Surf's Up 2: WaveMania (2017)
Starring your favorite WWE Superstars!
Cody, Chicken Joe and Lani are back in their most epic adventure yet! The most radical surfing dream team, The Hang Five puts Cody and his friends to the test and teaches them the meaning of teamwork as they journey to the most legendary surfing spot on the planet.
In Surf's Up 2: WaveMania, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic surf island”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, belonging, fame, tradition, competition.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Jungle Book (2016)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic jungle
Bolt (2008)consciousness in animals · animal‑star world
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)consciousness in animals · chipmunk high school
Babe (1995)consciousness in animals · talking farm
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic savanna
Turbo (2013)consciousness in animals · snail‑racing worldSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Tinker Bell (2008)consciousness in monsters · belonging, identity
Dead Talents Society (2024)consciousness in the dead · competition, fame
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)consciousness in monsters · identity, tradition
Toy Story (1995)consciousness in objects · belonging, identity
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)consciousness in machines · belonging, identity
Toy Story 3 (2010)consciousness in objects · belonging, identity
