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So fun!
I bought this game so that my son would have something to play. What I didn't expect is how much I was going to enjoy it. Easy enough that a 5 year old can understand how to play and have fun with it without getting frustrated, and fun enough that his mom will keep playing after he goes to bed.

You really can't ask for much more.

Better than expected
I bought it for my son and ended up hogging the controller. This is a great family game.

Good but not enough challenge
You can finish the game pretty fast and then your children wont play it much and go on to something else but the game is very child friendly and age appropriate.

Great for little ones
My nephews (ages 9 and 5) got an Xbox 360 for Christmas so I was looking for some games to give them for Christmas. There's really not alot out there, particularly for the little ones. I found this one and it turned out to be perfect. Even the 5 year old could get going and play in just a couple of minutes. My sister in law highly approved as well..no violence, just cute, fun entertainment. The only downside was, its pretty limited as games go and the boys played thru and finished it within a few days I'm told.

Not Just a Kid's Game
This is one of the last video games I ever would have thought to buy. I usually stay away from video games based off kid's movies, especially ones I didn't like all that much. However, while shopping, my wife and I found ourselves playing the game on an xbox 360 demo unit. We had just gotten xbox 360 (as a wedding gift lol) and I told my wife, there are probably much better games 2 player games for us.

Well, I couldn't find much else I thought she'd like, so I bought her Surf's up. I thought it'd be fun for an hour and they we'd both get bored of some glitchy controls or lack of any fun. Surprisingly, the gameplay, while simple (afterall it's for little kids), is great. The controls are tight and the different characters have varied if not distinct feels to them. With a few different goals to reach on each level and over a dozen levels, we're still enjoying the game. The tricks and scoring are a little simple and too easy for most kids even. However, completing a course with a high score and all the gates gets pretty challenging (though you only have to do one or the other).

Besides having more levels, characters, modes, etc. The one thing that really could have made this game 5 stars would have been more complex tricks, ones that don't just require a button press or two and to give extra points for varying your tricks. Then they could raise the highest scoring goal and give the game a little more depth and challenge.