why is everyone so amazed?

Rating: 6/10 (27 January 2009)

I honestly don't get, why there are so many positive comments on this movie. As you can expect from a "pixar" movie, the animation quality is really awesome. But in my opinion, that's about it. The story is really boring and the comical scenes are just mediocre as well. Has anyone noticed that, besides the fact that the story doesn't surprise the viewer even once, it's pretty much the same as in "surf's up"? A young talented guy enters a challenge, meets his old hero (who has stopped doing what he was once the best at, for a tragic reason), doesn't recognize him at first, then gets him to give some advice, and finally is the winner of the hearts, although not actually winning the challenge. And while doing all that, he wins a girl over, that didn't like him before, and gets his hero to appear before the public again.
Since that plot wasn't even new when used in "Surf's up" I won't call it "theft", but rather ripping off the standards. Therefore I can only recommend this movie for children who aren't fed up with this stuff.