jeff bridges' voiced big z in surf's up.
jeff bridges' voiced big z in surf's up.
who voices big z in surf's up?
jeff bridges
bridges narrated the documentary "lost in la mancha" (2002), about the making of a terry gilliam retelling of "don quixote", tentatively titled "the man who killed don quixote", which would have starred johnny depp as sancho panza and jean rochefort as the quixotic hero. bridges had previously appeared in gilliam's "the fisher king". bridges also narrated the documentaries national geographic's "lewis & clark: great journey west" (2002, imax), discovery channel's "raising the mammoth" (2000), and abc's "heroes of rock and roll" (1979). he voiced the character big z in the animated picture "surf's up". he also hosted vh1's "top 100 greatest albums of rock and roll" series in 2001. in the year 2016 he narrated the movie dream big.
jeff bridges
the entrants arrive at pen gu island, the site of the contest, where cody meets and immediately falls in love with lani, a female gentoo penguin who is a lifeguard. he also meets a wise-cracking sea otter named reggie belafonte and his arrogant penguin best friend, tank "the shredder" evans. tank has won the big z memorial nine times since it was first held after z's alleged death during a previous match ten years ago. cody sees him vandalizing big z's memorial and immediately challenges tank to a surfing duel. tank easily wins the duel while cody nearly drowns. lani rescues him and takes him to her uncle, the "geek", to help cody recover from his injuries. cody wakes up and panics when he can't find the souvenir necklace he got as a kid from big z. geek criticizes the necklace, but decides to return it when he later finds it in his hut.
surf's up (film)