Surfer, Dude (2008)

The problem that Surfer, Dude faces is that in its attempt to be a stoner comedy, it forgot to add the comedy elements.

A celebration of unrealistic lifestyles, which makes it exactly the wrong film for our times. [Blu-ray]

The film looks more like a collection of home movies as opposed to a professional piece of cinema.

It felt like we were watching a rough cut.

The number of artistically successful surfing movies can be counted on one hand, and the majority of those are documentaries.

I wish the finished product was as amusing as the behind-the-scenes pot-fueled merriment I imagine took place during production.

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.