Chicken Joe

Chicken Joe is a major protagonist in the 2007 mockumentary animated film Surf's Up, and the tritagonist of its 2017 sequel Surf's Up 2: Wavemania.

He is best friends with Cody Maverick, a competitor in the tenth annual Big Z Memorial Surf Off.

In the English dub of both movies., he is voiced by Jon Heder, who also portrayed Clark Reedy in The Benchwarmers and Jimmy MacElroy in Blades of Glory. In the Japanese dub, he is voiced by Setsuji Satō.

Appearance[]

Chicken Joe resembles a chicken.

Personality[]

Joe somewhat acts like a stoner, being spaced out and not fully grasping what's going on around him. This isn't to say he's unintelligent however as he's quite skilled at surfing and quickly learns how to speak the language of a native tribe of penguins. Joe's also peaceful as he's seen trying to stop the argument between Tank and Cody when the latter two initially met for the first. When Cody goes missing before the surf tournament, Joe immediately goes and searches the entire island for him despite not knowing him that long, showing he's a loyal and determined friend.

Biography[]

Background[]

Form Marion Ohio he used to surf in Lake Erie In 2004 he moved to Yuma, Arizona to attend college online and got an online associates degree in psychology from the University of Phoenix. He then moved back to Sheboygan in 2007 where he was picked up to be a surfer for the Tenth Annual Big Z Memorial Surf Off in Penguin Island, where he won the 2007 contest.

Surf's Up[]

He befriends Cody whilst travelling via whale to Pen Gu Island to take part in the tenth annual "Big Z Memorial Surf Off".

Near the end of the film, Joe, Cody and Tank "The Shredder" Evans (who has won the contest nine times) compete in the surf off. Tank tries to knock Joe off his board, but is stopped by Cody, which results in the two penguins surfing into an area of the sea called the Boneyard.

After Cody (who wiped out) and Tank (who crashed) were disqualified from the surf off, Joe is made winner, before he goes with Cody, Lani Aliikai, Big Z (who was living as a hermit called Geek for ten years) and the other participants to surf.