7/10
After the movie soul surfer this was not as good. Movie is OK but felt no character connection & that hurt movie. I say B
17 February 2013
"The ones who push the limits discover the limits sometimes push back." While watching waves with his friend a young Jay Moriarty (Weston) watches Frosty (Butler) surfing the biggest waves he has ever seen. He wants nothing more then to eventually surf the "Mavericks." After bugging Frosty enough he agrees to train him. This is the true story of the boy who wanted to surf. After the movie Soul Surfer the bar for surfing movies has been raised. That movie dealt with more then just the surfing aspect, it also made you feel for the characters and really pulled for all involved. This movie was good but I didn't feel the emotional connection the the characters like I did in that movie. I'm not saying that this movie isn't good but I didn't feel as invested in this one as I did in Soul Surfer. It is still better then some other surfing movies I have seen but when you watch this curb your expectations. Surfing is really good in this though. Overall, not as good as Soul Surfer, needed more feeling for characters. I give it a B.
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