During the finals, however, Tank bursts in and tries to cause Joe to wipe out. In the semi-finals, Tank battles with Cody, with Tank playing with him, but he falls off the board and loses. Tank easily makes the finals, as do Cody and Joe, and Joe turning out to be a natural born surfer. Upset that Z just gave up, Cody leaves, meets up with Joe, and gets back to the contest just as it begins. Cody then asks Z if he'll come watch the contest, but Z refuses, saying he faked his disappearance because he realized he couldn't compete with Tank, and that he was tired. Z teaches Cody, telling him to surf the waves with long, smooth strokes, just like making the board. Z asks him if he had fun, and when Cody tells "yes", Z takes him to the water. Cody loses his patience with Z only playing with him, but when Z is asleep, he places him on the board and pushes him into the water. Z compliments Cody on his board, but when Cody is eager to start training, Z instead has him do seemingly menial tasks unrelated to surfing. That night, a calmer, more patient Cody works on a new board, finishing it by morning, falling asleep. Frustrated, he storms off, running into Lani, who eventually persuades him to return. The attempt doesn't go well, however, as an impatient Cody doesn't listen to Z's advice about using long, smooth strokes and makes a board that shatters as soon as he tries to enter the water. Reluctantly, Z agrees, but says that Cody has to make his own board first. He spots Geek watching all those things, and he realizes that Geek is actually Z, the same surfer he had idolized all those years, and asks Z to teach him to surf. When Cody gets to the beach, they discover a shack full of old trophies and surfboards, which are actually Z's old belongings. They attempt to take the log back to Geek's house, only to lose control of it and end up on a beach away from the contest. Geek finds Cody sitting on an koa log and offers to teach him to make a perfect surfboard. Geek downplays the necklace, but decides to return it when he later finds it in his hut. Cody wakes up and panics when he can't find the souvenir necklace he got as a kid from Big Z. Lani rescues Cody and takes him to her uncle, the "Geek" (Jeff Bridges), to help Cody recover from his injuries. Cody immediately challenges Tank to a surfing duel, which Tank easily wins while Cody nearly drowns. He also meets Tank "The Shredder" Evans (Diedrich Bader), an egotistical penguin who has won the Big Z Memorial nine times since it was first held after Z's disappearance during a previous match 10 years ago.Ĭody sees Tank disrespecting Big Z's memorial shrine and then Tank attacks Chicken Joe. The entrants arrive at Pen Gu Island, the site of the contest, where Cody meets-and immediately falls in love with-Lani (Zooey Deschanel), an older female penguin who is a lifeguard. En route to the contest, Cody befriends another entrant, Chicken Joe (Jon Heder). When a talent scout shorebird named Mikey (Mario Cantone) arrives to find entrants for the "Big Z Memorial" surfing contest, Cody jumps at the chance despite lackluster support from his family. A documentary crew follows the events of Cody Maverick (Shia LaBeouf), a 17-year-old rockhopper penguin who has wanted to be a professional surfer ever since a visit from surf legend Zeke "Big Z" Topanga several years ago.
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