Surfer, Dude
Surfer, Dude tells the story of soul-searching Steve Addington, the world's preeminent surfer - cool, laid back, stoned, shirtless and barefoot, who experiences an existential crisis when no waves come for over a month.
9 September 1996, Orlando, Florida, USA
26 August 1982, Washington, USA
1980, Sunbury, Victoria, Australia
31 October 1970, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
5 March 1985, Santa Ana, California, USA
26 January 1941, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
13 May 1981, Holliston, Massachusetts, USA
31 October 1976
20 December 1973, Napa, California, USA
11 March 1962, Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA
March 05, 2009
The problem that Surfer, Dude faces is that in its attempt to be a stoner comedy, it forgot to add the comedy elements.
September 17, 2008
The number of artistically successful surfing movies can be counted on one hand, and the majority of those are documentaries.
September 15, 2008
[A] hapless, laughless movie.
September 15, 2008
The movie is about a surfer dude (sans comma), who is an analog dude trying to fit into a digital world, which is like trying to get a square peg into a Calabi-Yau Manifold, which is to say it probably won't work, and neither does this movie.
September 12, 2008
Surfer, Dude is a bizarre throwback. It feels 25-30 years out of date and seems to be meant to be watched on VHS, oops, make that DVD, while stoned.
November 05, 2008
It felt like we were watching a rough cut.
September 12, 2008
Willie and ganja, yes, yes, the cliches abound.
September 12, 2008
You can stick around for the only funny line, which involves a breakfast burrito, but the smart surfer would head for the hills and Willie's goat ranch.
December 28, 2008
A celebration of unrealistic lifestyles, which makes it exactly the wrong film for our times. [Blu-ray]
September 12, 2008
Yes, this is a movie made by stoners for stoners.
November 05, 2008
The film looks more like a collection of home movies as opposed to a professional piece of cinema.
September 15, 2008
I wish the finished product was as amusing as the behind-the-scenes pot-fueled merriment I imagine took place during production.
