Plot
The Rocket Power gang (Otto Rocket, sister Reggie, and friends Sam Dullard and Twister Rodriguez) accompany paterfamilias Raymundo Rocket and his business partner Tito Makani to O'ahu for a well-deserved vacation, the occasion being a reunion of Tito's extended family (Brookes Almy voices Tito's mom). Otto becomes fixated on the prospect of surfing the North Shore's Banzai Pipeline. The kids hook up with young Makani cousins Keoni and Leilani (voiced by Matty Liu and Tinashe Kachingwe, the latter of whom had an uncredited role in the movie Masked and Anonymous) who take them on a cross-country bicycle race where they discover one of the menehunes' heiau, from which Sam in a crucial shot greedily and covertly pilfers a small statue.
Once the gang has settled in, Ray is smitten by Tito's cousin Noelani (voiced by Kim Mai Guest), who was best friends with his late wife Danielle (voiced in flashback by Shayna Fox, the voice of Reggie) who died when Otto and Reggie were very little. Spending lots of quality time together, the two suddenly become over protective: a planned horseback riding outing becomes a pony ride; the kids already wearing helmets and gloves for an ATV excursion are issued jackets and pads and told to go slow; a planned helicopter tour is foregone due to wind. It is revealed that Noelani some years ago had been tandem-surfing Pipe with her partner, who disappeared in the ocean after their surfboard broke in a bad wipeout; hence her cautious nature.
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