, all this movie ends up being is nothing more than the typical cash grabs that DTV sequels usually turn out, mainly meant to get kids to bug their parents to get it for them. Sony and WWE Films has become a tag team that has ruined the memory of what was a great film with a horrible DTV sequel. I recommend watching the first film and treating this garbage as non-canon.