# If you liked "The Big Lebowski"....

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**Created:** [June 22, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-liked-the-big-lebowski/408947 "2007-06-22T02:39:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-liked-the-big-lebowski/408947/1 "2007-06-22T02:39:13Z")

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…you’ll want to see “Surf’s Up,” the animated movie about surfing penguins, showing now in a theater near you (or maybe not so near you). Jeff Bridges does the voice of a pudgy penguin who sounds a lot like The Dude would, if he’d taken up surfing instead of bowling. And the movie itself isn’t bad.

Check it out.

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**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-liked-the-big-lebowski/408947/2 "2007-06-22T04:57:54Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]  
…you’ll want to see “Surf’s Up,” the animated movie about surfing penguins, showing now in a theater near you (or maybe not so near you). Jeff Bridges does the voice of a pudgy penguin who sounds a lot like The Dude would, if he’d taken up surfing instead of bowling. And the movie itself isn’t bad.

Check it out.  
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It’s one of my all-time favorite movies (Lebowski) but you are hardly giving the animated movie a ringing endorsement (not bad.) Obviously you are not a promoter if that is the preferred nomenclature.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-liked-the-big-lebowski/408947/3 "2007-06-23T15:25:29Z")

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You’re right, I’m not a promoter. But if the studio wants to make an anonymous donation…

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**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-liked-the-big-lebowski/408947/4 "2007-06-23T17:43:38Z")

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Altho the voice casting was spot on, it’s not such an amazing thing to have one perfectly cast voice actor as to base seeing a movie on. A lot of the other casting was good too, especially Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) as Joe the chicken surfer.

That said, I did love this movie. I plan on seeing it again. It was amusing, sweet, fun, and “shot” beautifully. The soundtrack was good too. It had a nice message without being preachy. The “film is shot by a reality show crew” conceit was clever too. It made me want to learn to surf. The only bad thing was in a movie about sea creatures there were no turtles!