When young Jay Moriarity discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Frosty Hesson to train him to survive it. Chasing Mavericks is what i like to call "truly inspiring" cause it really is and both leading men Jonny Weston and Gerard Butler have a great chemistry together and it really feels realistic but it's also touching and threw the heart many times. Jay's relationship with his girlfriend, his mother and his coach all come full circle in the end when he gets to face the big wave and it's just terrific not just as a film but as a story as well it's real and it's not fiction plus it's amazing how sometimes fate can turn on you. Chasing Mavericks is a movie that every movie lover and surfer love should check out and you will definitely enjoy it. (10/10)

This was an excellent movie, really worth watching. It follows a young man named Jay on his journey to follow his dreams. is shows her viewers the power of love, perseverance and willpower en definitely makes you think about your standards in life. Based on a true story without making it an unreal dream. Would recommend for everyone!

Chasing Mavericks is supposed to be about Jay Moriarity, who was obsessively committed to surfing from the ages of 15 to 22, when he drowned in the Maldives (according to the end of the movie). In reality, this Lifetime Channel-esque biopic seemed to be more of a love fest dedicated to "Frosty", the 40+ year old "total surfing dude" who mentored Jay for twelve weeks (really? that's all?) before the arrival of El Nino and some pretty tubular wave activity. Moriarity surfed the epic waves and survived to tell about it. He was then thrust into instant surfer-dude stardom (a relative achievement, let us be perfectly frank).There are a few questions raised by this movie which can be taken seriously, such as whether it is nobler to seek to excel at something incredibly dangerous than to care for one's future existence. By just about any measure, what Moriarity did was reckless, as proved by his early death. But it did seem to be his choice, so he died a happy man, so to speak. He left a blonde air-heady wife behind, but she knew what she was getting into when she betrothed this guy, so she could not have really been all that surprised.Frosty, on the other hand, renounced reckless surfer-dude activity upon the untimely death of his delicate little wife, who only minutes before her fatal stroke had made him promise never to leave her and the children in the lurch as a result of his passion. The whole Frosty aspect of this story, that he assigned "essays" for his pupil to write about Fear and Observation, etc., struck me as pretty implausible. In any case, that is clearly not the typical formation of surfer dudes, and maybe if Moriarity had spent that time surfing instead he might have lived a couple more years. Who knows?I give this movie a 6 for the fine pictures of big waves. Otherwise, I have to agree with many of the naysayers: there's enough cheese here to cover all of the pizzas ever sold by young Jay Moriarity in the part- time job he held down so that he could save up for a radio to listen to the early morning wave reports. Too bad that his alcoholic mother, ditched by his absentee father (who was replaced by Frosty, thanks to whom Jay ended up dying at 22!) sometimes needed to borrow from his stash. A few other aspects of California culture were treated in this production, but mostly stereotypical stuff handled rather clumsily.

Review: I totally haven't got a clue about surfing, so I thought that this movie was going to be uninteresting, but I actually enjoyed it. It's quite a heart warming story, which happens to be true, with a great performance from Gerard Butler, who made the film watchable. The individual characters were a good mixture, which brought entertainment to the movie, and the journeys that they all go through kept it interesting. It does get a bit corny near the end, but when you see the real footage of Jay, it does give purpose to the movie. Watchable!Round-Up: For a Gerard Butler movie, I was surprised that this didn't get a major release! I do think that its one of his best films, and the storyline was well put together by the director. If your not a surfing fan, there are other elements to the movie that are worth watching because you do end up getting caught up in the emotional side of Jay and Frosty's story. It's a shame that it flopped at the box office because you can tell that the actors went out of there way to bring Jay's story to the big screen.Budget: $20million Worldwide Gross: $6millionI recommend this movie to people who are I to there wind surfing dramas. 6/10